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Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-25

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~ ton and Water supply Examinations and
Reports. Maps, plans and estimates, Cores
%pondence Solicited, Room 10, ATmiio block,
Cor, 8rd 81, and Railroad avenue,
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-25
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Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-25

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS AND
II SurReOnA-Oaiee and residence over post
office. Old Telephone 90. New Telephone
. to 8 .. m. Frank ID. Bishop, M, D., Office
hours, 3 to 10 a, m. and 1 TO 2 and 2 to 8 y, m,
Take elevator NJ Whitney's,
Evening star., 1898-04-09
REAL THING IN UNIFORMS

sThe first thing that mean to do when
get to the 'front.'. wherever that may be. IS
said Washington newspaper man who
has been notified that, in case OF war he
IL to be sent to the scene of the fracas In
the interests of his paper, 'is to tog out
In the regular war correspondents get-up
and have my picture taken. Every war
correspondent has got to do that, or he
wouldn't be war correspondent. I'm go
ing to buy pair Of corduroy breeches,
russet leather top boots. a flannel shirt OF
whatever color the war correspondents
where I am sent may be affecting, he'll
met with lot Of green yelling inside of 1t.
a big belt of undressed leather with a cou-
pie Of the biggest pistols / can get for love
or money sticking In 1t. Then I'm going
to sling big pair Of field glasses over my
shoulder. rent fiery. untamed steed for
the occasion, and have my photo. took. I'll
have 1t taken with a lot o. generals and
commodores and people like that swagger-
Ing around In fatigue uniforms in the back
ground ThatH be great, won't 1t? I'll
SEND copies OF the picture to my people
ard to all the girls up here that 1 know,
and II they don't think when they see it
tnat I'm hot member and that I'm pretty
nearly Cleaning out the opposing forces all
oy my little lonesome, why. I've got this
war correspondent picture business mixed,
that's ALL"
Evening star., 1898-04-09
NO FUN BEING SPANISH

The small boys of Washington are play
ing soldier a good deal these days. 1t looks
Hike rather a one-sided game. The lads
who are year or SO ahead of their COM
panions in years shove upon the latter the
thankless roles of Spanish soldiers. Then
they proceed to whack the Spanish soldiers.
They don't use a great amount Of strategy
in defeating their opponents. They simply
wade in and club them in spots where per-
haps the Spanish need most to be dubbed.
and haul them around by the hair Of the
head and poke them with laths, and final
ly wind up by falling on them in heap.
The Spanish forces don't appear to en-
joy this sort of thing very much but they
try to be as game as they can. One little
fellow was observed to come out Of a
melee of this kind yesterday with blood in
his eye. When the American soldiers
let him up he scrambled for Pile Of loose
bricks and got half brick in each hand.
Then he mounted little knoll-a brave
little figure of man, indeed-while the SOL
diery Of the United States regarded him
wonderingiy. The little lad made his dec
laration.
'Thay," he said. "funth fun, but I'm
thick O. thith kind O fun. You feiiowth
better keep away from me now, or thome-
thing'th going to happen round here,
thure enough!"
They let him alone after that and the
game wound up by the remainder Of the
Spanish soidiery declining to play unless
they were permitted to take the other side.
Evening star., 1898-04-09
Antics of Electricity.

From Lippncotts.
The mention Of electricity Of a frisky be-
bavi9: will suggest to most people some OF
Its actions on the trolley, or about th,
street cars, or In connection with electric
light wires. when it breaks loose-whicb
are all Of too dangerous character to he
amusing: noting not at all its pranks en-
their own desks. though no live" wire be
within mile Of them
1t does not always occur to our minds
that electricity is playing q little trick
when We take sheet of writing paper
from pile and find 1t does not come alone.
but drags along another sheet or more.
sticking closer than a brother
similar action Of the immense sheets of
DOCK paper on printing press in certain
states OF the atmOSphere-when one Is slid
on to the form of type and has one or
more Others partially adhering to it for A
moment. then taking flight away from the
press to some dingy resting pIace-freouent-
~ Keeps the pressmen in an uncomfortable
state Of fdeets.
Such action results from the attraction
and repulsfon Of frictional eiectricity-the
same kind that Is produced by the chafing
OF the SILK flaps against the rotating glass
disk in the so-called electrical machine
An experiment with the same kind of
electricity, which can easily be tried. is to
apply gentle friction to thin piece of
cioth or paper; when. on bringing It near
the wall OF the apartment, 1t will be at
tracted thereby, and adhere to the surface
pc 1t wood, plaster. or paper-for a brief
time.
Evening star., 1898-04-09
In Diplomatic Disgrace.

