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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
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administered with safety, but with
great caution when childhood is past.
The lovers flag of truce after a
quarrel.
Loves happiest expression and sor-
rows tenderest balm.
The anatomical juxtaposition OF
two ordicularis oris muscles in a state
Of contraction.
\ good impression made by the
seal of love.
1t is like the wind that blows-it is
felt but not seen.
\ demonstration of love which will
dry the baby's tears, thrill the maid
EMS heart and soothe the ruffied feel
ings Of tired wife
\ smack for catching the matrimo-
NAL fish.
The sovereign tincture of our house
hold dispensary.
What man struggles for before mar
riage, what woman struggles for after
marriage.
Draughts of nectar from the lips of
innocence.
Cupid's cruising smack, the crews
of which are generally lovesick.
The striking of n love match.
\ simple thing in which II whole
world Of meaning is sometimes hid
den.
The stars in the armament of love.
The poorest mothers richest gift.
y cheeky application.
\ kiss resembles a short sermon,
consisting OF two heads and an appli-
cation.
Cupid's sealing wax.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
How The Blaeksnske FIlhts.

"You wouldn't believe me" said
old Jacob Bloom, OF Laurel Kun, ton
eanp OF woodsnen the other day
"you wouldn't believe me u Ia tell
Won the blacksnake II boss among
snakes In this C ountry, but itsa iact.
4 blacksnake will whip any other
kind OF snake you can trot out and
not half try"
Some OF the boys laughed and said
they didn't think "A blacksnakr
would be In IL with a rnttlesnake ht
ALL There was n large rattlesnake Ia
the camp which the woodsnen kept
In "A box with IA glass cover on To
a,nuse themselves with after working
hours.
Jim Brewer, OF this place, who hap
pened to be there at the time ahh
heard Mr. Blooms observations, chip-
ped In and said:
IN bet "A blacksnake would not
last long II you'd put him la the box
with that rattler.
"Wouldn'tw exclaimed Bloom.
why. he'd choke the rattler TO death
before he knowed what happened 10
him, an In order TO convince you of
the fac I'll go out an capture
/ blaeksnake and show you"
The subject was then dropped aud
the boys forgot Il, but about O'Clock
/ ia the afternoon the old man came in
with a blacksnake a little over three
feet long. The rattler was nearly
two feet longer.
Now" he says, "I'll show you how
it's done"
And he put the blacksnake Into the
box with the rsttler
Both snakes seemed to be consider
ably agitated. The rattler shook his
tail with an angry whizz, and stuck
I out his tongue In meDaeing way,
l and the bIacksnake rquirIned around
and made seyeral feints with bis tail.
The rattler was angry and eoiIed him
self to strike, but before he was quite
ready the blacksDake had taken a
hitch around the rattler's neck with
his tail and began to haul tsut. The
rattler writhed and rquirined and
thumped himself around, bot NIL 70
no purpose. The blacksDake kept
his hold and drew tighter and tighter.
Finally the confortions Of the rattler
ceased. He was dead. The black.
snake held on five minutes longer,
then calmly unfolded his tail and
euried himself up In corner Of the
box.
''There!r said the old man, triumph
antly. Hereafter when tell you
anything about snakes you can put IL
down as Iact."-Pnsxsutassey Spirit.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
Farming on Wrong Principles.

