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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23

Work is in progress on Rocky fofd
float for Pueblo's Pageant OF States and
Nations. Chairman Goblin requests that
description Of the design be not pub
lished but says that we can assure the
public that it will be one OF the most
powell and attractive designs to be seen
in Pueblo OH the Fourth.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23

Any Otero county director who
signs an order for lightning rod on
school house should be invited to resign
the next day. Such an expenditure OF
the peoples money is wholly uniustifia-
BILE. No echool house in the county has
ever been struck by lightning, and none
will probably be struck for the next 200
yaura
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23
Christian Entlcavor Excursion.

For the Seventh International Chris
tian Endeavor convention to be held in
Nashville, Tenn, July @ to IL, the Santa
Fe railway has been selected us tho Off
cinl ronte for delegates from Colorado.
Official train carrying through sleepers
will leave Denver Mt p. M; Colorado
Springs ut $50 p. IN. aud Pueblo at II
M, Monday, July 4. Delegates desiring
reservations on Official train can obtain
them by addressing Mr.. Henry Koepcke.
manager uf transportation for the Colo,
rado Christian Endeavor Union, No. 7O5
Ernest 4 Cramner building. Denver;
Rev. @. Z. Wheeler. Pueblo; or Mr.. L. p.
Barber, Colorado Springs.
Excursion tickets will be sold from all
points in Colorado on July .. 3 and 4;
lese OF extension until August I. Sleep
ing car rate is $3.50 per double birth, to
be occupied by one or two persons.
In order to travel on official train, be
sure your ticket reads via. the A. Il. & 8.
+. to kansas City, Missouri Pacific to
st Lonis and Louisville & Nashville to
Nashville.
For full information address ]. z. Hall,
general agent Santa Fe route, Denver,
Colorado. 4-5
Tho crowds who were present Mt the
patriotic demonstration on Saturday
could not but observe the fine naval dis
play in one of the Golden Rules show
windows. The Maine us she appeared
before the wreck had been reproduced in
miniature. back of which appeared the
lettsrs, Remember the Maine" in the
national colors. Sam Meyer can well be
proud OF the planning and executing OF
this very effective design.
DR.. Fenton has part of the material
on the ground for good six.room dwell
NJ. L. church.
-Gcrbing & Son are now daily killing
some OF the finest beef ever slaughtered
in Otero county. For many weeks they
have been stall-fecding 40 head of supe.
rior native steers and the grade OF beef
they are now selling is away up in quail
ity.
-Cretcher's Pharmacy has n corner
neatly fitted up for dispensing Manitou
water and other attractive summer
drinks.
Shoemaker Luttig on Monday moved
to the room one door north of White &
Daring's ice cream parlor. The room he
vacated, one door south OF Casebier's
grocery, is being fitted up for l.. X. Fen
lason's real estate Office.
The In Junta and Lamar cannl was
reported broken ugain on Monday.
Stark & Cecil have opened a branch
furniture store at Fowler.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23
Eastern Star INSTALLATION.

Friday Evening last the officers Of Aca-
cia Chapter, Order Of Eastern Star were
installed by J. Is. Sherman OF La Juuta,
assisted by quite number Of members
from the La Junta Chapter. The in
.A.II.5 nOsno.o oro nc follo,ra.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23
New evidences of the great progress

and rapid development Of the Rocky
Ford country are met with almost daily.
No one fact shows up the increase OF
population and business more forcibly
than the increase OF postal receipts. The
growth OF business at Rocky Ford has
been such that ut the next adjustment OF
salaries, July LIST, Postmaster Young will
have $500 added to his salary. This
raises Rocky Ford to $500 Office.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23

-Carelessness is sometimes costly =.
The laws of Colorado provide heavy pen
alties for allowing water from ditch or
lateral to flow into the public roads, One
OF our best farmers few days since al.
lowed the water to flood the road md Oh
complaint was fined. The fine for such
IN oifense is from $40 to 600. Those OF
our readers who have TO do with irriga-
tion can save themselves trouble and
cost by keeping the water under control.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
The Stars and Bars.

