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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06
MEsOAL TWlEE.
From tho Phuadelhla Telegraph.

From tho Phlladelhia Telegraph.
James X. Pennington, of Cincinnati,
Is rope manufacturer, and while in
Chicago, recently, submitted to an in
terview. He was just returning home
from a trip through Northern Mexico
and Southern Arizona, where he
claims he has found the material that
will make twlne and rope so strong
that it will almost never wear out.
mot much ofthe rope has yet been
made, but you may expect to hear
about it in the near future, for it is
the strongest rope in existence to-day.
| heard of the mescal plant about
eighteen months ago, and after read
ing everything about that 1 could find
in the encyclopedias / came to the CON
clusion that it was just what we
wanted. l found acres and acres of
the mescal in Arizona and Mexico
The plants are like cabbages, and on a
large stalk that grows up alongside the
head of she mescal are long-stemmed
leaves with sharp and hard-pointed
ends, The sharp end is something like
the needle Of the cactus. The soft
part of of the leaf can be removed and
the stem stretched out for yard or
more, it is so elastic. Then let it dry
in the sun and you have needle with
an eye, already threaded. The Mexi-
cans, and some of the Arizonans, use
nothing else but the mescal thread
and needle, as they call it, to sew their
garments with. You can make just
as fine thread as you want, When
you desire finer thread pull the stem
andit will grow smaller, just like
little rubber band when you stretch it
hard. The thread is as strong as
wire.
81 have also discovered that rope
and heavy twine can be made Of the
mescal, and have purchased 500 acres
in Arizona, for my company, which
will be turned into an immense mes
cal patch. For the rope the big stems
of the mescal head can be utilized.
There are about 100 leaves on each
head, and the stems of half that num-
Der can be used to manufacture the
rope. l had piece of three-quarter
inch rope made while there, and sent
it to Cincinnati. l have heard from
the firm there, and experts in the
factory pronounce it the strongest
material in the rope line yet made.
1t will not rot in water when properly
cured, and will last, l can say without
exnggeration, fifty times longer than
the best ordinary cordage. The
manufacture Of the mescal rope and
twne is bound to be one Of the great
est Industries in the country. The
United States and Mexico, l am GER
tain, can have the entire market to
themselves in this line of trade, be-
cause the mescal plant will not grow
in any soil and climate except Of Ari-
Zona and Mexico.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

A Nevada paper wants convicted
murderers dropped into the shaft of a
mine in that state which is S96 feet
deep. 1t says that person falling
will lose all conciousness after de-
scending 400 feet, and the death to be
found at the bottom Of the shaft will
be entirely painless and without any
chanceo OF bungling as on a gallows.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

OF cases Of scrofula and other blood
diseases are hereditary, and therefore
difficult to cure. But we wish to state
in the most positive, emphatic manner
that Hoods Sarsaparilla does cure
scrofula in every form. The most
severe cases, too terrible for descrip-
tion, have yielded to this medicine
when all others failed. If you suffer
from impure blood in any way, take
Hoods Sarsaparilla,
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

The Arizona legislature got in some
deadly work on the Miles county bill
and it has gone glimering, Wilcox is
in mourning but Solomonville is happy
and Tombstone rejolces.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

A car load of Apache indians, who
have been held as prisoners Of war in
in Florida for the past three or four
years, also passed through the city
early Sunday morning for Fort Win
gate, where they will be retained as
prisoners under military guard. They
are reported dying off in Florida, and
a portion Of the cut-throats, consigned
to that state with Geronimo, are now
returned to with few miles Of their
old stamping grounds. Geronimo is
not with the bloody red devils that
passed through to Fort Wingate.-
AlbnquerQue Citizen.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

St Johns Herald: Henry Hunning
and VIM. Morgan, prominent sheep
men from the western portion of the
county, came in on Saturday evening.
They report stock in that section as
being in good thriving condition.
Fairly good beef can be obtained from
the range and sheep are looking bet
ter than usual at this season of the
year. There has been comparatively
little snow so far, and that did not lay
on the ground any length of time.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-06

