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sharp hoof had cut through bootleg,
trousers, socks, and underclothing into
the bono. / was lame for a month, and
the many clubbings l gave her seemed
to affect Baby very little and did not
take the pain from the wound. With
me she was entirely outside the pale of
human sympathy, an animated target
for ill-usage. Yet she gave as good as
she got.
Starved and dubbed all that winter,
the spring found her the latest and
liveliest beast in camp, as ugly and viva.
cious as in her early Arizona days.
When we got back to the settlements,
and we were homeward bound for Win
gate, she, being presentable mule,
she was sent into Santa with Tom Bax-
ter's team for supplies, while the col
umn swung round to Pinos ranch and
on to Pena Blanca on the Rio Grande,
to await her arrival.
Tom Baxter left Santa Fe with q
skin and canteen full of bad whisky,
and after he had pulled up on the mesa
of La Bajada, he crawled into the
wagon to take a snooze. He awoke
later to find his wagon travelling at Tn
unusually rapid pace, and, looking out,
his heart stood still. He was whirling
rapidly down La Bajoda hill, the steep.
est and most dangerous in the terri
tory. The trail was little more than
wagon wide and ran between a wall Of
rock and the sheer depths of an ugly
CANYON. Teams going down its danger
ous depths locked wheels, braced back
the animals on the tongue, and slipped
down carefully and cautiously. No
wonder the cold sweat stood on Toms
face, to find his wagon running wild
down such road. He crawled out over
the tail board and leaned against the
rocky wall, watching the wagon whose
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MY NURSE AND !.

NY gentle nurse has hair Of gold,
And eyes of heavenly blue;
Beneath her snowy cap they CLEAN,
So winning, sweet and true.
The rustic OF her fresh, print gown
The patter of her feet
Her low voice In the evening time
Are so much music-sweet
She raises me with gentle care
And turns my pillow Oft
And smoothes my fevered, throbbing brow
With palm so cool and soft.
She huns an air when lights are low,
To soothe me in my care,
And, c'er miss ner from my side,
Again she's standing there
do not speak my love-and She
She loves ~ well ash
Oh, could have my gent le nurse.
My gentle nurse for aye!
I touch her golden curls-she smiles
But will not draw away;
And when seek to take her hand
She does not say me nay.
Could I but speak and urge the thing
think she'd stay-all told
Iguess know thing or two.
Though only two weeks old
"A. Manning, In Puck.
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mule il the meanest and most uncertain
animal that adorns the North American
continent. This opinion is based upon
centuries of observation and expert
ence, and fortified by numberless mod
crn instances; and this sweeping esti-
mate of the character of an. animal
which is as useful as 1t is depraved is
one Of the few things upon which the
public opinion of the trans Mississippi
region is practically unanimous.
But of the many mules it has been
my misfortune to know intimately,
mustang mule, which was face
tiously termed Baby" was without
any exception the very worst. Baby
was born in Sonora, the satanic
offspring of patient and industrious
pack burro of the Santa 'Margarita
mines, and of dissolute. vicious, unl
dersized, Roman nosed mustang stallion
of = neighboring hacienda. We mem
ton the Roman nose of the father as
the possession of that feature in horse
which indicates a character depraved
beyond the conception of any but a
western mind. ss-ss.sf@
The early youth Of Baby was unin-
terestinR, and her public career may be
said to date from the nocturnal visit
to Santa Margarita of a band of va
grant Mescalero Apaches, who. after
burning the town and scaiping its pop
ulation, ran of every hoof of live stock
in sight and hurried them over the Ari-
IONA line into = quiet valley in the
Sierra Nevada
A government mules existence haa
passed into military proverb as type
of hardship and wretchedness, but that
life is ono Of ease and luxury compared
with the career Of an Apache mule.
We may, therefore, consider it happy
day for Baby when her master snapped
her with Don Pedro Baca for hundred
rounds of Winchester rife ammunition
and that excellent citizen hurried her
OF to Tucson. Here, again, she made q
step upward N the direction of happi.
ness when she passed into the hands Of
Col. Dan triton, in exchange for forty
blue chips, redeemable for as many
dollars at the cofonels monte bank in
the Chiricahua saloon.
Col Orion knew his neighbors in
Tucson, and, knowing them, was not
the man to keep live stock on his hasds
very long; so, before many days, he
traded Baby to . discouraged miner
for hole In the ground entitled "Holy
Terror silver mine, which the gallant
colonel believed he could work of on
some confiding eastern capitalist as a
bonanza. About week later, adorned
with an aparejo and loaded with mis-
cellsncous assortment of camp equip
age, Baby trailed out of Tucson behind
lean, paint pony ON which her new
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master was mounted. Three months
later. master and mule were ON the
Little Colorado, hopelessly bankrupted
and badly discouraged. When a d;v;-
sion OF the Wheeler government survey
rode down from the mountains into the
valley and went into camp with the
disconsolate miner, q good dinner and
the company of human kind gave thines
more roseate hue. As the expedition
had lost number of animals In the
mountains and Baby was likely look
ing mule. her master turned her over to
the oficer in command and started for
Prescott Arizona. with . voucher for a
hundred dollars In his saddle pocket
payable BY the department quarter.
Haaser, Thus y wss Tho, Blhy en-
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snOTHER'S
..FRIEND" !.

