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hadn't moved foot, but when | felt of his
heart | knowed he was only playin dead
The ole woman handed me out sum bread
and meat and coffee, and went right on
a-sittin. The longer l sot the mo- detar-
mined l got. Night cum around ag in
and was still thar / was powerful sleepy
that night, and had to rub terbacker in
my eyes to keep awake; but was holdin
my own when daylight cum. Sot right
thar all day long, mad as bar, and when
night cum fur the third time the ole wom-
an SEE to me:
'Ieb, yo' hain't fitten to do it. Tho
pesky varmint kin outsot you.
"'I'll beat him or perishl'
+" Better kill him fur good and cum in. )
" Never. If can't beat drafted pos
sum at his own game, I'm no champion
possum hunter. I'll be right yere when
the sun rises ag'in!'
ut was tuff work, but was mad, ana
/ got along purity well till about midnight
Then l must hey closed my eyes fur two
or three minits, though didn't know it,
fur awOke with start, and the dawggone
possum was gone. Yes, sab. He'd watched
my eyes close and sneaked off, and the ole
woman made sich fun of me and felt so
mean bout bein outsot that couldn' t look
a possum in the face for the next three
months!" M. QUAD
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Ohio and the District.

We hear the echoing tread of that immense
determined throng.
They ere marching from Ohio with fore,
twelve thousand strong.
Tis told that neither storm nor food nor nro
test e'er can stay
These dauntless men Of conquest when they're
once got under way.
Twelve thousand brawny patriots, each strain
To climb to some position where his country
he can servel
1t fills our hearts with sadness when wa note
that it may be
Scarce possible to keep them all in Washing
ton, d. G.
OF course, emitting to pay heed to all the prior
claims
OF men who make our city proud at mention
of their names,
The first whom this community would trust
its work to do,
Forgetting such as these, we might accommo-
date few.
We could give the post of marshal to a politi.
cian's needs,
And another could. as heretofore, record the
District deeds.
We could trust strange postmaster with our
billet doux and bills,
And another could perhaps be placed as reg
lister of wills.
And, to assist appointing powers to happiness
and peace,
Collector of the port is left or major of police.
But we warn this meteor shower which in our
sky sets forth to shine
That we've first rate local talent in the Office
holding line.
Twelve thousand from Ohio! TITS indeed a
how dye do.
Though counted most infinitely, posts are
scandaously few.
So haste, We legislators to create them by the
score,
For we need eleven thousand berths and sew
eral hundred more.
Washington Star.
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A PECULIAR POSSUM,
FEB WHITE WAS GAME, BUT THE
CRlTTER OUTSET HIM.


caught Mapping at Last and Left to Suffer
From the Old Woman's Taunts-Thei1
Great Convention On the Mount.;n TO-,
wy A'' '"o'e' away
GIVE hunted bars and Wildcats and
coons and possums fur the last ao 1aa,, >,
cold zoh witt 49,, '' " se"i''
Ta,,,ossoo 60 pss'i. nuh'er vi
.esoe' anu Vnoush all Oh EN- Is null
- 0rioAs IL my opihyun that the dawg-
gone possum Is the cutest critter of all.
he haln't purity, and he hain't got no
gait on him, and us fur fghtin he can
skassly hold his own ag'in rabbit But
natur' knowed what she was dom when
she created the posslum. 1t took me good
while to understand the critter, and befo'
got to he played IL heap o. tricks OH me-
Fifteen years ago this kentry around
we're might hey bin called possum land
Thar was possums till yo couldn't rest
Thar was big possums and leetle ones
fat pDssums and lean ones, and as nobody
would BUY thar pelts nobody killed pos
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Everything Goes wrong

in the bodily mechanism when the liver
gets out of order. Constipation, dyspep.
sia, contamination of the blood, imper.
feet assimilation, are certain to ensue
But it is easy to prevent these conse-
quences, and remove their cause, by a
course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which stimulates the hillary organ and
regulates its action. The direct result is
disappearance of the pains beneath the
ribs and through the shoulder blade, the
nausea, headache, yellowness of the skin,
furred look of the tongue, and sour odor
of the breath, which characterize liver
complaint. Sound digestion and reg
ular habit of body are blessings also Sc.
cured by the use of this celebrated restor-
alive of health, which imparts degree
Of vigor to the body which is it's best guar
antee of safety from malarial epidemics.
Nerve weakness and over-tension are re-
lieved by it, and it improves both appe-
lite and sleep.
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Reddy the Killer and the Lamp,

