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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
A HoLDAY.LovINO PEOPLE.
The Co!onists Of New Zealand Prefer to
Take Life Rather Easily.

The Co!onists Of New Zealand Prefer to
Take Life Rather Easily.
The colonists of New Zealand are
holiday-making people, says Pearsons
Weekly. There is almost an average
of one recognized holiday to q month,
and it is common practice for all
working people to take two or more
days at Christmas, the New Year and
Easter, so as to make an unbroken
playtimc Of three or four days, irclud-
ing Sunday. Then the great mass of
the people give themselves up to
amusement. Horse races, athletic
sports, boat races and EXCURSIONS are
carried on in every available spot, and
are attended by large and well-behayed
cro--A~
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
HOW ZULU WOMEN SEW.

Their Needles Are Widely Different from
Those Used in Civilized Countries
The skill of the Zulu of South Africa
in sewing fur is a household word in
South Africa, and mono of the other
tribes can compete with them. The
needle employed is widely different
from that used by the American needle
woman. In the first place, it has no
eye: in the second, it is like a skewer,
pointed at one end and thick at the
other. The Zulu woman isnever without
them, and carries them in an elaborate
ly-decorated sheath of raw hide. The
thread is not of cotton, but is made of
the siRews Of various animals, tho best
being made from the sinews in the neck
of giraffe, 1t is stiff, inelastic, with
great tendency to "kink" and tangle
itself up with any thing near it. Be-
fore being used it is stepped in hot
water until it is quito soft, and is then
beaten between two smooth stones,
which causes 1t to separate into fila
ments, which can thus be obtained of
any strength and thic cAness. Thus, the
seamstress his considerable amount
of LABOR before she commences with the
real work in hand. This done, she
squats on the ground (for no native
stands to work or do any thing else,
who can possibly help it) and, taking
her needle, bores two holes in the.
edges of the rug or garment on which
she is working. The thread is then
pushed through with the butt of the
needle, drawn tight, and two more holes
are made with like result, the sl1ewer
progressing very slowly compared with
an American needlewoman, but fast
enough for country where time is of
no value whatever, The skin upon
which the seamstress is working is
damped with water. before she COM
mences; and as the damp thread and
hide dry out it brings the work very
closely together. This is carefully at
tended to, and the work is not allowed
to get dry until finished, when the
seamstress lays it fiat upon the ground,
pulling it this way and that, and mix
ing and arranging the hair for several
hours, until, the skin being generally
dry, il is impossible to find the Joint OF
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
WONDERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Soap Bubbles Photographed In the Act 0f
Bursting.

bufstiuRs
Electricity has been doing some pret-
ty work in the photographing of
drops of water, and Prof c. V. Boys in
recent lecture gave illustrations of
what had been accomplished, says the
Detroit Free Press. He first showed
photographs taken by the electric spark
of soap bubbles in the act of bursting,
and explained the process by which it
is possible to ascertain the respective
speed at which different soap bubbles
burst. One photograph showed an issue
of liquid from very small pipe, which
to the naked eye appeared to be per-
feet stream, but which, on an electric
photograph being taken, was resolved
into beautiful and regular series of
drops. In connection with this Prot.
Boys remarked that the science of
liquids and of the forces involved in the
phenomena Of the surface of liquids
was ono re 40 ~ 80 interestinr branch.
es of physical science. The ehe.t on a
fountain of playing or singing was to
change its appearance into one, two or
three apparently separate, clear streams
of liquid, but photograph taken as a
tuning fork was struck demonstrated
that the water was disposed in drops in
perfect regularity. A picture of rifle
bullet, passing through the air at the
rate of two thousand feet a second, was
also exhibited. Prof. Boys, however,
showed that If it were wished to inves-
tigate what was really happening when
rifle bullet was beng projected
through the air at the maximum possi-
BILE speed, it would be necessary to have
recourse to a method Of illumination in
finitely more rapid than the electric
spark. For this purpose mirror of
steel, about the size of twenty-five
cent piece, is now used. 1t is so mount
ed as to revolve with ease without get
ting hot at the enormous speed of one
thousand times a second, and the end of
the beam of light given off from this
mirror passes across the screen at such
a rate that it enables photographs to be
taken in about one ten-millionth of q
second
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
rrsaLs o. .E,,sstrIc WIRE.

