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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-01

SANTA FEE SOUTHERN AND DENVER d RIO
GRANDE RAILWAY COS.
Scenic Route OF the West and Shortest line to
Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver, Colo.
SANTA FL, N NJ, April Is, 1891.
Mail and Express No. and 2-Laly except
Sunday.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
That Exception Clause.

We had in our possession a few days
ago q new scrip two dollar bill On
the front it read: Treasury note. y
The United States of America will
pay the bearer two dollars in coin.
Washington, D. C. Series OF $780,"
On the opposite side it read, Two
dollars. The stipulations read, This
note is legal tender at it's face value
in payment of all debts, public and
private. except Uhen otherwise stipulat-
ed in the contract" Now, what does
that exception mean, and why was it
placed therep Let us see. A few
days ago Mr.. c. Bisher, of this city,
showed us new coupon real estate
mortgage bond, and before the word
dollar, at every place where it ap-
peared. the word .'gold' was written.
Instead of reading dollars. it read
gold dollars every time.
We understand that many of the
mortgages that are being put on the
Kansas and other farms contain this
same stipulation. Now, do you see
anything in it?-Alliance Gazette.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21

Some of our good friends in the old
parties tell us to wait to 60 slower and
not to be so fast and that anon-bye
and bye-when things get ripe for
more positive action on the silver and
free coinage issues-when foreign ma
tions signify their willingness to join
US in establishing the bimetallic
standard-then they will be ready, too,
to join us in accomplishing this grand
result.
Now, this is all we'll enough for
taffy, or for indefinite delay, but this
is tune that wears out and will not
last forever. By continued repetition
it loses its influence and power to con-
troll, and SO the farmers and working
men respond to this eft-repeated sub
terfuge: 1--WE are tired of waiting. ="
1t is not good and we will wait no lon
ger. We will use the means we have
within our own jurisdiction. and as
far as its power and authority to coin
and make its own circulating medium
of exchange extends, to have one COM
mon legal standard for money; and for
our government to issue our own
money, and in such quantity as will
supply the needs of the people who
demand it.
That is about the '.long and short
OF it. and that is what the people are
aiming to bring about. No more
waiting, no more delay, but just as
soon as the possibilities will permit. =
National View.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
A LONELY BRIDAL TOUR.
Why the Sights of Europe Failed to Inn
press q Melancholy Traveller.

Why the Sights of Europe Failed to Inn
press a Melancholy Traveller.
Some years ago, while looking at the
clock at Strasburg, noticed a large
party of American tourists making
the rounds of that celebrated ancient
city. l was told by one of them that
while most of the visitors hugely en-
joyed the trip. there was, by way Of
contrast one among them whom moth
ing wonderful in nature or art could
teach.
The landscape had no charms for
him; the Alps did not impress him; the
beauties of Paris and Vienna did not
evoke his ecstacies. Nothing that he
saw had the slightest effect of drawing
out the least expression of admiration.
Weeks and weeks passed, and the rest
of the party were dumbfounded at his
lack of appreciation of the sights
which met them on all sides.
Finally it was decided to send a
committee of four--two gentlemen and
two ladies-to his room, and inquire
what it was prevented his enjoyment
of the trip.
"Old man," said one of the commit
tee, ''tell US what is the matter. If
any one in the party has displeased
you, we shall dismiss him; if any
wrong has been done you, we shall see
that it is remedied; but do tell US what
the trouble is, for we are trying hard
to please YOU"
WELL" said the unappreciative
tourist, Il do not care to say anything
about my trouble. WANTED to keep
it to myself. but as you have asked me
1 may as well out with it. The mat
ter is just this: This is my wedding
trip-the first wedding trip l ever
made-and am so blamed poor that
I did not have money enough to take
my wife with me-"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
LISTEN NOT TO THE ENEMY.
For His willy Words Are Delusion and
q Snare.