They are telling wicked story down
town on converted 'srounder' known
throughout the First and Twenty sixth
wards as Reddy the Killer. The trade
of killing people in that quarter of the city
having become somewhat precarious, Red.
dy experienced a change of heart and join
ed the Salvation Army. During the prog.
ress of the exercises at the barracks a
few nights ago the chimney of kerosene
lamp in a bracket alongside of the platform
broke, and the flame shot up in an alarm.
ing way. One Of the army officers, in at
tempting to remove the lamp, dropped it
upon the floor, and the oil became ignited,
starting a slight blaze. A number of per.
sons rushed forward, among them Reddy,
but all hesitated to act. Reddy, who is not
deficient in courage, made dash or two at
it, but fell back, and the sister who wears
the title of lieutenant exclaimed: "Pick il
up, Brother Reddy! Don't be afraid! The
Lord won't let it burn you'll Reddy made
another grab at the blazing lamp, jumped
back, blew on his hands and blurted out,
THE hi he wont!" -Philadelphia Rec.
ord.
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breakfast next mawnin. Then started
out to see, but hadn't got out of the yard
befo' fat ole possum laid down in front
of me to be killed Out in the road was
another, and leetle frrder on was third
and befo' had gone 80 rods got seven OF
'em. Not one of em tried to git away, but
jest crawled right UP to me to be hit on the
head with club. couldn't make 1t out
nohow till got up to a cl'ar spot in the
woods. Then diskivered that they had
bin holdin a possum convenshun. can't
say how many critters war on hand, but
reckon the number was at least 5000.
They had come together at that spot from
all over the county, and the meetin WASH
VT out when started from the house.
That's the reason them other possums let
me kill 'em. They was put out thar to
delay me till the meetin broke up. COULDN'T
be anythin cutter than that, Ireckon.
II can't say fur shore, but it's my SOL
emn opinyun that the possums yere had
heard about me and the way was gatherin
in the pelts, and they knowed it was only
question of time when I'd have tho last
one. 1t was tharfo' decided to git out.
The word was passed from ono critter to
t'other till oil had got it, and they gathered
In convenshun and resolved to cross over
the mountains to Moth Keerleeny. That's
whar they went anyhow, and fur the next
three Vars nobody cotched sight of pos
sum around yere. The coons and wood
chucks staid on, cause / WASH tarter them
30 hot, but every burned critter of a pos
sum who could walk got outer the kentry
and skassly left track behind. AFTER
about three vars I was took sick, and the
report went out that I was dead. Can't
say how the story got over the mountains,
onless sum critter of coon carried it. But
when them possums heard Of it, they jest
cum swarmin back to hev good times
sg'in. Yes, sab, cum back in the night,
same as they left. And one mawnin when l
went out d0ahs thar was five big possu1ns
in the yard a-lookin at the cabin. Believin
I was dead, they had called to sympathize
with the wilder and inquare fur perticu-
lars. -
GAS fur tricks" continued the old man
after awhile as he poked at the hickory
fire, "I'm goin to tell yo' how possum
once sarved me out I cotched him out by
the mewl shed one mawnin and knocked
him over with club. left him fur dead
and went in to feed the mewl, but when I
cum out he was gone. In the co'se Of
three or four days got the very same crit
ter ag'in. Jest tapped him with a club
and he went dead, but wasn't goin to be
fooled ag'in. brung him down to the
house and laid him on the grass, and then
got my pipe and sot down on the doah steps
to hav 1t out with him. I made up my
pind to sot right thar till he got tired Of
his game and tried to git away, and then
I'd kill him fur good. When noon cum,
he was still dead. When night cum, he
hadn't even winked.
!" .Zeb, what 70 gwine to do about itf
sez the ole woman az she lighted the candle.
(" 'Gwine to sot, SEE I.
"sFur how longf'
q TIL Ioutsot the pesky possum. Can't
low no posgum to beat me and 60 and
tell shout It'll
tWaal, at midnight was thar, and dang
my buttons II daylight didn't find me
lookin down on that pesky varmintl 10
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To MY Pipe.


