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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

ALBUQUERQUE has earned tie re-
proach OF the entire Territory. She
sent to Washington protest a
gainst New Mcxico's admission il.
to the Union, giving as reason
therefor the iIliterary and depravi
ty OF our people. The name of
every slgncr to such manifesto
should be published so that the ma
iority of our people would be able
to treat them as epers. They are
unworthy social or business rccog-
milton and should be sent to the
ca acombs.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Col. s. S Prouty,a veteran Kan
sas journalist, who served in the
war with Major Vim. Cafl'rcy, of
the LEADRR of White Oaks. died
recently of an old complaint, at
Topeka. In speaking ot the de
ceased, the Hutchinson News said
that he belonged to that rapidly
diminishing group of men who par
ticipated in the string scenes Incl
dent to the early settlement OF the
state. and whose labors were inhu-
entail IN shaping the political des-
tiny of Kansas.
With pain we clip the above from
the Las Vegas Optic of Monday
evening last. Alas, roor Prouty,
we knew him well. He went to
Kansas in 80, and eng lged in tho
Newspaper business until thl war
broke out when he enlisted. In
camp he was genial as sunburst,
IN action AS fearless as a Kansas
cyclone After the war he resum-
ed his old occupation-was editor
of the Topeka, Kan, Common
wealth and state printer n number
OF years. lis last newspaper venture
vas as proprietor otthe"Cow Boy"
al FIT Dodge, Kan. but his office was
burned ont about tour years ago.
About tHat time he was taken with
a cold which reduced his avoirdu-
poiss from 400ib to about 100. A
year agp we met him at Las Vegas
when he was und. treatment at
Hot Springs BeiHg member of
the g. A. X. and learning Of our
presence, he entered the encamp-
ment then in session We could
easily see that he was beyond the
reach of human aid, but he was
hopeful and promised to visit us in
the near future. Bishop Simpson
in speaking OF deceased friend,
said: II know affection does not
cease at the grave, therefore | will
be interested in you still" So the
writer says to his old friend, Col. ).
S. Prouty. The tocsin has been
rung and thrilled by the alarm we
wonder that iii the full vigor OF
manhood he should be cut down,
that
The God Of bounds,
" ho Sels TO seas shore,
Should come to him in his fated rounds
And say, no more"
Farwell, brother, comrade, friend,
Soon we, too, will be called hence,
and tar above the clouds which
now hover ore us We will clasp
hands with You again
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
CHARGES REASONABLE.
GROCERIES,
VEGETABLES,
FRUIT,
CANNED GOODS

The subscriber has opened a
place et business for the sale OF
the above goods, IN the building
on " Oaks Avenue, nearly
opposite Weeds store, and res
roctfully solcits q share OF public
renaso.
JOHN A. BROWN.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

WE are under obligations to the
Governor, almost every member OF
the Council and lower house, and
outsiders at Santa Fe for tavors.
What is the matter with our cor
respondent therel
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Our friend surmises that a tarIt
to protect our manufacturers and
indirectly our laborers. is an out
rage pure and Simple-that 1t oPer-
ates as y tax upon the consumer.
" twaddle. Those who donot
buy foreign goods do not have to
pay the tax levied upon their in,
PRODUCTION here. Neither is 1t true
that the tariff levieu is attached to
the cost price OF domestic article as
can be easily shown
Take tor instance the State OF
NJ chigan which produces one third
of al the salt manufactured il the
United States. In 1860 salt III that
state sold for 81. 60 per barrel. In
1861 y tariff of "a cents per bushel
was placed on salt. AL the free
tladers said now our salt will cost
us So. a per bushcl, tor Of course
the duty must be added to the orig
inal cost. But salt did not ad-
vance in price. bnt strange to say,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

The Congressional conference
committee fave resolved to admit
all Territories clamoring for ad-
m;,sion INTO the Union, including
Now Mexico. Bueno.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Tie the Divinity thrt Atir' within Us,
lis lIeayen itself ;hAt points ou. here
after
And intimatcs eternity to man"
Thus SAID the poet i'll blank
,crse. "IloreAftsr" may mean bliss
or torment, or both, Ias mans brain
under pressure will construe it.
Last Sabbath night an "EvHnsel-
ist" held forth in this camp before
a religious assemblY-at all events
in house Of worship-and earn
estly promulgated the do2trine that
there is no hell vawning for ten
ants. If this be so, where will tho
Democrats go who so crueIly assas
sinated CLAYTON of Arkansas last
week for the simple reason that he
was a Republican or what Will os
come Of those Democrats WAC last
week sought the life of Pope. one
OF the most eminent Republicans
OF Florida, aud whose lite was only
saved by an accident. There must
be hell. We want no such mis-
creants thrown into our "hereAt-
ter" apartments. We have had
trouble enough with them in this
life, and a quit nhould 6eperate us
IN ihe future, one which from our
proud perch we can look down from
and echo What we have SO long told
them from our position here,
"There's a God in Israel -
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09