A tree in Nashville caught fire from
an electric wire. Ono limb was burned
entirely off. A policeman threw water
on the burning limb with hose, ane
when the water struck the fire he ex7
perienced q severe electric shock.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27

hem with the naked eye when looking
at the fur side of the garment The
stitches are very small, and, when dry,
lie very fat, and number of curious
designs are worked out in various skins,
which, when finished, look like the
perfect skin of a single animal, which
must have been the Joseph of the ami
NAL tribe, to Judge from the colors in
its coat should imagine that an
hours work Of a modern sewing-machine
would be about equal in bulk to the
work of two hundred Zulu women ioS
tho samo time; but their work would be
done with degree of efficacy no ma
chine can ever approaeh.-Ladies' Home
Journal
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-27
Sierra County Officers.

Territorial officers:
Governor. r......................W 7. Thornton
Secretary. Benjamin M. Thomas
Solicitor General ......... Edward l.. Bartlett
Auditor. r........................D Demelrio Pclez
Treasurer ................ -. Rufus } Pa.'n
Supt- OF Peuitentiary ..J Fra cisco Chavez
Supt. Pub Instruction.. Amanda Chavez
Librarian ...,...... :. Winfield S. Fletcher
Judiciary and Clerks OF Courts:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
and Jud, Z of the Fourth District,
Composed of San Miguel and Col
fax counties. james OBilen
District CLERK. .............'......M A. Otero
Clerk of the Supreme Court. III. S. Clancy
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court:
Judge OF the First District, compos
ed OF Santa Fee, Taos, Rio Arriba
and San Juan ct unties... Edward p. Seeds
District Clerk. k....................A a. Il. walker
Judge of the second District, com
posed of Bernalillo, and Valencia
counties. es..................... William u. Lee
District clerk ...... -. Charles f. hunt
Judge OF the Third District, compOs
ed of Dona Ana Grant and Sierra
counties s........................ IA. B Fall
District Clerk k..,..................A.L l., Chrlsty
Judge of the Fifth District, compos-
ed Lincoln, Chavez. Eddy and So
zorro counties. .... Alfred A. freeman
District Clerk. rk.....,............. -. W. Garner
Delegate in Congress ..... Antonio Joseph
District Attonneys:
For Grant and Sierra. =. A. Ancheta
For San Miguel and Mora... ....L. Q. For
For incoln. Chavez ana Eddy.
W. A. Aawkins
For CQlfax and Taos. ....... M. W Mills
For Dona Ana ............. IS. u. NewcomD
For santa Fe, Rio Arliba and San Juan,
R. 4. Twitchell
For Bernalillo and Valencia, III. Whiteman
For Socgrro county. ty............W. S. Williams
Federal Officers:
Surveyor General ..,...... Edward Il HoUaI
Collector Internal Revenue al. a. Hughes
y. 5. Attorney. ................ -. IL. y. Fiske
U. s. Marshal. l....... ........ Trinidad Rom ro
Rec Land Uffice. Las Cruces. ......s. McRea
Reg Land Office. Las Cruces. .Quipby yunce
Navajo Indian Agt, Gallup. David L. Shipiey
Messaierb agent. Mescalerc R. Hud SO
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
BRUSH AND PALETTE.

SIR JoHN MnLAIs became q pupil In
an artists studio before be was eleven
years old.
NINE. VIRGINIA DEMoST- BRETON, q
French artist Of distinction, has just
been honored with the Cross Of the Lee
giOn Of Honor.
BY the will Of Harrison Earl, the art
patron, who died at Philadelphia on
September ls last, his collection OF
paintings, now on exhibition at the
Philadelphia Academy Of Fine Arts. is
left to that institution.
DErAnLE, the celebrated painter OF
army life, looks himself great deal
like soldier. He is tall, slender and
erect, and with his ample cayalrymau
mustaehe and close-ftting jacket,
which Is not unlike an undress uniform,
the military effect is heightened
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

