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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14
She Didin't Know the Custom.

a young Swiss, who had not been
long In this country. became infatuated
with q "beauteous" maiden recently,
and sought her hand. The idea Of
proving his love was In accordance
with the romantic Swiss custom. II l,
this: The young Swiss who 10 In love
climbs, ut the risk Of his life and limb
upon the Alps In search Of wild flow.
ers. These flowers attest the fact that
he endangered his life for his sweet
heart. The wOOer throws the fora
Offering at the feet Of his loved one,
and she Is considered very cold. hearted
who refuses case like this.
So our young friend. the Swiss, sOugh,
the mountains In the western part OF
his State. He climbed and climbed In
the most dangerous localities, and
gathered some wild plants. True, they
were not in bloom, but still they an.
swered the purpose. He returned In
ecstasy to hts "beauteous" maiden. cas-,
the results Of his search ut her feet,
and then humbly asked her to marry
him. The maiden did not understand
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14

taste fingers In ones mouth, q washing
out with q lite listerine and water
leaves the lips sweet and od0rless.
Dentists particularly recommend the
use of listerine for the teeth, for It
cleanses as no brush ever can be OK
pected to, carries of or nullifies all the
Ill effects Of the tiny deposits In the
teeth, cOrrects acidity, and acts. In
short, like q magic potion. 1t Is very
like yaseline In the comfort 1t gives,
and now belongs to the toilet phar'
macy along with cologne, camphOr Ice,
and the rest OF It.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14
Ono Step from the Sublime.


At recent missionary meeting q
young minister named b. was called
upon to give an address.
Mr. BIS stvle Is remarkably flow.
cry but those 'purple patches" with
which he frequently ad0rns his
speeches are highly distasteful to
Brother T., q plain, y actical, old
travelling preacher. who happened on
the present occasion to be sitting on
the platform.
"Methinks BRETHREN" exclaimed
Mr. b. In the course OF his grafton,
during which he had surveyed lnan.
kind from China to Peru, "Methinks
I can hear the clash Of the cymbais
In the great procession of Jugger.
naut; can smell the spicylb. eezes
Of Ceyl0n waited"
"AO, Brother b." interrupted MI.
T. very sOlemnly; 'it's the broken
gasplpe you can smell--the man
hasn't liked 1t yet!'
Brother B. g speech came to an alb.
rupt conclusion amid the laughter OF
the aud .ence.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14
TfiH CHICAGO HAGLH.

the Swiss custom, and she was not par
ticularly impressed with the beauty of
her ardent lovers offering.
why did you not bring me Ameri.
can beauties!" she asked, rather plain.
lively, after the plighting of the trOth.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14

FuHx's weiss beer h . healthy ~
nourishing driAk.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14

THE foolish American In Paris saith
In his heart, 1T is proper to eat snails.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14

The German race has the larges,
percentage OF suicides.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-14

4 GENTS furnishing goods depart.
1ent has been added to 6hsyns's
State street store.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
Bcautify Your Home.

II is a duty every one owes to him
self to beautify tho home by planting
trees and shrubbery, and the sooner you
sow the sooner will you reap.
The well known tree men. Messrs.
Harrison and Bsrtels, have as fine an as
sortment of all kinds of trees as ever
came to the city and are selling at re.
markably low prices. enabling all to in,
vest TO some extent.
Among the stock might be mentioned
the Russian poplar, elm box elder,
honey locust, weeping willow. ash ca
talpss etc, besides variety of goose
berry sprouts, grape vines, fine col
lection of snowballs. lilacs and syringas
are also to he seen, and are selling very
low
Now is the time to invest These
gentlemen are prepared TO not only sell
you anything in their line at the lowest
figures. but they will also contract to
plant and warrant the trees, vines and
shrubbery. Call on them at their nur.
sery just north of the Mesa hotel, same
block
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Won't be Bluifed.

There must be pugnacious microbes
sailing through the air when the usually
placid tempered Chiefain gets up on
its ear. 1t took occasion to refer to
the western contingent of Coxey's
army as buns tramps, and hobos,
which epithets were resented by the
railway union of Pueblo. that body
severely critcising the paper and de
claring that any further references OF
the sort would be followed up by a
boycott of the paper by the railway
union whereupon the Chieftain ignores
the action of said union and calls more
names to Coxey's comrades. Mean
time the city is holding its breath in
anticipation of the clash of arms.
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Preparing for More Water.