The flag of the Confederacy, or
rather the flags of the Confederacy,
had some curious bits of history attach
ed to their existence. On March 5,
1861, the provisional Confederate con-
gress recommends that "the flag of
the Confederate States of America
shall consist of red field, with white
space extending horizontally through
the center and equal in width to one
third the width of the flag, the red
same width as the white, the union,
blue, extending down through the
white spaces and stopping at the lower
red space, in the center of the union
circle of white stars corresponding in
number with the States of the Confed-
eracy." 1t was first displayed in pub
lie March 4, 1861, the day of the inau-
guratiOn of Lincoln, and was unfurled
over the State House at Montgomery,
Ala.
On the battlefield the flag bore such
a similarity to the Union e ig that in
September, 1861, for the Army of the
Potomac, Generals Beaure gard and
Johnston created what afterward be-
came known as the battle f1tg-a red
ground with blue diagonal cross en-
blazoned with white stars, one for each
State. This form was adopted by sl of
the troops east of the Mississippi river.
The first design, bearing the obj ction
of resemblance to the Stars and Stripes,
and the battle dag having no reverse,
the Confederate Senate in April, 1868,
adopted white flag, with broad tlue
bar in its center, which was amended
by inserting the batl, flag design as the
union, with a plain white ground for
the field. This arrangement afterward
proved faulty as at distance the large
white field resembled a fig of truce,
and also, as combined with the union,
was similar to the English white ensign.
On February 4, 1865, the Confederate
Senate adopted third change: 1.-The
width, two thirds of its length. with
the union, now used as batteflig, 10
be in width three-fifths of the width
of the flag, and so proportional as to
leave the length of the field on the side
of the union twice the width below it,;
to have ground of red and broad blue
saltier thereon, bordered with white
and emblazoned with mullets or five
pointed stars corresponding in number
| to that of the Confederate States; the
field to be white, except the outer half
from the union, which shall be red
bar eXter ding the width Il the fl lag
Ohio Valley Manufacturer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
The Gold That GlitterS.
DO RICHES MAKE HAPPINESS, OR
DOES HEALTH MAKE
WEALTH.

The richest man cannot always be
said to be the most successful, for true
success Is not possible without bappi-
ness. Many wealthy man would give
all he now possesses to have the health
and happiness of q young athlete.
Health is not hard to get and keep If
good judgment is used in caring for and
supplying the needs of the system.
Nature often needs assistance; you
sometimes abuse nature by overtaxing
your nerves, your brain, or your body,
and you haven't time to relax, and
take the rest that you need You must
have outside help. Pabst Malt Extract,
The BEST" Tonic, will supply the ex
ira fuel, food, and strength; it Is abso-
lutely pure an unequalled assistant to
nature in giving health, vitality and
strength. 1t will make you eat and
sleep well, and cause you to feel like
yourself again, or perhaps, better than
you ever felt in your life. The BEST"
Tonic was awarded the 100 points Of
perfection at the Worlds Fair, and was
the only Malt Extract which received
that honor. Your nearest druggists car
ry Pabst Malt Extract, The BEST "
Tonic in stock.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
BE Careful How You Sit.

Recently an eminent physician gave
utterance to the opinion that append.
citis is more common in this country
than in others because of the Yankee
custom that men have-and men are
more frequently sufferers from the dis
ease than women-of habitually sitting
with one leg thrown over the other.
This habit the physician was quoted as
saying, restricts the action of the diges-
tive apparatus, and especially of the
opening of the vermform appendix,
making 1t possible for distractions to
reach the latter, and thus giving rise to
appendicitis. There is no other dis
ease, if we may judge from the atten-
ton given to it by current publication,
in which the general public takes so
much interest as in this one, which is
comparatively new to medical practice.
Probably much of the popular interest
is due to the fact only within few
years what may be called the literature
of appendicitis has reached the reading
community.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
The Presidents Mail.