Oh, !. love the merry gurgle Of my pipe,
Brier pipe,
When the flavor Of the weed within is ripe
What lullaby 1t purls
As the smoke around me curls,
Mounting slowly higher, higher,
As dream before the fire,
With favor In my mouth,
Like zephyr from the south,
And my favorite tobacco
By my side,
Near my side,
With the soothing necromancy
Sweetly linking fact 70 fancy,
In a golden memory chain,
To the gurgle sweet refrain,
OF my pipe, brier pipe,
To the fancy breeding gurgle of my pipe.
Oh, what subtle satisfaction in my pipe,
Brier pipe
Nothing mundane can impart
Such contentment to my heart
She's my idol, she's my queen,
Is my Lady Nicotine.
When In trouble, how yearn
For the incense which burn
At her shrinei
How pine
For the fragrance Of her BREATH
Robbed Of terror cen Is death
BY her harmless hypnotism.
Healed is every mortal schisn.
Foe and friend
Sweetly blend
AT the burning Of the brier.
Greed, cupidity, desire,
Fade away within the smoke,
In the fragrant, feecy smoke
From my pipe, magic pipe,
From my glowing, peace bestowiug,
gurgling pipe. ~
-Sigel Roush in New York Sun.
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Notice to Contract tors.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
board of insane asylum directors. at the
Office Of the secretary, Marcus Brunswick,
In Las Vegas, N. NJ, until the 18th day of
April, A. b. 1897, at IL o'clock, noon, for the
erection Of the addition to the New Mexico
insane asylum. to be constructed according
to and under the conditions named in the
plans and specifications prepared by I. H.
and w. NJ. Rapp, architects Of East Las Ve-
gas, which will be on file and open to the in
spection at their Office. Each proposal must
be accompanied by q certified check of 3 per
cent OF the amount of the bid, such check
payable to Marcus Brunswick, secretary, as a
guarantee that the contractor will enter in
to contract for construction at his bid, If
the same Is accepted and will give satisfac-
tory bond for the performance of his con-
tract, as provided In the plans and speciflca-
tions. A successful bidder failing to give
such bond will forfeit his certified check.
Bids must be made out on blank proposals,
which will be furnished by the architects.
Contractors may bid on the whole work, or
on the whole and any part, or on separate
parts only, according to the classification in
the specifications. Contractors will be re-
quired to keep the building free from liens,
and to see that all laborers and sub-contrac-
tsrs and material men are paid, before re-
ceiving last payment. The board reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
Las Vegas, N. M. February 10, 1897:
ELISHA V LONG,
Prest. Board Directors.
RENIGNo ROMERO,
FRANK S. CRossoN,
Directors.
MARCUS BRUNSWICK, Secretary.
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Westboulnd,
No. /.
Arrive Santa Fe
DAILY
Eastbound,
No. 2.
Arrive Santa Fe
DAILY
DAILY
LIN
CHICAGO & CALIFORNIA LIMITED
3 @ p III

CHICAGO & CALIFORNIA LIMITED
Westbound, train No. 8 will leave Chi
cago and st. Louis on successive We'd
nesdays and Saturdays, Kansas City and
Denver, Thursdays and Sundays arriving
at Santa Fe Mondays and Fridays. East
bound, train No. will leave Los Angeles
and San Diego on successive Mondays
and Thursdays arriving at Santa Fe on
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
These trains will be composed Of mag
nificent Pullman sleeper and Dining cars
between Chicago and Los Angeles, Buffet
and Smoking car between Kansas City
and Los Angeles, and connecting Parlor
car between Los Angeles and San Diego,
also through Pullman sleeper between
81. Louis (via Wabash Ry.) and Los An
geles, in both directions without change.
Through Pullman sleeper between
Lamy and Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo.
No EXTRA FARE will be charged on
these trains, but only first-class transport
tation will be honored.
No DAY COACHES OR CHAIR CARS,
and passengers will be required to pay
seat or berth fare. a@
CALIFORNIA AND MEAlCO EAPkESS
Trains No. l and 2 carry Pullman pal
ace and tourist sleepers between Chicago
and San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ell Paso
and the City of Mexico, dining cars be.
tween Chicago and Kansas City, free re-
clining chair cars between Chicago and
81 Paso, west Of Kansas City meals are
served at the famous Harvey eating
houses.
CONNECTIONS.
Close connections are made in Union
Dspots at Chicago, Kansas City, Denver,
Colorado Springs and other principal
stations on the "Hanta Fe Route" with all
lines diverginR. For further particulars
call on any agent of the "6anta Fe Route
q the undersigned.
y. 3. LUTx, Agent, Santa Fe.
W. J. BLACK, q. p. A., Topeka.
Oity Ticket Once, First National Bank
Building.
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She Mailed Tt.