Miss Busby had u good farm and 1t
was well stocked and conducted by
herself i'm "A lucrative manner Mr..
Higgins lived neighbor TO her aud had
a pretty good farm himself. One day
he went in and sat down on the porch
steps and watched her shelling peas.
You've got "A nice farm here, Miss
Busby,n he said at random.
Il think So" she responded with a
touch Of pride.
Got fields OF truck growing all
aroundr
Yes"
"Got ten fine cows and a lot Of other
cattie?'
Yes"
Got some good horses and mules 2
Yes"
Got comfortable house and q
good barni''
Yes"
"Got a lot of fat chickens and
turkeys and geese 2
Yes
Got money in the bankT'
Yes"
"Got most everything you need on
a farm. haven't you ?
Yes
Got no husband. have your
This was 30 unexpected that Miss
Busby almost dropped Il basket Of
shelled peas on Mr. Higgins head.
No" she answered besitatingly.
"A husband l. mighty handy on q
farm sometimes, be yentured.
Have you got one r she asked with
a sharp little laugh.
No he replied, "but"--
Have you got wife p she inter
rupted.
Have you one = he quickly asked,
cornering her.
No"
"WeII, il seems TO me. Miss Busby.
raid Mr.. Higgins, that ve amt been
farmin' on right principles. spose
we set a meetiu and talk IL over"
"S'pose we do, Mr. Higgins
"Wnl his evenin, at early candle
light be too soon, Maria ," inquired
Mr. Higgins.
Not at all, Hiram" responded
Miss Busby. and they talked it over
successfully.
She (still blushing)-Am | the frsi
girl you ever kissed!
He-No, darling: but you are the
last.
she-Am / reallyl Oh, George, II
makes Inc so happy TO think that
Mrs. Cumso-I thought the congre
CATION was deeply stirred by ouI
pastors sermon this morning.
Oumso-I noticed good deal o
restlessness myself.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19

She (still blushing)-Am the first
girl you ever kissed!
He-No, darling: but you are the
last.
she-Am / reallyl Oh, George, 1t
makes Inc so happy 10 think that.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
For the Babies
DRESS GOODS.

In our Dress Goods department we
never had as many new things to show
YOU as we have now. All the Late
Shades, from the very cheapest to the
best. Everything full up in this de-
partment.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19

Blim- They have very wide streets
in Wa ,hington. ~
Cim-Well, II you once saw q
Congressman on q jag you would
realize that there Is necessity Tor
their width. -e g IS
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
GOOD NIGHT.

Good night" she said, and closed her eyes
Good night" for ever more,
Across the fields Of paradise
The words seem footing DER.
"Good night" and each soft iaintest word
Dropped by those whitening lips.
Seem still the sweetest ever heard
They pierce the dark eclipse
or weary time without her here
Each weary, weary day,
That passes darkened and austere
With her We love away.
Good night" we hear her sweetly say
While happy hope is warning,
That on some new and radiant day
Good night Will be good morning.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19

Mrs. Cumso-I thought the congre-
CATION was deeply stirred by our
pastors sermon this morning.
Oumso-I noticed q good deal oi
restlessness myself.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
BIBLE TRADITIONS DENOUNCED.

Since Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, sue
cessor to Henry Ward Beecher, disa-
vowed belief in eternal damEation,
there have not probably been such
significant utterances in the religious
world as were contained in DIR. Alb
bolts sermon in Plymouth church
Sunday. He arraigned and con-
demned the Princeton seminary on
its methods.
He charged that the spirit of tradi-
tionalism shown in the teachings of
the school is the breeder of schism
and division and the mother of skep-
tlcism. DR., Abbott also declared
that the spirit of .traditionalism en-
genders the spirit of hypocrisy, be-
cause it drives men from the pulpit
and from the church if they do not
believe, and that it is depriving the
church of some of its noblest men.
Said the doctor:
81 indict the spirit of ira
ditionalism because it is the mother
of skepticism. While it tends to de-
fend the faith, it is destroying the
faith, and it is destroying the faith
because it is demanding that men
shall believe, not the great truths of
religion, but the traditional addenda
that have gathered about the great
truths of religion. Faith is faith,
not in a creed. Faith is faith in
Christ, not in Westminster divine.
Faith is faith in the life that is re-
vealed in the Bible, not in the teach
ings of the nineteenth century con
corning the teachings Of the sixteenth
century about the Bible"
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
ANEW SYSTEM OF ELECTRIC TRACTION

