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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07
ONE SECTION BLESSED.

sheep and plenty of winter feed in this
section of New Mexico.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07
T. O. O. E.

SANTA FIX LODGE No. 2, X. of p. Regular
meeting every Tuesday evening at 1880 o'clock
at Castle hall. Visiting knights given acor.
dial welcome. ALEX. READ,
Chancellor Commander
LEE MUEHLEI6EN,
K. of r. and s.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07
Discretion.

First Boy Tin distance)-Say, Jim,
dere's de kid we come down to lick.
Second Boy-Well, let's wait; dere's
no hurry. New York Journal.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07
Santa Fe New Mexican
The NEW mEI,cAN PRINTING CO.


~ Entered as Second Class matter at the
Santa Fe Postotfice.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07

CHAS. A. SPIESS.
Attorney at law. viii practice in all terri
torial courts. East Las Vegas, N, M.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-07
PROFESSIONAL CARDS..

MAX. FROST,
Attorney at Law, Santa F., New Mexico.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
Weeds in Glover Seed,

Somehow weeds are always a sad
subject to the writer. He has fought
them ever since he was small boy, is
fighting them to this day, and expects
to fight them as long as he is able to
grow crops. The sad thing about
weeds is that they are every year gain
ing upon the farmers. Now and then
farm is kept quite clean. Once in
while man pushes the warfare 80
effectively that he lessons the weed
output on his farm very perceptibly
every year. That is encouraging. 1t
puts heart into a farmer to see the
weeds growing less and less. But on
most farms it is just the other way.
The weeds are perceptibly increasing,
notably in the pastures. Not only do
the old weeds spread, but new and
worse weeds than the old are coming
in. The last annual report of the Yer
mont State Experiment Station shows
how this is. Whatever else you skip
Al bhobi Wv NV hOkiCSL W Icdu phBtb
219 to 1888. Fill out the blank as we'll
as you can, and give the station all the
help you can in wrestling with this
weed problem. Then get all the help
you can from the Station.
The adulterating clover seed with
bad weeds is simply diabolical. 1t is
on par with killing off the insect de-
stroying song birds to ornament hats,
and other such wicked and hurtful
things. The writer has bought clover
seed and found narrow leaved plantain
in it, and used to go to different stores,
get samples of clover seed, and then
examine it under a simple magnifying
glass costing only fifteen cents, bnt
which was abundantly powerful enough
to distinguish weed seeds in the clover
seed. But on his farm an insect or
something of the kind, destroyed the
leaves of the plaintain and really thin
ned it out. The common plaintain is
not devoid of value as fodder plant;
the trouble is it is 80 low down that it
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
BUSHT-TAtLED ANIMALS
Manner in which They Mako Use of Thein
Tails When Asleep.

Some of our wild animals" said
naturalist, carry about with them all
summer that which nature has evident
ly intended as a substitute for their
winter hannels. l mean their tails OF
course. So far as | have been able to
judge the bushy-tailed animals know
no other use for their tails than as pro-
lection against the cold. Did you ever
see fox sleeping? That is one sight
of which the most patient student Of
wild life cannot always boast, because
a fox is always wide awake and has a
general antipathy to being looked at.
My own observations with sleeping
ones have been confined to two that |
raised from pups. When it was cold
they would shrink up and seem fairly
to wrap their tails about them. When
the air grew warmer they would uncoil
little and sometimes discard the tail
entirely, just about as impatiently as a
sleeping child will kick off the covers
when he gets too warm in the night
l do not think that this attitude is
habitual with sleeping foxes. When the
weather was warm they did not curl
up at all, but lay Sprawling with their
tails on the ground behind them.
THE raccoon makes the same use of
MS TAIL. Dld you ever see one prepar-
ing for nap? Like the fox, he goes
to sleep on his side, hut he makes more
fuss about it than a lazy lad getting up
in the morning. First he bitches up
his shoulders and arches his back, and
in the cavity thus formed he carefully
tucks away his knees and elbows and
head Then he brings his tail up close,
the end of it curving over his head He
unwinds himself half dozen times be-
fore he gets curled up to his satisfac-
ton, and when finally arranged he re-
sembles nothing quite so much as a
muff without the customary openings.
The squirrel also covers himself with
his tail, sleeping upright and propped
against something.
In fact" concluded the naturalist,
this is true of every bushy-tailed ami
NAL | have been on terms OF sufficient
intimacy to see asleep. 1t is a very
kindly arrangement nature has made
for their comfort, and they do not seem
to mind very much carrying around
their winter flannels in the summer. If
they did not carry them with them
! wherever they went they would prob
ably lose them, as the red man proves
in his tale of the bear and the rabbit"
New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
The Mother of a Soldier.