The Bell telephone patent monopoly
in England has expired. The patent
there was granted for fourteen years.
Cheap telephones will now prevail in
England the same as in Germany,
where Bell failed to obtain a patent.
In this country the Bell patent will
expire March 7th, 1898, having been
originally granted March 7th, 1876,
for term Of seventeen years.-Scien-
tiac American.
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softly nesting against the throat-lies an
amber-hued boa of ostrich feathers. Less
ornate, but perhaps moro elegant, Is
another model. Just long, ample cloak
of palest gray cashmere, one corner OF
which the wearer losses carelessly over the
left shoulder, secured around the throas
by long, pale pink feather boa. We
make wraps, too, of transparent materials.
for instance, black net embroidered with
gold--supplementing the gossamer by
second undertook of light silk.
As for millinery, / am more than half
inclined to leave it out altogether, for it is
next. to impossible to give in written
net. The prettiest geadgear is the least
easy to describe, because its prettiness re-
sides in the very fact that its component
parts are deity blended together into a
becoming whole. What is to be said of
the hat that is but rim of diaphanous
lace enclosing coronet of lilac, of the one
composed entirely of leaves and flowers
and Of the bonnet which reminds you of
the creole kerchef set on q diadem of scar
let blossoms, of the chapeau with a
frilled boa in lieu of strings, or of
the eapete which is attached by gilded
ribbons around the chignon, save that each
In its way Ia charming7 We are making
fanciful collarettes and fichus en- suite
with our chapeaux, canning amalgama-
tons OF lace and flowers, that recall the
head covering, whether it be toque or hat,
and serve at the same time to complete a
dress for out of doors. Here is drapery of
ehantilly fastened by bouquets of lilac,
there high frill of lace bound by a Gordon
of buttercups or cowslips. One fichu of
black tulle is studded with violets, another
with ''crimson-tipped" daisies; and each
has not only toque to match but also a
sunshade-a dome of tulle strewn and gar
landed with the same delicate blossoms.
G. FELIX
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sIavin Think. jackson WIN win.
Frank P. slavin in New York Continent.

T.
/ shall challenge the winner of the Jack
son-Corbett fight at San Francisco. | shall
be here only ten weeks. as have to return
to England. where have book on the
races. / will return in November, and ex-
pect to fight the winner of the
San Francisco battle. Who will winP
/ should say Jackson on his past record.
He is good fighter. but not brilliant
one. hope Corbett will win, because
will get fight much easier than with
Jackson, who has refused to meet me. l
challenged him in Australia and in Eng
land, but he won't fight. In England
did everything but get down on my knees
to him. Sullivan look upon as the great
est man that ever lived. In his prime do
not think any man would have chance OF
defeating him. Now it is different. Pugil-
ism is fiourishing under different circum-
stances from what IL was ten or twenty
years ago. The large purses of the present
time have brought ont more lighters, from
among whom some good fighters viii de-
yelop. Then, Sullivan is getting old. He
has been in the ring twelve years, and no
matter how good he may have been, age Is
bound to tell on him.
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native of the West Indies, % years old.
When years of age he went to Australia.
A wealthy steamship owner on the Para
meta river took liking to the bright lit
tie darby and gave him work on one of the
vessels plying on the river. At his age the
lad was of little actual service, though he
was of good frame and strength, but later
he equaiized matters by doing two men s
work at the furnace. Peters first fame
was as swimmer, striking out with any
of the natives or diving from the vessels
bowsprit for the coins interested spectators
would cast as prizes.
Professor Ned Donnelly's Boxing Man
ual'' was read by him with as much avid
ity as other youngsters would drink in the
details of the cheaply-bound editions re-
lating adventures of the bushwhackers.
at was funny" Peter ackson once stated.
"There were lot of US boys around who
were stuck on fighting. / had the
only manual on board, and I guess
/ was a little stingy, for I used to
keep it to myself most of the
time, while the other boys had to divide
its use among themselves when I'd let go.
I'd study counters and parties all by N.Y.
self when I'd get chance, initiating the
pictures IN the DOOk, ana tnen L q go ana
practice on the boys. I guess didn't get
the thing down pat every time, because I'd
get most unmerciful bangs from the boys
when | thought was in the most protected
positions. 1 equalized things. though,
when learned a little more. That's how
first learned how to put up my hands. 1t
was the pictures that taught me-"
Jackson got the sparring fever and as
soon as he could get near the place he
joined Larry Foley's boxing school. His
natural aptitude for sparring soon won
him golden opinions. Foley, a man of
the most critical Judgment, watched Peter
closely, and he was satisfied that he had a
world-beater in his new pupil.
LET him get weight" said Foley "he's
getting science quick enough. When he's
got 'em both he'll make It pretty hot for
some of EN-"
Foley took particular care of his clark
'oss," as he called him. He impaired
every point he knew to him, and when the
youth was still an unknown, Larry boldly
came out with an assertion that he had a
'youngster" he'd back against anybody in
the Colonies.
From this time Peter Jackson, the
stoker, swimmer and athlete, merged into
the pugilist, in which he has gained his
highest honors.
Jackson has been defeated but once. as a
light heavyweight. by Billy Farnan, a
blacksmith. The Lees-J ackson battle for
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CRADLE OF THE SEAL
The Pribilof Islands, Where
Fur-Bearers are Born.
IN DANGER or DETERMINATION.
Canadian PoacheTs XIII Mothers Heavy
with Young, or Stay Them when
Absent from Their Babes.