Contractor A, E Hull has secured
the contract from the C. F. & / Co. of
cleaning out the bottom OF the settling
basin Just beyond Lake Minnequs, and
men and leans with plows and scrapers
will soon be put at work. This basin
serves as a catch all for the lake where
the muddy water is allowed to settle
after coming through the big ditch,
and where the debris is stopped from
flowing into the lake. This provision
against the flow Of muddy water keeps
the lake bottom from filling and keeps
the water clear Mr. Hull is also under
contract TO place "a piles at the head OF
the food gate at the st Charles, he
recelying about 81 900 for both Jobs
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A Good Candidate.

In this issue of the INDICATOR will be
seen the card of Dr.. A. L. Fugard who
announces himself as candidate for
school director of district No. 20. This
is one of the rare occasions when the
office does not seek the man. for 1t was
only after the mos, urgent solicitation
of many that the doctor permitted his
name 10 be used
Believing him to be thoroughly quail
ified in every way to till the position to
the entire satisfaction of all who favor
a first class school government econom-
icnlly administered, this paper cheer.
fully indoIses his candidacy and will
strive for his election. DIR. Fugnrd is
well known. popular and competent.
and being man of much experience
would make most excellent man for
the place.
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Attention. Lady Voters.

Notice is hereby given by the board
Of county commissioners Of Pueblo
county that the registration of voters
in precincts to "a inclusive AZ, 43. A.
and from A to SO inclusive, said pre-
cincts being wholly or partly in the
city of Pueblo. in said county. has been
completed by said board of com
missioners and the books have been
deposited with the county clerk of said
county. that for the period Of sixty
days next after the date of the first
publication hereof the record of said
registration will he found with the said
county clerk at his office in Pueblo,
open for inspection at any time during
office hours and that upon application
to the county clerk by any elector in
person and without vouchers any error
or errors in the registration OF such
elector will be corrected and that any
elector who has not been registered
may on application. in person and with
out vouchers, be registered in bis proper
election precinct
By order of the board of county com
mssioners.
c. d. HENDERSON, County Clerk
First publication March 10, 1894
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
1ucHock Bros, 1AIoRs and IMPORTERS, IS THE PLACE
TUCHOCK BROS.
11o West 2nd Street
PIrH AND POINT.

In the tenth century there we're
thirty-eight mints in England.
In the United States and British
America there are 100, l07 Sunday
schools. These are attended by over
10. 600, 900 pupils.
The annual report of the Boston tire
department attributes the cause of q
number of fires in that city last year
to smoking in bed" and ii has SUBJ
division in which the origin Of the fire
Is set down to careless smoking In
bed"
A Boston merchant sent letter d.
rected to Broadway, New York. with
out q number. The letter came back
with the postmark of every station
the whole length of Broadway, and
form filled out by the various post
masters detailing the search.
Twenty millions of articles OF mail
matter pass through the postofiices of
the United States each day and nearly
500, 600 letters are received annually
at the dead letter office, because of q
deficiency in address or postage, or be-
cause of illegibility of penmanship
1t was Winnie Ream, the sculptress,
who. on being told by a visitor to her
studio that her marble statue Of
Venus was vulgar and low, replied,
Madame, it is your mind that Ia
vulgar and low-not my piece Of mar
BILE" "Honi soft qui NAL v pense" is
as appropriate to-day - . hundred
years ago.
Holidays arc curiously abused by
some busy men, especially lawyers,
young and old. Many lawyers spend
six or eight hours of every holiday in
undisturbed wori at their offices,
where on such days they are safe from
the intrusion alike Of clients and
friends Others crowd the library of
the Bar association, and still others
work quietly at their cases in club
libraries or In the privacy of their own
homes w these men and many
others holi Us are esteemed chiefly
valuable as ,hering an opportunity Of
clearing up srrears of work.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
LORDS OF CREATION.