The mother of a sodier-hats off to her, I sayl
The mother of soldier who has gone to face the
the Fray
she gave him to her country with hi, ssing on his
head
She found his this morning in II long list of
the dead;
"Killed-sergeant Thomas Watkins while lead
ing on the rest
Bible in his pocket and portrait on his breastl"
The mother of a soldier-she gave him to her land ;
She saw him on the transport as he waved his sun
She kissed him through the tear drops and she told
him to be brave;
Her prayers went night and morning with her boy
upon the wave.
She gave her dearest treasure when she gave her
only boy;
She saw the banners waving she heard the people
She clasped her hands and bravely looked away to
hide tear.
The mother of a soldier-Ahl cheer the hero deed,
And cheer the brave who battle meath the banner
But don't forget the mothers through all the lonely
years,
That fight the bravest battles the sunless field of
tears
Nay, don't forget the mothers-the mothers of our
Who see them go and never know that they'll come
back again;
That give them 10 their country, to battle and to
Because the bugles call them and the starry ban
ners fly
The mother OF a soldier-hats off to her, | sayl
Whose head is bowed in sorrow with its tender
locks of gray.
sorely bled
When she found his name this mornir & in the long
list of the dead:
"Kied-sergeant Thomas Watkins, while lead
ing on the rest,
His dear old mothers portrait clasped upon his
hero breasti"
-Folger McKnsey in Baltimore News
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
Live Stock Market.

BEEF CATTLE.-Wester cattle command
ed ~ to 54c and the demand was on the
whole encouraging. The general opinion
seems to be that steadiness may be expect
ed to characterize the market until the adj
vent OF really hot weather. Values at Wa
tertown ruled as given below.
Prices of market beef; A few choice,
500 to 750; extra, $500 to 30; first quail
ity, $500 to 8 80; second quality, s 90 to
$50; third quality, $500 TO $50.
Prices OF store cattle; Farrow cows Sl2
to 20; fancy cows. $50 to 60; milch cows and
calves, $50 to 4S; yearlings, so 10 20; 2.
year-olds, Sl4 TO 30 3-year-ods S22 to 40;
Western fat swine, live, 81 to 4fc Northern
dressed hogs, AZ to 80 per pound.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-In the price of " est
ern tlocks there was a fractional decline.
Western lambs were in rather light supply
but generally OF good quality.
We quote: In lots, $50 TO each; extra,
1925 TO ., or from p TO sc per h.; lambs,
54c; veal calves, 81 to Sc
Mich Cows.-Business was moderately
active and prices for inferior to choice
ranged all the way from $50 to Go.
SWINE In the inside price for Western
there was slight decline 34c per ID. being
in some cases accepted sales were made,
however, at as high figure as 44c, |. W.
Country lots were steady at AZ to &c. d, W.
No need TO fear sudden attacks of cholera
infantum, dysentery, diarrhpa, or summer
II you have DR.. Fowler's Ex-
tract Of Wild Strawberry in the medicine
chest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
Embalming Milk.