SEATTLE, May 15.-The Pribilof group
Of islands in Bering sea, named respect
ivelv st. Paul and st. George, are the
famous seal islands ceded by Russia TO the
Tinted States. with the rest OF Alaska, in
1865. Here, during fifty years or more,
1o). 600 fur seals have annually been killed
for their skins. and upon these islands, up
until very few years, 100000 seals have
been born each year.
Readers of history find an interesting
story OF the early discovery OF these is
lands. More than a century ago Ivan
Pribilof. famous Russian navigator, af-
Ter search by himself and other noted
explorers of thirteen years in the dense
fogs that hang like pail over the waters
of the North Pacific and Bering sea,
found the northern summer home of the
fur seal. For years the early inhabi-
tants of the Aleutian islands had seen
these animals go in countless numbers
through the passes of these islands, as
they supposed, to some undiscovered
northern land. and as regularly they re-
turned in the autumn Of each year and
were lost to sight in the fogs of the Pacific.
II was supposed that they went to some
unknown southern shore TO spend the
winter, but it has since been learned that
they do not land anywhere during the
winter months of their absence from their
northern home.
As they leave Boring sea they spread out
over the vast expansc Of the North Pacific,
feeding during the winter upon the fish
banks which extend from near the coast of
Alaska TO the Asiatic coast. They are
really hidden from the sight of man dur
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Bismarck's Enormous Appetites
London Telegraph.


A friend tells US that one day he was
awaiting NJ. Pouyer-Quertier's return from
Versailles in the house in which he was
then living. When he drove up he called
out to his servant to "bring him a
prisoner" The man understood at once,
and soon came back bearing HIM an i'm
mense silver bowl, a couple of bottles of
claret and goodly quantity of broth. NJ.
Pouyer-Quertier uncorked a bottle quietly.
and, pouring its contents into the bowl
emptied it at draught. He then disposed
OF the broth with the same alacrity, and
finished as rapidly the second bottle.
That is how take prisoners; the broth
is between two bottles of wine" he ex-
claimed gleefully. Within the hour he
had sat down to dinner with his appetite
rather sharpened than otherwise by this
refreshment. Another day, during an
excursion in his part of the country, he
called at farm and asked if they could
give him something 10 eat. If they had
nothing ready he would manage with fftv
eggs! The eggs, duly counted, were con-
verted into gigantic omelette, which dis
appeared speedily, washed down by a
number OF iiagOns of cider
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San Franciscan who outboxed Jake Kill
rain at New Orleans more than year ago.
John L. Sullivan, conqueror of the world,
has retired from the ring to follow the
profession OF an actor, and three mighty
men have stepped forward to claim his title
of heavyweight champion pugilist of the
world. They are Jackson, Corbett and
Frank p. Slavin. OF these Jackson has
the greatest reputation; Slavin has whip
ped Jem Smith and Joe McAuliffe, but
Jackson had already done the same thing;
Corbett has bested Kilrain in sparring
match, but Kilrain is a back number.
The winner of the Jackson-Corbett fight
will be challenged by Slavin, so that the
championship will be decided before long.
Peter Jackson, "Peter the Great" is a
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Mrs. Tsui Kwo Yin and Her Ladies'.