For His willy Words Are Delusien and
The Alliance is attracting much at
tention among the favored few. From
their indignation and wrath it seems
that the Alliance is towering obsta-
Gle calculated to prevent their iniqui-
tous schemes to further Cypress the
laboring classes. They are leaving no
stone upturned in their course to mar
and impede the progress and bring alb
solute ruin to the organization. The
Alliance is the uprising of the people
not a few men-and it is rather
strange that the whole world does not
possess the Judgment and wisdom of a
few men. That their combined men,
tai power is not capable of perceiving
their true condition, and is not COM
petent to devise a plan or means by
which they can be relieved of their
unjust burdens
We are lead to believe (when crazy
by some OF the Democratic papers
that the Alliance is calculated to bring
final ruin to the people of the Union.
We unanimously demand of them to
show or prove why such would be
brought about by the Alliance We
want more ideas and less prophesying.
The people are not drinking in with
unwonted thirst the advice given them
by one set of men, but are giving their
time and labor to cause they know
must and shall win.
see in some of the papers, where
men are so blinded by the unwhole-
some advice of the enemy. that they
are even STOPPING to have their names
affixed to some article of democratic
bosh and Alliance abuse. Now hope
that such men who pretend 10 be work
ing in the interest of the order (mem-
bers) may sever their connections with
the Alliance before the heat of battle
commences, less they spoil and become
an abemination. 1t is to be hoped
that some may deplore their loss, for
such men seem to be an important fac
tor in their estimation. but when polit-
ically tested only show a weakness of
perception.
The Alliance and combined labor
organization, with upwards of $780,
900 votes now, and a fair increase, what
may they not accomplish by 80. It is
for them to say whether or not the
equal rights they demand shall be had.
What fair minded man. that cannot see
the benefit that is to result from an
Alliance victory. It means freedom to
the down-trodden masses. It means
removal of the shackels, release to
the world that is struggling for the
bread of life.-Alliance Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Among the Poultry.

Introducing new blood annually is ne
cessary to secure healthy, vigorous poui-
try.
Give a variety of grain-oats in the bun
die, corn in the ear and small grain in lit
ter.
Packing in salt and storing in cool
eggs to keep.
If well managed poultry can be made to
supply fair proportion of the meat need
ed for family use
While case should always be taken in
giving salt, as a rule it will be found a
good plan to salt all soft feed.
Turuips or potatoes cooked with bran
makes good feed for the laying hens,
and they can be fed all they will eat
Make it rule during the next two
months to keep the eating troughs or
boards and the drinking vessels clean.
Because the poultry run after you when
you go in the yard is no indication that
they need feeding. Habit is often the real
reason.
In selecting place for poultry house
and yard a sandy soil and place that can
be readily drained will be found the
healthiest and the easiest kept clean.
The best plan of feeding bones to poul-
try is to pound them up into small pieces
about the size of grains of corn. Supplied
in this way the fowls will prefer fresh
bones to bone-meal
Nest-egg gourds make the best nest
eggs; they are light, cheap, convenient,
and there is practically no danger Of
breakage by the other eggs rolling down
against them, as is the case with porcelain.
Cornmeal and water makes a poor food
for ducks during summer. They need but
little grain, but will thrive better if given
rather coarse, bulky foods, especially
where they are given good range and
have access to pond.
To test eggs dissolve two ounces of salt
in one pint of water. A fresh-laid egg
will sink to the bottom; an egg one day
old will sink not quite to the bottom, and
for each day old the egg will swim nearar
the surface.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Cheap Money.