= : scientifically prepared Eminent
and harmless; every Ingredient is Of
recognised value and in constant use
By the medical profession. It short
ems Labor, Lessons Pain, Diminishes
Da4eer to life Of Mother and Child.
Book TO Mothers" mailed noe. con-
tatnmg valuable information and
voluntary testimonials.
DflEle REGULATOR o., AdualA e.
'A1g9tmgebh
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Tho stomach that 10 not. turned thus BY =
shaking up on the 'sbriny wave" must be
we1l fortified one. The gastric apparatus
can be rendered proof against sea sickness
with that stomachic so popular among trav-
eIers by sea and -Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. It defends the system against
malaria and rheumatism, and subdues liver
complaint, constipation and dyspepsia
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-19

Hy FIXED r.-Clara-"Dick, fix my mall
let" Dick-"What's the matter with itP
Clara-"The handle comes out every time /
play with Ella" Dick-sThen play with
some one else.n-Truth.
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TABLEcuTLERv.
Come Things to he C0nsidersd In tho Carr
st Of It.

Some Thlngs to He Considered In tho Care
Of It.
Table-cutlcry, as the designation was
formerly understood, included all the
knives and forks, nut-picks, etc. To-
day, among well-to-do people, all the
forks, except that which belongs to the
earving-set, are either sterling silver or
siiver-plated It IL astonishing how
the table appliances have multiplied in
this luxurious age For the fish course
there are sterling-silver knives and
forks Of special shapes, and = broad
silver kni5e and fork for serving the
6sh. Oyster forks OF another shspe ara
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-19

Augustus-Let's take . promenade.
Cholly-cawn't do it. me boy. I've
got tomake these patent feathers lawst
TIL It's warm enough % weah FsssstA
--.0ood News
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College Yells.
TUT Muggs-Gee! Here comes de
COP, an it's too late to run.
Baryl Household on; I'll fix i'm
BY gosh! Hog wash! Some sloshi
Ham fat! Ding dat! Rawi Hoo! Rshi
And the innocent policeman merely
murmured:
Them is about the toughest looking
students ever see." and he passed on.
Minneapolis Journal
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The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the California
liquid laxative Syrup Of Figs. under all con-
ditions, makes 1t their favorite remedy. To
get the true and genuine article, look for
the name of the California Fig Syrup Co.,
printed near the bottom Of the package.
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Cooperative Farming.