A bachelor seeks wife to avoid
solitude; married man seeks society
to avoid the tete-a-tete.
Fractions is awful tough," said
Tommy; "I'll be glad when I'm man
like pa and forget all about them, like
he has"
Mr.. Harry Furniss really doesn't
know, he says, which he dislikes tho
most-the man who doesn't smoke or
the woman who does
There are gracious, serene, hopeful
and happy old women who are mors
beautiful in their wrinkles than they
were in their maiden roses
Joseph Maytubley, a full blooded
Choctaw Indian, has been awarded the
highest honor for oratory at the
Trinity College. Durham, N. c., com.
mencement
An impecunious debtor In Meckleu-
burg, N. c.. mortgaged himself to the
man he owed, and, as he was mar.
ried man his wife Joined in signing
the document
There il nothing more tantalizine
10 man than to go home with some.
thing in his mind he wants to sc6ld
about, and find company there and be
obliged to act agreeably.
Rev. Joel Swartz, D. D., pastor of
st. James Lutheran church, Gettys-
burg, who has 700 widely scattered
members in his congregation, thinks
nothing of doing his ten miles on :
bicycle In prosecuting his pastoral
duties, though ne is 20 years old Hs
has three sons in the ministry also.
II you perspire excessively svod
warm baths; and II unable to take ab-
soiutely cold baths sponge the body
with slightly tepid water, to which
has been added diluted sulphurio scsd
N proportion Of two dssns 70 : rsra
- - waser. The affected psrts sAonll
then b powdersd fsoseu1oav svS6S
powdsfsd starsh, VIA - p nutl.IiiI1
~ csrh ssss 49, Ct v1I 4.
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AT THE GRAND.
SPIDER AND FLY.


M. Leavitts new spectac ular pro-
duction' Spider and Fly" will be
the attraction At the Grand opera
house next Tuesday night. The
present company is the strongest
ever seen in the piece In this city,
numbering more than so people.
The terpsichorean portion of the
entertainment will be especially
prominent, and will include 4 ballet
of burlesquers from the Alhambra
theater, London, and including the
celebrated French dancers, Natelle
Rousseau, Marie Nituche, Julio Dupoy
and Nanon Pascal, In their daring
unique and be *ildering quadrille
dances, which were the rage Of Paris,
Lsndon, Berlin and New York.
The dancing contingent will also
include Miss Henrietta Rosche from
the Follies Bergere, Paris. The
burlesque portion will be represent
ed by coteria of capable comedians
Miss Kittie Marcellus, an operate
souhrette, well and favorably known
in this city from her connection with
the Baker Opera company, will as
sumo the role of oceanica, the Queen
of the Mermaids. Miss Marcellus Ia
bright, pleasing actress, of splen-
did voice and natural abilities that
would especially fit her for the as
sumption of a role of this kind
81 Al
represented by Miss Effls Cham
berlain, who is said to make O
charming devil.
Seats now on sale at popular
Dripps
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Trees, Trees.

G. A. Rodell. the tree man has solved
the problem of where TO get trees, and
has ON hand his regular spring ship
ment Of all kinds of fruit and shade
trees and shrubbery The fruit trees
are all Colorado grown and are as inc
IS any ever brought to the city The
supply of shade trees is large and the
variety unlimited He is having big
demand for everything, this being just
the time to plant and the rush amounts
10 something wonderful
You are invited 10 call at his nursery.
corner of AbrienGo and Union avenues.
one block north of Mesa Hotel and
examine stock and get prices
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
Do roucontempia,e - rrlp4

Do You Contemplate n Tripf
II 50. please make note of 1t. that
at Grand Union ticket office. Central
block, cor. Second and Main, II going
west. We can ticket you to any point on
the Pacific coast giving you a through
car from Pueblo to San Francisco or
Los Angeles, (the snly line running
through cars from Pueblo to these
points being the Denver d Rio Grsnde).
If you are goiag south, we can ticket
you to any point in Texas, etc, over
the Great Rock Island route" or the
Union Pacific, Denver i Gulf" the
only line running through cars to Fort
Worth or New Orleans). East-b bound
you can take your choice of the
Burlington route. Great Rock Island
route or Union Pacific System. Wis
either Kansas City, Omaha. St. Joe,
Atchison, Council Bluffs, reaching any
point in the United States or Canada
via Chicago or St Louis. connecting al
these points with all the fast lines. east
or south. II you prefer to make the
most enjoyable trip of all, we can q,
you to New York via Galveston and the
Mallory Steamship Line. We also
represent all the A. l steamship Lines
and can quote you lower steamship
rates than any agency in Colorado.
Passengers can rest assured that any
information obtained at this office is
strictly reliable. and We will always be
found in the lead in the matter of re
duced rates.
A. JACKSON. General Agent
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HE is ENVIOUS.
A Creede Statesman Says Americans
Talk too Much.

deaf and dumb scion of states.
manship of Creede. evidntly an Eng lish.
man, has written to the mayor of
Denver on business and incidentally
makes the following humorous al
lusion to what he considers the source
Of the hard times. He says;
Don't you know, believe that the
average American talks too much and
that we would be d-n sight better
oil if more of us were d & d. Look at
Governor Waite and few other ducks
iu your town and tell me if the whole
bloody country wouldn't enjoy An era
Of prosperity if the above named would
only put their months in repose
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
A SPLENDID CITY DIRECTORY
Order now or you Will be too Late.