Senator PETER declared in a recent
speech in New York that the farmers
demanded cheap money, since which
time the proposition has met with a
storm of ridicule and abuse from the
partisan press. The animus of this
attack should not be misunderstood or
its effects underestimate. Ridicule
is often more potent than argument
and is usually resorted to when argu-
ment fails. The true meaning of the
term 'cheap money" has been pur-
and confuse. Senator PETER did not
allude to, neither does the Alliance
demand, '.cheap money in the sense
in which it might be applied to the
politicians or editors who are seeking
to force this misconception upon the
people. Far from it; the demand is
for the best kind of money
instead OF the poorest as is
alleged. The Alliance asks for the
only money possible that has basis
beyond doubt as to its complete re-
sponsibility and suficiency. There is
q wide difference between cheap money
and inferior money. The first is money
for the peoples use without the pres
ent extortionate cost while the second
is deprecated, unstable, and worth
less. It is not cheap quality in
money that is demanded, but money
that it will not require so much of the
products of labor to obtain. The ALI
ance demands an increase in the
amount of good money in circulation
in order to bring about this result well
knowing that an increase of poor,
worthless currency will have an oppo-
site effect. Those who are crying out
cheap money know full we'll the true
situation, but their purposes are better
served by incorporating the facts
and thereby misleading and befogging
the people. National Economist.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Pull Together.

How immensely strong and great
high and lifted up our enemies appear
at times. But it is only an appear
ance. The 'big bullying phantoms'
of millionairedem are entirely at our
mercy, if we only work together with
peace, harmony, fraternity, mutual
forbearance among known true BROTH
ers-faces and hands of steel and
brass against revealed traitors. Let
the words of the great Manitou in Hia-
watha sound in our ears:
II am weary of your quarrels,
Weary OF your wars and bloodshed,
Weary Of your prayers for vengeance,
OF your wranglings and dissensions;
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And 6 brothers live together"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
DOUGLAS JERROLD.
He Had Indeed Been q Long Time About
That Fruit.

A story connected with Jerrolds
short period of naval service may well
find place here, says Walter Jerrold
in an article in the St Nicholas. On
one occasion as midshipman, having
gone ashore with the captain, Jerrold
was left for time in charge of the
boat. While the captain was away
two of the men asked for permission to
60 and buy something. Permission
was given by their youthful and too
good -natured officer who added:
by the way, you may as well buy
me some apples and few pears"
''All right, SIR" said the men, and
off they went.
The captain returned, but not the
men; search was made for them but
they were not to be found; they had
deserted, and Midshipman Jerrold was
in sad disgrace. The event made
lasting impression upon him, so deep
a one that he declared he could recog-
nize the deserters at any time as in
deed he did. Some thirty years after
ward, as he was passing along the
Strand the ex-midshipman was struck
by the appearance of bakers man
who was looking into shop window;
he walked up to him, and rapping
him sharply on the back said:
Il say, my friend, don't you think
you've been rather long time about
that fruit?''
The deserter was horror-struck at
being discovered. and could only gasp
out "Lor'! sir, is that youp" when Je.I-
old went on his way laughing.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
APPRENTIcEp TO JAY COULD.
After Much Work and Small Wages He
Takes French Leave.

After Much Work and Small Wages He
Takes French Leave.
The writer recently asked the super
intendent of the Atlanta, Ca. telegraph
office few pertinent questions relative
to his apprentices, and was astonished
at the information CLEANED from that
affable and Woodworking individual.
It appears thatthree apprentices are
required for an Office containing, say,
about thirty men. His duties as a be-
ginner are the carrying of messages
to and from the different tables. He
must be of the quickest, both in
thought and action, and he is kept on
the keen jump from the beginning to
the end of the days work, which
usually lasts seven hours. No stated
period of apprenticeship must be COM
pleted, but as a rule the ''cub" quits
after ten or twelve months have elapsed.
In that time he has mastered the rudi-
ments of the business. and chiefly by
sound, for Jay Gould only occasionally
permits him to handle the instruments.
Why? He wants to get the benefit of
the boys services for as long time as
possible. Well, after having got thus
far, and never having been burdened
with much salary, he takes French
leave of Jay and goes to work for a.
railroad in the Office of the train dis
patcher. Here he finishes up, and in
a comparatively short time he becomes
tourist. In other words, he tramps
it over the country. Fetching up at
one of jays many Offices again he is
given work. II he is at all rapid he
may make as much as $75 per month.
If ordinary he is paid $50, and fire.
quently less. 1t all depends upon him
self.
A boy learns best between the ages of
IA and Is. Let him learn the art of
manipulating the keys after he has
reached the age of 81 and he is not lin
it, so to speak. The reason given is
that after reaching the adult i.
age the fingers are fully de-
veloped. and unless trained when
growing, are stiff, frequently clumsy,
Impractical and away beyond the age
of dexterity. When youth the fin
gers of the average boy possess all
that acuteness of touch supposed to be-
long to the opposite sex, and further
more they have almost twice as much
endurance. Detroit Free Press.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Can He Proved.