waken thought in his base mind.
~
F,rst he is separately down on
" Middle Men, ANA seems to argue
that all such should be tabooed
Why he might as well try to make
a three linked suusage and ignore
the middle link as t. dispense with
Middle Men" All cam IT in the
nature OF things be produ 'trs.
There must be "middIe men. y
What is the clergyman but "mld-
die man. standing between the
Creator and the creature. What
is thc lawyer but "middlc man"
standing between the court and
client, what the editor but Il "mid-
die man" standing between the
ount1ut Information and the starry
ling for intel igencc
We have the word of God as
given us through the Bible, hat
from the earliest days middle
men" existed - for what are
mechanics, laborers and artizanS
Lut "middle men" And right
here we are reminded that then as
now mean "middle men" existed.
Judus Iscariot was Of this charac-
ter, bnt he didn't make much mon-
ev out of the business. When
Soloman was about to build his
temple he sent to Hiram, King of
Tyre, for material which Hiram
contracted to furnish conditioned
that corn be paid therefor. giving as
reason why he preferred corn to
money. that hs people lived upon
an island where corn could not be
produced, plainly conveying the
idea that his subjects were n"tpro-
ducers but middle men. Sacred
history tells us that all were not
producers IN the days of Christ.
Christ's earthly father was car
penter and His Apostles were most
ly fishermen, which goes to prove
that at no age of the world has all
men been producers. Hence there
Las always, and there always will
be "middlc men, and it is kicking
against the pricks to kick against
| the 3 tuatiou.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
NUMBER -

Mr. Enron
1t is cIaiutcd bv certain patty
IN tho post office scramble, who is
running his wife tor the position,
that his petition has been slghcd
by all the leading ci'izcnSof White
Oaks. If that is the case one OF
the common scrubs would like t"
inquire what claims this party ha1
ON the aforesaid leading citizens
seeing he has only been a resldHut
of this place little overa year and
has been nu office seeker all bis
life. came here fresh from an oiiic-
ial position from which he had beer
unccrmoniously fired and now, ,hud
.ng himself hopeless y debarred 10y
incumpetsncy, shoves his poor wife
to the front hoping thereby to gain
new hold on the public .teat by
proxy even if he has to round up
the whole family. 1t does seem IT'S
it the public at large ought to have
a little to say in this matter as we'll
as the half dozen leading citizons
whose names are subscribed to that
petition. GENERAL OBSERVER.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

prices began to decline, and in 1866
it sold at the mandatory torS |. 80
per barrel; in 1872 for S1.l0; in
1880 for 20 cents per barrel, and
now, in 1889, it can be bought for
80 cents per barrel and the barrel
that cost % cents thrown in, max
ing the actual cost ot the salt ~
cents, while the tariff is to day 81
cents perfbarrel.
Again the laborlng man is told
that the tariff on cotton cloth OF
which his shirt is made is six cents
per yard, therefore every yard be
buys costs him SIX cents moro than
it would but for this odious duty.
But it happens that the labo ring
man has Just bought the cloth for
a pair of shirts which his wlIe has
made for hlm, and he naturally
says to himself chow IS thsl paid
only 81 cents per yard for the cloth
and vas offered IL cheaper article
tor + cents. >
1t is not claimed that the tariff
directly decreases the cost OF y ,odI
but bv Keeping foreign competition
it encourages competition at home,
and thus prices are brought down
in on, own markets. whllt the
money that would be sent abr AL
to pay for these things is kept at
home and paii out to farmers tor
their produces to feed the opera
tlyes in our nils and factories.
The man who tavors treo-trade IN
this country to-day is just AS much
traitor to its material intcrcs as
was the rebel of the South to the
integrity OF the Union in 1861.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

IT is not to BE supposed thatGCn.
Clayton, of Arkansas, had his head
blown off, and Hon. Pope, the
mcst distinguished representative
of the Republicans party of Florida
narrowly escaped death because OF
his being a pronounced and illus
trious Republican, issued formally
from orders of the Democratic
party, signed and scaled through
that organism, but that b0tli were
the legitimate issue of the aphorism
"We are the saints-dann the
heritits!" as held by the Demo
cratic organization there can be no
Just doubt, and there is none Ask
a Democrat if he does not endorse
each assass nation and in lmpudent
answer or turn OF complexion he
will answer yea, while with pals
i-d tongue will asseN er1te may.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
Carlo Hotel.
WHITE OAKS. MGxlCo
NM GAILAGuER Pron-

This Hotel is new brick structure and
ia furnished throughout with cew funi-
tlrc Sleeping rooms are well supplied
with elem and comfortable beds and pro
vidtd with light and ventilation. Table
supplied vith the best the market af
fords Every care taken or aud atten-
ton paid to warts Of transient guests.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
MIDDLE-MEN-TARIFF.

