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The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-10-04
The News Finds Many Pros
porous Ranchmen on
the Plains.
HOW WORK IS DONE IN CALIFORNIA.
Plenty Of Water Gan Be Procured By
the Windmill or Pump Pro-
cess - Stir the
Soil.

Another ranchman of the plains who
has unbounded faith In the adaptibility
of the soil for agricultural purposes, is
I. A. Goodwin. To News representa-
tive Mr.. Goodwin gave the following
account of his experiences:
II came here in March three years
ago and settled on a piece of land two
miles north Of town, near Mr.. Dunn's
place, and decided to experiment with
the soil. Two years ago, l set out $50
trees, 125 OF which are now living and
have raised melons with great success
both years. This year had melons
enough to supply all my neighbors and
had to throw great many away. Sc
cured the seed from the express compa-
ny, and watered them four times from
barrels after which there was plenty of
moisture.
1T is my experience that with one
irrigation, or II crops are planted in the
right time to catch the rain, they will
=, well. IL is necessary to keep the
well broken. 1t strikes me that the
per way to do is to throw up an
th embankment around broken
und, which will prevent the water
u running off, and will permit it to
K in the ground. This plan will in
9 plenty of water without further
CATION.
As an illustration of what trees will
Mr.. Dunn aud l measured the
i trees this year and
yinches. have now
I'M my place both years
planted some cane and
height Of six feet.
o. Ulio Sge
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-10-04
spending tws1
ear l made q

| can assert wics ! exag-
there is more green stuff
I this land than there is on
lnirrigated land In Califor-
|my prediction that Otero
lee the time when the whole
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-08-16
pITH AND POINT.

Fools are made out of all kinds of
cloth, but the lining is always the
same; cheap.-Atchison Globe.
Mutual Regard.-she-"It 1 were
your wife, sir, I'd put poison in your
morning coffeel" He-"If were your
husband, madam, I'd drink that cof-
fee."-London Sketch.
Imitation may be the sincerest fat
terry, but il is difficult TO convince a
girl that such is the case when she
is presented with an imitation dia-
mond--C Chicago Daily News.
A Distinction with a Difference
Shopman-"Here is a very nice thing
in revolving bookcases, madam" Mrs.
Newrich-"0h. are those revolving
bookcases? thought they called them
circulating libraries. The King.
The Cornfed Philosopher. "The
great superiority of money over man, !"
said the cornfed philosopher, ''lies in
the fact that, while money talks, it but
seldom gives itself away in the perform
ance Observation-Disclosures Press.
Fuddy-'T They have deal to say
about the brotherhood of man, and
yet wars and rumors of wars con-
tinue." Duddy-'That's all right.
There always has been more or less
fighting in families."-Boston Tran
script.
Tess-"So she's to marry the son of
the wealthy Mr.. MiLlyuns. How on
earth did she manage to land him,
wonder?" Jess-"She's musical, you
know, and so it's no trouble at all for
her to catch an heir" Philadelphia
Press.
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SPANISH WAR LOAN.
Administrators Success in Getting
Two Hundred Million Dollars.
How Secretary Gage Handled the
Popular Loan Vast sum with
drawn from Circulation with
out Injury 10 business.

The war with Spain served to DEM
military and naval strength of the
United States. 1t brought to light
the vast resources in wealth of this
country. In a general way it had
been understood that the United
States was a nation of great wealth,
perhaps richer than any other coun-
try. But it needed the necessities of
war to give an exhibition of our real
financial strength. While it was rec
ognized in the spring of 1898 that the
Dingley tariff, under normal condi-
tions, would produce ample revenues
for the ordinary requirements of the
government, it was apparent that
means must be taken at once to pro-
vide for the heavy war expenditures.
On April %, 1898, two days after the
declaration of war, bill to provide
additional revenues was introduced
in the house of representatives. 1t
passed that body April 90 and the
senate on june 4. The report of the
conference committee was agreed to
in the house June Q and the senate
June 10. The bill became law June
10, 1898, when it received the sigma
ture of the president.
The necessities of the hour re-
quired that the treasury should be
supplied Immediately with funds. The
task was to raise large sum, avail
able for immediate use, in such a
manner as TO avoid injury to the rap
idly reviving business of the coun-
try. The act recognized a true prin-
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NEW SUPERSTITIoNS.
Old "Mnmmy +" Says Don't Count the
Stars-Encourage the Blue
Bottle Fly.