Running close second to the borax
compounds as a milk preservative is
"freezene." Letters which we receive
indicate that it is being widely adver-
tised throughout the country, and its
use is pressed on the dairyman at every
opportunity The name is a stroke of
genius; it makes one think of ice, re-
frigeralon and cold, but the properties
of the article hardly follow its name.
Freezene is manufactured from wood
alcohol; its chemical name is formic-
aldehyde.
1t is a gas, soluble in water to form
a 400 solution. 1t possesses the prop
erty of forming a compound with gel
attn and rendering it insoluble. In the
same way it kills the bacteria and
spores by uniting with the material of
which they are composed and thus pre-
venting their growth. 1t is powerful
poison to all animal and vegetable life.
When applied to the skin it destroys its
life and causes it to be thrown off as
it has this effect if applied to delicate
skin. 1t is thorough and efficient de-
stroyer of life in all and every shape.
A small amount of this chemical, when
added to milk, will keep it from sour
ing for number of days, even in warm
weather. 1t acts by killing the bacte-
ria and thus preventing the formation
of Tactic acid.
The question is: How much of the
above chemical compound does a man
want to take into his stomach and how
much of the claims for the innocence
of this compound can be believed?
Can substance be powerful poi
son outside of the body and an inno-
cent compound in the stomach, when
it is used in sufficient quantities to de-
stroy life principle, so tenacious of
life as bacteria cells? Can compound
kill the skin on the hand when used in
dilute solutions, and cause it to peel off
as dead layer, and yet have no effect
on the delicate mucous membrane of
the stomach? We doubt it; and we also
doubt the testimonials OF doctors and
professors, who laud it as perfectly
innocent, innocuous poison; one that
will kill the weeds and spare the grain,
sure death to bacteria, but harmless to
ildren.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

does not get cut by the moving ma
chine.
But the paint brush, or orange hawk
weed, takes the palm for getting into
land and spreading while the owner is
asleep. 1t creeps in in spite of the
greatest vigilance. Patches of it come
up here and there in the most out of
the way and unlikely places in the pas
ture. 1t comes into the mowings, comes
up beside the road, pushes it's way in
everywhere. Salt will kill it, aud
that is some comfort, but to keep your
farm free from the pest you must exer-
else constant vigilance.
Learn all you can of the appearance
of new weeds. 1t is well to be on the
watch for any new plant. Don't buy
wheat screenings, or any foul stuff for
your hens or for any other purpose un-
less you boil them or have them
ground, The writer made great mis-
take in this way once, and warns others
against doing the same. There was no
wild mustard on his farm till he bought
screenings for the hens, and then came
constant battle, aud probably los
ing one.
With the present lack of farm help,
it is hard TO do much with weeds ex'
cept on cultivated land. There, in
corn and potatoes, with the modern
tools, man ought to be able to kill
weeds to good advantage unless he has
a cold, wet, hard, stony farm, where
smartweed comes up and grows in
spite of all one can do. Such land is
poor for growing cultivated crops; it is
natural grass land. But mellow, loamy
soil can be 80 thoroughly worked that
all weeds can be kept down.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
All Preseryatives Destructive to
Digestion.

Al trial of certain dealers in meats
in Pittsburg, Pa, who were charged
with using preservatives, Prof. F. T..
Ashmon, chemist, testified that all
preservatives were dangerous, and lat
best, were destructive to digestion.
One of the most serious charges we
have heard against renovated" butter
is that preservatives were used in the
manipulation OF the same.
But the point made by Prof. Ash
mon should be borne in mind. Any
preventative, if effective, must in
evitably affect the natural fermenta-
ton which goes on in digestion, and to
that ertent injure digestion. 1t ia here
that its use is found 30 injurious in
milk when fed to infants and small
children. 1t would seem that no man
could be found, 30 lost to all sense of
honor, or humanity as to put anything
in his milk that would injure child.
-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
Public Eating Houses.

Public eating houses are established
in number of German cities to provide
meals for workingmen at cheap prices
so as TO do away with the evil effects Of
the dinner pail. Those in Chemnitz
during 1893 sold 435 900 dinners; re-
ceipts were $4,000, and expenditures,
$15,500. The City of Grenoble, France
also maintains municipal restaurant
at which about 1900 meals a day are
served. At the outset the enterprise
needed municipal aid, but it is now
self-supporting. The municipality owns
a property used, for which it receives
a nominal rent, and the accounts are
reported in the books of the municipal
ity. Any surplus is deposited in the
city treasury, as reserve to draw
from when prices of provisions are
high. There are also other instances
throughout France OF similar institu-
tons without municipal aid, several es-
adjustments being in operation at Par
is, Lyons, and Bordeaux.
Somewhat akin to such institutions
are municipal bakeries, which are to be
found at Rome and at Kovno, in Russia.
Stockholm owns municipal liquor
stores for the working classes, who
cannot obtain drink without ordering
food.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

