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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20
Probably Killed by Lightning.

Henry Dick, a farmer, was found dead
in the road near Maxwell City, after a
thunderstorm. 1t is believed he was
killed by lightning while driving on a
| self binder from the harvest field to his
home.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20
Spring Of 80 chicks at the Bon-Ton,
Albuquerque Items.

Marcelina Padilla de Gutierrez has
been granted a divorce from Felipe Gu
%tierrez who abandoned his spouse.
j. W. Knightlinger has gone to Pue-
bio to be married to Miss H. Estelle
BahcOck.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20

Denver and return, $10.25, Sept. "a, Is,
20, q, Santa Fe Route.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20
o. q. weather Bureau Notes,

Forecast for New Mexico: Fair to
night and Thursday.
Yesterday the thermometer registered
rs follows: Maximum temperature, n
degrees, at $3.50 p. M; minimum, 81 de-
grees, at $50 q. m. The mean tempera-
ture for the "a hours was 81 degrees;
meal daily humidity, As per cent.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20
Fl Safety That is Safe.

l.. You perhaps have shaved with razors
That you thought were just the thing
That cut your whiskers off your face
And had the proper ring.
II. But sometimes on a Sunday morn
1t ripped and scraped and tore
And the air assumed a sapphire hue
Caused by the way you swore.
III. You couldn't make it cut a hair
Although you held it tight
And your language was emphatic
Your face slashed left and right.
". Now, Gentlemen, just let us say
The track you are on is wrong
If you'll get a DIAMOND SAFETY
Your life will be a song.
THE DIAMOND RAZOR GUARD. FITS ANY RAZOR
PRICE, 25 CENTS.
w. II. COEBEL,
The HardWareman.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20

$1O.25 to Denver and return Santa Fee
Route.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20
Fresh
MI@@G.

In this line we keep nothing
but the very best; money can
not buy anything better. 1t
is fit for a King
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-20

Mountain and Plain, Denver, Sept. rs
26, 81, %, 20, 80; $10.25 for the round trip
Santa Fe Route.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09

get up very early on Friday morning
and visit Covent Garden market. There
you will see such n block Of traffic, and
such crowd OF angry and unreason-
able drivers, that you will not be sur
prised at the Metropolitan police CIV
ing up the duty Of keeping order as an
impossible job. But still you will find
that things come right In the end, and
on looking to find out how this ID
brought about, you will probably be
shocked at discovering that Covent
Garden has a police force all to itself
In the shape of some hundred or SO
of old women. They dart In and out
among the cars, order the drivers to
stop, or back their horses or move on.
They shout and swear and shake their
fists and catch the horses heads, and,
IL necessary, shy turnips or potatoes at
the drivers.
But they always succeed in having
their own way.
Only for these women. it Is believed
that Il would be necessary to read the
Riot Act every Saturday morning in
Covent Garden. AS 1t is, the lady po-
lice make a comfortable living out Of
their profession, the drivers giving
them daily tips, while the proprietors
pay them fair salary.-Answers.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
uncommunicatiye Heroes.

The really brave mans story about
his own deeds is always modest. Not
infrequently he is unable to give any
account of them which is satisfactory
to his hearers. The reporters who sin
terviewed'' soldiers wounded on San
Juan Hill had hard time in getting
stories" from them. One soldier said:
There isn't thing to tell. l only
went up there with a lot Of other
chumps and got shot. l didn't even
have sense enough to know it when L
was shot,
Not long ago French chroniqueur-
Monmirail, of the Paris Gaulois-en-
countered in little village of the
south of France gardener who wore
pinned on his clean Sunday blouse the
ribbon of the Legion Of Honor. Nat
urally, the newspaper man wanted to
know how he got it. The gardener,
who, like many of his trade, seemed to
be silent man, was averse to meeting
an old and wearisome demand, but
finally he begun:
"Oh, don't know how / did get 1t.
/ was at BaZeilles with the rest of the
battery. All the officers were killed;
then down went all the non-commis-
stoned officers. Bang! bang! bang. By
and by all the soldiers were down but
me. had fired the last shot and nat
urally was doing what could to stand
off the Bavarions.
"Well, general came, and says he:
Where's your officersT
"'All down. says l.
"Where's your gunnersY says he.
"All down but me-" says 1.
"'And you've been fighting here all
aloneY says he.
81 couldn't let 'em come and get the
guns, could ~ l says; and then he up
and put this ribbon on me, probably
because there was nobody else there
to put it on."-Youth's Companion.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
FORTUNE FROM A HAPPY THOUGHT.
Prospects of Bright Man Who Has Solved
a Japanese Pnzzle.