A lady purchased cents worth of salts
and q postage stamp in a Detroit drug
store recently. She left the store, stepped
to the letter box on the corner, returned
and asked for the package Of salts.
"You took it with you, madam" the
clerk said politely.
She became quite angry and insisted that
she must have left it on the counter.
"Did you mail your letter." the clerk
asked, with smile
cot course did," she snapped. edo
you suppose l mailed the saltsY'
II think you still have the letter" he
said his smile becoming broader.
Gracious mel" she calculated. II mail.
ed the salts!"
She blushed and hurried out.-Detroit
News
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No Evidence Of It.

Salesman-You can see the original
price marked here in plain figures. Our
price, you notice is less than one-third.
We got the goods from a dry goods mer.
chant that was embarrassed.
Customer inspecting the fgures) HE
wasn't embarrassed when he marked these
goods. He had his nerve all with him.
Chicago Tribune.
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Oh did not mind the threats av i'm, Mr..
Hogan explained, as much as tn insultin
style av his remarks.
And fwhat did he say? asked Mr.
Grogan.
He says to me: Hogan, says he, it ia
the great notion have to jump on you
and knock your face into shape.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-13

The Colorado Midland Railroad
Reaches The grsndest scenery In the
world, Ute Pass, Pixies Peak, Hagerman
Pass and He'll 0atei many beautiful sum-
mer resorts; the most famous mining
camps, Cripple Greek, Leadville, Victor
and Aspen. II 10 the short and direct
route 10 the fruit lands Of the Grand val
lsy, ths Great Salt Lake and The eGolden
0ais.n Through Pullman slsspsts and
ohair cara on III trains. y
". =. BAILHY,
0sn'l Pas. Agent Denver Colo.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-13

an Gllcf ColidpSS. ~ RUh IL NNUH
The man who has al II UkVe>~NlpS>
ways been a model of g~THNN-
business method and -yT S\Y~
dighity-who would as
soon think of putting
his feet OH the piano at
home as on the desk at his Office -- finally
goes to pieces all at once: Bankruptcy
with it has come an utter loss of ambition,
dignity, and health. Ill-health is at the
bottom of it ALL Bankruptcy stares i'll the
face every business man who neglects his
health. A man cannot work OH forever if
he is suffering from brain fag, nervous ex-
hauslion, and debility. All these can come
to the man who neglects to keep his di-
gestlon perfect, his bowels regular and
his blood pure.
sBuslness men everywhere have come to
recognize DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery as an invaluable remedy. 1t makes
the digestion perfect, invigorates the liver,
restores the appetite, regulates the bowels,
puriies and builds up the blood makes the
flesh and muscles firm, and tones up the
nerves. 1t is business mans medicine.
Thos J. Torbert ST., of Old springhill, Mar
engo Co., Ala, writes: II want to tell you the
good the Golden Medical Discovery has done
me. I had erysipelas and eczema Had suf
fered for eight years. tried all remedies and
several doctors but could get 10 relief. l bought
bottle of your Golden Medical Discovery and
tried it. used four bottles and half. it COM
pletey cured me. have had no symptoms of its
RETURN 1t has been three years since my cure"
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser has had a larger sale than any other
book of this class ever offered the public.
This book of 1908 pages with 900 illustra.
tons, is full, from cover to cover. of practi-
cal advice on health matters. This great
book, in heavy MANILA covers, is now Of
fered FREE to whoever will send n one cent
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pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, NJ Y.
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Mrs. Hornbcek docking up from her
newspaper)-I have just been reading an
item about a Missouri man who sold his
wife for 80. Wasn't that shamep
Farmer Hornbeek (who has been to Mis-.
souri)-A shame3 1t was downright rob.
berry New York Sunday journal.
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Notice For Publication.
lSmall Holding Claim No, 2920.1

