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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
MYsrrFIEp TIE INDIANS.
A Chicago Photographer Had Lots of
Fun with the Navaios.

A Chicago Photographer Had Lots of
Fun with the NavajOs.
There is a photographer in Chicago
who had lots of fun last month with
the Arizona Indians. He has just got
back home and is buttonholing every
man he meets. But it's an interest
ing story. 1t seems that last year,
when the Navajos were having their
snake dance, he was sent out there by
a moving-picture concern to get a
series Of negatives. He did not sue
coed, because the savages we're too shy
hnd rspiaLas~ hut ha (ranght some OF
their sports at an agency store,
some seventeen miles north of Canon
Diablo. This year he went out to try
the dance again, and took his exhibit
ton outfit along with him. Reaching
the store, he invited the Indians to see
the show. About 600 of them came,
and he put up a screen behind the store
one night and shot off the pictures.
The Indians gazed at the various
scenes with open mouths, apparently
not compTehending. When the moving
railway train was shown, growing
AAbm a pm pblhA bh lAG AAOn I'LL II
filled the whole frame, seemingly rush
ing down upon the crowd, they gasped
in unison and would have fed had not
the interpreter treasured them. The
march Of the soldiers was something
that most of them had seen, but the
exhibition drill of the Kansas fire de-
partment was an uncanny mystery.
The climax came when the pictures
taken on the same spot the preceding
year were reproduced. Most OF the
Indians had been present when the pic
lures had been taken. Many of them
almost shrieked when they saw them
selves in ection as they were in the
chicken-pulling contest and in the
races Of last August. Last year a pop
ular clerk, since gone away, had care
lessly walked across the Instruments
field. The Indians shouted as they saw
him again on the canvas. Real en-
thusiasm was caused by the passage
across the screen Of the traders we'll
known little dog. Among the friends
recognized a number had died in the
winter during the smallpox epidemic.
When the entertainment was owe the
Indians crowded around the screen,
feeling the canya and rubbing their
cheeks upon it, chattering noisily In
their amazement.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

BROWNIE ENGINEER" ON DUTY.
heart. He has even been known to go
asleep beside the boiler Of an express
running at sixty miles an hour. All
must admit that Buster" makes a
remarkable and commanding figure as
an engineer. His regulation suit of
overalls, and his oil can, almost as
large as himself, are attractive and
conspicuous as he stands on the cow
catcher of the locomotive, his little
figure contrasting strangely with the
mighty mass Of iron strength behind.
He "oiled around" holding his oiler
at a real mechanical cant. and running
about the boiler as If he had been
doing it for twenty years. 1t was
amusing to watch the energy which he
put into his work, and the interest on
his boyish face. Most marvellous of all
was that he kept clean. Not a spot to
speak of IN his clothes, not a smudge
on his face-two facts that entitle him
to the honor of being the cleanest en-
gineer in the world, as we'll as the
youngest.
The %cleverness OF this boy Of 4 is
shown by his ability in other direc-
TfU1as Tiaai Sls1ns-Sa'ftiRB- Res4Re he
was 3 years old, so his grandfather
writes, "he could tell all the names
Of the prominent generals and adj
mirals OF the United States army and
navy, and the battles they fought. At
81 years he could tell every nation
on the globe and the names Of its
inhabitants. He can name every state,
river, lake, territory, on the North
American continent, and knows many
parts of South America. For the BEN
eft Of the parents I wish to say that
this child has received all his informal
ton without shedding a tear. I have
been patient with him, never forced
him and was always kind. If he gets
tired l stop. The result is, / nm the
one that gets tired, answering his
questions"
These facts were sent by Mr.. Rich
ards in a letter written while I am
waiting for the fast mail, which will
be here at / a. M, with the little en-
gineer on it," That day the boy had
taken the trip over the highest noun
tain of the Rockies. and he arrived at
Laramie at 1920 a. m. on June ~. His
grandmother, says Mr.. Richards. has
given him some lunch and is washing
him and putting him to bed No en-
gineer of mature years will read this
touching account Of a home reception
and not wish that the fates would treat
him likewise.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