The plutocratic press is very anx-
ious to show to the people that there
is an abundance of money in circula-
ton and that all this cry of limited
supply OF money is untrue. Nearly
any paper has a table showing the
amount in circulation each year since
1873, and that there is now about $25
per capita in circulation. Take the
best note that can be made, and go to
any bank in the south for the money
on it. and the demonstration of scare
ity will at once be en.-Alliance
Herald
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21

pound Of pork out Of doors as It
does in the barn. it will certainly re-
quire much more, and perhaps twice
as much, to make pound OF beef in
a stable where water will freeze as it
will in one where there is moderate
temperature. not lower than 80 de-
grees, and also that the same amount
of feed given before the weather is
very cold will make much more fat
than it will later in the season. Ohio
Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Valuable Curio~,tsa.

Near Pendleton, in Umatilla county.
Oregon. have been discovered two
mummifed 1ndians-one is that of an
old man and the other that of child.
They are queer specimens and are re-
garded as valuable curiosities. DR..
Morrow, who owns the relics, has re-
fused $500 for them, but the curios are
considered much more valuable
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21

western NEW IOrk FARMER says IN
regard to the Wyoming county Ali
ance meeting: The 1000 members of
the order in this county have deter
mined that the Alliance principles of
letting the Office seek the man, shall
be principle observed in the nominal
ton of all candidates. They have no
use for self-seekers and look upon all
who ask for Office with suspicion.
They want man to represent them in
the assembly, the senate, and in other
places of official trust, who will earn
his salary and be true to those who
employ and pay him as a public serv-
ant and they propose to have such a
one even if neither party see fit to
nominate him. Their action at the
convention conveys no uncertain sound.
1t is brief, but it is awfully explicit and
fearfully in earnest. 1t advises all
members to attend their party pri-
maries and work for pure and honest
men who are known to be in harmony
with the Alliance demands. The ex-
ecutive authority is directed to submit
these demands to every nominee and
failing to secure the public pledges of
their support of these demands, he is
instructed to call, not an Alliance
meeting. for the Alliance is strictly
secret and non-partisan. but pollti-
Cal convention of the Alliance men,
bership to place in nomination candi-
dates who are in harmony with the
Alliance platforms. There is nothing
-k-s g. >c
old party rings are given chance to
repent confess and prepare for the
glory OF the coming.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
Warm Barns for Fattening Stock.

In an experiment made in feeding
two lots of pigs of equal age and
weight, one being in pens in warm
barn, and the other in open pens out
of doors, the following results were
obtained: From Nov. 81 to Feb. 5,
in the warm barn one pound of pork
cost 4.78 pounds of corn, and IN the
outside pens one pound OF pork cost
5.92 pounds of corn, a difference of
about twenty-five per cent. But dur
ing the very severest weather for four
weeks, in the warm barn one pound of
pork cost 5.71 pounds of corn, and in
the outside pens it cost 1892 pounds
of corn or nearly double the amount.
Experienced feeders say that the effect
OF cold weather. upon fattening stock
is more marked upon other animals
than it Is upon swine and if it takes
twice as many pounds of corn to make
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-01-22
Its Mouth Has Moved.