The United States has been a nation with
foreign relations for about century and
quarter. During that time, seven rep
resentatiyes of foreign governments have
been dismissed. The first instance was
the case of Genet. minister from France.
curing Washfngtou's second term. He was
recalled in 1894 at the request of this coun-
try for endeavoring to stir up trouble be-
tv cen the United States and Great Britain
During Jefferson's administration Vrofo.
the Spanish minister, was sent home on
account OF conduct not only unbecoming
diplomat, but even in an honest man
and gentleman. Jackson, the British
minister, during Madison's first term. was
recalled on e request from Washington be-
cause Of offensive criticism Of this gov
errment. In 1S49 Gen. Taylor, then Prasi-
cent, sent the French minister, M. Poussin
his passports. During Gen. Grants first
term. the Russian minister, Catacazy, was
recalled at our request, and during Presi-
dent Cleveiands first term a like fate ham
pened to Lord Sackville West, the British
minister. Then follows the De LONE affair
of recent date. In all, the recall Of seven
ministers has been demanded two British
two French, two Spanish and one Russian.
Evening star., 1898-04-09
SHE FOUND HER POCKET.
What the Wheel II Doing for the Ad-
t,. y4nced Woman


What the Wheel IL Doing for the, Adj
r. yenced Woman.
The wheel has done a good deal for the
physical development OF the new woman.
A little incident that happened yesterday
on upper 10th street gave interesting proof
OF this. "A sWeet-faced woman, with sill
vered hair and chad in plain gray. dress
was riding slQwlys along when she saw
ahead of her s4al boy pushing along on
a tricycle. and towip&l q little blue. cart tied
with string to the axle of his vehicle
There were more youngsters further up the
street, and the little chap was looking at
them and trying to put on speed to reach
them. A smile overspread the face Of the
silver-haired woman, and sudden thought
seemed to occur to her. -
She rode a little slower, held the handle
bar with one hand and with the other
found the pocket in her Dress
Skillfully she guided her bicycle close to
the little red cart, and as she reached It
the disengaged hand drew from the poe ket
big. round, red apple. which she doftly
dropped. in the little cart. -''i-'-'
The boy did not hear 1t and kept on. The
woman rode past, then turned and came
behind. riding slower than before The
youngster at length reached his playmates
and dismounted.
AZ he did so he saw his prize and Jumped
for 1t. then looked wonderingly around to
see where 1t came from.
The lady with the silver hair watched him
as she wheeled past and evidently had her
full reward in the childs pleasure and az
tonishment.
But the marvel to the man VINO saw IT
from the sidewalk was how a woman could
find her pocket on a wheel
Evening star., 1898-04-09
GOLD IN A SEWER.
The Yellow Element AbOunds in the
Soil of the District.

The Yellow Element Ab0unds In the
Soil of the District.
''It has often been said that there is gold
in the streets of Washington" said Cap
tain Janney Purcell. who is working the
old MARYLAND mine at Great Falls under
an option from the original company, but
never saw the ocNar demonstration OF
the fact until the other day as 1 came
through Georgetown with friend VINO
had been out to see the work being done at
the Maryland mine. We were somewhere
north Of p street and making our way
down toward the Metropolitan car hne'
when we saw some men digging sewer.
The bank of earth thrown up was red as
blood. 1 am an old miner ana l can Keep
away from signs of gold II see them, and
Immediately went to the spot and picked
up a handful of the stuff. The man near
est to me was crushing bit OF the eartn
in the palm of his hand, and as he did so
looked askew at me out Of the tail OF his
eye. I saw at once the fellow had been
miner 1 have mined from Canada to
Mexico, and think there is freemasonry
among miners by which you can generally
tell one of the craft pretty much as you
would guess that a chap who bitches up his
trousers fore and aft is a sailor.
Il talked awhile with my friend, who was
in the ditch for a dollar day, and learned
that he had had his chance in the Black
f1lllS III the ~ 3, Hdo louuu d SOOO pfoP-
erty sold it we'll and gone to Wall street
to be fieeced clean. He said the red earth
showed oxide of iron, and where that was
found Of course decomposition Of the ortg1-
nal quartz rock had taken place, and the
gold released. 1 wrapped a handful in a
piece of paper and tucked it in my coat
pocket, where 1t lay forgotten until yester-
day. when panned it carefully. You never
saw such a streak of "colors." They
swept across the pan like the tail of a
comet across an August night. There was
at least 80 cents worth of gold in that one
par If had found 1t in Colorado or Cal
ifornia, to say nothing of Alaska, should
have thought I had made grand strike.
But 1t was only dirt from q sewer in
Georgetown, d. c., and of course it was of
value only as a curiosity. Yet when we
realize what science is doing for all
branches of human industry we can rea-
sc nabiy expect that some day we shall be
able to utilize the auriferous soils and
rocks In and around Washington for legiti-
mate business-like mining"
Evening star., 1898-04-09
MANNING THE YARDS.
A Ceremony Thnt is Not What 1t Used
to Be.