81 thought | knew all the supersti-
tions which belong to the old-fashioned
Washington nanny how sell
dom we see her nowadays the
other evening taught me something l
had never heard before. 1t was in
Franklin park, and the air was so warm
and soft and the scent of the flowers
so beguiling that nanny had kept her
small charge out much later than usual.
A few pale stars were beginning to
twinkle in the primrose sky as the two
of them set off home" said Washing
ton man to Pest reporter.
"'0h, mammy!' said the child, lit
tie girl of four or five, look how many
stars. l can count one, two, three,
four
''She counted no more, for nanny,
who was several PAGES behind, ran for
ward and shook her by the shoulder.
'Looky here, chile, looky here
heard her say, don't you never let me
hear you do that again. Countin' the
stars in the erment! Countin' the
stars in the erment! Why, you'll bring
misfortune on all your family. It's the
dang'est thing you kin do. Countin'
the stars in the el'ment! Don't you
lare to do it again, chile
Speaking of superstitions, l heard
another one, too, lately-one which
may be as old as the hills to ysu, but
it's brand new to me. One of my wom-
en- friends has been spending several
weeks in one of the hospitals in the
city. She hasn't been really i'll most
of the time, or at least not i'll enough
to be content to lie still'and do nothing
without grumbling. Grumble she did.
and one fine morning the burden of
her grumbling was that none of her
friends had been to see her for four
whole days. When she had grumbled
about that long enough she began to
fret about big fly, one of those pre-
mature giants one sees now and then
in the spring, which was buzzing about
her room. The nurse came in several
times, and ii seemed to the sick woman
that instead of trying to drive the tiy
out she carefully avoided disturbing
it. At length the invalid could endure
it no longer.
If you don't drive that fly out she
said, 1 shall go screaming mad
THAT fly? asked the nurse Don't
you want hin here? Does he annoy
your
He drives me Wild said the pa
tent. If youdon't put him out. you'll
have to put me in padded CELL
The nurse shooed the harmless,
buzzing thing out
I'm sorry he bothered YOU she
said. If you had let him stay you'd
have been sure to have visitors before
night. A blue-bottle fly always brings
visitors, and if you drive him away
you drive your friends away. 1t never
fails
And, sure enough, not single Wis
ltor came to cheer the sick woman all
that lonely day. She had chased them
away with the fy."
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The shearer of thirty or more years
ago was generally an unmitigated
blackguard Having no home and
fearing neither God nor devil, he
roamed the country, bearing on his
back his ''swag," as he termed his
roll of dirty. threadbare blankets, and
carrying in his hand quart pot, or
tin billycan, black and filthy like him.
self. to boil either meat or tea. as the
case might be. His chief JOY in life,
and one to which he looked forward
with intense longing. was the last day
of shearing, when his tally of sheep
shorn would be added up and a check
received by him for the amount Then,
as if the check burned in his pocket
like a firebrand, he would HE to the
nearest grog shanty where, in a brut-
al state of intoXica ton. he might be
seen for weeks or days, more like
hog than a human being. swilling the
fiery poisonous stuff called real"
Jamaica rum until, unable to sit or
stand, the shanty keeper carried or
dragged him TO the dead house"-a
shed so named built near the shanty-
and there, on bunk or on the ground,
he slept the sleep of stupefaction.-
Leaves from a Squatter's Book" by
T. Major
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periments which have been made
there, especially in tea and silk, indi-
cate at least that their production may
prove entirely practicable with fur
Their experiment. Even without these
items the list of importations of trop-
ical products suggests that fully $780,,
100000 which the United States has
been heretofore expending outside her
own territory can soon be distributed
in these islands in exchange for their
supplies, whose production will doubt
less be stimulated by the introduction
of American capital and American
methods
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sented in the drawing. b, b, are
pieces of board - or IA inches wide
at the widest point, spiked or nailed
on each side of the joint in the raft
ers. A piece same thickness as raft
ers should be fitted in between these
boards, filling space formed by the
angle in the rafters and all firmly
nailed together. c is piece of board
eight inches wide spiked on each side
of pair of rafters at ridge The car
track can be hung on these.
The ridge of barn should be one
half as many feet above the
plates as the barn is in width. The
dotted half circle touching at the
points marked a, a, a, a, a, shows the
form of the roof if properly made.
Rafters two feet from centers. Raft
ers put together as described would
break in solid wood before they would
part at the joints. This is considered
one of the strongest roofs made.-H.
L. Taber, in Ohio Farmer.
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TAKING THE CENSUS.
There Were Some Drawbacks to the
EnumeratOr's work in
Kentucky.

