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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19
THE CHINESE DECK.

Playing Cards of the Acknowledged Celes-
tial.
The Chinese name for a card consid-
cred singly or as one of the parts OF d.
pack is shen, or fan" most evident
reference to the manner of holding
cards spread open like a fan, which is
common to all nations
The shape and size of the Chinese
card are peculiar. They are printed in
black on thin cardboard. The backs
are sometimes bright crimson, and
sometimes black or yellow, and they
are the shape and size of a finger. Some
of them are little more than half an
inch broad by three incher long, and
others are one inch wide by three and
half long. The pips and court cards
are always printed in black on a white
back ground, and on the characters
printed in red. In some packs the cards
have animals, such as horses and deer,
represented upon them; while in others
character which may mean the names
only of the animals are written above
the pips. The cards are rounded at the
top and bottom, and at the upper end
small portion is left blank, as if to hold
them conveniently and allow of their
being spread or famed out, showing
the whole of the pictured surface, the
blank space being held under the
thumb and fingers. Strangely enough,
this blank space being at the top in
stead of at the bottom of the card,
it would seem that they should be held
by the top and spread out in exactly
the reverse way customary among
Europeans. The tiny cards are so mar
row and so small that they might well
be held concealed by the palm of the
hand, which could effectually cover
them and prevent the shape of the pips
being seen through the thin cardboard
or the number of the cards being count
ed by the opponent.
The Chinese have another name for
their cards. and this is Wat-pi, but it
seems to be the name given to different
games, as they also call queer-looling
tablets on which round dots are placed
in regular order, and which resemble
our dominos by the same name.-SS
Louis Globe-Democrat,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19
HUMOROUS.

-Photographer-"Y Your son, the stu
dent, ordered this likeness from me-"
1T is certainly very much like him.
Has he paid for it?" "Not yet" "That
is still more like him. "-Fliegende Blat-
ter.
An Exception
Don't Judge mortal by his clOthes
1t isn't fair" the sage declares.
Yet taiors that She writer knows
Are anxious to be judged by theirs.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Mr. Payrole-You didn't stay away
long on your trip. Mr.. Synecure-No,
1 was afraid that the management
might discover that it can get along
without me if I staid away too long
Bostonian.
One of the curiosities sent to the
Patent Office last week is the model Of
a Typewriter that can be held on the
knee" There's nothing specially new
about that, if we may believe the funny
papers.-N. Y. Press.
"A Sea Change cried the
miserable passenger. eyes, sir. Any
thing can bring you, sir?" Nothing,
steward, but an acre of real estate
anywhere hang the neighborhood, as
long as it's good solid ground."-N. Y.
Sun.
"A Lucky Girl Maud-''Cl High
fly is just the luckiest girl" Edith
'She has many lovers?" Maud-"Ever
so many, and she has only one little
brother, and he was brought up in
Paris, and doesn't know a word of En-
glish. IN. Y. Weekly.
-Johnny-"Sailors named the Rock
of Gibraltar, didn't they, pa?" Pa.
"What makes you think so sonny?''
Cause, when they sailed near it they
had to haul in their jib-er-alter their
course" Pa-'Go and tell your mother
to put you to bed neutrality-suspicious.
Siftings.
-''No, never carry my watch when
I go out, she said, artlessly. II am so
careless that it wouldn't be safe. Why,
person could steal any thing right
from under my nose and 1 wouldn't
miss it." Then the young man stole
kiss right from under her nose and She
didn't seem to miss it.-Chicago Trib.
une.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19
HANDY WITH FRACTIONS.
Alan's Uncle's Experiences With
Applied Mathematics.