to Be.
When Commodore SchIey took formal
command Of the flying squadron the other
day the yards Of the flagship Brooklyn
were manned by the bluejackets and on
deck all involuntarily Joined in the shout
Of applause. In the old navy, when United
States ships were actually ships with yards,
the bo'sup's mates call, "All hands cheer
ship! was followed by a much more pic
turesrue ceremony than is possible now,
when the vessels Of the navy are fitted
with but sir gle yard. and that only used
tor signaling. At the word of command
Man the yards!' there was an amount of
acrobatic scurrying on the main decks of
the old ships that was calculated to make
the ship-visitor hold his breath. the thing
looked so dangerous. The men forward In
bluejacket inform would fairly lean I'D
the rope ledders. and almost by the time
the echoes Of the command had died away
every yard on each mast would support
scores OF men and boys, all standing erect,
most OF them only held up by the crossed
arms OF the men beside them. This repre-
sehtation OF cross was held by all of the
men. and 1t was their business to stand
mus win absolute statuesqueness. Then
the command Cheer ship!' would be bawI-
ed out on deck by the chief bo'sun's mate.
ana there would be yell from cat-head
to mizzen that couldn't help but warm the
DIood OF everybody within hearing Of It.
When the men manned the yarls with ali
sail except top'ls and stuns'ls set, such a
picture was really beautiful, the mems uni
forms of blue standing out In sapphire-like
contrast to the cameo whiteness of the
snrouds This was ceremony on all for
NAL occasions. such as the visit aboard the
OLD ships Of distinguished men. And man
the yards and cheer ship were commands
always given when one Of the old clippers
ol .ne United states navy was either de-
parting for or arriving from a foreign STA
ton. 80
Evening star., 1898-04-09
Tomorrow"

There's a sample OF vegetation rank
That heurishes far away,
Where the weeds with remorsefui tears ar.
dank
And the blooming is weirdly gay.
And it casts a spell ON the folk who dwell
Meath its shadow In careless glee.
Full many and sad are the tales they tell
or the strange ''Manana" tree.
The hammock swings from its branches
low.
While the light guitar keeps time.
And the tinseled moments that trooping go
Are set to a sleepy rhyme.
And a serpent coils In its foliage fair
And whittier he will glides he.
For none are reused. save to greet Despair,
Meath the strange "Manana'' tree.
They wait In vain for the fruits to fall
Which shine with a golden glow.
II saps the soil where its long roots crawl
So that only its kind may grow.
All, sorrows fierce for a realm are rife,
Whatever that realm may be.
That poisons its acres and clogs it's life
With the strange 'Manana' tree.
Evening star., 1898-04-09