A Baltimore inventor claims to
have perfected remarkable electric
railway system. In this system
neither overhead wires, storage bat
teries. surface conduits nor under.
ground conduits are employed, the
motive current being conveyed to the
car by induction from buried con-
ductors extending along the line OF
travel. The inventor is sanguine
that his system will revolutionize
existing methods of operating rail
ways electrically, as it is free from
the respective drawbacks which have
operated against the universal adop'
ton of the conduit, the storage bat
terry and the overhead trollery fol
electrical traction. The details Of
the invention are not yet given out
but if the claims made can be sub
stantiated a most important advance
in the art of electric locomotion may
be looked for.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
The TELEPHONE AS AN oasTRUcTIoNIsT

Travelling statesmen do not look
upon the telephone with kindly eye.
Many firms have reduced their staff
of drummers, owing to the fact that
their customers have fallen naturally
into the way of transmitting their
orders direct to the house over the
telephone instead of waiting, as for
merly, for the periodical visit of the
salesman. Another bitter drop has
been poured into the cup of the COM
mercial traveller, who finds that after
quoting prices or selling goods to one
concern his quotations are passed on
over the telephone to other concerns,
and thus the difficulty Of making sub
sequent sales at elastic prices is in
creased.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
IRRIGATION NJ NORTHERN NEW MEXICO

The Globe-Democrat has an article
on irrigation in late number that is
of Interest to us here, giving statis-
tics about irrigation in the territory.
The following is an extract:
The tablelands of the Ration noun
tains in northeastern New Mexico
are the location of another interest
ing problem in irrigation. These
tablelands are at an elevation of
5000 to 5000 feet. A considerable
portion of this region is embraced in
the famous Maxwell land grant.
Three ditch systems are now in OPP
Grafton. The supply comes from
the snowfed headwaters of the Cana
dian and Cimarron rivers. The tray
eler can climb a peak of the Taos
range and count the reservoirs by the
dozen-great, glistening white spots
Oh the far-reaching plain of brown,
with here and there an emerald set
ting, denoting the improved and
irrigated farm. The Springer sys-
TEN, one of the three, has $4,000
acres under ditch. 1t has one large
reservoir, called Springer Lake,
with capacity of 5000 acre feet of
water. Five thousand acre-feet of
water is 5000 acres of water one
foot deep. There are smaller reser-
voirs with a storage capacity of
1000 TO 1900 acre-feet of water.
The main bitches are 90 miles long.
The largest of them is 20 feet wide
at the bottom and four feet deep.
The Vermejo system in this same
region embraces 10 lakes, with a
capacity of 90 200 acre-feet. 1t can
now irrigate 10000 acres. The am.
bilious projects for extending the
work of irrigation on these plateaus
show how satisfactory the expert
ments are considered. The Vermejo
is now being tapped to a point lower
down. That is for ditch which
will supply lower level Of about
1000 acres. The total cost of this
improvement, including an iron
fiume, recent invention in the inter
est of irrigation, is $1,000. Another
plan contemplates the building Of a
storage reservoir IS miles above the
present Vermejo headgate. For this
the location has been chosen and the
survey made. The reservoir will
cost $4,000, aud will hold 5000
acre-feet of water.
1t is further proposed TO make a
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
Can't Cook as Mother Did!

How many young wife's heart has been saddened
by hearing the above remark And yet how often the
words are true; especially pastry biscuit
question The plain, yet it is like telling
secret"
Our mothers used and using DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder They cannot be misled into using any
of the ammonia alum powders No dyspepsia salow
complications when mother did the cooking
The first symptoms of ammonia poisoning, says
New York paper which appear those who work in
ammonia factories discooraon of the and fore
head This gradually extends the face until the COM
plexion stained botched and unsighty appearance
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder is the only pure
cream powder that contains the whites of eggs
DIR, Prices Cream Baking Powder is re-
ported by all authorities as free from Ammonia,
Alum any other adulterant In fact the
purity of this ideal powder has never been ques-
toned.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

