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An Amusing Election Episode,

In the last Senatorial campaign in
Kentucky the opposing candidates il
one of the Southern districts, DR..
Harrel and Mr.. Clark, who were con-
ducting,a Joint debate, had an anus
ing experience. When they went to
Keysburg to fill their appointment to
speak they found nobody atall to hear
them. Everybody had gone to Red
River to fish. The candidates fol-
lowed the way the people had gone,
and when they came to the river found
quite an assemblage on the opposite
bank. Harrel mounted stump and
began to address them at long range,
but soon found that his voice would
not hold up at that distance, so he re.
quested them to wade out into the
river and draw nearer. Instead of
doing this, they sent skiff and fer.
ried the candidates over, and then sat
patiently down and listened to the
speeches. When the speaking was
over the candidates were informed
that they had been speaking in Ten
nesSee
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S For Healthful Sleep.

Every one knows that it is bad to
sleep On your back, but it is even
worse If the bed is such that your
stomach is as high as your head and
your feet are lower than both, as must
be the case on too heavily wadded
mattresses. On the other hand, if
the spring is too yielding you will find
that the heavy parts of the body make!
you lie in 8. kind of hollow whether,
you sleep Oh your back or on your
side. It is most unhealthful to have
the feet so high as they are in thisl
kind of bed, when yoq sleep on your /
back, and if you try to sleep on your
side the spine is curved most uncom-:
fortably and unhealthful. :
What then is to be done about it?
The spring of the bed must either be-;
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fish, meat, cakes, hot soup, berries,
kvass and kumyss, all of which are
sold at astonishing low prices. Then
they return to the train to prepare
their meals and at their leisure cot
and drink.
Emigrants from provinces not tribu-
tary to the Volga River are carried on
special trains or in emig1ant cars at
tached to the slower regular trains, at
rates. but little higher than those Of
the steamers and very much less than
the regular third-class ratess or
1000 versts, for instance, the
class fare is eight, rubles and slof
kopecks, or approximately 1896 9for
665 miles. The emigrantfrate for the
same distance is only three rubles, or
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compel her to see the treasure and de
scribe its hidlng-place. Gold, gold
That was the passion OF his soul, ano
now he returned to it with feverish
gladness, all the more its devoted
slave because of his brief inidelity,
his feeting fancy for a woman's love.
"Can you see the hiding-place OF
the Mendoza treasure in the Santiago
Canyon?" he asked imperiously.
81 am there" said the voice of Dol.
ores; yet not her voice, as it seemed
to Stanley, though speaking through
her lips.
"Describe the place"
"Near a sycamore tree, far up the
canyon, where the wild pansies, the
poppies and the blue forget-me-nots
star the ground"
"Can you see beneath the earth?"
eyes, where gold lies in veins
through the earth and thousand rich
and rare jewels lie buried"
"How can I reach it," =" -
"That I shall not tell you?"
"You shall; I command you"
81 will not obey"
Stanley bent forward and, with all
the force of his strong and evil will,
fixed his cleaning eyes on the still
white face before him, and with set
teeth and hands clenched, he Missed
in low, vibrant tones: -
II command you, by the strength
of my will and by all the depths of
evil in my soul, that evil which you
fear and tremble at, to answer and
obey mel" Il
''I refuse and I defy you!"
$ Choking with rage, blind with fury,
he would have rushed on the slight
and quivering form in the effort to
wrench by physical force the obedience
he could not command; but when he
would have seized the insensible form
of Dolores, his arms once more fell,
powerless, to his sides and shock as
if from an electric battery thrilled
through him from head to foot. Again
a, cold breeze, chill. benumbing, hor-
rible, smote on his face, and a pale
silyery mist, shot through with gilt
tering dust of fire, seemed to rise be.
tween him and Dolores. It grew denser
and the air grew colder; and a
shadowy face, dark, menacing, terri.
BILE, looked at him, while two great,
glowing eyes glared on him so fercely
they seemed to- burn into his brain.
With a smothered imprecation of fear
and impotent rage, Stanley fell back
before the look of those eyes; and
when they had faded away and all the
air was clear again, he rubbed his own
eyes as one awaking from sleep and
darted forward toward Dolores.
The chair in which she had been
seated was empty; the door close be-
side it was open, and she had evl-
dently left the room.
"What is the meaning Of all this?'
exclaimed Clarence. ''Is it magic?
Witchcraft? Or have been asleep,
drugged, hypnotized9"
He turned and strobe across the
room toward the other door. and as he
parted the curtains he found himself
confronted by face, 80 drawn, con-
torted, livid with suffering that he
looked long upon the once familiar
features before he recognized them.
Then lie said:
6 "Polly! Oh, Polly! Is it you:"
eyes, Clarence-it is IT.
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rapidly when they come. Near this
house Is IN open shed facing the track,
which shelters q rough counter and
some shelves. This is at the service
of the peasant women of the village,
who bring all sorts of eatables to this
primitive buffet OF train time.
When the train arrives there is q
hasty exodus from the cars. Onerep-
rsssntative of each family Or travelling
party hurries to the house where the
hot water is waiting and draws from
the tank into his teapot as much as he
likes of the essential liquid. Others
rush to the buffet shed, to find bread,
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made in several pieces, or be made up
Of spiral springs, so that all parts are
independent of one another, and the
springs at the center are stronger than
those at the head and foot, because
they have more weight to support. In
This way it becomes possible for the
tired man or woman to obtain the
greatest possible amount Of benefit.
from. the hours devoted to sleep. If
they will use moderately hard mat
tress, Of cotton or hair, never of feath-
ers, and not too high pillow, seeing
that when they are in bed the body is
not all curled up in knot by the poor.
springs and that the feet and back are
in almosta straight line, the repose
gained while lying either on the right
Or left side will prove refreshing and
aealthful.
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PORTABLE SCHOOL HOUSE.
How the Educational Demands Are Met
in St. Louis. T.,