This census business is all right
when it is all over and done with, and
we look with pride at the figures
showing the wonderful increase of
our great and glorious republic" said
Maj. Bowen, of Kentucky relates the
Washington Star, "but ] had job of
enumerating in my state. and the 21s
cents a name | got isn't a drop in
the bucket to the amount of trouble
l experienced in getting the ignor-
ant and timid colored people to an
swer my questions. They had all
sorts of queer notions about what
the census was, some for drafting the
men into the army and some think
ing they were to be put into slavery
again. Many could not be made to
answer until they were cornered and
compelled to do so. and some gave
very queer answers indeed.
"'Were you born in Kentucky? /
asked.
mo, sah,' she answered readily
enough, i wuz bawn in Louisville
Can you read?
"'Oh, yes. sah.'
'''Write?
eyes, sab
do you speak English?'
'The question staggered her, much
to my surprise, and l repeated it
more for the fun than anything else,
mo, sab. she hesitated. i reckon
j doan' know dat, sah.'
Another woman read the names
of her children from the family Ri.
BILE.
Annie; born April IS. 1885," she
said, and / put it down.
Johnnie; born April Is, 1885, she
read again.
Hold on said /. that can't be.
You've got them on the same day
"'Well, reckon dat right, boss,
she explained. 'dey's twins
And those two instances said
the major, with sigh of relief. are
only two of a thousand or more
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When a preparation has an advertised rep
utation that is worldwide, it means that
preparation is meritorious If you 90 into
store to buy an article that has achieved
universal popularity like Cascarets Candy
Cathartic for example, you feel it has the
endorsement of the world. The judgment
of the people is infallible because it Is i'm
personal. The retailer who wants to sell you
something else" in place of the article you
ask for, has an AK to grind. Don't it stand to
reason? He's trying to sell something that
IS not what he represents it to be. Why?
Because he expects to derive an extra profit
our of your eredulity. Don't YOU see
through his little game? The man who will
try to sell you substitute for Cascarets
is fraud. Beware of him! He is trying to
steal the honestly earned benefits of a repu-
tation which another business man has paid
for, and if his conscience will allow him to
90 so far, he will go farther If he cheats
his customer in one way, he will in another
and 1t is not safe to do business with him
Beware of the Cascaret substitutor!
Remember Cascarets are never sold in
bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed
C. on every box and each tablet stamped
C. G. C.
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PRODUCTS OF OUR ISLANDS.
We May Soon BE Independent of the
World for Everything We
May Need.

