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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-10-18
DISTRICT COURTS.

EAHAA AiNi wv WIN
Sec II. Until otherwise provided by
law the state is hereby divided into four
jupicial districts numbered consecutively
/, 2, 8, and 4.
District number shall be composed of
the counties Of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, San
Juan and Taos.
District plumber shall be composed of
the counties of Bernahllo, Valencia and
Socorro.
District number 3shall be composed OF
the counties of Grant, Dona Ana, Sierra
and Lincoln.
District number shall be composed Of
the counties of Jan Miguel, Mora and Col
fax.
Sec. 10 In each judicial district one
judge of the district court shall be elected
by the qualified electors thereof; his term
of Office shall be four years aud until his
successor is elected and qualified, and his
salary shall be prescribed by law, not 10
exceed $4,000 a year.
Sec. l3. Any person, to be eligible to
the Office Of judge of the district court,
shall be a citizen of the United States, a
permanent resident of the district in Which
he is elected a judge of the supreme Or dis
trict court, at least 40 years of age. prae-
ticing lawyer in good standing in the terri
tory or the state Of New Mexico for at
least two years next preceding his cleo
tion or his service upon the bench of any
court Of record IN the United States, when
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-10-18

court.
PROBATE COURTS.
Sec co. There shall be elected in each
organized county in this state Judge of
the probate court, whose term of Office
shall be two years aud nntil his successor
shall have been elected and qualified. HIS
qualifications and duties shall be deter
mined by law.
Sec. q. There shall 90 probate court
in each county, the jurisdiction of which
shall be prescribed by law. The probate
court in each county shall be a continuation
of the probate court under the territorial
government, and the records and files
thereof shall be continuous and unbroken.
Sec. % There shall be prescribed by
law a code of procedure and practice for
the probate courts; and until such code is
prescribed By law, the supreme court may
prescribe rules not inconsistent with this
convention, and with law for the guidance
OF such courts.
Sec. %. There shall be clerk of the
probate courtin each organized county of
this state, who shall be elected by the
qualified electors thereof The duties of
such clerk shall be as prescribed by law.
Sec. "a Appeals shall be allowed in all
cases from county courts to district courts,
in such manner and under such regula-
tons as shall be prescribed by law.
SEC 25 The regular terms Of the pro-
bate courts for the several counties re-
spectively shall be prescribed by law, but
they shall always be open for the transac-
ton Of business, except on legal holidays
and Don-judicial days.
Sec g. Any matter pending in pro-
bate court, which the Judge thereof shall
be disqualified to try or hear, shall be
transferred to the district court of the same
county for trial or hearing.
COURTS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
See o. The tenure Of Office and jur
isdictlon of justices of the peace shall be
regulated by law; but they shall not have
Jurisdiction OF cases involving the title Of
land or of cases where the amount invol
we'd, exclusive of costs, is over 800, nor OF
cases of felony, except as committing
magistrate.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Sec %. The supreme, district and pro-
bate courts shall be courts Of record.
Sec 49, The Legislature shall provide
by law for an appropriate seal for each of
said courts of record, with which all rec
ords thereof and writs and processes issu-
ing thereirom respectively snail be authrn-
tlcated. And all prosecutions, civil and
shall be conducted IN the name
and by the authority of the same.
Sec 80. All process shall run in the
name Of the state OF New Mexico, and all
prosecutions, civil and criminal, shall be
conducted in the same, and all indict-
ments shall conclude, "against the peace
and dignity of the state Of New Mexico.
Sec 81. 1t shall be the duty of the leg
islature to provide for carrying into effect
this article aud to provide for general
system of practice in all the courts Of the
state.
Sec. SO. The legislature may limit the
power Of the courts to punish for con-
tempt
Sec. SO. Nojudge of any court of re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