81 can do any example in fractions,
uncle" said Alan the other evening as
he experimental with the cat to see if
he could hold that patient animal near
enough to the CRATE fire so that its hair
would shrivel without any marked pro-
test from pussy.
Indeed" said uncle, indulgently,
lacing his fingers across his waistband
and extending his feet toward the fire;
81 used to be quite handy with frac-
lions myself. In fact, l eXcelled in
mathematics. Your poor father, now,
had no faculty for them. 1t is singular
how diversified talents are in the same
family, singular, indeed"
''Henry was considered the best
mathematician in his class, said Alan's
mother, with little flush.
SIN pure mathematics, Mary, in pure
mathematics, only" responded uncle;
''but in the applied article he was
lamentably weak"
What Alan's mother might have re-
piled to this was lost in interest in
Alan's experiment in which the cat
suddenly ceased to be a passive agent.
BY and by, when Alan had bathed the
scratches on his hand and convinced
himself that the wound on his ear was
only a superficial one, he said: Give
me an example, uncle"
Certainly" said uncle, affably; add
two-thirds and four-fifths and subtract
one-seventh.''
ff,,. nd
then asked: "What is the answer,
uncle?"
''Er-I think you had better let me
see how you have done it, my boy. That
will do you more good. Um-ah-35,
no, 1O5-yes, to be sure. Why, no; the
One-seventh is to be subtracted. Fiji
teen, 10, IL, %, seven over; that makes
one and seven-ffteenths. Now let's
see-yes, los. How will that come out?
Yes, that's right-one and thirty-four-
one-hundred-and-ffths. Quite right.
Alan, you have the answer, only your
way of doing it is little peculiar"
st took you a long time to do it,
uncle"
Yes, the light was bad. l couldn't
see the fignres very well. You could
improve on your figures, Alan
Give me another, uncle, please.
Make up tough one, can't you?"
''hll right. John and James-you'd
better write this down-Jo ohm and James
had 20 cents between them; John
bought three apples at 195 cents each;
James bought a jack-knife with four
blades; for the big blade he paid cents;
for the little blade, 119cents; for the
file blade, cents; for the blade with a
nick in it, 80 cents, and for the handle
twice as much. How much money did
they have left?"
'Twice as much as what?"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19
THE GIRL FOR NE.

Hast ever seen little girl
Whose merry eyes and glossy curl
Would set the dullest heart awhirl?
Well, that's the girl for me.
A girl that's lovely every way,
Who doesn't give for mere display,
But gives thro love. Again say
That's the girl for me.
Her aims bestowed with gentle grace
Doth beautify her gentle face,
The gentlest Of her gentle race,
A very lovely girl.
Performs her fathers least demand,
And with some friends has joined band
Whose mission tits to lend hand
So sweet a girl is she.
She uses every moment so
That whether veal or whether woe
They're always better, those who know
This charming girl Of mine.
And when her loving acts see
Her captive would long to be,
For certainly she seems to me
The dearest girl of all.
Hast ever seen this little girl
With merry eye and silken curl,
Who sets the dullest hearts awhirl?
Well, she's the girl for me.
McGill Davis. in Brooklyn Eagle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19

-Mother-"E Ella, you have been play
ing all the afternoon with these toy
soldiers. That's not proper amuse-
ment for big girl like YOU" Daughter
-'But, mamma, L am not playing with
the soldiers. picked out the officers
and played with them. Stiff
ings.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-19