1t is said that while the system Of
cooperative farming by village COMB
munes, or ''mirs," is rapidly being
abandoned in Russia as obsolete and
not in keeping with western progress,
it is being adopted in Italy, and that
with great success. Some six years
ago an association was started by thirty
peasants in the province of Creona for
the purpose of cultivating farm of
about three hundred acres and has
teaped excellent financial results.
Their example has been widely copied,
and to-day the larger number of the
farms in the province of Milan are
held by peasant associations of this
kind, one farm alone of one hundred
acres being held by thirty-two peasant
families, who were able to pay their
last years rent out of the produce Of
silk cocoons alone, their agricultural
produce being all so much profit. This
method of association has the advan-
tage that it admits of the acquisition
of perfected agricultural implements,
seed, manures, ETC., which would be
beyond the means of any single peas
ant family.-Chicago Tribune:
Leeches ~ Weather Prophets. -
Many country people in Italy, says
traveller, fortell the weather by means
of leech in an open-mouthed bottle
partly filed with water. The water
must be changed once week. and
spoonful of blood poured in it about ~
often. When the weather is good the
leech will remain coiled up at the bot
tom of the bottle; whenever rain il
near at hand it will creep up to the top
and stay there until the weather Ia
settled again. If wind is imminent it
will be very restless and dart about in
the water as though in pain, while be,
fore thunderstorm it will appear to
be in commissions 1t is SO generally
trusted that at haying time and other
seasons when fine weather is import
ant the leech is one of the most useful
members Of the hoplshcld.-N. y
Tribune
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ssHAs Jones new quarters recsDtlyf" "Oh,
yes; he borrowed several from Niggs last
niRht"-Inter Ocean.
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The Greatest Medical Discovery
Of the Age.
KENNEDY'S
MEDICAL DISCO VERY.
DONALD KENNEDY, OF RoxBuRY, NAss.,


Has discovered In one of our common
pasture weeds remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunde. humor). He has now in his
possession over two hundred certificates
Of its va!ze, all within twenty miles of
Boston.
A benefit IS always experienced from
the first bottle, and perfect cure is war
ranted when the right quantity Is taken.
When the lungs are affected it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver or
Bowels. This Is caused by the ducts being
stopped, and always disappears in a week
after taking 1t.
If the stomach Is foul or bilious It will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you can get, and enough of it.
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed
time, and read the Label.
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l. l. authorita-
tive opinion
west of t h e
Mississippi riv.
e r is agreed
that, with the
exception o 4
the Indian, the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-19

SO Baby. She hungered for the brown,
withered. juiceless grasses of the hills
and kept edging off there, followed by
all the fool mules In the herd, who re-
garded Baby as q miracle of wisdom
and wickedness. II was annoying and
irritating, for was kept on the move
driving her back, and my own horse
was tired and hungry. 1 made mp my
mind to give her q lesson and q sur
prise, and l approached her cautiously.
swinging my lariat with an iron picket
pin on the end of it. / intended to
break her ribs with that continuance,
and she apparently did not observe nv
approach. That's where / made q mis-.
take. A mule can see In seventy differ
emit directions at once, and I am CON.
WINGED that Argus was = mule. Baby
knew I was coming and was laying for
nae, 80 to speak. When / was within
striking distance Baby appeared to
stand on the tips of her ears, her hind
legs famed the air for brief moment
and then shot out straight, striking my
booted leg like q combined thunderbolt
and meat ak, giving me q shock that
made me faint and sick at the stomach.
Then she squealed gently and moved
into.the thick of the herd.
/ rocked in the saddle nursing my leg,
Aiiing the valley with language, and
then in an agony Of pain rolled from
the back Of my horse to the grass,
while Tom Aui6all roared till the tears
rolled down his face Watching ne. ]
thought ny lg WAS smashed sos tae
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-07
FROM RIO JANEIRO,


Cable Message to the Navy Depart
ment-MellS's vessels in a Bad Way.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 1.-THE cipher
cable message, which Secretary Her
bert received Wednesday night from
Capt. Picking at Rio Janeiro was
translated at the navy department
yesterday. Mr.. Herbert said it Econ
tanned details that he did not care to
make public, but it's substance was
that a report had been received at Rio
of revolutionary trouble at Pernam-
buco. Capt. Picking was unable to
confirm this information. and he was
not inclined to believe it. After the
dispatch had been translated Secretary
Herbert called on Secretary Gresham
at the state department, and they had a
short talk over its contents.
Mr.. Herbert told United Press re-
porter that Capt. Picking had not sent
any information concerning probable
movements of Admiral Mello's fleet to
intercept the America and Nictheroy,
purchased in this country by the Bra
lillian government The opinion among
naval officers. based on information by
letters from friends at Rio, is that Mel
los vessels are in a bad way. The
Aquidaban, his largest ship, is said to
be covered with foul growth, and
that her condition is such as to pre-
vent her from making quick run past
the government forts in the harbor in
an attempt to get to sea.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-07
REGARDING IRON ORE.