A few evenings since our report
er's attention was called to the beau
tifully illuminated buildings of the
Smith Premier Typewriter works on
Clinton street, and upon investiga-
ton found that owing to large in
crease in business they were obliged
to run twelve hours a day, operating
between 800 and 400 employees. Con.
sidering the rapid growth of the
business referred to it is very appa-
rent to the proprietor that it will be
absolutely necessary during the sum
mer months to build another factory,
and in fact the plans are nearly ar
ranged for the construction of a new
building of dimensions 60xl40 feet,
seven stories high. This new struc-
ture, in addition to the present build
ings, which have every nook and cor
ner filled with operatives, will admit
of working at least 600 people, and
if the business continues to increase
in the future as it has in the past it is
very certain that the company at no
distant day will require all the type
writers that 600 operatives can pro
duce. We are informed that no other
typewriter manufacturers in the state
at present are pressed to fill their or
ders to the extent that they are
obliged to work NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Journal, March 10.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

The Atlanta Constitution correctly
states the situation when it asserts
that "There will not be 200 votes in
structed for Grover Cleveland when
the 99S delegates are called to order
at Chicago" The Cleveland states
have all been heard from and the
total strength to date is lO4. These
are nearly all the instructed dele
gates Cleveland will have, and there
will be few uninstructed delegates
who will give their votes TO Wall
street.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

In London lady ordered from a
stationer a number of invitation
cards, which she proposed to issue to
an evening party. She particularly
instructed the stat!oner to print "'igh
tea" in the left-hand corner of each.
When at length the cards came home
they bore the letters 81. T." IN the
corner specified.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

reservoir of $500 acres at the head
of the Cimarron canyon. This res
ervoir will irrigate 100000 acres.
1t will require a dam lao feet high,
100 feet long at the bottom and 275
feet long at the top. The water thus
stored will reach a great deal of land
not under the Springer or the
vermejo systems. The two systems
now in operation reach $4,000 acres
of irrigablc land. The systems now
being built or to be built will ir-
rigate 100000 acres. The popu-
alton of the Maxwell grant is 1000.
The total area at present under ditch
is $4,000 acres. Notwithstanding
the elevation the climate on the Ra-
ton table lands is mild. A few cold
days in January is about all of win.
ter. Rain falls in April and June
and again in July and August. The
melting snow on the mountains is
the main source of supply for irriga-
ton.
But the most interesting feature of
the table land experiments is found
in the cost and profit of the enter
prises. The actual original cost of
constructing the Vermejo system was
$3.50 per acre. This included all
embankments, fumes, drops, head
gates, bitches and other works. The
recent improvements and extensions
and embankments not planned at
first swelled the cost to 100000, or
$3.50 per acre of irrigable land. The
Springer system cost 10000, or $3.lS
per acre. This included $4,000
embankment 4,4O0 feet long and 20
feet high to inclose a lake of AIS
acres holding 219,oUO,0Oo cubic feet
of water. The land under these sys
TENS, including perpetual water
rights, sold at first at $3.50 an acre
The contract made with settlers by
the company is peculiar. In buying
the land the purchaser receives a I'll
Ito with each so acres to LA feet Of
water per second flowing over well
during the irrigation season, which
is from the LIST of April to the LIST o.
November, or seven months. Thi
amount, l.44 cubic feet, flowing
steadily, is supposed to give an abun
dance for the irrigation of so acres
1t is the maximum amount delivered
The contract states that the company
has the right, after having sold al
lands called for by the water supply
to turn over the ditch system to TIN
owners of the land, provided the LAT
ter shall have paid in full for al
rights. The company reserves to tn
2 community at large who are buying
s these lands the pro rata common AM
+ Joint use of the reservoirs and lakes
. which means that it does not ALLOW
them to irrgate by laterals direc
: from reservoirs to their individua
D lands, these reservoirs being consiC
: cred as feeders of the whole system
e to which nobody has a particula
f right, but in which everybody ha
e an undivided interest. At the sam
n time the right is reserved of extend
). ing the system even after control ha
= passed out of present hands, in cas-
n the water supply should prove S
= abundant that it can by an extensio
= be made to irrigate an additions
s quantity of land.
BIBLE TRADITIONS DENOUNCED.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
HENS as MNzas.