american ingenuity has just solved
a curious Oriental problem" said
gentleman from Pittsburg. For many
years scientists and mechanics have
been puzzled by what are known as
japanese magic Mirrors which re-
semble ordinary hand glasses, but
show curious characters and figures in
the light which they reflect. These
figures in the reflected light were al
ways identical with the molding in the
metal back, and there was supposed to
be some connection between the two,
although the surface of the glass was
apparently perfectly clear. The ac-
been struck with die, which resulted
in a certain Encouragement of the par
ticles in the silvering and caused re-
Election of the light. Some American
magic mirrors were made by that
method and answered fairly well, al
though they were by no means as per-
feet as the japanese, and it was easy
to see that the rejecting surface had
been disturbed.
''Not long ago n mechanic in one of
the factories at Pittsburg got on the
right trail, and he is now making
magic mirrors that are better than the
genuine article. His plan is to draw
the characters desired on the front,
before the silvering is applied, and
then to etch them lightly with nitric
acid, which slightly roughens the
metal. After that the quicksilver is
laid on, and when the light from the
glass is thrown upon a wall the figures
appear in shadow. In ordinary use the
mirror reflects like any other and there
Is no distortion whatever of the magic.
Just before left Pittsburg big ad-
vertising firm placed an order for 1O0,-
600 Of the glasses. The inventor has
been earning about $15 a week in a
shop, and l dare say he win be a
wealthy man inside a year or two.
That shows what one good idea will
do for a man."
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
The Worlds Coolest Place.

Verchoausk Is considered to be the
coolest place In the world. 1t is a
small collection of native log houses,
planted near to, but not on, the Yukon
river. The street, IL so it may be call
ed, extends on either side of a narrow
sheet of water, kind Of creek formed
by the autumn overflow of the Yana,
and which in winter forms frozen
promenade or driving place for sleds.
1t is a dreary place enough. The sum-
mer lasts only four month, and during
the other eight of the year it is bitterly
cold; the thermometer sometimes in
dicates sc degrees below zero and sell
dom goes above 80 degrees until April
30th.
Corn will not grow in this desolate
region. Barley and oats have been
sown, but have always succumbed to
the early frosts. OF vegetables, there
are only the radish and the turnip,
with, perhaps, an occasional and very
precarious crop of potatoes. Cabbages
all run to leaf. The ground rarely
thaws, even during the hot season, be-
yond II or 1S inches deep, and in places
most exposed to the cold never beyond
yard. Most of the dwellings are ra-
kut huts, built of fir trees against a
square framework and covered thickly
with mud to keep out the cold.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
A Good Strategist.

John" said Mrs. Thursby, you
were saying yesterday that you were
in financial trouble, believe"
YES" Mr.. Thursby replied, land
I'm terribly worried. l didn't sleep a
wink last night"
II think l heard you say something,
too, about a note held by Mr.. Hewitt,
didn't IT
That's what is causing the trouble.
II l could get him to extend the time
on it for about ninety days everything
would come out all right. could
then realize on some securities 1 hold
and get on my feet, but If he insists
on payment now l shall have to sacri-
flee my valuable holdings, and this will
practically ruin me-"
"Have you asked him for an exten-
sion of the timer"
''No. That wouldn't do any good.
He never favored anybody in his life.
If he knew how l am fixed he would
be all the more anxious to press me
for an immediate settlement"
"Well don't you worry dear. His
wife, you know, is several years older
than 1. We met ut party this after
noon and l spoke to lot of women
there Of the days when she and | went
to the same school. She turned pale
when l mentioned the fact, fearing, of
course, that i was going to tell how
long ago 1t was, and that she was sew
eral grades above me because she was
older; but I put down my pride, and
pretended that as l remembered her
she was n little thing In pinafores just
learning her primer lessons when L
graduated. You go to Hewitt's house
now, and when she is present ask him
to extend the time on that note. Chi
cago Times Herald.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
TRYING TO HELP MATTERS.
The Little Brother Was Anxious to Earn
Some Money.