President Mckinley has a most as
founding mail. II is a matter of Office
record that he receives more letters
than any of his predecessors in the
White House. There are frequently
as many as twelve hundred letters re-
ceived 10 day, and the average daily
mail does not fail short of a thousand.
The force of executive clerks has been
increased from one administration to
another until now there is a considera-
BILE number, and they are kept busy
from early in the morning until, gener-
ally, eleven O'Clock at night. Every
letter received is answered within
twenty-four hours after it reaches the
White House. This habit of prompt
response encourages correspondence,
the writers feeling that their letters are
appreciated and probably welcome, but
the President insists that every COM
munication, of whatever character, and
from however humble citizen, shall
receive respectful consideration and a
polite response. Therefore, even let
! ters that arc from obvious cranks are
politely acknowledged. Mckinley has
probably as wide personal acqualn-
lance in this country as was ever en-
joyed by a man who has held high pc.
sition in the government. This leads
TO the receipt of great many letters,
and they have to be read with great
deal of care. Matters which would or
dinarily be referred to the departments
are called to his attention by thousands
of men who count on their personal &C
quaintance with the President serving
them if they address him direct
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
SOLDIERS BUDGET
The Wonderful Mauser Bullet.

asked the major about the character
OF the wounds made by the Mauser bull
let.
"In some respects" he said, "the
Mauser bullet showed itself most mer-
ciful. Except at short range it made q
clean, small hole, with very little tear
ing of the tissues or splintering of
bones. 1t frequently happened that
men shot through the body felt very
little Inconvenience for some time af-
ter and were able to walk mile or two
to the rear, or even to go on fighting.
Men walked into the hospital station
shot through the bowels, shot through
the stomach, shot through the lungs, and
many Of them recovered. We have had
men recover who were shot through
the liver or the kidneys, and that was
something unheard of before this war.
And 1t was remarkable to see how the
arteries would recede from Mauser
bullet and avoid rupture. There we're
many cases where I could put my fin
ger into a wound and felt the artery
pulsating, and yet there was no pune
ture.
"There was cavalryman in the
rough riders fght-I have this on the
authority of another doctor--who was
shot through the heart in the charge,
but did not know it.
"I'm afraid I'm hurt, lieute nant," he
called out, putting his hand over his
breast.
go back to the rear" said the Of
fcer.
"Not while I've got any breath in
me to fight" answered the soldier.
And it seems an established fact that
this man continued in the charge for
nearly five hundred yards before he
dropped to the ground dead"
"What was the effect of the Mauser
bullet at short rapge?'
at was terrible, for at short range
the Mauser bullet explodes, there is no
question about this. / do not mean
that it explodes like gunpowder by
chemical change, but it explodes phys
ically just as grindstone may fly into
pieces. You see, during its early fight
the bullet, which is shaped like long
bean, wobbles as top does from side
to side. Later on it takes steady
horizontal position and them makes
clean wound, but if it enters body
while webbing it mushrooms out, if
| may so express it, and the projecting
fragments work frightful havoc in
bones or tissues. l saw man in Com
pany G, Sergeant Immen, who was
struck in the head early in the fight.
He was right on the firing line and
must have got bullet before it had
taken its steady poise of flight. At
any rate the wound in his skull looked
as if it had been smashed with ham,
mer, and be died few hours later."-
Cleveland Moffett's Camp Stories in
Leslie's Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Business in the Philippines.
MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