LoIHHII tOTu1Ig CiuIm NO, z5zU.
U. S. Land Office at I
Santa Fe, N. NJ, April 10, 1897
seter has e notice. paas o bs
to make final proof in support Of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
register and receiver at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on
May Is, 1897, viz: M. w. Mills, administrator
Of the estate of Robert H. Longwill, deceased,
for the lot No. 1920 of sec. 5, tp 10 n, r9e.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his actual, continuous, adverse possession OF
said tract for twenty years next preceding
the survey of said township. wiz:
Francisco Ortiz y Tafoya, Lorenzo Romero,
Francisco Gonzales Raca, of Santa Fe N.
NJ, Antonio j. Ortiz, of Galisteo, N. NJ.
JAMES H. WALKER. Register
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He Could.

foung man, can you
Yes, BIZ, interrupted the youth, can
You we're about to ask me if ! could
support your daughter in the style to
which she has been accustomed. My
right knee is good for thirty or forty
years vet.
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ExactinY.

Here, - shouted the indignant citizen
to the secretary of the water board, "this
minnow came through our faucet!'
YOU don't expect us to furnish black
bass, do your'-Detroit Free Press.
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Nov on sale. bsvlrs !
copy and ssnd u 70 your
friend @ the est. Price 10
I osntss ready for mailing "A
esntz.
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To Cure Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. Is cents,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-13

To Cure Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. as cents.
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Dine in a
dining car

recline 10 reclining chair car-smoke in a
smoking car and sleep in sleeping car on
the Burington's "Vestibuled Flyer"
Biggest, fastest most com plete train ont OF
Denver. No change of cars to Omaha, Chi
cago, Kansas City or st Louis.
Leaves Denver $50 pm.
Arrives Omaha 400 p. m.
Arrives Chicago $40 q. m.
Arrives Kansas City 500 p. m.
Arrives st., Louis 7:l9 q. m.
Tickets and time tables at all d. 4 R, g.
and Col Mid ticket off Jos, or BY Addressing
c. W VALLERY, General Agent,
1899 I7th Street, Denver, Col.
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A Happy People.

I've discovered why the Greeks were
such happy people.
Why was it?
They didn't have their clothes made to
fit.
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MARCUS BRUNSWICK, Secretary.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-01

own business and keep . civil tongue In
your head, or TIL report you so quick you'll
never know you had a head" And yet this
abashed conductor was simply the victim of
n wrong system. II he and all his esteemed
brethren Of the after deck would only stick
to the invariable and saving formula
MADAM" they would never rufle the
stout or thinner fair. But perhaps the
Broadway cars are so crowded already that
there is no room on them for q good, TO
spectacle, solid word like Madam"
II 1t is permitted to whisper a word In be.
half Of man, petty man, buffeted, squeezed,
thumped, tumblcd, flung, sprawled, cling
ing with desperate eyebrows to the wheeled
chariots Of the Metropolitan Traction Com.
pany, the conductors might be asked to en-
ploy uniformly the "Sir" in condescend-
ing to those unfortunates. young TELLER
or "Boss" may be permitted after $50 A.
NJ, but beneath the waking eyes Of day
why should IL not be "SirT'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-01
1t is announced that the Hon, John I'm.

1t is announced that the Hon. JOHN Ed
WARDS RUSSELL, who has sometimes heen tho
Democratic candidate for Governor OF Massa-
chusotts and has long been known as the Sheep
less shepherd Of Leicester Hill. really had a fine
flock and has Just sold 1t. Private advices tell a
somewhat different tale. Mr.. RUSSELL did
have one OF the most accomplished hocks of
sheep In the country. His talent as a wool
gatherer is well known. The moment wool
was taken Off the free list the sheep declined
to produce any more raw materials and Mr..
RUSSELL declined to keep sheep. He regards
sheep as branded by protection at present. So
he Is disposing of his collection. 1t Is not known
whether they will be put into some museum or
turned into chops and legs. Perhaps the opinion
OF Mr.. Toots will prevail. 1t will be remem.
bered that when Mr.. Baps. professor of dancing.
asked that eminent economist what was TO be
done with raw materials the eminent economist
replied: Cook EN-"