1t is little singular how the bust
ness OF the farmer here in south west.
err Vermont has changed in the last
forty years. Formerly their great in
come was from their sheep. The back
farms were then well cared for and the
hills were well covered with sheep.
The low price of wool has entirely stop
ped the business. Many of the back
farms that once supported large fami-
lies have been abandoned and the pas
lures are growing up again to woods.
Let wool bring what it once did and
these farms would again be titled.
Vermont's famous fine wooded 6ocks
that were the pride of the State and
their owners, that were almost consid-
cred the kings of the land, are nearly
gone. Vermont once supplied the
world with choice Merinos and the
prices they brought read now like the
Arabian tales. The insurance on one
of the big rams was $4,000. Mutton at
one time brought the lowest price, as
it was called an inferior meat. Now it
is considered the choicest meat and
brings the highest price. The price it
brings makes it profitable to keep the
coarse-wooled sheep for their meat and
wool, and more of them can and should
be kept. Mirror and Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Poultry, Bees and Strawberries.


What visions of country comfort
these words call upl How many a
weary city toiler has dreamed of the
time when he could leave the grind and
rush of the city and own little place
in the country where he could go into
the keeping of hens and bees, and the
growing of strawberries. A little gar
den, cosy cottage with vines running
over it, few flowers in O little yard,
how many a sad woman has hoped for
such home sometime"
The chickens and garden are for the
farm home especially, as we have often
shown in these columns, and the great
est reason they are not more enjoyed
by the farm family is that there is gen.
orally so much to do on the farm that
these things do not get the care they
need; they are not enjoyed as they
might otherwise be, and the neglect
ends in disappointment and loss. But
every year there should be renewed eff
fort to keep the weed nuisance down,
and the plants and chickens doing their
best. On thousands of farms there are
the very best gardens, large focks of
chickens, and plenty of bees and honey.
Strawberries are luxury that will be
in plenty on great many farmers Ia
bles, while thousands of others will
have to 60 without. If the advice of
the WATCHMAN in years past, and es-
pecially for two years past, has been
needed our readers will have plenty of
strawberries this spring.
II you have not done so before, be
sure and set bed or lot to straw
berries this spring Make the. ground
mellow and fine, set the plants in rows
four feet apart and two feet apart in
the row. This is for horse cultivation,
the only proper way for the farm gar
den. For the small lot the plants can
be set almost anyway, even planted in
barrel, it being filled with rich soil, and
the plants set in large holes bored in
the sides. The hens and the straw
berries may get along fairly on the
same ground unless the hens scratch
too much, until the fruit begins TO
form. Then the biddies must be kept
somewhere else until the fruit is pick
ed. On the farm it is often question
as TO which is best, to fence in, the
garden or the hens. The best way is
to fence in both, but if only one is en-
closed it had better be the chicken
yard; then, at such times as are best,
the hens can be shut up, and when
there is no need of this, the gate can
be opened. 1t is fortunate that hens go
to roost every night in their accustom-
ed spot, as they can thus be let out in
the evening or late in the afternoon
and watched for while until they are
ready to stop business for the night.
A final word as to strawberries, do
not make the ground too rich the first
year, or they will run too much to
vines. Get good varieties, take good
care of them, and if you did not do so
last spring, be sure and make plat this
one, and remember to set new one
each spring. Cultivate often as you
are going to the potato or corn field.
If the weeds are thoroughly kept down
till July then the field can be left, only
it should be watched and if any weeds
appear, they must be cut up. After
this there are different ways of manag-
ing, which will be spoken of later.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
"Lest We Forget"