No youth who has not yet been
through the trials and tribulations Of
courtship. has any adequate conception
Of what they are, says the Detroit Free
Press. Out in the suburbs there is a
handsome group of residences and the
people occupying them are largely a
community unto themselves. They
have their own "set," they exchange
visits instead of calls, and gossip about
each other with all the freedom that
obtains in small town.
A young man from down in the city
regarded one of the girls out there as
his steady" and was correspondingly
attentive. At every visit he ran u
gantlet. In winter there were faces
smiling from the window panes, and
when weather permitted he had to
pass groups that studied every phase
Of his looks and movements as though
he were an imported curiosity.
The climax came during one of the
earlier summer evenings. 1t was light
long after the evening meal, and those
who were not in their gardens were on
the front verandas, SO that nothing
passed unnoticed. One youngster had
broken his bicycle, while trying to ride
through an old apple tree, and the
largest of the groups was at the scene
of the accident. AS he approached his
girls brother sped him.
Say" shouted the irrepressible, "are
you goin' to be engaged to my sister,"
The young man hurried on as though
he did not hear the question or the
laugh that greeted it.
Don't git uppish now," called the
lad in a still higher key; mother said
she'd give SO to know how the land
laid and I'll go snooks with YOU"
There was an engagement within a
week and the whole neighborhood re-
ceived immediate notice.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
A ROYAL Present.

1t is the custom of Eastern poten-
tates to give to their visitors all that
they may praise or seem to like.
Sir Reginald Pounceby- Pounceby call
ed on the Sultan of Muzzemore when
he was shooting in the district, and
stopped to admire the heavy gate.
Beautiful" he said.
Han an hour afterward he found two
great natives struggling to get into his
portmanteau.
An elephant passing attracted his at
tention 1t was mad with rage and
was tramping way through the mar
ket place.
Fine elephant" said the sultan.
splendid beast" said Sir Reginald.
'1t is yours" said the sultan, sim
ply.
Sir Reginald gasped, but thanked
Royalty, for it means war to refuse
gift.
MY chief wife," said the sultan, as a
heap of flesh waddled into the cham
ber. 1t is etiquette to praise all things
belonging to the sultan, so Sir Reginald
was in fix. If he did not praise her
he knew that assassination would fol-
low, and If he did she would be his.
You no like her?" said the sultan,
suspiciously.
Blamed fine woman" said Sir Regi-
nald, in desperation.
"She is yours" said the sultan, push
ing her across. She waddled over and
sat on Sir Reginald's knee, seventeen
stone of plumpness, rising sixty.
Thanks" gasped Sir Reginald. and
presently he made his adieu, leaving
fine double-barrelled gun and a few
knick- -knacks behind.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
AN IMPUDENT SIGN.
Disfigured the Grand Canon for Time, but
Finally Disappeared.

"Yes, I've done a good deal Of land
scape work. as they call 1t, in my
time," said New Orleans sign paint
er. Landscape work is simply paint
ing signs on the landscape, rocks being
naturally the things that are used.
know some folks kick about II, but you
can't convince me that nice, tasty
piece of lettering don't sort Of brighten
up the view and improve the 'toot and
scramble as they say on the French
side. What was the hardest job ever
tackled, did you ask? 1t was an ad.'
for smoking tobacco l painted on the
side of the Grand Canon on the line
of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail
road. l was working for a Buffalo
concern that had a contract to put up
5000 landscape signs for tobacco
company, and gang Of us travelled
all over the country looking for good,
effective locations. This place in the
canon was as tough a proposition as
any sign writer ever went against. The
side there went straight up about 200
feet, and on the top there was big
overhanging ledge. 1t was easy enough
to get down ladder from above, but,
on account Of the ldge, it hung at least
forty feet out from the face of the
rock. After studying over it for a
while, / spliced a couple of fishing
poles together and fastened soft
sponge to the end. That was my
brush, and by lying fiat on the ladder
managed to do a very decent piece Of
work; at least, you could read it like
book from below and that was the
thing we wanted. When the railroad
people found out what l had done they
were as mad as blaZes especially the
chief engineer, who was an aesthetic
sort of gent from Boston. and he tried
for nearly month to get it off. let
ting down Cinnamon with scrubbing
brushes on poles, but they only made it
all the brighter. At last he got some
brown paint. about the color Of the
rocks, and smeared it out, but it took
at least a dozen coats and cost heap
Of money. If they had only let that
sign stand 1t would have been great
addition to the canon."-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
Nurses In the War.