Our Texas correspondent airs his
views on the tariff question again
through our columns. We propose
giving him one or two oO ect less
ons on the subject which may a
waken thought in his base mind.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Subscribe for lie L-ApER
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

TmE Legislature still continues
making laws tor the benefit Of law
yers, but has not yet turned it's at
tention to the interests OF the peo
pie.
WE learn that our public school
will close this month tor want OF
money to pay running expenses.
Next Thur,dny will be Vain
tinesDay "minr. "'Ihine, ""love,
.'dtv ." e,c., " / Ihen be loaded
into post offices.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
nENiY w. KEARSING,
Assayer and Chemist.

Z IT OTh0r mctaIs IN pf0p0rTIon.
Special contracts to Mining Com
panies and Mills.
sY- Cash must be RENTED
with each sample.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Dr. Paden has just received a
life size picture of himself painted
by a brother in Ohio. lie is oblig-
ed to keep it in his office for Mrs.
Paien says one like him is quite
enough to have IN the hoa7e The
Doctor says sits beauty
Mrs. DR.. Lane has been on her
sick bed for several days.
S. A. johnson has been appolnt-
ed iamtor of Castle Hall
An effort is being made to form
an association to buy the cemetery
aud the land lying Immediately a.
round it,
Mr.. Ridgeway is about to open
a grocery store in Mr Bonnell's
new building Just above Mr.. Bar
bcr's office. MEs. GRUNpY.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09

Were you brought up IN a saw
mill! Ever in "A house before! Did
YOU work about a brick kiln in the
blessed days Of yorcl Did you
tend about windmill upon seme
rocky shorel Or liveupon Il side
hlil where the winds could always
roar, and couldn't get a gorgeous
I'LL Of cutting to the core! In any
case, my blooming pill, it you
wouldn't lose your gore and rile Il
man who'd freely kill or scrub yeu
on the floor, and stab YOU with II
gray goose quill and and parade
the socks you wore-why rhenyou
blooming mudsill-Dre breathing
shameless whiskey still-why d-n
.,,,, -hut tha 1oor
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1889-02-09
SatuFda1. February Q, 1850.

VIM. casfrrv. natter =, zzerraoter
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-03
Industrial Insurance.

In these days life insurance of all kinds has
become so common that the poorest and
most ignorant laborer would laugh at the
idea of policy being a forerunner of i'll
luck, just as the modern Jack Tar laughs at
the idea of misfor tune following voyage
commenced on Friday. Indeed, the Iaborer
now has insurance brought to his own door,
but its solicitors first and its collectors after
ward follow him to his factory and to his
shop, ready to insure not only himself, but
his wife, his babe in the cradle, his girls in
short Clothes his boys in knickerbockers and
''his sisters and his cousins and his aunts ,"
This is industrial Insurance." ready to in j..
sure any one from the pulling infant to the
hoary headed grandfather of 20, at a weekly
rate of from five cents upward.
There are three companies only in New
York city that tranact what is known as
industrial insurance business. They are all
conducted upon the same principle of grant
ing insurance upon the lives Of infants, chill
dren and adults, at weekly premiums of from
five to fifty cents, being for young man of
q insurance of S93 at death for five cents a
week, or 1890 for fifty cents weoll..-New
York Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-03
Ignorance OF Girls.

"a NN@-AD'
If q girl never hears word about economy
from her birth, and is only conscious that to
secure the means to crafty her slightest wish
she needs only to stretch out her hands and
they will be ahundantly filed, how can one
expect after marriage that she can have the
Eaintest knowledge of the duties that must
belong to her in the care of her households
She has never been called upon to know any
thing about her own expenses. What she
fancied she wanted she bought without
thought that it might be well to learn
whether she could afford the money. How
money came, how it was always ready for
her when she asked, were questions she had
never been taught that she ought to ask and
~ understand the answer.
As far as any teaching she has ever re-
ceived, she might imagine that money grew
In the woods, and her father had it gathered
for her as wanted-and of course her hus.
band would do the same No education be-
fore marriage ever taught her anything
more rational With such a girlhood, free
from every thought save that Of her own per-
sonal qualification, what reason can there be
for surprise if she makes many mistakes
well for her if they are not irremediable
Duty was something nevsr DIeDtioned to her
when girl. After marriage her husband
gives her no insight into his business affairs,
no cautions as to expenses, never talks to heI
or consults or advises with her about their
mutual expenditures. The same cruel love
and indulgence-or it may be Indifference
surrounds her in her new home, and thus she
continues to be left in utter ignorance of all
practa cal knowledge, simply toy, butter
fly, seeking only sunshine and personal en-
joyment.
And yet under proper training what a
noble specimen of womanhood she perhaps
was capable of being made!-Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher in New York Star.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-03
a principle OF Rindoo Morality.