How the Proposition to Place It on the
Free List is Received by Those Host
Interested In the Production and Hand
ling OF that "a Commodity-It Would
"Simply Close Down All the Mines In
the Country"
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 29.-As a mat
ter of course, the bill to be presented to
congress for the reduction of the tariff
has caused comment and much feeling
in Cleveland. Regarding this matter
James Corrigan, of the firm of Corri-
gan, Ives s. Co., said:
Iron ore on the free list? If they do
anything of that kind they will SIM
ply close down all the mines in the
country. We have four mines in the
Gogebic range now that have been
closed down owing to threats of this
kind. Then there are the Queen,
Prince of Wales, Buffalo and South
Buffalo mines on the Marquette
range. They are about to suspend
operations for the same reason,
and the properties on the Mesaba range
will also close down if ore is put on the
free list. Only for the fear the mine
owners entertained regarding this pro-
posed legislation we would be stocking
our piles this winter as we did in years
past, and these thousands of starving
families would have employment. But
as it is, the operators are afraid to do
anything. They would not dare to go
to the expense of stocking their ore
piles without knowing that there are
some prospects of finding a market for
their material And if ore is put on
the free list matters will be still worse,
for we cannot compete with the foreign
shippers
John Todd, of the firm of Todd,
Stambaugh & Co., said:
"Pig iron. think, can't stand a cut
of three or four dollars a tom
George II. Ely, president of the
Western Iron Ore Dealers association,
said:
II have been expecting it right
along. OF course we are hostile to
such legislation. We are threatened
with tremendous disaster. could not
exaggerate it if would. The Western
Iron Ore association alone repre-
sents the production of the four great
Lake Superior districts-the Mar
quette, the Menominee, the Gogebic
and the Ver1nillion. The Lake SUI
perior ore product last year was 9,O74,-
900 tons, and it was almost three-fifths
of the iron ore mined in the United
States last year, which came down
over those lakes into Lakes Michigan
and Erie and went into the pig iron
production. The difference between
the iron ore trade of last year and this
years production will be about 4,00O,-
600 tons. There is no market for iron
ore. The Cleveland dealers have not
had such thing as an offer for ore
that is, unless they wish to give
it away. The business is per-
fectly paralyzed and paralysis
in this case means paralysis at about
100 producing iron ore mines in these
four districts. If iron ore is put on
the free list matters will be even still
worse. I spoke before the ways and
means committee and laid this matter
before them in statistical form, as did
other gentlemen, but it seems to have
done no good. It will be an outrage
on our workingmen to put iron ore on
the free list
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wakefield, VA, BURNED.

The Request for Engines from Abroad
Withdrawn as Having Been Made Too
Late.
PETERSBURG. Va, Nov. 29.-About 9
o'clock last night the following tele-
gram was received by Hon. VIM. Is. Nell
vain, chairman of the fire commission
ers:
WAKEFIELD. Va. Nov. o.
Can you send fire engine to fWakefie1di
Whole place is about to burn up. Ask Norfolk
& Western railroad for special train.
[Signedl R. D. GILLIAN
Shortly after receiving the above tel
egram, Mr.. McIlwain received another
dispatch, which stated that there was
no necessity for sending the engine, as
the town was pretty we'll destroyed.
Wakefield is a thriving little town
with population of about 500 people.
It is located on the Norfolk & Western
railroad, 40 miles east of Petersburg,
and about 81 miles west of Norfolk.
The fire originated IN Bain's peanut
warehouse, large frame building,
and spread with frightfu1 rapidity.
The citizens worked heroically but
were powerless to prevent the flames
spreading. Among the buildings
burned is the depot of the Norfolk &
Western railway, in which the West
ern Union Telegraph Co. have their
office
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