otto fashion. A man who would make
such will would be declared insane in
any court on earth, and the will would
be broken
perhaps that is pure mathems tics,
suggested voice behind the paper.
Uncle broke his pencil point in some
way Just then, and when Alan sharp
ened it he got up on his knees in the
chair, with his feet tucked under him
and took fresh sheet of paper. When
that was nearly covered he said
''There! there's your answer; 81 1924 9-77,
and pretty small estate that is to put
into an arithmetic"
"Why, uncle" said Alan, 81 don't see
how that can be, for the daughter got
81, 1885"
''What kind of an arithmetic is this
any way?" growled uncle. cts an out
rage to make such books. When was
boy we had sensible school books
and"
''That is your old arithmetic, Robert,
said the lady behind the paper. "Wher
1 found they were using that kind,
told Alan he might as well take yours as
to buy new one."
Uncle got down from his chair
walked slowly around the table
climbed up again.
SIS that to change your luck, uncle?'
asked Alan. 'They say it will do it."
Mary" said uncle, Indignantly
''you ought not to let Alan get such
vulgar superstitions into his head
Mathematics, sir, are not to be con
quered by luck"
Fresh sheets of paper were taken and a
maze of figures grew under uncle's hand
Around the edge of her paper Alan's
mother saw experiments in proportion
allegation, arithmetical progression
and here and there dash of algebra
The domain of mathematics was ran
sacked from center to circumference
and victory came at last ''That
estate" said uncle, impressively, ''was
worth eactly So, III 1882" and he sale
it in the tone of a man ready to fight i
his word was disputed.
II presume that is right" said Alan
"Any way, that is the answer in the
book. Now here is an easy one-at
least, our teacher says it is easy" an6
he read:
IF 20 men in 81 days, by working 10 hours 6
day, can dig trench 80 feet long, Is feet wide
and IL feet deep, when the ground is called
degrees of hardness, how many men in % days
by working hours day. can dig another
trench 40 feet long, 16 feet wide, and Is feet
Deep when the ground is estimated at degrees
of hardness?'
AS step by step the features of this
problem were presented to uncle, that
gentleman slipped further down into his
chair. When the voice of the reader
stopped, he looked like nothing in the
world so much as Grandfather Small
weed, if that amiable old person could
be imagined as deprived of even the
presence of the birthstone Catw The
eyes of Alans mother appeared over
the paper and the abject appeal they
saw in uncle's eyes could not be re-
sisted.
ALAN" she said. ''it is your bedtime
Uncle is tired"
Alan gathered up his books, kissed
his mother, babe the figure in the chair
goodnight, and said cheerfully: "We'I
try pure mathematics next time, uncle.
N. Y. Sun.
"Socicty" Disappearing.
IL. ~,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

The public school teacher has come to
stay in New Mexico.
Seventy-nine cars of cattle were shipped
from Silver City during July.
Mrs. Matilda C. Stevenson and Miss
Virginia Deeple, two intelligent ladies in
the employ of the Smithsonian, are making
archaeological researches in New Mexico.
The surveying party under Capt. George
w. Brown, now in the field locating the
line of the Rio Grande Irrigation & Col
onization company's canal, is expected to
reach Santa Cruz canon during the week.
The party are now at Wallace and are
pushing north with all possible dispatch.
Samuel II. Carter, the ranchman who
shot Hon. Frank Hubbell at Rancho
Atrisco, recently, was given preliminary
hearing before one of the old Albuquer-
que justices and was bound over to await
the action of the grand jury, his bond be-
ing fixed at $4,000. Mr.. Hubbell was
present at the trial and conducted the
prosecution. He has recovered entirely
from his injuries, which were not serious
in the first place. 1t is alleged that Carter
is demented.
Commenting on a railroad article in the
New MEXICAN, the Silver City Sentinel
says: "Right you are. Grant county is
doing her share towards this now. More
lines of proposed railroads are being run
and more actual railroad building is going
on in Grant county to-day than in any
other country in New Mexico. New peo.
pie are coming in to the county every day,
and taxable property is daily increasing
both in value ard amount. Grant county
Is the banner county of the territory"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
The Work ofVeterans,