bengal Cor. N. o. Times-D enocrati
There is sect among the Hindooa
called Jain. The first aud highest
principle of the Jain religion is never to
kill. but always to- protect all living
creatures and promote their happiness.
A rigid Jain would not frample on an
insect while passing by the road He
carries brOomstick. and with it clears
his path of al minute insects and worms
A Jain would gladly lie on bedstead
that is infested with bugs, and coolly
allow his blood to be sucked by them.
An English gentleman once met Jain
and told him that the water he used to
drink was full of microscopic insects.
The Jain would not believe him. The
Englishman brought his microscope, and
proved the truth of his assertion. The
Jain looked surprised, and wept bitterly.
He was devoted follower of his religion
and he proved his devotion by refusing
Ever again to take water, and the conse
quence was that he was soon attacked by
q serious malady and died
The English-educated young Hindoos
of the day, it must be noted, disregard
the above principle of Hindoo morality
the principle of being kind to all living
creatures. The English educated young
H1ndoo is a great lover of flesh diet He
eats mutton, and beef and bacon as vora-
ciously as an Englishman He has lately
taken to shooting and hunting pretty
largely. He cares little to feed birds
with rice and corn, and laughs at the I'm
educated Hindoo who shows such marks
of kindness toward the feathery tribe
He does not hesitate to kill snake as
soon as he sees it But the number %
such educated Hindoos is very small. only
3 drop in the vast ocean Of Hindoo hu
Uanity
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-09-03
THE cLAY,EATgRs OF MARYLAND
The Sorry Specimens of Humanity WbG
Inhabit the Eastern Shore.
IBaltimore Cor. Chicago Tribune.l

1nhabit the Eastern Shore.
baltimore Cor. Chicago Tribunel
The eastern shore of Maryland has not
only been brought into prominence by the
wonderful oyster beds that line it, but
also by some of the queer people who in
habit the almost uninhabitable portions
of it A great swamp extends through
Wicomico and Worcester counties II
produces fine cypress and is the home Of
the most yenomous snakes 1t is also
the home of the "Swampers" and clay.
eaters These are not reptiles or animals
but people human beings, most of whom
have never seen railroad, heard a loco
motive-whistle, or voted any ticket
1t is hard to understand the appetite
that Graves clay as a diet Some people
refuse to believe that the people can livs
and yet eat clay, but reputable and truth
full physician who recently contracted
a severe case of the shaking-ague In
making a tour of the eastern shore sWamps
declares that these peculiar specimens of
the Maryland population do eat clay and
have passion or habit of chewing it like
lovers of hasheesh There is a kind of
clay found in that section that is oily, like
putty, and with very little sand or grit
in it.
The physician referred to says the clay
eating swampers are miserable specimens
of humanity. With legs that are mere
sticks, narrow hips. depressed chests, pot
bellies, and bluish-yellow complexion they
present about the lowest type of the white
race found in the United States. The
swampers who acquire the habit of eating
clay are generally short-lived, but the
other inhabitants of the eastern shore
swamps are as hardy as others and as
ignorant as Hottentots Many of their
houses are built on piles and they reach
them in boats through the lagoons.
Though they shake with ague half the
year, and have skins the color of saffron,
they seem to be insured against any other
disease. for it is rare to hear of any other
kind of sickness in the swamps than ague,
1t is astonishing what quantities of qui
nine and whisky are consumed by These
people. The women who are not clay
eaters chew tobacco and drink corn juice
the same as the men. In the summer the
women and children gather blackberries
which are plentiful in this vicinity. The
men go OF in the woods and make shin
giles, which they sell to the nearest country
stores for cheap wearing apparel, corn
meal bacon, quinine and whisky. Thest
people are never reached by the tax col
lie tor, the preacher, the book agent, thu
politician, or the lightning rod agent, anC
when they are not shaking with chilli
they are happy and contented.
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Diplomatic and Consular REPRESENTATIVES. Of Hawaii

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