MISS 1EuUufy
One of the most entertaining sights in
Washington is to be seen each Sunday
afternoon by the strollers in the neighbor-
hood of Dupont Circle, when upon any
sunshiny day of the early spring weather,
the ladies of the Chinese embassy, always
accompanied by their respective lords and
masters, come forth for an airing. Time
was when these dainty wives of the Orient
were so carefully secluded from the gaze
of a man, that when, upon the rare occa-
sions that permission was given by the
minister to his wife and female attend
ants to issue forth from the seclusion of
their chambers for an hours exercise in
the enclosure back of the legation, due no.
tice was invariably given, in order that the
members of the embassy might withdraw
from view, and behind closed doors, await
the permission of their minister to once
more resume their avocations, undisturbed
by the beauty of the gentler sex.
This rule, however. no longer pre-
walls, and owing to the rapid
advance of progress in the emancipation of
woman, which has penetrated even to the
walls of Stewart castle, for so long the resi-
dence of the representative from China, for
many months the ladies have enjoyed IN
precedented privileges in an extended
promenade in and around the numerous
public walks of the neighborhood. Their
favorite hour being the period preceding
the early twilight, their picturesque ap-
pearance as arrayed in their national cos
tune, so faithfully depicted on every tea
chest, with their abundant ietty locks
artistically piled high on the top of their
heads, and stuck through with variety of
long jeweled pins, attracts universal atten-
ton. Their tiny feet, scarcely larger than
a child's of 3 years of age, shod with high
heeled slippers, with difficulty carry them
over the smooth asphalt of the avenue.
Difficult as the effort appears, thedelighted
little women seem never to weary of their
new accomplishment or notice the marked
attention which their unusual appearance
attracts.
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ing this winter exile in the dense fogs
which prevail during the greater portion
of the year.
In considering the question of the right
of the people of any nation to kill fur seals
in the waters of Bering sea. one impor-
ant fact should not be lost sight OF, viz. !:
The pribilof islands are the home of the
fur seal, where they are born and raised.
The rookeries and hauling grounds of
these islands are the only shores upon
which seals ever land, with the exception
of few stragglers who may temporarily
60 ashore on the Aleutian islands or the
mainland of Alaska. They spend each
winter away from the home ranch to feed,
being born and reared upon soil belonging
TO the United States. They are exclu-
siyely this property of the republic. 1t oc-
ours to the writer that our brothers
just across the international boundary
line have no more right to raid upon and
unfortunately slaughter our vast herds
of fur seals than they have to cross the
line into our public domain and slaughter
at win the cattle of any ranchman whose
herds have wandered away from the home
ranch on 10 their winter grazing grounds.
E Upon the islands of st. Paul and st.
George there are about nineteen miles of
shore line of seal rookeries. These "rook-
cries" are divided into breeding grounds"
and "hauling grounds" The breeding
grounds are laid out by these intelligent
creatures with as much regularity as a civil
engineer pats a city or village. No male
seal under the age of six years can gain
foothold upon these breeding grounds. be-
cause he does not arrive mt his full physi-
cal strength and vigor until he attains the
age OF six or seven years. and he can win
q position there only after many hard
fought battle.
These breeding grounds are divided into
harems, one male seal or lord of the
wives. occupying space of about twelve
by. fourteen feet. The fuIl-grown male
VIII weigh about $50 to GOO pounds. the
adult female about one-third as much.
The rocky shores of the seal islands are
peculiarly fitted for the occu-
pancy of the seal. These rock
paved rookeries extend from the
water edge an average of $50 feet at an in
cnne say OF iorty-hye degrees TO the table
lands above. The space occupied bv them
~ about nineteen miles long by i5O feet
VIDE. When we remember that unon the
breeding grounds one male with his
twenty or twenty-five wives occupies aspace
oil only twelve by fourteen feet. it is EASY
70 imagine the large number required TO
nil the space above mentioned.
AZ regular intervals in the breeding
rrookeries streets are laid out leading from
the waters edge 10 the plateau above.
ARRIVAL OF THE BuLls.
The first to arrive in the spring are the
adult males; they come early in Nav and
select the positions which they are to oc-
cury on the breeding ground during the
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Champion Jem Smith in two rounds.
winning on foul. A year ago he failed,
in Chicago, to knock out Ed Smith, and
more recently Joe Goddard. in Australia.
stood undefeated before him; but on both
these occasions he was out of condition.
Jackson recently sprained his ankle, but
is said to have recovered. He will fight at
200pounds.
Jim Corbett is not nearly so picturesque
figure. He has spent most OF his life in
San Francisco, where he is happily mar
ried, and where his parents reside. He
was until within the last few years clerk
in the Nevada bank, and his first and only
prize ring performance was his defeat OF
Joe Cloynski. who was recently whipped
by Joe Goddard in Australia. His reputa-
ton was won by his victory over Jake
Kilrain in New Orleans in match for
points. Corbett is quite as scientific as
Jackson and is harder hitter. but he is
lighter and lacks ring experience. He
will fight at $50 pounds.
Jackson is known as a jabber, and IL is
said that he cannot deliver Knockout
blow. He is wonderfully quick on his
legs. The impression prevails that Peter
is going to adopt new tactics this time and
finish his man in few rounds.
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the championship of Australia and the
massive silver belt took place in Sydney
on November 25, 1883. Jackson was many
pounds lighter than his opponent, but he
succeeded in defeating him in thirty
rounds
For five years Jackson held out his belt
to all corners. but no one seemed inclined
TO accept his invitation, and he finally de-
cided he must look elsewhere for new
laurels. Coming to San Francisco, he
rounds, August a, 1888: Joe McAuIifTe in
twenty-four rounds, December ~, 1883 !:
Patsy Cardiff in ten rounds, March 26
1856. Then going to England he bested
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a Confession CIeverIy ELECTED.
So Franoisco examined.