Il number of decisions on the general uues-
tfon. but this does not always settle dis
agreements that constantly arise from it's
use. th1nk the generally understood
meaning of the term is that it implies that
70 per cent one way or another is the max
imum. and to that extent it Is safe to use
1t. In brief. therefore, more or less means
that one-hfth cf the quantity Indicated can
run with the contract or agreement, and
1t will be held to be good.''
= X X X ;:
The troubles in Cuba have already
about broken up the raising of fine cigar
tobacco said "a tobacco importer to a Star
reporter. 'and even If things do ever get
quiet there 1t will be long tine before
there will be as much cigar tobacco raised
there as there was several years ago In
this respect Florida mas been gamer, but
1t is impossible to raise the finest wrap
pers in Florida unless the seed can be Sc
cured in Cuba. Cuban seed grows good
enough for the first crop in Florida, but
the seed from that tobacco produces but
Pcorly by comparison. In thu. third year
the t,sbacco grown from original Cuban
seed has gone back 20 its original growth
tefOre 1t was developed In Cuba and is
positively rank. The only way the Florida
wrapper growers could make any tnroad
INTO the cigar business dt all was to secure
fresh Cuban seed each year, and as this
supply Is now very nncer. ain. the Florioa
business. which has grown steadily for ;he
past five or six years. is sure to diminish" I"
x X X X
There are more free thinkers in relIg-
ious matters among telegraphers as g
class than any other trade or calling that
l know off, observed prominent elec-
trician to a Star reporter, land many of
them grow to be the most pronounced in
their views. without being able 10 explain
1t. There Is nothing about the telegraph
business that is frreligious in any way. OF
course. telegrs pliers have to work on Sun
day. but so do Printers, drug clerks. rail-
road men and hosts of others, who, as
rule. stick close 10 their early religious
training There seems to be something in
the telegraph business that cuts men loose.
as 1t were! 1t may be from the fact that
Morse the inventor of the telegraph, was
decidedly Independent in his religious
views. and that his followers absorb his
IDEAS without being conscious of it. But
the fact that there are more free thinkers
among teleSraphers thar in any other cali
Ing. in proportion % ;heir NUMBERS is ic-
disputable. This is no new or sudden dis
covery. 1t has always been so, and though
tnere nave been & number of explanations
given none Of them have thoroughly ex-
planned as yet"
Evening star., 1898-04-09
On the Spanish Main.

There Is one feature of Spanish his
tory that Is picturesque" said Washing
ton man who passed through the usual
hiekel-library-yarns-o s-of-the- -Spanish-mafn a
ions while ago, land that's the history of
the Spanish pirates. They surely were
ba-a-ad. They were such utter devils that
they ought to challenge admiration to this
day for having at least been at the ton
OF The Eeap In their line of business. They
used 10 scare the deuce out of me when I
was small boy these Spanish pirates.
l remember one of 'em especially that
read about This amiable ranger of the
seas couldn't be quite bad enough to suit
his own tastes in that direction. So he
used to lock himself in his cabin, start a
lot of sulphur to burning. and while he
chewed glass and let the blood trickie
down his curly beard, he'd mutter AMI
growl. This is Sheol.' Pretty bad man.
that chap wasn't he? used to look be.
hind me a good deal when I went up dark
stairways after reading about that geezer
of the Deep
Evening star., 1898-04-09
BIRD SONGS.
The Ear Has to De ParficularIy At.
tuned to Hear Them Correctly.

The Ear Has to De Particularly A..
tuned to Hear Them CORRECTLY.
From the Century.
1 suspect it requires special gift Of
grace to enable one to hear the bird SONGS
Some new power must be added to the ear
or some obstruction removed. There are
not only scales upon our eyes. so that we
do not see; there are scales upon our ears
SO that we do not hear. city woman,
who had spent much Of her time in the
country, once asked a well-known orni-
thologist to take her where she could hear
the bluebird. What, never heard the
bluebird?'' said he. Il have not" said the
woman. Then you will never hear it,
said the bird lover. That is, never hear
1t with that inward ear that gives beauty
and meaning to the note. He could prob
ably have taken her in a few minutes
where she could have heard the call or
warble of the bluebird. but it would have
fallen upon unresponsive ears-upon ears
that were not sensitized by love for the
birds or associations with them.
Bird songs are not music, properly
speaking, but only suggestions of music. A
great many people whose attention would
be quickly arrested by the same volume
OF sound made by q musical instrument
or by any artificial means, never heard
them at all. The sound of boys penny
whistle there in the grove or the meadow
would separate itself more from the back
81 ound of nature and be a greater chal-
lenge to the ear than is the strain of the
thrush or the song Of the sparrow. There
is something elusive, indefinite, neutral
about bird songs that makes them strike
obliQuely. as it were, upon the ear, and
we are very apt to miss them. They are
q part of nature, and nature lies about us,
entirely occupied with her own AFFAIRS.
and quite regardless of our presence.
Hence it is with bird songs as it is with SO
many other things in nature-they are
what we make them. The ear that hears
them must be half creative.
L am always disturbed when persons not
especially observant of birds ask me to
take them where they can hear some par
ticular bird. the song Of which they have
become Interested in through a description
of II in some book. AS listen with them L
feel like apoiogfzing for the bird-it has
a bad cold. or has just heard some depress-
ing news; 1t will not let itself out The
song seems SO casual and minor when you
make dead set at 1t. / have taken per-
sons to hear the hermit thrush, and 1 have
fancied that they were all the time saying
to themselves, rs that alp But when
one hears the bird in his walk when the
mind Is attuned to simple things and is
open and receptive, when expectation is
not aroused and the song comes as a sur
prise out Of the dusky silence of the
woods, one feels that 1t merits all the fine
things that can be said of IT
Evening star., 1898-04-09
The Canon OF the Yellowstone.