J. A. McConville, who lives on
Montana street, killed one of his
chickens for dinner, and on cleaning
it was surprised to find a quantity of
gold nuggets in the crop and gizzard.
Having about thirty more chickens
on hand, he began killing and exam
lining them, and in each he found q
pro rata of nuggets, the total amount
gathered from the thirty-one hens
being $3s7.50, a total average of
$3.50 head. The gold was sold
to the State National bank, and pro-
nounced Is karats fine. Mr.. McCon-
Vile bought fifty more chickens and
turned them out on the gold field in
the vicinity of the hen coop. Yes
terday, as an experiment, one of them
was killed, and $3.50 of gold taken
from its inside works, the result of a
four days run. Mr.. McConville has
virtual bonanza, and expects to be
millionaire before. spring if the
chickens hold out.-Butte (Mont.)
Miner.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

There are about 60 branch insti-
tutes of the Keely cure in the United
States of which Kansas has five;
more than any other state in the
union. Yet prohibitlonists shut their
eyes, and declare the prohibitory law
is n success.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

Honors come high to professional
and truly good reformers in New
York. Editor Elliott f. Shepard,
paid $4,000 for his election as a
delegate to Minneapolis. Yet the
Mail and Express daily denounces
the wickedness of Tammany.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

With the South voting for a free
silver presidential ticket and New
York regular Democrats in revolt,
where would Cleveland obtain an
electoral vote.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12

American colleges are every year
adding largely to their libraries.
Harvard now has $4,000 volumes;
Yale, 100000; Cornell, 100000; Co
lumbia, 10000; Syracuse, $4,000;
Dartmouth, 6s, 800; Princeton, 6s,-
600.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-12
THURSDAY, MAY ~, 1892.

The New Mexican call it "the
corrupt Las Vegas Optic" You're
wrong; it hasn't had a chance for a
long time.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-08
Raided in West Haven,

Among the places raided in West Haven
Saturday were the Hill Brothers, which
is kept by James Hill, Press Hinman, Louis
Moegler, proprietor of the Sea View
house, Edward Silver, Thomas Twitchell,
Frank McGinn, Edward F. Rattle,
Thomas Lampert Thomas Fitzgerald,
Mrs. Carberry, the proprietor
of the waverly Grove house, John Nc
Duff and number of others, making to.
tai of about fifteen who were arrested.
The arrests were made by Dep.
uty Sheriff Peck and consisted simply in
notifying the parties named to appear be-
fore Justice Adams at O'Clock Saturday
afternoon. All of the parties notified ap-
peared either in person or by proxy, and
at o'clock it was decided to continue the
cases until this morning. Tho charges
against the accused are based on what is
alleged to-be actual sales of liquor.
The raids were in pursuance of the ef-
forts of the Law and Order league, which
has decided that the existing laws shall be
enforced a. far a. possible. :
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-08

Mrs. Johnson's cottage, one of the finest
at Woodmont, is occupied by Mr.. Fred
Hitchcock, a former proprietor of the Mer.
wins Point house. A party of young la
dies from Ansonia and school teache,
from New Jersey are there, also Miss Sa
die Johnson and Miss Eta Holiday of An
sonia and DR.. Caroline, prominent New
York physician, who with his wife is stop
ping there for his health. He was il
with an attack of the grip last winter. H.
has 80 far recovered that his services ar.
required by many people stopping at tn,
shore.
Two new houses are being erected IL
front of the Pembroke hotel
Albert W. Nation and wife of this city
have cottage at the shore and are stop
ping there for the summer.
Next Saturday Miss johnson, daughter
of the late Eben johnson, who lived in tn,
south and died in Waterbury, year or tive
ago, will be the guest of her cousin, Mis-
Sadie johnson, sister of Mr.. Charles John
son, secretary of the L. Candee Rubbs
company of this city. Mr.. Johneon's ia
ther will sail on Wednesday to return
home from Europe