How the Educational Demands Are Met
in St. Louis. d,
st. Louis is congratulating itself
just now upon having successfully.
solved difficult problem, and upon
the carrying out OF a unique and inter!
esting idea. In fact, she has wrought
out new version of the old story of
Mahomet and the mountain and new
application. Like the mountain, it
has keen found necessary that when
scholars will not come to the school,
the school must, of a necessity, go to
the scholars. This, on the face of
it, might seem a matter of extreme
difficulty. As it is, however, the
problem has been solved. i
st. Louisi ihas found much difficulty
in providing room for oil its school
children. Rented rooms were expert:
mented with in many parts OF the
city with m ore or less success, but the
general result would hardly be called
a satisfactory one. In districts where
the population was scattered the plan
seemed scarcely applicable. After
much consideration and many experi1
ments, it was suggested that school,
house or schoolhouses of such nature
that they could be readily moved from
place to place, set up wherever re-
quired, and when no longer needed,
taken down and removed to some
other field of action, would fill the
bill. Therefore, a consultation or
local carpenters was called and 9.
school building, such as desired, wasf
the result. s: 4
These buildings have been oon.l
structed in such a manner that when!
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quered the country; exiles, political
and criminal; dissenters from the
Greek church, who were either BAN
ished to Siberia or went there Of their
own accord. That is to say, the orig
inal Russian population of Siberia
consists of men and women who were
in some way intellectually or physi-
cally more active or more earnest than
their fellow country men and women
who remained in European Russia.
The result is that to-day the average
Siberian is a more vigorous and intel
ligent man than the average Russian.
He picks up a thing more quickly;
his life is richer, brighter"
The Siberian born citizens of the
country do not fail torealize these diff
ferences. Already,,I have learned that
they want to be called Siberians rath-
er than Russians, and to them the
latter name seems no more correct
than to call the descendants of Eng
lish colonists in the United States
Englishmen instead of Americans.
Already evidences have appeared that
"Siberia for the Siberians" is not an
unknown sentiment.
Provision for the sustenance OF the
immigrants on their railway journey
through Siberia lis simple but ade-
ouate. Most of the peasantsss bring
with them as much food as possible
of the sort they relish, in order to
avoid the necessity Of buying on the
way. Ponderous loayes OF black
bread, slabs Of died fish and o supply
of tea are the chief essentials in this
commissary department. Each fam
lily carries a teapot in addition.t 70 cups
and simple dishes, and the individual
traveller must do likewise fShs wishes
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about fs65: g sI & cd ss sf 4 hont saying
that Tie dlatiio5 o5ns proyiided at
this rsts ia lot u3uriiogs knt they
are qnit y a6 good as coald q M nsctsd
for the price, faf more % Bile,
than the former method of ofrSysI Into
Siberia by long and trying marches
and probably in most instances rela-
lively better than the homes tss peo-
pie have had. NJ
The cars; themselves in which The
emigrants travel to- the land of their;
hopes are the ordinary urth-class
cars ofthe sort one sees al oaer BINS
sia, inscribed after the inyafiable
fashion, for eight horses or forty
men. =. They are what. we call box cars
in the United States, painted:the IA
miliar red, with sliding doors opening
in either side. s%--i.....: .s2s'T" :>%':''.".E
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5 = SIBERIA'S AWAKENING.
s. :a:x@ as# -. - --
8 What Russia isDOing to Develop
Is Her Vast ASiatic Possession.
" nj y "
B c..pAcTEp,sr1c SCENES IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