October IS, 1885,
The longer remain here he more 1 am
convinced that there is plenty of money to
be made in these islands, and / intend to
remain here after l am discharged, long
enough tn find out he possibilities. In my
opinion Manila will become both a COM
mercial and manufacturing city. The
islands have not been worked to tn sir full
producing capacity, nor can the demand
even now being made upon them for their
products be satisf-d As have previous
ly stated the tobacco factories work night
and dav, and, even so, they are now six or
eight months behind their orders.
1t il hardly necessary for me to say that
the Manila rope auufacturers here can
not be excelled The raw product is suf-
fcient, but the factories are small and
crude, and the supply OF the manufactured
article does not equal the demand. The
islands now being an American possess
sion. and under the control of an Ameri-
can government, both the demand and the
producing capacity will surely be increas-
ed. The same principle most assuredly sp-
plies to many other commercial and manu-
featuring industries not now found here.
/ cannot express the present conditions
here better than to say that he city of Ma
Mia is dead. Labor is so cheap that it
wonld Offset the demand for machinery
snch as would be made and used in the
United States Comp iratively speaking
only machines used to any extent are a
French cigarette machine and the
Singer sewing machine Of New York.
There are no machine shops or iounderies
The presses used for baling hemp and to-
bacco are of screw type, aud are run by
about twenty five or thirty Cinnamon work.
ing on a wiDdlass. There are no type
writing machines and no water filters The
latter a prime necessity and ought to be
in demand. The dry goods trade is well
established. The coal is all imported.
This brings sharply to the front the value
of water power, which, however, is not
used at all. The Pasig river flows from a
lake elve miles back Of Manila, and
through Manila to the bay would supply
! all the power necessary for an electric
plant. The water duct would have to be
five or six miles long to obtain the neces-
sary fall, but the supply would be ample
The enterprise could bs carried very sue
cessfully and undoubtedly it will be done
The lake above referred TO covers an area
of at l. at fifty square miles, which would
insure an never failing supply of power
throughout the year. Consul General VIII
iams here informs me that the rainfall dur.
ing the year is in the neighborhood OF ten
feet. FRANK III. FOSTER.
Company A, Battalion Engineers. United
States Army.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

SPEAKING of the American soldiers
at NJ mia, correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: "Their brief exp i
ence in actual warfare established a
notable fact. 1t proved them courage
Gus, decent, high-minded soldiers,
worthy of every confidence and cheer
full in all circumstances. If the laurels
they have gained are small in compare
son with those which rewarded the
heroism of their comrades at Santiago,
they are none the less honorable, for
no men could have endured more or
worked harder than they, or have
shown more valor."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

THE State department at Washington was
informed last week by Consul General Hol-
loway at st. Petersburg that the Russian
government has placed trial order through
Consul smith at Moscow with an Ameri-
can concern TO equip twelve freight loco
motives and two hundred freight cars with
air brakes at cost OF $4,000 This con.
tract va Obtained in competition with
French, German and Russian companies.
Another American concern Ia erecting a
plant in Russia to make air brakes and the
consul general says that il tie mechanical
difficulties in the adaptation of the air
brake To Russian railroads can be over
come ths entire freight rolling. stock, 10. :
600 locomotives and 90, 900 cars, will be equip
ped at once at a cost oi $4,000 000
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

"MY LIFE DEsPAIRED OF These are
words of Mrs. William Burton # Darlmore,
Ont, after doctors had prescribed and she
had AIKEN every known heart remedy. Dr..
Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave relief in
almost shorter time than 1t takes to tell it
IL worked wonderful cure In "A case OF long
Standing and TO day she says: II am "A we'll
women" DR. Agnew's Cure for the Heart
has no case recorded aRain.t where 1t did
not give relief inside of 80 minutes. SO.
Sold by W. E. Terrill & Co. and q. Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Clubbing List.

The following offers are for the benefit
only Of subscribers to this paper who pay
all arrearages and years subscription in
advance. One or more Of the publications
may be ordered, but the money for each, at
the club rate, must invariably accompany
the order, with all arrears III any, due on
the wAToHMAN and full year in advance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

ITCHING, BURNING SKIN DISEASES Re-
lieved in a day Eczema, salt rheum, bar
ber's itch, and ali eruptions OF the skin
quickly rel eyed and speedily cured by DR..
Agnew's Ointment. II will give ms ant
blind piles, and will cure in from three to
six nights. SO cents.-58. Sold by Collins
Blakely and W. K. Terrill q Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

When you are nervous and sleepless,
take Hoods Sarsaparila. 1t makes the
nerves strong and gives refreshing
sleep.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

Perhaps Mr. Hoar is now sorry that
he permitted himself 10 expand as far
as Hawaii.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

that nature for than twenty years. Sores appeared
my limbs and the disease seemed to go to my stomach
and would be sick. tried many remedies which either
did me good at all made me Last January
was advised to try your Green Mountain Renovator
took about seven bottles, when the my limbs
healed and felt well all | know that your
medicine has cured me. DAVID B. Fox, Charestown,
Mass"
We could give many other testimonials of people who
have been of blood pOsOninp cases
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
SMITHS
Green Mountain
RENOVATOR.