Few persons haVf any conception OF
the life Of a Greek maiden. In Greece.
girls are ~bethrotheld while they are
mere infants, and are taught has it is
a disgrace to be an old maid. Mar
rlages for love ara unknown, but a
Greek father Is verl stern In regard to
a young man havihg ample provision
to support a wife. "A girls dOwry con
sists of household furniture and linen
rather than monay. Although most
Greek girls are naturally very pretty.
they begin to paln4 and powder from
"a very early age DE checks bright
red, the eyebrows Pnd lasses deepest
black, and veins de 'cately blue. The
result is that they r wilhered OLD
women az 40, and thus nowhere are
uglier females 70 M found than be-
meath the blue SKI of this classic
land, Next In i'm 1ortanca 10 beauty
comes languages. Hye.y Creek famiy
who can afford It kehps q French nurse
or maid, for French IA almost uniytr.
sally spoken In sooi FL. pIntihg ana
music are quite luunnccersarv bu.
eirls are carefully drained Ca danclns
and drilled TO condutt themselves Wit
elegance. Lastly. BID uEelold duties are
taught how 10 made scse fam. TURK
ism couee and Yarie 1s delicate sweet
meats New Or.einf Pieoyune.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
YOUNGEST ENGINEER.
-FOUR YEARS OLD. HE RUNS ON
UNioN'PACIFlC.
cons Round Liz a voteran-nesides
Running on the Road He Knows Lots
Of Hiatory and Geography. and Ac-
quirod ats Knowledge without q Tear
Especial letter.


The Brownie Engineer, as the peo-
pie in the west know him, Is a real
person, aged 4. His full name Is Hume
Gibson Richards. and he lives with his
grandfather, Mr.. Henry A. Richards,
at Laramie, Wyo. To everybody he is
known as Buster" aud there is not
an engineer on the Union Pacific sys-
tenn, popular as they all are. who pos
Besses half the popularity owned by
this diminutive throttle-holder. He Is,
indeed, the pride Of his friends and a
wonder among boys-the greatest lit
tie man on the railways Of America.
OF course he Is not hired by the rail-
road to run a fast express, because
passengers might object to 30 much
responsibility on such youthful shout
ders. But what he doesn't know about
the parts Of a locomotive is hardly
worth acquisition. He is as much at
home near the boiler Of a big express
locomotive as he is in his W little
bed. and a speed Of fifty or sixty miles
an hour, either at midday or midnight,
has no terrors for his manly little
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

Surely this bird displays an ingenuity,
. genius, in fact, that is worthy Of its
nation. Is there any other woodpecksr
but a Yankee one that could make a
pantry out Of a telegraph post?
The American bison when he roamed
tie prairies also showed an unsuspect-
cd intelligence in adapting the tele-
graph poles as rubbing posts, and
sometimes threw down miles Of the
wire. An American, thinking to cure
him of his passion, studded the lower
part of the poles with spikes, but the
hirsute buffalo required no ordinary
currycomb, and ever after preferred
the spikiest poles. Elephants have
also amused themselves by uprooting
hundreds of poles with their trunks,
apparently for no other purpose than
to get rid Of their super6uous energy.
Ants are feeble folks compared to
elephants, yet they are far more de-
structive to the telegraph. In tropical
countries the white ants, or telmites,
devour wooden poles in a short time,
and it has been found expedient to
employ posts impregnated with oil Of
c%reosote, or, better. still. posts Of iron,
where these tiny marauders are known
to swarm. In Japan there is a spider
which is very troublesome to the tele-
graph men, owing to its habit of spin
mag webs from wire to wire, and caus-
ing a leakage Of the electric current
from one wire to another, especially
in the morning, when the webs are
heavy with dew.
Submarine lines would appear to be
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
ENEMIES.
DESTROY TELEGRAPH LINES ON
LAND AND WATER.
Woodpookers, Biaona, Elephants Join
Forces with Ants, spiders, sawnsh and
Various other Creatures, and Mak Life
Of the Repairman an Arduoua one.