DETROIT, Mich. Aug 6.--The sessions
OF the national encampment Of the Grand
army were resumed this morning. Two
important questions will be acted upon
during the day. One is the election OF
the next commander-in-c The other
is the selection of the place of the next
encampment. For the commander-in-
chief, A. G. Weissart of Milwaukee, is
decidedly in the lead. The Washing
ton delegation will present the name Of
Past Department Commander Charles p.
Lincoln. He is an ex-I-ibby prisoner, was
consul to Canton, China, under General
Grant, and is now deputy-commissione
of pensions. Ohio has a candidate
in the person of General Sam
uel II. Hurst, well-known as "Fightlnp
Sam" Hurst, one OF the noted lighting gen.
erals OF the Buckeye state and ex-depart-
nent commander Lincoln's chances are
injured by the bitter personal quarrel that
has been going on for some time between
himself and ex Commissioner Tanner, and
the latter will: without question, defeat
him if he can. The Milwaukee man has
strong following among the eastern de-
legates. For the next encampment there
is a warm fight between Washington D.
G. and Lincoln, Neb. The Washington
people have not only raised guarantee
fund of 5000 but promise to take
better care of the veterans than
any other city, and have furnished every
delegate with pamphlet of maps and illus
trations showing the accessibility of
score of famous battle fields near Wash
ington, together with several hundred
reasons why the national capital would
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
Blood Shed in Texas,

Houston, Tex, Aug. 5.-Further de-
tails of the battle on the Lock, Moore &
Co.'S, tram are that on Sunday morning
a party of cred Bones," mob of mixed
whites, negroes and Indians, about 25 in
number, went to the store and announced
that they would drive away Hooker Nor
ris, MANAGE of the log camp, in revenge
for an insult offered two of the party.
They were we'll armed and led by Jesse
Dyson, we'll known and desperate
character. The white men, who be \
gathered about the same strength, '.ore
led by Jesse Ward. In the battle which
ensued Ward killed Jesse Dyson and was
at once killed from behind, when the fight
became general.
List of killed: Jesse Ward, white; T.
7. Swan, white; Jesse Dyson, Lee Per-
kins, Andrew Ashworth, Owen Ashworth,
Marion Marble.
Wounded: Dupree Lacomb, keeper of
the store and saloon, and his son, both
shot through the leg.
Lacomb's wife ran into the woods with
her children, and escaped injury. A com
plete list of the wounded cannot be OBJ
tanned, but about twenty are known to
have been hurt.
Sunday afternoon thirty Red Benes
came to the camp after the bodies of the
dead, and dispersed the officers who
were at the scene and who, under
threats, are organizing strong force to
storm the stronghold of the desperados.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
FA RM AND ORCHARD.

Inunlx nursery agents are selling hit
orders OF trult trees in Mora and Taos
counties. '0'
Fruit farming is destined to be more
ana more popular in New Mexico.
Santa Fe orchardists should begin now
planning for a big fruit exhibit at the ter
ritorial fair.
Dr. Andrews specimens of the Crandal]
tree currants" have Yielded abundsntIy
this year.
Fruit trees require careful cultivation .
IL makes wonderful difference in the
SIZE and character OF the product.
Fruit lands in the Tesuque and Po-
loaque valleys are in great demand at
from $50 to 500 per acre.
Here it is August 6, and no grapes
from the lower country are yet in the local
market. What's the matter with the
Mesllla valley hustlers?
The first consignment of Farmington
peaches was received in Durango last
saturday. Ten pound boxes were retail
ing at $l. Durango is blessed in its
proximity to that great fruit country lust
over the line, in New Mexico. .-Durango
Tribune.
10 illustrate how productive is the soil
OF the Pecos valley, We call attention to
The TACT that corn, cane, oats and alfalfa
are growing voluntarily all over town,
While watermelons and cantaeup vines
are spreading everywhere. Eddy Argus.
Hon. Israel Kings farm in Grant
county contains nearly 1000 acres, of
which sixty acres are in alfalfa, seventy
hVe IN corn and twenty-five will be sown
to oats shortly. The alfalfa is now being
harvested and is yielding abundantly; It
Is cut on an average once every two and
halt or three months.
The Live Stock Indicator, of Kansas
C!ly, thus quotes Angus Campbell,
OF Silver City: Every cattle owner
OF Grant county is jubilant over
the prospects for making proRt on
their stock, and there is no rea-
son why they should not. The ranges
are covered with an abundance of grass
and plenty of water, more than r
ever saw in ten years time, is to
be found in all the streams and springs"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
august
Flower