Jchn Muir In the Atlantic.
The canon is so tremendously Wild and
impressive that even the great falls cannot
hold your attention. 1t IL about twenty
miles long and a thousand feet deep-a
weird, unearthly looking gorge of Jagged.
fantastic architecture. and most brilliantly
colored. 1t is not the depth or shape of the
canon. nor the waterfalls. nor the green
ard gray river chanting its brave song as
ii goes foaming on its way that most i'm
presses the observer, but the colors of the
decomposed volcanic rocks. With few ca
ceptions, the traveller in strange lands finds
that however much the scenery and vege-
tation in different countries may change
Mother Earth is ever familiar and the
same. But here the very ground is changed,
as II belonging to some other world. Tho
walls of the canon from top to bottom burn
in q perfect glory of color, confounding
and dazzling when the sun is shining
white, yellow. green. blue. vermilion and
various other shades of red indefinitely
blending. All the earth hereabouts seems
TO be paint. Millions of tons of Il lie I'm
sight. exposed to wind and weather as IL of
no account, yet marvelously fresh and
tright, fast colors not to be washed out or
bieached out by either sunshine or storms.
Evening star., 1898-04-09
THE NEwsBOYs, PROFITS.
The War News increases His Sales
Considerably.

Considerably.
My father was a newsboy on the B. and
y. In war times. as I am now" said a.
bright young chap to a Star reporter on a.
train going out Of town the other night.
He says l am having the bonanza now
tnat ne had then, only 1t won't last SO long
He used to sell extras taken on slips from
the galleys of type in the old Star and
chronicle offices and got sometimes as high
as - cents apiece for them. I don't get
much OF chance at extras but l sell a
heap OF papers on my regular run The
lie OF newsboy on a regular run is a pe-
culiar one, and success depends on the boy
l have done well from the start, but
KNOW boys who came in and reported only
dollar or two Of sales on a run The fact
Is. you can make anywhere from 25 cents n
DAY to $lO In this business. / made $14 last
Sunday.
How did do it? Chiefly on New York
papers. / run up into Virginia, where they
get excited over war news on Fitz Lees
account. suppose. and pay 10 cents apiece
for New York Sunday papers without n
murmur. sold 210 New YOrks last. .Sunda =
and good many Washington and Balti-
more papers. too. / sold l5O Stars the
night before. We newsboys get 20 per
cent. you know. and of course we have to
sell a good deal to roll up anything like
good wages
II save my money. I have my days at
home In Washington and do a little study
ing there. and l have punched together
quite a little money trading bicycles.
guess some Of my ancestors were horse
traders. l trade wheels just as gypsies do
horses. | can make an old wheel look like
new, and generally succeed in finding
fellow that wants 1t. My nights are spent
in little mountain town at the end of nv
run. / sleep with the trainmen in the cars
Four of these cushions laid lengthwise on
top of the backs of the seats gives as soft
bed as l want. l keep a roll of blankets in
the station office That seems rough to
you. perhaps. but l am healthy and can
stand 1t. and it saves money. Better men
then may ever be began that way, and in
these hard times money must be saved as
well as earned. Besides. a penny now may
be a dollar with me five years from now,
And l haven't told you. sir. one other
thing. / help my mother-my fathers
dead."