People who are trying to draw parallel
between Valandigham and Edward Atkin-
son should remember that the war that
was in progress when Vallandigham was
banished had been approved by the people
ana that the Lincoln administration was in
power because the people favored the prin-
ciples and objects for which it stood. AR
gus and Patriot.
And there are people still living old
enough to remember that after Clement
l.. Vallandigham had been banished,
and while he was in exile in Canada,
the Democratic party of Ohio nominat-
ed him for the governorship of that
state, and voted for him, too. And
there are still living people old enough
to also remember that year after Val
landigham was banished, while the
war, whose principles and objects the
Argus declires had been submitted to
and approved by the people, was still
in progress, the Democratic national
convention declared that four years.
prosecution of the war for the preserva-
ton of the Union was failure, and
demanded cessation of hostilties and
negotia ions to settle the matter by
peaceful means.
If the copperheads of 1862 "a are all
dead or ashamed of themselves, some
of the men who were loyal to their
country and its flag in the years of the
civil strife are still in the land of the
living.
The resources of the Argus and Pat.
riot are many and varied. 1t can swal-
low the convictions of lifetime in six
weeks, can damn free silver in MAY
and worship it in July, but it can't re-
write or blot out history.-St. Adams
Messenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
m FL ARLF
Fifty-Eight Years OId!!

It's long life, but devotion to the true
interests and prosperity of the American
People has won for it new friends as the
years rolled by and the original members
OF its family passed to their reward, and
these admirers are loyal and steadfast
to day, with faith in its teachings, and
confidence in the information which it
brings to their homes and firesides.
AS a natural consequence it enjoys in
it's old age all the vitality and vigor of its
youth, strengthened and ripened by the
experiences of over half century.
1t has lived on its merits, and on the
cordial support of progressive Americans.
II is 1.-THE New York Weekly Tribune,u
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

the leading National Family Newspaper
all
publisher (our yorte home
Weekly Tribune" which
to hbothpa al of 80
himself his family
of his
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should be found wide
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

When one receives an invitation to a
wedding in Cairo, Egypt, it is an i'm
pc 'ant event, because instead Of be-
ing asked for lO-minutes' church cere-
mony or a brief evening reception. the
invitation reads for three days. There
is feasting during all this time, and the
house and street are literally decorated
with flags and lanterns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
The Shirt Waist.

Behold me,
am the Shirt Waist,
The universal slip
That woman wears
And re els i'll
With wild, abandoned Joy,
AS unrestrained
Had Eve but had
shirt waist on,
When she passed out
The garden gate,
Her hardship would have seemed
A holiday; or
Had Cleopatra had me on
When she swept down the Nile
Meath silken sails,
She would have cast
Her sunshades far
ut on the rolling tide;
And Venus, she of Medici,
If necked in me,
Would surely
new woman he.
Without me,
woman's wear is but name
For letters aud for bonds.
have all seasons for my own,
But in the summer time
buret into ten thousand hues
That make the rainbow pale
And beg the sun to shine
No more upon the rain
weave
The purple shadows of the eve
Into my web;
The rose-tnt and the cherry-ripe,
The apple-bloom
The violet and the goldenrod,
The chrome chrysanthemum,
The dazzling dahiia and the tulip show,
The painted pansy
In "a thousand d. es,
The varyerdancy of grasses in the fields,
The crimson, gold and scarlet of
The st-kissed forest leaves,
The multi-cOlored breadth of earth
And sea and sky and AIR,
And lambert moon and silver sun,
And topaz tars
Are not arrayed like most Of me,
When Summer comes to let
My gorgeous glory loose
And spread them DER the world
/ fit all sizes,
And gather In
The female form divine,
From Greenland's icy mountains
To midas coral strand,
And no one says me ray.
The tickle Goddess Fashion
Fits
TO parts unknown,
When appear,
For | have come to stay,
J. the Shirt Waist;
], the one fixed fashion
OF the fair.
w. j. l.. in New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

The floor of the rotunda in the Lon
don coal exchange, where the mer-
chants gather, is very unique. 1t is
composed of inlaid woods, arranged in
the form of mariners compass, with
IN border OF Greek fret Upwards of
1000 pieces of wood are employed. AL
most every British variety is included
In this scheme of decoration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24

The lord chancellor of England is
never allowed, under any circum-
stances, to make a journey which in
Tolves sea voyage. however short the
passage. He is supposed to have the
great seal in his immediate keeping.
day and night, under all circumstances
and its safety is not to be risked,