The maps of the country which were
gotten up thirty or thirty-five years ago
all show the Missouri river empting intoy
the Mississippi directly opposite Alton,
and they were correct in having it so,
although such is not the case now. The
well-known propensity of the Missouri
river to change it's channel on account
Of the wearing away of its banks is as
apparent near the mouth of the stream
as at any other point along its course.
The lower side of the river has been
gradually cutting away and the deposits
filling in at the upper side until the
mouth of the Missouri is now about
three miles further down the river than
it was thirty years ago.-Keokuk Gate
CITY.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-01-22
THEIR HANDS IN THE WAY.
A Great Drawback to Young Men In Socl-

A Great Drawback to Young Men In Socl-
ETY..
'My dear young fellow" said soci-
ETY. woman of great candor to an awk-
ward, timid young Harvard graduate
whom she was to present, you have
any amount of talent you have position,
you have money, but you will never be
at your ease, never show at your best,
until you know what to do with your
hands and feet. You must lose them,
forget them. be unconscious of them"
This is easier said than done; and yet
it is possible by the persistent use of a
few simple exercises which bring relax
alton and freedom from stiffness, and
others which encourage hexibility and
strength of muscle. Cultivate the habit
of letting the arms fall and place them
selves as they will when standing or
sitting without occupation. Learn to
swing them, one at time, back and
forth, like a pendulum hanging from
the shoulder, the elbow joint straight
and easy, but not taut. Lift the length
of the arm as weight from the shoul-
der very quietly and slowly as high as it
will go, and bring it down in the same
manner. The muscles across the back
are weakened to wonderful degree.
Try this movement singly, and again
with both arms, fifty or hundred
times day. With the arms hanging at
full length, elevate the shoulders slow
ly, ard turn them in rotary motion to-
ward the back.
A daily practice of such simple move
ments calls ones attention to the varied
actions and use of joints and muscles;
| the idea OF using the arm from the
| shoulder is understood, and the habit
of bringing different sets of muscles in
to play in alienation and succession
becomes second nature. This is the
numbering of ones forces, and training
them to do each its own party 1t is a
kind of personal massage, the virtue OF
which lies in the minute search fol-
weakness, habbincss and lack of devel
opment in the smallest muscle, and
the daily gentle manipulation which
strengthen it by action. No woman
wants that close-knit sinew and knotty
woody fiber that many men. seek to OBJ
tain from athletics. 1t is entirely op
posed to the offices of life to which nat
ure calls her; she does want frmnes.
with flexibility, staying power and en-
durance.-Harper's Bazaar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-01-22
The Wind Made Visible.

Take polished metal surface of two
feet or more. Take a windy day for the
experiment, whether hot or cold, clear or
cloudy, only let it not be in murky, rainy
weather. Hold your metallic surface at
right angles to the direction of the wind.
If the wind is north, hold your surface
east, but instead of holding it vertically
incline it about twelve degrees to the
horizon, so that the wind striking,
glances and flows over the edges as the
water flows over a dam. Now sight
carefully along the edge some minutes
at sharply-defned object and you will
see the wind pouring over the edge in
graceful curves Make your observa.
tions carefully, and you will hardly
ever fail in the experiment. The results
are even better if the sun is obscured.
Household Monthly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-01-22
WHERE LIES rHE LAND2

Where lies the landf asked, In sorrow
drowned
Tell me, pray, where the enchanted ground
That knows not weary heart nor aching head,
Nor wild regret, nor sore and anxious dread,
And will seek II to earth's utmost bound.
Here my voice faltered-dropped to faintest
sound;
A whisper startled me, and, looking round,
heard an echo mocking me, which said;
Where lies the landi
My eyes then caught little grass.green mound,
Withpure white roses and white lilies crowned,
That sweetest fragrance all around them shed;
And as looked upon that quiet he'd,
Full answer to my question had found,
Where lies the landy
Charles d. Bell In Lippincotts.