A Woman who had cut off her husbands
head was uncertain what she ought to do
with it. In her perplexity she applied
for advice TO the Chief of Police.
What is the matter with it?'' asked
the chief Of police.
Nothing is the matter with it." the
Woman replied; ''it is a good head"
Then why not use it for the purpose
you had in mind when you removed ii ?i
Il had no purpose in mind further
than 10 cause his death"
"Ah, in that case" said the Chief of
Ponce. rubbing his hands with delight tn
think how cleverly he had elected a con-
tession of crime, Al shall have 10 arrest
Won -
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THE BIG CHAMPIONS.
Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett
Ready for Battle.
THEY FIGHT NEXT THURSDAY.
Career of the Wonderful Ncgro-Records
of the Men-Likeiihood or .
Lively Struggle.

Next Thursday evening, in the arena of
the California Athletic Club, San Fran
cisco, will take place the greatest prize
fight since the memorable encounter be-
tween Bob Fitzsimmons and Jack Demp-
sey. Peter Jackson, the negro giant who
has travelled through Australia, America
and Europe and never met defeat, is to do
battle with James J. Corbett, the young
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The Nature of the meeting.

Wife-Abher, what do you mean by
rigging yourself up in that style / thought
You said you were going to meeting.
Western Kansas Man-(strapping a re-
yolver about his waist and putting a bowie
knife into each bootlegl-So | am. Hester.
II meeting to discuss the removal of
the county seat. I'm going to take a few
arguments along
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summer. The first 10 arrive choose ~,
most favorable locations near the wafsr's
sose. In short time the ent;re
Naser mont is occupied. Later COM
s ~, Wy TO drive these further hark
vac result being that there Is a continual
,saIisre all along the waters eaee ana !,
,,,,A ua'' s. matter of the survival of the
a' sss, me weaker ones being driven
lst,ar ana farther back, until during the
$50 part OF May the entire br.e5;ns.
Sscnhas are dotted over vitb ,Sees
soras OF the harem, natienflv awa;,
60. the arrival Of The s5nf,
.,.. ea it should be understood tss,
small we last i've years = cornnara tjyriv
esss,.! rortion OF these roakeries have be,;,
n anss, owing 20 the large decrease ~
uon - 9lrd's,eye view OF any nor.
apyxas.assae breeding ground gives The
u an immense eheekef.boapd.