or title. in wild flight over flower
beds, or scuttling in demented
bewilderment behind shrubbery, has
wrenched the Christian graces to i'm
measurable lengths from their mO0rings,
and fearfully imperiled many a human
soul. That this obstacle to spiritual
progress has been removed, even in SO
single an instance and in 80 remote q
region as Connecticut, savors cheerfully
of advancement, and imbues with hope
full courage districts yet unemancipated.
When this idea shall have spread,
and the universal hen shall
have been bound down by law
to scratch and cut-cut-cu-dah-cut on
her own territorial claim, the labors of
home missionaries shall be appreciably
lightened, and righteousness and peace
may be quoted as kissing each other
without extraneOus solicitation. In
times past Connecticut has been sub
jected to unkind and disrespectful re-
marks on account of her connection
with the wooden nutmeg traffic, but as
pioneer in this valuable reformatory
movement the past is Obliterated, and
she stands rehabilitated in the national
regard.
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GkLLMACEAN

1t is inexpressibly refreshing to be
permitted to turn aside from the wrang-
lings of ~theologians, the Investigations
of CORY crimes, or the embittered NUT
terings of the deposed party, and read,
as a pointer milleniumward, that Con-
necticut has a law forbidding hens to
trespass on other peoples gardens. The
hen, in her proper element, scratch
ing industriously In her own environ
ment, clucking materially where she be-
longs, or presiding, beautifully Drowned,
at a family repast, is an admirable
and commendable bird; but the hen va
grant, the hen depredatory, is a sight
obnOxiously familiar to the world, and
an unmitigated blot upon its boosted
civilization. 1t would, indeed, be i'm
possible to make any just estimate of
the chickering's, the violence in word and
deed, the lifelong enmities, of which
this fowl, mild and lovely though she
may appear, has been the originating
cause. The cackling goose may have
saw : the ancient city, but the squawk-
ing hen, scratching without right
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THE VALUE OF THE CLOWN.

The jest's prosperity may lie in the
ear of him who hears it, but an equally
satisfactory prosperity clusters closely
about the purse of him who makes it, as
is evidenced in the statement that the
well-known minstrel, Billy Emerson,
receives $500 a week for his services
in amusing the public. 1t is thus sig
%nificantly indicated that much worse
fate might befall the average
man than being born a good clown.
With the grand army of pessimists pro-
nouncing life not worth living and mar
rage an unmitigated failure-with the
strawberry wave at neap tide and the
home baseball team behind its expected
record-with the magazines still publish
ing dialect stories and a rainy June set
ting in, it does not at all conclusively
appear that the genial MI. Emerson is
overpaid, or that the Office of public
clown to the American people can be too
frequently instituted or too compe-
tently filed. The American sense of
humor is no ordinary affair. Though a
movable feast, and often the prey of
purely local and ephemeral themes, it
argues very nimble wit, both as regards
execution and consumption, and implies
for its sustenance the indispensable pro-
duction of much pabulum, and that of
the very finest and freshest quality.
Though perhaps just "the same that our
fathers have BEEN" the jests hatamused
preceding generations are but dreary
reading nowadays. Many side-splitting
testers of only twenty-five years
ago gather dust on the shelves,
or awaken but wan and feeble
smiles when communed with. This is
accumulated, doubtless, by the fact that
the modern clown is such an irrepressi-
bly, numerous fellow. Humor has be-
come the universal habit, and so many
men, and women, too, have caught the
knack of ~jest-making, SO many comic
papers and periodicals congregate on
the bOok-counters, so many newspapers
have their funny columns and witty
paragraphs, that a smile lies hidden in
nearly every ounce of literary, social or
commercial intercourse The glittering
thread is woven even into pulpit teach
ings, and the doctors potion fails in eff
fcacy unless it goes down arm in arm
with q jest. Amid so much widespread
joke-construction, then, and in the face
of so evanescent and perishable a ma
terial, the nan who can professionally
find something truly humorous and novel
to say, and can say it in a manner unmis-
takably diverting, is assuredly phenom-
email, and entitled to the hearty plaudits
and substantial Endorsements of a too
serious world. Fence against ILL
health and the other evils of life by
mirth,n says Sterne; and let it be ac-
knowledged, with due obeisance to the
clown, that whose plants even one
smile where no smile grew before is in
deed public benefactOr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16
THE FOLLY OF PERSECUTION.