Order now or you Will be too Late.
Copy for the Rood CITY directory is
now in the hands of the printers. and
the work of printing and binding will
soon be in operation 1t is to be y
splendid book. chock full Of informa
tion and complete in every particular.
In fact the work bears evidence of
being the most accurate and most care.
fully compiled of any similar effort ever
made in Pueblo, and the book will be
a complete index to the residence and
business Of the people
The INDICATOR has been informed
that the Rood directory will be the
only one gotten out, and investigation
would seem to prove that this is the
case Certain il is that it is the one
universally endorsed and encouraged by
the business and professional men OF
the city, who have aided literally in
giving the enterprise lift
r. D. Hard, the best directory man in
the state is manager
Messrs Seymour and Montgomery
who have the work in charge are no
noviceS at the work. and have spared
no pains to make this the very best
directory ever gotten up in Pueblo
No extras will be gotten out There.
fore those who want book should
order Immediately, for they are now
getting ready to go to press, and if your
name is no, on the list of subscribers
you get left. No business man can
afford TO be without one of the Rood
directories, and should place an order
at once with NJ. NJ Seymour, 1904 s.
Union avenue.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
A Business Directory.

Messrs Seymour and Montgomery,
tine Rood directory men, have be.
sides getting out that valuable work.
canVas.ed the town in the interest of an
office directory, and have produced in
pamphlet form. a complete list of the
blocks in the city containing offices
with the names and business of all the
tenants II is valuable little book
and is selling rapidly at the small sum
of % cents
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
JOKES AND ,umsLEs.

Lady Patient-Doctor, how do you
pronounce spinal msningitisp Doctor
Very dangerous, madam, very dam
gerouA-
Customer lin book store)-I would
like to get some good book on faith,
Clerk-Sorry, sir, but our rule is to
sell nothing to strangers except for
cash.
"The charter of a kennel club should
not be limited for seriss of years."
observed Lariner. "Why notp" asked
Dinwiddie. Because 1t ought to be
purp- etual."
Chicago man met q Boston girl
Saturday and married her the next
Wednesday. A little more Chicago
goaheadativeness and vim in the Bos-
ton youth might reduce the large Der.
centage Of unmarried women In Mass-
achusetts.
They seemed very loving as they
sat on the piazza together" sIndeedf
What were they doing?" "He was
smoking cigar and she was estins
Ice cream" Then, suppose, he hsd
on his smoking jacket and she her
Eton Jacket"
"lf you marry Grace" exclaimed
the trate father to his son, I'm cut
you of without penny and you won't
have 30 much as . piece of pork to
Doll in the pot" "Well," said the
young man, Grace before meat" and
no Immediately went In search of
minister.
Judge-What led you to get drunkf
frisoner-Your honor.I thought the
bank was ~oing to burst 50 l drew
my money out. Judge-And you got
drunk with it9 Prisoaer-Yes, your
honor. Judge-Have you any left to
pay fue7 Prisoner-Not a cent
your honor. Judgo-Tcn days Pris.
oner. sotto voce-WelI, IL that bank
bursta I'm ahead Of It.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
Excursion to Cripple Creek

The first excursion of the season
over the new rail road to the great
gold camp of Cripple Greek will be
given by the typographical union of
Pueblo. on Sunday. May 13. The
union made arrangements some time
ago with Col. Jackson of the ID. & r.
G. for this date, the understanding
being that the excursion was to be the
first
The distance Is seventy-two miles
through some Of the most pisturssqus
couas.y n Coiessae. asd IL fsss b
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
ODD OCCURRENCES.