leaders of the latter tribe, including
Geronimo. were, after their last memoir
able raid, imprisoned in Florida, ane
are now in Alabama.
1t is reported that the secretary o.
war proposes to remove Geronimo tt
Tennessee. Geronimo, by the way, /,
said to be a Mexican. being captured
when he was a small child. His earliest
recollections were of finely-dressed peo
pie in large and luxuriously- FURNISHED
houses lie was an able counselor u,
well as military leader. Mongas Col
orado tRed Mautle) is also prisoner Of
state. and with these the Chiricahuas
lost their best leaders. Cochise was then
most powerful leader, and caused oui
government the most trouble by using
the same tactics-buying our lndiar
scouts to betray us. and 1t finally re-
quircd the aid of other Apache tribe,
and Mexicans to overcome the Chiri
cahuas. The remnants of this tribe
now at the San Carlos agency. show
the least indications Of becoming good
Indians" and, naturally an uprising |,
possible or probable at any time. espe'
cially after our Indian scouts nno
traitors have been discharged from the
army. j. NJ ScASLASD.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

oi government troops could be utilizeo,
ana tney We're not used in the fight.
The Indians were driven into Mexieo
over the rocky and steep defiles Of
the Sierra Madre mountains, followed
through the woods and sandy desert.
oy the friendly Apaehes. Arriving in
slexieo they met another enemy. and
between the Mexican soldiers and the
friendly Apaehes the Chiricahuas were
almost decimated, victorio diving at
the head Of his command. under the
black flag Of the tribe. The war
weapon Of the Chiricahua Is lance
and shield. reserving his powder and
palefaee firearms for hunting spur.
poses. Their costume is abont as
primitive as that Of the Living Pic.
lures, y not long ago exhibited in soma
OF the New York places Of amusement.
The chief is distinguished by head.
dress in the shape of a bonnet, orna.
mented with three hawk feathers.
The best scouts are found in this tribe.
They crawl through the grass as a
snake, and TO prevent themselves from
being tracked make their way through
dense woods by jumping from limb &c
ilmO on the trees. and wading ur
shallow streams for miles In this
campaign the government had MANY
Chiricahua spies who reported theii
movements. We also had Yuma and
Mojave Apaches among them who
gained their confidence by reporting
that they had been captured by gov
ernment troops and had escaped These
scouts participated in the grand war.
dance on the evening preceding the
outbreak, and like snakes escaped il
the da ckneSs by crawling through the
grass and chaparral until they reached
our fort.
The Indian trailers and scouts are
not encountered with baggage anc
clothing as our pal@face scouts They
wear very little more clothing than that
worn by our first parents in the Garder
of Eden before the appearance o
Satan. They are 1.-THE, wiry, have re
markable enduring quality. and max,
an average speed of eight miles an houl
on foot, going in kind Of a jog trot
or in what soldiers would call double
quick time. OF course, II Indian hos
tilities are at an end. these Indiar
scouts will not be needed. Otherwis,
they will be needed badly. No other
can supplant them.
Among the several military posts II
the west that the government contsm
plates abandoning is that at the Sar
Carlos agency, in the southwestern
part Of Arizona, ON the San Carlo
river Thisis oneof the largest agencies
In the west, and for years the govern
ment has been collecting the Apach,
bands at this pointand settling then
upon agricultural lands. At this poin
are large numbers of the Yuma, Mojuv
San Carlos. Sierra Blanco and Tont,
Apaches. and a few Chiricahuas. TIL,
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

detectives Sometimes they are eu-
gagged as couriers or runners for their
tribe, and are engaged in watching the
movements Of the white people pre-
paratory to raid. But when the proper
moment arrives these scouts give the
first news to the government forces,
and then return to their villages and
Join, ostensibly, in the raid or uprising
against the government. The chirica,
hua Apaches are the most warlike OF
the several Apache tribes. One OF the
bloodiest compaigns Of the southwest
was against this tribe then led by
victorio. All Of the rene0ddos that
could be had were enlisted by the gov
ernment. A renegade is an Indian sol-
dier of fortune, whose bow and arrow
and war club are on the side that pays
the best. Only one or two companies
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