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of the Kin much S is not
erupion enabling
blood vegetable Do
the blood virulent
awful be de-
molhng n
taking
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

The above rates are subject to change
without notice.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
The Sleep of Plants

All close observers are aware that
many sorts of plants have what
answers to the appearance and posi-
ton of sleep. They fold in their leaves,
the blossoms close their petals and
they sometimes assume a dropping
habit that clearly indicates the object
of this change in appearance. 1t has
been ascertained that this position is
also taken as precaution against too
large deposits of moisture from the
atmosphere. If the leaves and petals
were spread out there would be more
surface to catch the dew. The plant
folds itself up and thus promotes a
greater circulation of the sap and the
consequent nutrition of the entire
""ture. New York Ledger.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10

By one of those curious twists OF
irony of which fate is so fond, it was
rese we'd for Spain to supply the first
ocular demonstration Of the established
fact that the Maine was not blown up
by an internal explosion, comm ents
the New York World. The experts
easily proved it by the known laws
governing the conduct of explosives.
But there had never been case of o
warship blown up from the inside to
which the experts could refer those
who insisted on thinking that there
might be something in" Spain's
lies. Now there are two such cases
the Maria Teresa and the Almiranta
Oquendo. And each of them shows
conclusively just how an internal ex-
plosion acts upon a warship and also
how impossible and and preposterous
is SPANS lying contention that the
Maine blew herself up. This Spanish
demonstration of Spanish treachery is
not important, but it is interesting.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Australian savages eat the gresar
raw.
Chinese babies are fed on rice d
nothing else after they are ala
months old.
The smallest theatre in the world
Professor Herkomer's in England
seats only 100 persons.
Chocolate is still used in the hs
rior of South America for a currsiql
as are cocoanuts and eggs.
Twelve girl friends of the brida !
a Kansas wedding supplied the una|
by whistling the Wedding March
William Neff Of Colorado unsa'a3|
six baby coyotes on his ranch, u
trained them so that they follow
like dogs.
It is said that in many Welsh y
lagos the yew tree and the chureas3
of the same age. the one beinspla'9
when the other was built.
A lighthouse of bamboo has y
built in Japan. 1t is said 80 y
greater power of resisting the way
than any other kind of wood.
Tin is one of the Oldest slaa
metals. The Chinese have used y
the fabrication of their brassss Y
bronzes from time immemorlal.
Hebrew guides in Rome never y
under the Arch of Titus, but V
around it. The reason is it CONNIE
crates q victory over their race
Within year Thomas Sander ~.
six years old, Of Fall River, h y,
has fallen from second-story ViHsy '
drank a pint Of kerosene, besa Y
over twice, and escaped withoutDf' DIV
ing a bone.
People of St. Thomas, Canals, !
so superstitious that they '. z
supervisor to revise the lists u !
they were told that their IOWA. =
increased but thirteen inhabitants
ing the year.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10

Mr.. Gladstone was the author of at
least one remarkable prophecy. A
London journal points out that it was
to him and not to Cecil Rhodes that
the idea Of the Cape to Cairo connec-
ton first oCcurred--and occurred, too,
before England had occupied Egypt.
In an article in the Nineteenth Cen
fury of August, 1877-more than
twenty years ago-Mr. Gladstone used
these words: "Our first sitein Egypt,
be it by larceny or be it by: emption,
will be the almost certain egg Of
a North African empire that will
grow and grow until another Victoaia
and another Albert titles of the lake
Sources of the White Nile-COme
within our borders, and till we finally
join hands across the equator with
Natal and Cape Town, to say nothing
of the Transvaal and the Orange river
on the south, Or of Abyssinia OF
Zanzibar to be swallowed by way o
viaticum on our journey"