Special Letter: Telegraph wires,
whether strung on poles or laid along
the bottom Of the sea, are harmless,
i~nofenslve things, and by no means
attractive in appearance. Yet they
have numerous enemies, In the animal
as we'll as the vegetable world. The
other day a newly erected line which
runs through the forests Of Aristook,
in northern Maine, was damaged by
the black bears, who persist In climb
ing the poles end breaking of the
porcelain cups or %insulators that sup
por the wires. It has been supposed
that he mistakes the %insulators for his
favorite c~rabapples, and there Is little
doubt that he regards them as some
thing to eat.
There is a large woodpecker in Nor
way which is deluded by the humming
OF che wind in the wires like an Aeo-
liam harp, apd fancies there is a nest Of
insects inside the pole. To reach them
he tolls for days, and pecks great holes
in the wooden posts, or even through
and through them, only to discover,
as men nave done before him, that his
promised feast OF delights was a phan-
tom Of his creation, and his labors
oil in vain.
Wiser in his generation is the green
woodpecker of California. which makes
q iarder Of the red cedar Telegraph
poles. It riddles the top Of the post
with small pits, and fills them with
acorns-a nut in each cavity-thus
providing against q winter famine.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

New system Of Rrais muminntlon FOL
which Much IL Claimed

New system OF Trais illumination for
which Much Il Claimed
81. Louis Globe Democrat: A new
system OF train lighting shows an
enormous advance on all previous
methods. Il embodies the old Idea Of
generating the electric current by the
revolution Of the car axle, but with an
effectiveness never before attained.
Where, as in early systems, the cur
rent for lighting has been generated
by a dynamo In the baggage car, run
by power from the locomotive, the car
would lose it's light as soon as II was
detached from the train; but now
every car carries It's wi light-creating
plant, being fitted with a dynamo and
a storage battery. When the train Is
standing still the car is lighted from a
storage battery. As soon as the train
attains a speed Of twelve miles an
hour the dynamo is automatically con-
nected with the mechanism, which
transmits the power Of the revolving
axle, and the lights are then fed di-
rectly from it. This does not in any
WAg ANaaNM AMN nUENQ VI INT AAoAM Va
call for any additional power from the
engine. A whole a full Of lights can
thus be kept burning all night, II need
be, at a merely nominal cost, and the
ordinary expenses Of maintenance are
saved, as no electrician Is needed, the
dynamo and storage battery both being
regulated automatically. A FIVE min
FFNauf fwunnrNfam 80 kIu hmNN~a~~ nrrorm
six weeks meets every requirement.
This battery will keep seventeen lights
burning for twelve hours If the car Is
at rest. The objection has been raised
that If the train we're showed in the
battery would quickly become exhaust
ed, and the cars would be left in dark
ness. 1t is pointed out that this OBJ
lection loses its force from the fact
that the number of lights burning
could be reduced and cars could be
lighted from the battery alone for
over a week much more brightly than
they are now by lamps, or even gas,
The ~.bTilliancy of the lighting by the
new method is strikingly seen when a
car equipped with it runs into n sta
ton alongside OF the best-lighted Pull
man fitted with gas. The light, in fact
fills the car, and as 1t is reflected and
difused by opal shades, 1t gives a soft
and restful illumination which is alb
solutely perfect for reading. The new
system UNNECESSARILY advances the
luxury of railway travelling, and 1t Is
more than probable that it will hasten
the day when railway passengers will
no longer be %parboiled in sitting and
foul-smelling cars, but, free from the
caprice of conductors, will enjoy the
civilized blessings of automatic cleo
trio heating and electric ventilation.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

The deepest wens in the world are as
follows: In Europe, one at Passy.
France. depth 2,oO0 feet; at La Cha
pelle. Paris, depth 1880 feet; at Gren-
ellie, Paris. depth l,798 feet; 1t Neusal-
wefk, near Minden, depth 2,2ss feet:
at Kissingen. Bavaria, depth 1,7S7 feet;
nj sperenberg. near Berlin, depth A.
100 feet. which Is said 10 be the deep
est IN the world; at Pesth, Hungary.
depth 8.iS2 feet In the United States
there are wells located In Sc. Louis,
depth S.s4S feet; az Louisville, depth
2.086 feet; al Columbus. o.. depth
2.7751k feet; at Charleston. s. G.. depth
12Rn feet
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
WHAT EYES TELL.
Signs by which Character Is said to BE
Read qnerrlngly.