Of the trailers are Apache Indians, and
that while they are not regularly en-
listed in the army, they are employed
by the quartermaster under special
order for that special purpose. The
officer, who had seen several years
service in the southwest, was. of course,
noncommittal as to whether the scouts
and trailers would likely be Of further
use, but said: Indians are the best
trailers in the world. They are more
wonderful than the Arabs Of the des-
ert, but the government cannot depend
upon their faithfulness unless they are
prompted TO act with us as means Of
revenge upon some other tribe
The white scouts are employed be.
cause, being pioneers. they are familiar
with every path and Indian trail in the
country, also, with the traits, habits,
etc, of the Indians, and by the use of
their knowledge and experience the
government officers are enabled to
Judge Of the veraclty or treachery OF
the Indians. For many years the
Apaches have been warning among
themselves, and that is why the gov
ernment can depend upon them, more
so than upon any other Indians. Ow-
ing to their numerous wars, first with
the coagmstddores of Spain, then the
Mexieans, and finally the Americans.
the once large and powerful Apache
tribe that oyerspread and thickly pop
ulated the southwest has been terri
bly, decimatcd and split into bands,
each having a chief and acting inde-
pendently of the other. They will
fight each other, II paid to do so by
any other tribe or by our government.
They are also used by our government
as police detectives or spies upon one
another. These Indian detectives re-
main In their villages and contrive to
REPORT their observations to the white
scouts, their allies, who in turn report
to the military authorities. The white
scouts, being familiar with Indian
characteristics and the situation, can
the better Judge how much truth there
Is in these reports and suggest what
action may be necessary.
Great care is taken, Of course, by
government officials that these Indian
detectives, or spies, are not known to
their band; otherwise, instant death
would be his fate Their method of ex-
ecution is TO take the culprit beyond
the village limits and beat him to death,
using club with heavy stone at the
end, the two being wrapped in raw
hide. The doomed mans head is placed
on rock and the high executioner
smashes the skull with few well-di-
rected blows. The body is then given
to the relatives. who cremate it, after
the Apache custom. Indians are good
detectives, never abandon clew un-
I'll they run 1t down, and are, generally
speaking, far superior to the pale face
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
NAVAL NOTES.

SoMR Of the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers
in thirty hours.
The only American In the Chinese
navy commands the Chen-Yuen, It's
finest ship. lie is Philo N. McGiffin,
neither renegade nor adventurer. He
entered the Chinese service because
when he was graduated from Annapo-
lis, In 1882. there was no vacancy for
him in ours.
The official speed test OF the Russian
torpedo boat Sestoretsk was made re-
Gently off Havre. The average speed
obtained during three hours was lit.
tie more than twenty-four knots an
hour, and during the last hour the
boat travelled twenty-five knots The
contract called for speed of twenty.
three knots.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
INDIANS IN THE ARMY.
GOOD Work Done by Apaohs
Scouts and Trailers.
me Best Detectives and Spies In the Mill
-ry Service of the United state,
Why They Are To Be
Discharged.


Inc commanding general of the mil
itary division of the Pacific coast has
recommended that the Indian scouts
and trailers be discharged from the
army or rather from military service
In the southwest. He states that there
are about s5o Of these scouts and trail.
ers' and that as there is no further
need for them the government will
save about $4,000 year and their
quantity of rations.
Il is likely that the war department,
Will adopt this suggestion.
An army officer states that the ma.
]ority OF these scouts and nearly ali
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

Myupor creeping up from the marshy
aads. II Is ladened with the seeds OF
and fever. Do you think you can
ae these without danger! Not much.
Ntyourself with Hostetter's Stomach
~ and you will be safe. Or IL you find
Nla rheumatism, inactivity of the kid
M nyer, or constipation coming on
1e this thorough and beneficentsafe-
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

He-My dearest, darlingest little
wifey-
She--You needn't employ any OF that
sort Of taffy, for you won't get the
lntch-lsey, no matter.what you say
Alex Sweet, in Texus Siftings.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

PRINCE DE LrNGUA-GLossA, who is to
marry the daughter of Signor Crispi,
the Italian premier, has large estates
In Sicily and an income Of eighty thou
sand dollars a year. II is said that
Crispi will settle six thousand dollars a
year on his daughter.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

la@ IN grammar was reciting, and one
= yOvnger boys was asked to compare
ne began thoughtfully: "Sick, {"
~ wnile his brain struggled with the
y sl- y then finished triumphantly :"Sick,
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