The case of Giordano Bruno, to whom
a statue. has been erected and recently
unveiled in Rome, illustrates the folly of
persecution and the shortsightedness of
men. Bruno owes his present fame and
his Immortality. so far as a statue can
confer it, to those who prosecuted him
three hundred years ago. He was not a
remarkably great or good man. Born in
1913, he entered a convent at Naples at
the age Of fifteen, intending to devote
his life to the priesthood. But being
naturally bold and skeptical, he soon de-
veloped a tendency to heresy that
brought him under the displeasure Of
his superiors. Escaping from the con-
vent, In 1916, he became q sort of wan
dering lecturer and agitator. He was a
natural controversialist and took sides
in everything. Erratic, aggressive
and irrepressible, he was a thorn in the
side of Rome. He talked and wrote a
great deal, and published tracts, essays,
dialogues, systems of philosophy, theo-
logical arguments, etc. Yet he was not
q remark ably able man nor a molder of
opinion. He was more an irrepressible
agitator. Finally, as was the custom in
those days, he was denounced to the In
QUESTION, arrested and sent to Rome, and
there burned at the stake in 1900.
Bruno was hardly worthy to be burned
at the stake. He did not begin to be as
worthy of martyrdom as hundreds of
other noble refOrmers of that day. He
was not a reformer-not much more
than a Kicker" His writings were not
great, and such as have survived are
only regarded as literary curiosities.
Had he been let alone his name and
writings would have passed into obli-
WON centuries Ago.. Bat persecution
made him a great man. Burning a man
at the stake advertises him to posterity.
1t may dispose of him very
effectually for the time being and re-
move him as a present nuisance, but he
is apt to break out again in a new place
and In a worse form than ever. Bruno,
burned at the stake in 1900, breaks out
In a very agsravating form in 1889. The
Pope of that day who ordered his ex-
ecutiOn could hardly have foreseen that
his successor in the Vatican three hum
dred years later would be scandalized
and worried almost to death by the un-
yelling of a statue to the hereto in the
very city where he was burned. The
seed sOwn in the sixteenth century
springs up in the nineteenth. Perse-
cution is somewhat slow to terminate,
but it is a sure crop.
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WOMEN AS READERS.

In '"The Editors Study" of Harper's
Magazine for June Mr.. w. D. Howells
makes the very unseaworthy statement
that "the sex which reads the most nov
els reads the fewest newspapers" This
is a rash conclusion, Unsupported by
facts, and debatable on double grounds.
That "the sex" referred to by the learned
author of certain profound theses on
"The MOuse-trap, The Register, The
Elevator, and the Parlor Car, us not, be-
yond discussion, the sex which reads the
most novels is maintainable. This as
sertiOn has been so long accepted with
out investigation hat it may be almost
said to have become traditional; but
statistical examination would, no doubt,
leave it without visible means of sup
port. Mere casual scrutiny reveals that
book-dealers, news-venders and libra
proportion of their fiction-patrOns.
Many lawyers and doctors sys-
tematically unbend over the . pages
of a good novel, and these
grave professions furnish many
devoted admirers of even "Ouida' and
the Duchess The agility with which
the pulpit arose, as one man, to contrO-
versial consideration of "Robert Els
mere" betrays the cloth, also, not wholly
indifferent to the charms of imaginative
literature. In business circles, too, the
novel has its votaries, many merchants
being known to refresh themselves, be-
tween sales, with dips into Dickens or
Dumas. The commercial traveller buried
nose-deep in "A paper-covered novel is as
familiar a sight as the literary elevator
boy, who takes his inevitable ups and
downs sOlaced by a sweet morsel of
Seaside" or Lowell" That woman,
as the autocrat of afternoon tea asserts,
represents the sex which reads the few
est newspapers is equally cOntestable.
Every intelligent woman-and the read
ing woman is always such-is a ~vOracious
newspaper reader. She keeps abreast
of the times, and knowledge of current
events and issues is as much her daily
bread as it is requisite to the existence
of the sterner sex. Politics, baseball,
and even trotting records do not escape
her a~ll-searching eye, and the amount
OF miscellaneous news-gleaning that her
nimble wits compass is often matter of
astonishment to students of feminine
ability. The very scope and construc-
ton of the newspaper of to-day argues
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