The people of the United States pay
over s35o.0OO. 900 annually, or practi-
cally million dollars in each day of
the year, for tropical products, all of
which can be produced and most of
which are now produced in some de-
gree, in the islands under considera-
ton. Some of these are for use in
manufacturing and some as food
stuffs.
These include raw silk, tea and rice,
and the small proportion of our sugar
importations which is manufactured
from beets. Sugar, coffee, india rub
Der, fibers, tropical fruits and nuts,
cocoa, tobacco, or the finer grades of
spices. gums, indigo, dyewoods, and
cabinet woods form the important fea-
lures of these imports, and all of
them are articles for which the United
States is more or less dependent upon
other parts of the world.
All of these articles are now pro-
duced, to a greater or less extent, in
the islands in question. Sugar is
grown in Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii
and the Philippines. Coffee, of which
our importations are growing con-
stantly and rapidly, amounting to
about s50O0o 900 pounds annually, is
successfully grown in all of the is
lands in question, and at one time
was very important crop in Cuba as
well as at present in Porto Rico, Ha-
wall and the Philippines. Fiber, of
which the importations in the last
fiscal year amounted to $20,OOo.o00 in
value, can be grown in all of the is
lands, the Philippines already supply
ing Manila hemp. which alone will
amount to about $6.0o0,0Oo in value
While two or three of the larger
items of our tropical and subtropical
imports-rubber, silk and tea-are not
produced in any considerable quaint.
ties in these islands at present, ex.
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PaLe
and
Weak
Women

Beauty and strength In
women vanish early in
life because Of monthly
pain or some menstrual
irreguIarify. Many sUf-
fer silently and see their
best gifts fade away
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nirno.ing of MoIdy Hnx.

As long as | had to stack my hay
outside | had some moldy hay in the
bottom of the stacks, but since | have
a good barn / have never had any
moldy hay. Our hay here is altogeth-
er wild prairie and slough hay, which
is not liable to become moldy like
tame hay, especially timothy. If 1
put some hay into the barn which is
a little clammy / sprinkle a good dose
of salt over it, which keeps it good
and cattle Ike it so much the bet
ter. If you have some moldy hay.
place it so that cattle think they are
stealing it, and they will fight for
it and eat il up clean as if it was the
best hay they ever eat. This has
been my approximations NJ Gels
sIer, in Farmers Review.
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Prepared by THE ]. & c.. mcguire
MEDICINE Co, ST. LOUIS, MO.
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THE OLD SPRING.

p-.S thas leads from the kitchen door,
Through a little garden plot,
Down past the cherry and apple trees
That grow in the pasture lot
Thence on through beechen avenue
Till you hear the waters trill
Upon the pebbles and over the stones
By the old spring under the hill!
The old spring under the hill is cool,
With blotches and riffs of sun;
Its air Is as grateful and fresh and sweet
AS the air of a summer dawn.
The song of a bird in the trees above,
Below the song of riil.
Are the only sounds that are heard around
The old spring under the hill.
How oft we have trudged in other days
To the shade and stiffness of that old
spring,
Remote from the garish day,
How oft by it's sparkling waters clear
We have knelt and quaffed our fill!
And never a draught was as sweet as
that
From the old spring under the hill.
Between us and that fair time:
We hear no more the tinkling song,
Nor the waters silver chime:
But oft in the mirror of memory
We can see the image still
OF the winding pathway, the shadows
deep.
And the old spring under the hill.
Denver News.
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HOUSE FOR TURKEYS.

thrives best where it is given plenty
of air. In many sections where winters
are not too severe, an open house, as
illustrated, viii be found an excellent
one for turkeys in winter, while in
northern regions, even, such build
ing will be found most useful as
roosting place for both chickens and
poults during the late summer and
fall, since they need protection from
rain and proving animals, but plenty
of pure air to secure the finest growth.
This need of pure air at night is not
properly appreciated by most persons
who attempt to raise chickens.-Farm
and Home.
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Groom Deserted.