A young woman Mt Milwaukee had
her wedding postponed because on the
night set cat knocked a lamp of {
table.
Brum Ridley of Chattanooga. Tenn,
fell into beer barrel, or rather the
contents of one fell into him by being
| pushed, and its influence was so bad
that he even went 30 far as to curse
his sister.
1t is reported that petrifed fish OF
the salmon variety has been found
lmbedded in solid bedrock twenty two
feet beneath the ground on the place
of William Fudge, near Pampa,
Washington.
Wilbur Clark OF Williamsburg, N.
Y, fell from a smoke stack lls feet to
the ground and broke his neck When
picked up, he was alive, and asked
how far he fell. He said that 1t
seemed to him that 1t was mile.
Lulu Cumlis and Grace Newles, both
colored, of Chattanooga, Tenn, be-
cause of slight scraps with their Low.
ers, actually took poison enough to
kill horse and would have shuffied
off but for the prompt Intervention of
several doctors.
James Ryan, sixty-hve, a Rochester,
N. Y, carpenter, because the hospital
authorities would not release him,
slipped away, bought lot of laudanum
and drank it on the back steps of his
residence. He ate hearty supper
and then told his family what he had
done. Physicians could not save him
A Kentuckian, who is patient In q
hospital in that state, is ~ blue as q
new stovepipe from the top of his
head to the bottom of his feet His
finger nails are blue, the whites Of his
eyes are blue, his lips are blue, and
80 is his tongue, and altogether. he ID
the bluest man in America The doc
tors say that the discoloration is
caused by nitrate of silver poisoning.
The man for years has been subject to
epileptic fits, and took great quanti-
ties of nitrate of silver in order to
ward them off.
Nearly every orange grower in the
South raises a special brand of fruit
Of his own, to which he gives some at
tractive name. One of the favorite
kinds sent to Richmond, Va, is the
'mocking- bird" The clerk in a Cary
street store, which supplies fruit to a
leading hotel. made out the bill the
other day for box Of oranges as fol-
lows: ITO one box of mocking birds,
ea.75." When the bill was presented
the cashier at the hotel refused to pay
1t, saying he was sure that no mock
Ing birds had been ordered for the
house, and they had no use 4or mock
Ing birds, any way. When it was ex-
planned the next day that the mocking
birds were fruit and not songsters,
the bill was paid promptly.
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Water Rents Due.

Water rents for the next quarter and
the irrigation for the season were due
April LIST.
RULE l3.-Water rents must be paid
quartly in advance on the first day OF
January. April. July and Octobs. If
not paid within ten days thereafter,
water will be turned of
RULE When water is turned OF
for non-payment Of water tax, an extra
ch arge will be make to cover the ex.
pense of turning of and on.
The PUEBLO WATER Co.
South side
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21

Are You Going TO Culfornint
Ncyx lis i 4-1,i8.t-- Chm
If you conclude TO make the trip you
can save money by taking the Rio
Grande. as by so doing you can obtain
the benefit of the "Cut Rates" TO either
Los Angeles or San Francisco. Do not
let yourself be talked into purchasing
ticket TO Los Angeles df You desire
to visin San francisco, as the Southern
Pacific company is the only line reach
ing San Francisco and their local rates
are as follows From Mojave Sl1s5.
from Los Angeles $500 These are
the rates one way, and what 1t will cost
you if you desire to visit San francisco
and the Midwinter fair. BY taking the
Rio Grande you win avoid changing
cars and snve money. Call at Grand
Union ticket office, Central bleek and
get full particulars Our wesi-bound
flyers daily at 1885 noon ard 1910 p m.
A JACKSON. General Agt
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
Not Built Right.

Chief Hook of the fire department is
not at all pleased with the arrangement
Of the city hall for a fire station, and
will call the attention Of the proper
committee to the necessity Of lowering
the floor Of the hose room, the eleva-
ton and incline of the platform making
it a dangerous run for horses If this
plan j. not feasible an attempt will be
made to cut way int the basement.
in which event the partitions would
have to be removed
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
At the Columbia.

The opening night of tn. Gregory
dramatic company at the Columbia
theater was very largely attended and
the company was well received the
Nelson sisters finding especial favor
Manager ormond will spare no pains TO
make the Columbia more popular than
ever The Fugitive" will be produced
tonight for the last time.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
$3.50 Pueblo to California and
Tsat,,,r, .zat- ~,

Return $1,000
Over The Old Reliable Denver IS
Rio Grande. the only line running
through cars from Pueblo 10 San
Francisco and Los Angeles Our time
from Pueblo TO San Francisco only 80
hours. No other line can offer this time
or through car service. one way
tickets from $1,000 up. If You are
going to California to take in the Mid
winter Fair, yon will avoid changing
cars and lay-ovcrs nj junction points
by taking "The Great Scenic Standard
Gauge Line, the Denver S Rio Grande
Call on A. Jackson Gen Agt at Grand
Union Ticket Office Central Block for
tickets and full particulars. y. B,
Whatever scenery you miss on your
trip out. you will take in on your re
turn trip Take the RIO Grand both
ways and see it all