- :
A st. Louis Terminal Locomotive on .
Bust-A Heavily-Load Telephone Pote
Cut Squarely On at the Ground. After
Which tho Engine Plunged Into .
Freight House, Wrecking House and
Engine.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. LIN a railroad acct
dent which occurred at 2 o'clock yes
terday, at the foot of Biddle street,
Fred Beecher, an engineer on swift CHI
engine of the Merchants Terminal
railway, and Henry Randolph, his fire.
man, had narrow escape from a hor-
rible death. AS it was, both were
badly scalded and otherwise injured.
While switch engine No. Is, with
Beecher and Randolph in the cab, was
running along the levee at fair rate
of speed it reached frog directly in
front of the freight depot of the Mer-
chants Terminal railway at the foot
of Biddle street. Without word OF
warning the driving wheels suddenly
left the track, and the engine, turning
half way west from the south, plunged
into "a telephone pole heavily
laden with wires. The heavy pole
broke off close to the ground, and the
engine then plunged into the brick
wall of the freight house, cutting
large hole in the side and not stopping
until it was entirely in the building.
Pieces of wood which once formed the
roof, iron supports. brick and other de-
bris quickly hid the massive piece OF
machinery from view. For moment
everything was confusion. The noise
of the escaping steam and that made
by the falling debris filled the air.
When the crash first came Engineer
Beecher and Fireman Randolph sprang
from the cab of the engine after re-
versing the lever. They were struck
by falling brick and pieces of timber,
but luckily were not entirely covered.
Bleeding and exhausted they finally
managed to reach the outer air, and
were taken charge of by railroad men,
who fastened to the scene. Beecher
was. badly scalded about the face,
hands and upper part of his body
and was bleeding from several scalp
wounds. As quickly as possible his in
juries were roughly dressed, and he
was taken to his home at 533 North
Seventh street in East ST. Louis. Ran
dolph was sca1ded, but not seriously.
The engine was wrecked almost be-
yond repair. The freight house had
also Jared badly. About $4,000 will
cover the damage.
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THE IDEAL PARLOR.
A Few of the Things Which It Is Not A
Here Enumerated.

A Few OF the Things Which It Is Not Arc
Here Enumerated.
Some drawing-rooms seem to have
been arranged for the special purpose
of making conversation in them an ID
solute impossibility. The chairs are
primly arranged, the ia bles have a ''set'
look, the very cushions on the lounges
sit bolt upright. The woman who
ventures upon a remark on any subject
but the weather in such room feels
that she has committed an improperly.
Tete-a-tetes are impossible. Groups
are impossible. Whatever is said must
be shouted aloud to the whole as.
sembly. -.ssaa4
There are other rooms where moth.
ing but rickety tables, spindle-legged
chairs, palms, and curtained recesses
are to be found. The unfortunate guest
is bound to knock over a table or fall
against a cabinet, or overthrow a tall
lamp in herprogress from the door to the
hostess corner. Such room has at.
fractions only for the young person
with fondness for solitude deuxs
behind portieres or banks of ferns, and
she is not an important enough being
to have her tastes so considered.
In the ideal drawing-room the chairs
are near enough together to allow of
confidential chatting, and far enough
apart to make more than one group a
possibility. The tables unite grace and
strength, and will not topple over at
the swish of skirt The light is not
so dim as to make the newcomer feel
that she is walking by faith and not by
H,S -1 - l.s~
every wrinkle on her face. There is
plenty of room for movement. and yet
no sense of baroness But such a draw.
ing-room is rare apartment-Chiea-
60 Times.
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Wife Murder and Sui. eide.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Nov. 29.-My-
ron A. King. a mason, living IN the
northern portion of this city, shot and
killed his wife yesterday morning and
then attempted suicide by shooting
himself. He will die.
The couple had not lived happily to.
gether, and two weeks ago Mrs. King
left her husband. She passed the
house about 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing and King induced her to enter. A
few minutes later three shots were
heard, and neighbors found the couple
lying on q bed. Mrs. King had two
bullets in her head and was dead