R part of the early strawberry sup
ply for this market comes from southern
Illinois. CentralIa being the principal ship
ping point. The crop this year was un-
usually large, there being shipped from
Centralia 7O,aO6 crates, each containing
twenty-four quarts of berries. The neigh
boring station of Walnut Hills shipped 3d.
600 crates. This crop represents the yield of
over 1000 acres, and brings a handsome
profit to the producers. A large part of it
goes to Chicago, st. Paul and the tributary
towns
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gan. who made the pattern from which the
dollar was copied, was casting about for a
model. Some ladies among the students at
the academy were selected to pose. The
contour of Miss Williams's features was
chosen as coming nearest to the pure Gre
clan ideal. Before the pattern was finally
adopted it was sent to the academy to get
the opinion of some artists as to it's artistic
merits. The profile was criticised in sew
eral particulars, chief among which was
what was regarded as a too prominentCh
But the authorities at the mint thought it
one of the most beautiful types of faces
that was ever submitted for the head of q
coin. and 1t was adopted. Miss Williams
has just been appointed instructor in phi
losophy and methods of kindergarten train
ing at the Girls Normal School, in Phila-
delDhia
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oma it's expected and Unsuitable read
er; and if Mr.. Howells really indorses
his own statements, he has either been
pronouncedly unfortunate in his femi-
nine acquaintance, OF he has made the
fatal error of deducing his conclusions
from that remarkable collection Of
women with which his own pages are
nonn1od
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

THE Supreme Court of Kansas recently
adopted a new rule of damages in a suit
against a railroad company to recover for
the loss of a limb through the partial neg
ligence of the company. The lower court
gave the plaintiff $1,000 damages. The Su-
preme Court, in reviewing the case, said:
The Judgment will be reversed unless plant
If within thirty days RENTS 81, 900 thereof. in
erwise a new trial win be ordered. The court
further adds: IL the plaintiff had lost the por-
ton OF his limb which has been amputate 1 in
the service of his country he would be ent tied
TO a pension, under the law. of at least $50 per
month. That would be $500 per year. The
yearly interest on 5000 at Z per cent. will be-
$3.50.
In other words the court adopted the
United States pension law as a rule for the
measurement of damages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

THE Christian scientists of Syracuse, N.
Y, nave been chartered as a church, and
hold regular Sunday services. > There, as
elsewhere, the practice of the healing art
by the believers hs been quite extensive;
SO general. in fact, that it has been de-
nounced from the regular pulpits as a de-
fusion. In five recent cases death has been
ascribed to the interference of these heal
ers, and scandal has been created in conse-
Ouence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

In past years the energy of our people has
been largely devoted to destroying the for
ests. The time is likely to come when they
will be even more anxious to restore them.
No fact IN nature is now better settled than
that the destruction of forests is followed
by disastrous results in various ways.
Hon. Emil Rothe, q close observer and
writer of note, says:
Have you never tried to find out why south
ern Ohio has ceased to be the great fruit country
II was formerly known to BET Why Is 1t that we
can not raise any more peaches in our State,
while they used to, bring sure crops not more
than q quarter of a century agol What is 1t that
makes our climate, once so favorable for man.
kind and for vegetation, more unsteady from
year TO yearl Look at the woodless hills OF
southern Ohio and yOu have the answer. Let
the hills be deprived / of the rest of the protection
which the forests afford, and half the area Of this
State will he sterile in less than fifty years. The
then from the slopes; the limestone which is now
covered with productive humus, loan and clay,
will be laid bare; the naked rocks will reflect the
rays OF the sun and increase the summer heat;
the north storms will blow unhindered over the
country, and every change of wind will cause an
abrupt change in the temperatures; the rainfall
Will be diminished and become Irregular; snow
and rain-wate will at once run down in the val
leys and cause periodical freshets, which will
ultimately carry away the best part of the soil,
even from the valleys. Such will be the ma
voidable results of further devastation of tim
Der.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