The largest and most important mill
tary hospital during the Spanish-Amer-
ican war was at Fort Mcpherson, Ga
1t was a small but beautiful hospital,
surrounded by flowers and shrubs. AL
most Immediately there came great
call for nurses, and the call was not
made in vain.
The nurses were employed upon the
recommendation of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. There were
nearly seventy-five trained nurses sent
to Fort Mcpherson, and many deserve
credit for the earnest work they did.
Some were making from $50 to $1CU
per month before entering the army
service. and through patriotism were
moved to give up their lucrative posi-
tions to go and nurse sick soldiers. For
,his they were paid $50 month. In
most cases their untiring energy and
tenderness in the care of the sick was
noteworthy. They were supposed to
be 12 hours on and ~ off In the per-
torrance of their duties, but there
were many who worked from IA to 16
hours n day. The work Of the nurses
consisted In keeping the beds tidy and
clean, the personal care and supervis-
ion of each patient, the taking of tenn
perature, feeding, bathing and spong-
ing, and writing letters to anxious
friends and relatives Mt distance
Chicago Flower Mission Magazine.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09

1t seems pity to let the light In
upon accepted mysteries. When, for
instance, a handsome mansion has
worked long and hard to gain the rep
utation of being haunted house, 1t is
positively cruel to reduce 1t to a COM
monpIace, respectable establishment
Yet this has just been done by DIR.
Marie Elizabeth Zakrsewska OF Bos-
ton, retired physician and the found
er of the famous New England Hospit-
al for Women and Children. Her story
Of the haunted house is as follows:
I'm the early sixties bought fine
old house in the suburbs of Boston. 1t
had been unoccupied 1 do not know
how long, and 1t was said to be haunt
ed. 1t had not one ghost, but a colony
Of these uncanny creatures. My
friends demonstrated both before and
after the purchase, and a few who
were more than ordinarily supersti-
tious would not visit me except in.
bright, sunshiny weather, when l am
told all self-respecting ghosts retire to
some unknown realm.
MY stINdHtS were the WOISt VI dlt.
They heard things and saw things, and
got so excited that they behaved more
ridiculously than a legion of phantoms.
Finally they secured priest to come In
my absence and exercise the evil spir-
its. About that time / had the place
repainted and put into charming order.
Either the exorcism or the paint dis
couraged our spectral friends, because
they came no more.
Years afterward one of my patients.
a well-to-dO German woman, said to
me:
81 must tell you a secret, doctor.
When we first came to Boston we were
wretchedly poor. None of us spoke
English, and shortly after our arrival
my husband and one of my sons found
themselves out Of work. We had no
money. Your house was empty and
rumored to be haunted, and we deter
mined to benefit by the rumor. We
moved in and stayed there over two
years. We used charcoal for fuel,
which gives no smoke; and the only
light we burned was in an inner room
invisible from the street. We made
noise now and then, and l suppose
some of us were seen through the win
dows by the passers-by. 1t changed
our luck. however, and from that time
on we got ahead. But the reputation
of the house when we moved out was
terrible Saturday Evening Post.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
Children Polling Down Hill

Next to sliding down the balustradc
children like, perhaps, rolling down
grassy slopes. There was a bunch of
children engaged in this sport in Riv-
ersidc Park the other day. They had
selected steep place. and were rae
ing.
Ready, go."
Then they would go, rolling rapidly
over and over down the steep decline,
laughing as they rolled. They thought
1t was great fun; but a gentle looking
woman, accompanied by n child of
her own whom she held by the hand,
did not thin!: so. If her face was an in
dex of her feelings. She was fearful
the children would do themselves some
harm. and sorry to see themselves in
dulging in such rough sport. She clung
all the tighter to her own child's hand
as she hurried away.--New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
Singing School OF Thrushes.