Girl dokingly)-I'd like a place whcr
Ill have everything want nothing t
do and no one to boss me.
Clerls-This, miss, is an employment
Office, not Q matrimonial sRency.--N.
v Weekly.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

Lulu, aged two and one-hah years, had
been out playing and came in with dirty
face Her mamma said: "What dirty
facet We win have to call Lulu mammals
little pig. Come, dear. and have your face
washedn But Lulu objected stoutly, say
ing: Pigs don't have their faces washed y
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
etiil In the Family.

she-I must ask you to release ms
from our engagement. Papa ha,
failed.
He-O, that's all right. am the
man who won all his money.--Tit
Bits.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
In Olden Times

People overlooked the importance Of per-
mauently beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action, but now that II
is generally known that Syrup Of Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
wcll.informed people will not buy other lax
atlves, which act for a time, but finally in
lure the system.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

h1oRlc CoNuNDRuM. = Boston Girl
was Shakespeare like Queen Eliza
They Alive give 1t up.n Boston
ne was the greatest wonder of the
Na she was the greatest Tudorw And
a We pun percol4ted their craniums.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

IL.
iiet your land run down.
not use harness for working
N y 'ne cellar clean aud well VEN
= good care Of the valuable corn
you provided good shelter for
q h.,,mso more forest fires. Are your
0ulldin9s insuredq
IA wnen pure and fresh can be
IN W. without injury, but cream must
4ss'ed after It becomes acid.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

ssf-'Now, I've told you all about 1t,
want to know what you'd do if you
u my shoes.n Mary with u glance
5ssys ieetl- wouldn't stir out till |
ptapair four sizes smaller.n
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

A GEORGIA boy thought to be lost
was found on the bank Of the river,
where he had been fishing steadily for
three days.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

ONE Little Girl in the Slums-"Wot yer
say she died of" The Other one-"Eating
q tuppeny ice on the top of lot pudden',n
The First Mentioned-''Lor', what a jolly
death. Tit Bits.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

MIsTREss-'I think you handle those fine
china dishes we're carclesslyn Domestic
Don't worry, mum. They are SO light that
they wouldn't hurt even IL dropped 'cm on
my toes, mum. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

aLscE-"Helen says Mr.. Smallcash
jrsl. w. very ground she walks on" Harry
.aUrl ! guess so, it would bring
|" thousand day."-Chicago Inter
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

IN a
~ =, ,sMITH-"By the way, Hostetter,
nv Nv 'wo lives for tenin Hostetter--
N ~ Sus De Slnith-"Then lend me
em.n-Texas Siftinps.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

s M ldefantly)--"It will take more
kSs,s s % mold me, I'll tell YOU" Canni.
Y. .Is'ncnantlyl -"Oh. shall invite few
N-Detroit Tribune.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

"EF you wanter fiattah er mans vanity
good" said Uncle Eben, "teil lin ne amt got
none. Washington Star.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

Mn. BILKrNs-''What a sad face that
woman has," Mrs. Billxins-"Yes, poor
thing. She has either loved and lost, or loved
and got him. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

''THAr's good idea. Garry ii out,n said
the editor 10 the man who came In with a
better plan for running the paper. .-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

vn Upon Troubled Waters 10 Hale's
nv norehound and Tar upon q cold.
'iootnache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

In some portions of Florida outdoor
workmen have to wear mosquito masks.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

"WEIL, Johnnie, hear you 60 TO school
now. What part OF 1t do you like bestt''
'Comin' home. n-Harper's Bazar.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

In Europe the average length OF hu-
man life is greatest in Sweden and Nor
way and least In Italy and Austria.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
Rather Tardy

A Friend-What ails Mrs. Alseharjt
doctor?
Friend-I am unable to diagnose
definitely at this time.
"Why. haven't the winter styles In
diseases been announced yet?"-Truth
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10
FARM HINTS,

b,sslk YAK about yourself when you want
N4esting. Rams Horn.
The Greenville times., 1894-11-10

ss ss,h's 70 obtain happiness simply to have
'une more than selfshness.