Signs by Which Character Is said to BE
Read qnerrlngly.
Hazel eyes show ~steadiness and pow
er of constant affection; green-cat-like
orbs, though frequently fascinating,
are dangerous, fof Shey are a sign Of
deceit. Black eye 4Now strong intel
lect and passions. AMe eyes Of genius
are said to be Of Varying tints, like the
sea-sometimes blue, tinged with green
or orange; in certain lights. or when
affected by emotion. deep and almost
dark. 1t should never be forgotten
that eyes are mora capable Of mislead-
ing than any other feature. Widely
expanded eyelids Zee much without re-
hecting greatly; they live in the senses
and think little beyond the present
moment Eyelids half closing over the
eyes denote less facility of impression,
but clearer insight. more definite Ideas
greater steadiness ihj action. Deep-set
eyes, with wrinkha4at the outer cor
ners, show p%enetrddoU and a sense OF
humor, Eyes set bear together. espe-
cialiy when there Eare wrinkles across
the nose are q So of cunning and
meanness ia small ings-money mat
ters and otherwise Bet wide apart, the
character Will be gfnerous; II too wide,
careless and extra4agant. The proper
distance between the eyes is the length
OF one eye.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

some Poor Women have 70 spend Their
lives Doing ne.


uivos Doing ne.
Are men s~pleeny7 There is such a
thing as keeping a husband well. He
may start out with the idea that he
must be coddled for every ache. but
rightly managed he can, It seems, be
trained away from invalidisul, Bays
the Philadelphia Inquirer. One wife's
recipe for keeping her best beloved in
blooming condition Is lever to encour-
age him in being sick. She triumphant
ly asserts that she asks him how
he Is. She asserts with vigor that years
ago she should have had a confirmed
invalid on her hands had she encour-
aged him to complain. Here is me
ingredient in a very famous remedy
and here is a husband as full Of fun
as a boy. popular with everybody, a
man who never bores other people with
his feelings" There are men, we have
all had to put up with them, who
would consider themselves cheated OF
their rights II friend or foe failed to
listen to a rehash Of their fancied all
ments. Such men start out In life with
mothers who coddle and end their days
with wives expected to do as mother
did. If they don't there is the mis-
chief to pay. What a dreary object a
half-sick man is. suffering from a
touch" Of something. He looks as II
every breath would be his last. Some
times he stirs up the entire household.
sometimes he mopes in a corner. In
either case he Is a terror. The more
he is fused over the sicker he gets.
When he Is really III things are quite
different: he goes to bed and has a
doctor, like a n man. Then he is
as patient as a woman. 1t Is the
imaginary sickness that converts a
masculine into a creature Of moods.
a being more pettish than a teething
infant, a candidate for a padded cell.
There are men, poor dears, who go
through life doing the ooddling. When
they we're boys they tip-toed about be-
cause a headachy mother must not be
disturbed. Their married lives are
given up to sick-room ministrations.
Unkind fate has handicapped them
with a would-be invalid, a woman who
nurses each passing twinge. They lead
a dogs life. But at her very worst
woman can never compete with her
brother in matters pertaining to semi
invalidism. It takes n Of the sterner
sex to make things lively for his
folks" when he is hunting sympathy.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
smolhered In railway rnnnsla.

A Rome correspondent OF the Lon
don Post writes: During a recent
journey In the north Of Italy / had
painful personal experience Of the dan
gerous condition Of the atmosphere in
several Of the more important tunnels
on Italian railways. On account Of the
badness Of the coal used and Of the
a of proper ventilation the foulness
Of the air is such as to expose persons
whose respiratory organs are not in
the most robust condition to the dan
ger Of temporary s~unocation. It may
be remembered that the terrible rail-
way accident at the Giovl tunnel last
year was due to the a|sphyxiation Of
the engine drivers and brakemen.
Now / read that two plate layers have
been found ~suffocated in the Rouco
tunnel, and that they only escaped be-
Ing crushed to death because no train
happened to pass before their sense
less bodies were discovered by COM
rades sent to relieve them. The ques-
ton Of a~sphyxiation Is a serious dan
ger to the travelling public, and one
which the influence OF foreign public
opinion may considerably help to
solve.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