A writer in Forest and Stream tells
of the methods Papa Thrush adopts in
teaching his little ones to sing.
Find" he says, "a family of wood
thrushes and carefully note what takes
place. The old male thrush will sing
the sweet song in loud, clear, flute like
notes once, and then stop to listeo
while the young birds try to initiate
the song. Some will utter one note,
some two. Some will utter hoarse
note, others sharp note. After awhile
they seem to forget their lesson and
drop out one by one. When all are
silent the old thrush tunes up again
and the young thrushes repeat their
efforts, and so 1t goes on for hours.
The young birds do not acquire the full
song the first year; so the lessons are
repeated the following spring. l take
many visitors into the woods to enjoy
the first thrushes' singing school. and
all are convinced that the song of the
wood thrush is a matter OF education
pure and simple"
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
A Noisy Box.

Like children, savages in all parts of
the world are possessed Of eternal
curiosity. Mr.. II. CayleyWebster, n
well-known English traveller, gives an
amusing instance of this trait among
the natives of New Guinea.
One day a piano arrived for his ex-
cellency the governor, and some ma
tives were told to carry the strange
looking case from the beach to the
house. After going a few yards one
stumbled, causing one end of the crate
to strike the ground, and ever on the
alert for strange noises, their ears were
Immediately pressed against it, and
they listened until the 'ting" Of the
wires had died away.
Again, after yard or two, similar
mishap occurred. Again many ears
were listening to the sound so foreign
to them, until native, rather more
knowing than the rest, with a heave
raised the whole case few inches
from the ground and let it go.
The noise which issued from the in
side had by this time worked them up
to such frenzy that they one and all
seized upon the case, rolled it over and
over, and danced with joy at the
strange sounds which came forth. And
1t was not until this odd performance
had been repeated many times that the
eye of an official was attracted by the
shouts and yells OF the natives; not,
however, before much damage had
been done and many strings broken.
The natives who speak English have
now come TO call the piano "box be-
long cry" and generally add:
Whitley man he fight, him belong
hand. Box, he cry out too mu"t."--
Youths Companion.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09
Exploring New Siberia.

"A Russian exploring expedition is
being organized to the New Siberian
Islands and the adjacent regions, much
of which has never been visited by
white men.
The expedition will be under the di-
rection of Baron Toll, and will leave q
Norwegian port during June, 1900, so
as to reach Alexandrowsk about the
beginning of July.
From this point the expedition will
pass through the Kara Sea to the outlet
of the River Lena, where a winter sta
ton will be formed, and the time will
be employed in getting together dog
sledges, reindeer, horses and fodder
from Yakoutsk.
In the summer Of 1901 the expedition
will begin to move northward from
the Lena. Some members of the party
will push on a few months in advance
to the New Siberian Islands to erect
stores depots.-Stockholm dispatch to
the Newcastle Leader.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09


How oft In my dreams go back to the
day
When stood at our old wooden gate,
And started to school In full battle ar
ray,
Well armed with primer and slate.
And as the latch fell thcught myself
free,
And gloried, fear, on the sly.
Till heard kind voice that whisper
ed to me:
BE a good boy; good-by."
@sBe a good boy; good-by." 1t seems
They have followed me all these
years.
They have given form to my youth
full dreams
And scattered my foolish fears.
They have stayed my feet on many
brink.
Unseen by blinded eye;
For Just in time would pause and
think:
"Be a good boy; good-by."
oh, brother of mine, in the battle of
life,
Just starting or nearing its close,
This motto aloft, in the midst of the
strife,
Will conquer where it goes.
Mistakes you will make, for each Of us
errs,
But, brother just honestly try
To accomplish your best In whatever
occurs,
Be a good boy; good-by.
Saturday Evening Post.
Crawford avalanche., 1899-11-09

were made which prove this hurricane
to have been the most severe within
the past 70 years.
1t seems on the morning OF August
10 easterly gales were experienced at
Hatteras In which the velocity OF the
wind ranged from 80 to 80 miles an
hour. At 4 O'Clock Of the morning of
the 18th the wind was blowing 20
miles an hour and at o'clock p. m.
II was 90 miles an hour. with extreme
velocities or from 12O to 14O miles an
hou" At this time the thermometer
cups were blown away, but the report
states that the wind probably reached
an even greater force from 3 p. m. to z
p. m. Of that day. The highest veloci-
ty previously reported at the station
was eighty miles an hour. This was
In April, 1889. The air pressure reach
ed 28.62 inches at p. m, and this is
the lowest ever recorded on the middle
Atlantic c0ast-Scientific American.