Samuel Bishop, of Livingstone, and
about so relatives and friends who
had gathered to see him married to
Miss Mary WASHED in st. Joseph, were
disappointed by the failure of the
bride to put in an appearance. Bishop
says he came on written invitation
from Miss WASHED. secured a license,
engaged Rev. ]. A. Post to perform
the ceremony and invited his friends,
but visit to the house of his af-
fianced disclosed the fact that it was
deserted. He says he can give no rea-
son for the young lady's actions.
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To Our Credit.

The British war office is now the re-
cipient of vigorous criticism and con-
demnation on account of it's loose
methods of caring for the sick and
wounded in South Africa. According
to the disclosures the conduct of the
officials was almost criminal. Yet
England is popularv supposed to have
reached almost perfection in all
branches of the army. When we con-
slider the emergency preparations and
the results achieved there is abundant
reason for taking pride in the manner
in which the army of the United States
is conducted.
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A wife Equal a Cola Min.

My husband was in debt and |. being
anxious to help him, thought | would se'l
American Self-Heating Flat Irons. and am
doing splendidly. A cents worth Of fuel
will heat the iron for one day, so You have a
perfectly even heat: You can iron in half
the time and no danger of scorching the
get the most beautiful gloss. / sell AZ near ear.
ly every house. as the iron is so convenient
and economical everybody wants one. I
have not made less than FIVE dollars anv dav
worked. My brother is doing well. and /
think any one can make lots of money any
where selling these irons. Retail price 81 FL
each. The Roberts A. & o. Iron Co. Sd,
Paul, Minnesota, are the sole manufacturers
they did me, if you will address them.
MIS. j. G HARRIS
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sam Jones' strong Points

Rev. DR.. Frank Bristol, pastor Of the Met
ropolitan church, in Washington. which is
attended by President Mckinley, tells a
story which he heard one evening while din
ing at the white house with the president
and Bishop Chandler, of the Methodist
church south. The party was talking about
revivalists and revivals, and the case Of the
well-known exhorter, Sam Jones, was
brought up: The best characterization of
Sam Jones preaching | ever heard" said
the bishop, was that of a good colored
brother in Virginia. He had just heard
Jones preach, and was describing it to some
of his fellows. 'Jist as long as Brer Jones
sticks to de Scripters, said the colored man,
he amt no better preacher than eny NV
de rist of US. But when he cuts loose from
the Scripters and jist lets 'er sail, den he's
de doggondest preacher dat ever pounded a
pulpit Pittsburgh Post.
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snored in the wrnnn -

A weary congressman who could "snora
a German musicians.
You will have to give me another room
| guess" said the congressman 10 the hotel
clerk
What's the matter? Aren't you comfort.
able where you are!'
"Well, not exactly. That German musi-
clan in the next room and don't get along
well. Last night he footed away on his
to sleep After / had caught lew winks
| was awakened by pounding at nv door.
What's the matter? | asked. sOf Won
please, said the German, dot Won vould
schnore Of der same key. You vas 60 from
B fiat TO G, and it spoils der moosic.' But
falo Enquirer.
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The Extract of
Benne Plant
Is Natures Own Remedy

First used by the Mississippi river steam
boat men in the early forties," who drank
their "Benne Tedd" from the hands OF the
colored "aunties." They STEPPED the leaves
in hot water, and the verdict OF these
steamboat men was that it did the bust
ness"
In 1871, James and Constance Mcguire
secured some of these miraculous leaves,
and, upon investigation, discovered that
they are identical with the Sesam Ind.
(Benne-Leaves), and. as the same indi-
Gates, native of India, containing a much
laginous substance of soothing and healing
properties. Nature here furnished rem
edy for diseases such as Collie Cholera
Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery and kindred
ailments After experimenting. the
Messrs., Mcguire succeeded in chemically
combining the use of the Benne-leaves
with other vegetable substances, and so
furnished a remedy that has saved thou
sands of lives.
Prepared by THE ]. & C. mcguire
MEDICINE CO. ST. LOUIS, MO.