A recently published account of CO.
simo de Medlci, the Italian statesman
who ruled Florence in the fifteenth
century, gives an insight into a char
acter which was strong and self-con-
tanned TO an unusual degree. A man
Of few words, he did not make many
promises, but those which ne made
were always performed, and thus he
inspired confidence In all those who
had dealings with him So highly was
his opiaion valued that, in spite Of the
caustic form which it often took. his
advice was frequently asked, even in
the management Of domestic affairs.
He was always cool and collected
never hlrried or excited; he never lost
his temper nor his self-command.
When gerrante's invasion was filling
the hearts of the F|lorentines with ter
ror, and the news that he had can
tured the village OF Reneine was add
ing to the general panic, Cosimo, with
an air Of admirable Indifference. re-
marked to the citizen who excitedlv
told him Of its fall, "Ah. indeed But
where is Reneine2" Cosimo was a
deeply religious man, and was ready
to meet his own death like a philoso-
pher and a saint, - says his blographor
Toward the end Of bis life he became
very silent, often remaining several
hours withoat speaking, only think
ing. One day his wife asked him the
reason Of this silence. and he an
swered her: When We are going to
Il country house. you are busy for
. fortnight preparing for the move; but
since have TO 80 from ths life to an
ither. does Il not seem to you that
ought to have something to think
houf0"
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

IF you open fire on the town 1 shall.
proceed to she'll your works" was the
short, sharp and emphatic message
sent by the American consul at Puerto
Cabella to the Venezuelan insurgents
who threatened to lombard that city.
The cruiser Detroit was in the harbol
ready to translate the words into &C
ton. The natives, needless to say,
obeyed. 1t is now known far and wide
that American gunners hit what they
aim at
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
QUEEN HoRrENsE,s MANsE.

One of the old Partisan landmarks
which will o be leveled to the
ground is the historic mansion occu-
pied by Queen Hortense. Queen Hor-
tense was 81 unhappy in her marriage
to Louis Bonaparte that she spent but
little Of her time in the royal palace
at the-capital in Holland. She resided
chiefly in Paris at No. II, in the Rue
La Fitte, where she occupied the man
sion which has since been redolent
with the memories of her life. OF re-
cent years it has been the residence OF
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08
arrAmERs IN CHINA.
oormnns 20 Try An Experiment On th'
Ynngtao-Kinug.

rormnns 20 Try An Experiment On tho
Ynngtso-Kinng.
Two OF the largest shipbuilding
arms nj Bremen are now constructing
EIGHT etoamboats after the pattern or
the Mississippi river craft TO Re OF
Grated on their own account on the
Yanptse-Kiang, between Hankow, 40
miles from the mouth Of the river, and
Chungking, a city Of 100000 inhabit-
ants. LAO miles from the coast The
boats win also carry the German
mails. Hitherto tile terminal for an
river navigation was Hankow, n u
was believed that by reason Of rapids
and shoals that great waterway was
not navigable above Hankow. Through
the recent exploration Of Father Che
Waller the contrary has been shown
Difficulties exist at only three places
and these can be overcome by the aid
of wire ropes. The lowest water is no
where less than twelve feet Now
the German press comes forward with
the demand for more gunb0ats In east
ern Asiatic waters for the protection
of German trade, and of such under
takings as this. Germany's mailed
fist must reach as far as her COM
meree.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-12-08

an official OF thb Dutch East Indies.
He divorced her lon account Of a love
AFFAIR with Sir Philip Francis, who is
supposed to nave written the so famous
letters Of Junius. The lady came back
to her native Frahce and married Tai
leyrand, the astJ test and most brill
liant man Of a singularly brilliant
epoch. AS his vile she one day enter
tanned at dinner her e~x-husband, her
e%x-lover, the lawyI er who defended her.
the lawyer who prosecuted her and the
judge who pronounced the decree OF
divorce.
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me l have had rheumatism about
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May, when / was taken down and not
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wrote for a sample bottle. After TAX
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"Dr. Woodlin, my family physician,
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