For two years I suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said stomach was about
worn out, and that I would have to
cease eating solid food for time at
least. l was 80 weak that I could
not work, Finally on the recon-
mendation of friend who had used
your preparations
A worn-out with beneficial re-
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feel now like new man, and con-
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tirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its
worst form. JAMES E. DRDERIcK,
Saugerties, New York.
W. B. Utsey, St. Georges, S. c.,
writes: I have used your August
Flower for Dyspepsia and find it an
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brief WlRINGS::-


TowsoN, Md, Aug Cone phase of a
scandal that has stirred the entire aristo,
cratic element of Maryland, is being aired
in the district court to-day, where Mrs.
Mars Carroll is showing cause why she
should not deliver over her baby boy to
her husband. The latter is John Carroll,
OF the famous Carroll family, which has
held the immense landed estate known
as "The Caves" for 200 years. Mrs.
Carroll has had the reputation of being
the most beautiful woman that Baltimore
has ever known. She is seeking separa-
ton from him Oh the grounds of drunken
ness and abuse. He retorts that she
would not have him near her and refused
to share his partments, that she locked
him up in a room and threw buckets of
water over him. This kind of thing has
been going on for fifteen years. Mrs.
Carroll is worth nearly 100000 in her
own right.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
MANHOOD RESTORED

" SANATIVO," the
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to cure all Nervous Dis.
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7 o W c r, H e a d q c h c,
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Died Su1Ieplp

Mr.. H. Frantz, father of Mrs. W. M
Smith, died on the morning of July %
at Lauterbergham Harz, German bath
ing place, where he went for his health
Although indisposed for some time, his
death was very sudden and unexpected.
His home was at Freiburg, on the
Elbe, where he had long served
as government official. His age
was GA years. Mrs. Smith was
not with him in his last moments, hay
ing gone on a short visit to Mrs. G. d.
Koch at Cuxhaven. She was summoned
but not in time to reach her fathers bed
side.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06
Murder at Las Cruces,

Advces from Las Cruces state that q
-,.. .-'.' '-Atu AiOuSOJa IA, sou OF the
village barber, was found dead in the
main street of the town on Monday morn.
ing. A shoemaker whose name can not
be learned, was arrested and also one
Federico Ochoa, editor of the Ell Liberia
newspaper. The shoemaker states that
he and Montoya were engaged in fist
fight on Sunday night when Ochoa ran
up and stabbed Montoya three times.
The knife wounds correspond with those
made by the knife Ochoa was in the
habit OF carrying, A blood-stained coat
was found in Ochoa's house. Both he
and the shoemaker have been incarcerat-
ed in jail without bail.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06

would be good meeting place The de-
legates from Lincoln, Neb., although
hampered by the opposition Of eastern
veterans, are making gallant fight. They
say that about one half of the survivors
OF the war live in the states of Missouri,
Iowa, Nebraska and the two Dakotas,
while Kansas alone has within its limits
upwards of a hundred thousand veterans.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06

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be cured by Simmons Liver Regnlator.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-17

Just what the connection is does not appear
at this distance, but the dispatches from San
Francisco announce that the Hearst funeral
psrty-not to call it a cortege- Yesterday took
a trip down the bay in a government vessel and
afterwards adjourned to inspect the Union
Iron Works. which by the way by some inatl-
vertence on the part Of the proprietors were
not draped in mourning for the occasion. The
entire city of San Francisco has no doubt been
plunged into gloom by the advent Of these
weeping visitors from Washington and ii is
qrite safe to say that such an era Of grief has
not been Witnessed in California since the last
senatorial funeral which visited that suffering
state Sorrow. as everything else in the golden
state grows to enormous proportions and when
the Washington contingent returns to the cap
ital the evidences of what its members have
passed through viii be Enthusiastically shown in
their faces and their general feelings, physical
and mental