A CORRESPONDENT from the lower part of
the State writes that much valuable time
is s~quandered by certain natives there
abouts in sitting on the banks of the Ohio
river in expectation of seeing frightful
relics from Johnstown drift past. One
negro servant recently returned home very
much disguised, saying: II o sot thar
three hours. and didn't see nothin' but two
dead bosses and q mule"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

HAVE you a silver dollar in your pocket
Look at the female head on one side of it,
and you will see it is a classic face. The
chin is rather heavy, but the nose is purely
Grecian and the profile classic. The face
was drawn from life. The original is Miss
Anna w. Williams, of Philadelphia. Miss
Williams was a student at the Academy of
the Fine Arts when engrayer George Nor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

THE annual catalogue of DePauw Uni
versity shows total enrolment in 1883 of
9O2 students. The past has been the most
prosperous year in the history of the insti-
tuition. The college, preparatory school.
theological, law, normal, music, military
and art schools make favorable exhibits.
The largest percentage of increase is made
by the College of Liberal Arts, the Theo-
logical School and the Normal School. The
graduating classes number sixty-eight, and
every department of the university is in a
hourishing condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
What constitute the Rocky mountains and
which is the highest peaks G. A. w.
CITY.
The Rocky mountains include all the
mountains in North America between the
great plains and the Pacific ocean, ex-
lending to the Arctic ocean on the north
and to Mexico on the south. The greatest
expanse is between the thirty-eighth and
forty-second degrees of north latitude.
where the system has a breadth of 1000
miles, chiefly in Utah, Colorado and Ne
vada. The highest peak is Mount st. Elias.
IN Alaska, which rises to an altitude of
19, 500 feet above the sea level.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

QUEER thoughts will pop into the human
mind in spite of occasion for seriousness.
Just after the Johnstown horror. a lady in
this city confded to a friend that her very
first thought in connection with the disas-
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PAGES.

The Sunday journal has double the circn-
lation of any Sunday paper in Indiana.
Price five cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

MANY persons go away from home in
search of health who never think of adopt
ing a strict regimen or practicing hygienio
rules at home. Change of air and diet is
generally beneficial, and the free use of
water, with bathing. exercise and regular
hours will always bring good results. Blu
In many instances the same.practice would
bring almost as good results at home. Ply
sicians say the water at Hot Springs has no
specific medicinal or curative quality. Its
merit lies in its purity and its temperature.
The free use of water externally and in
ternally, hot or cold, is one of natures
simplest or best remedies for many ills. A
gentleman of this city tested this to his
satisfaction a few days ago. He had been
suffering for some time from bilious disor-
der with occasional chills and general mis-
cradle feeling. Medicine did not seem to
benefit HIM, and he determined to try self
treatment. Supplying himself with half a
gallon of Lodi water he drank a quart and
then went Immediately for a hot bath.
While in the bath he drank the other quart
of water. The result was a profuse per-
spiration which seemed to carry of the
impurities of the system and left him feel
ing better than he had for months. In'this
case the treatment was no doubt aided by
the medicinal qualities of the Lodi water,
which is not only very searching on account
of it's purity, but is shown by analysis
to possess valuable qualities. Other In
diana waters, notably the French Lick and
West Baden, are almost equally as good, and
are destined to take their place among the
best in the United States, if not in the
world. When people come to understand
the uses of these waters they will rank
them in value with petroleum and natural
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ter was that she was glad E.. P. Roe was
dead, so the public would be spared a novel
on the subject.
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THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, in
enviously facetious comment upon a recent
letter from the Journals talented London
correspondent, ~animadverts pleasantly mp
on the statement made that Queen Victoria
was to "have a birthday" In his case.
vaulting hypercritical ambition O'erleapt
itself. Shakespeare, Webster and Worces-
ter all define birthday as "the anniversary
of one's BIRTH" So her Majesty, God bless
her, can duplicate the day every year that
she lives, without soliciting consent from
critics not up in good English.