provides for the nece ssity in excellent
fashion. At every station of the first
class, which means about every seven
ty-fve or eighty miles, there is erected
at one end of the platform a little
house of logs, which is arranged
solely for the convenience of the
people who want water. A big tank,
holding two or three barrels of water,
is arranged with a charcoal furnace to
keep it's contents at the boiling point.
In another corner of the house is a
tank of cold water. Each of these is
fitted with several faucets 80 that the
passengers may serve themselves
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Vinegar Drinkers In Kansas.

It is reported in one of the smaller
',ities not far from Kansas City that q:
good many Of the people there are be-:
,oming vinegar fends. They began
oy taking the vinegar as preventive
9f smallpox, drinking it three times q
lay. The system soon seemed to de-
nand it, and the doses were increased,
Until the, victims imagined they re-
luired the vinegar. One woman who
has become addictedo the habit
drinks pint of vinegara a day.-Kan-
SOS City journal. T..
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From VIck's Magazin le get this
picture of the travellers tree, an odd
looking growth indigenous in NADIA
gascar. Botanicallysit is known as
the Ravenala Madagarcarenis, but its
popular name has been given it from
The belief that water from rain and dew
collects in its leaf stems in sufficient
quantity to quench travellers thirst.
The water does collect as stated, but
as the plant grows beside water
courses it can hardly be of special
benefit to the traveller, who could
slack his thirst much easier at the
adjacent stream.
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Bay Non-PIused the Conf urer

Alta country fair a coniurer was
performing the old trick Of producing
sggsIfrom hat, when he remarked to
a little boy: "Your mother can't get
eggs without hens, can she?" "Of
course she CAM" replied the lad.
why, how is that:" asked the con-
ju,er. 'sshe keeps ducks" replied
the boy, amid roars of laughter. Tit
Bits
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no longer required at one site they
can quickly be taken apart and, if
heed be, moved to another. They are
twenty flour by thirty-six feet, inside
mdAsnrement. The floors are con-
strncted in eight sections, the sides inl
sif sections, the ends in four sections
and the roof in sixteen sections. Each
section is strongly put together on
frames, and these are boltedin such a
manner az tomake perfectly tight
and secure room. The joints between
the sections sare covered both inside
and out by movable pieces, which are
held in place by screws. The heatingI
and ventilating are furnished by an
indirect furnace with double casing.
The fresh air Is taken directly from
the outside, and the supply cannot, in
any manner, be cut of or reduced be-
yond aproper limit.
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Cost of War News From Manila,

Few persons realize the cost of the
war news sent from Manila each day.
The regular rate of the Eastern Tele.
graph Company from Manila to New
York is S2.95 a word, and dispatch
tiliingSone column of the usual length
would cost abput $1,000 simply for
cable tolls. When large number Of
newspapersuse the same dispatch, as
in the case OF matter distributed by
press associations, the cost of it ia
each paper is, of course, much re-
duced, although the annual expense
of collecting news has been INCREASED
for all American newspapers by the
country's oriental expansion It is no
more than fair for the reader to credit
an expansion paper with unselfish mo
tiyes. 4s ~"
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ab;nsk. to: Krgan, immigration has
been flowing into the country in
constantly increasing stream. Now
that the great fivers and steppes are
crossed b. through trains all the way
from Moscow to Irkutsk, the move
ment is even more rapid, and already
tho vast areas of Siberia are less lone
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Value of the Victoria Cross,

The Victoria Cross, the intrinsic
vslne of which is one penny and one
farthing, or two and half cents, can
lot be accepted as q pledge by
pawnbroker anywhere in Great Britain
ander penalty OF a heavy fine. The
cross is made from cannon captured
from the enemy, and weighs just
three and half grains less than one
ounce. -
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As the Sheriff Would Run 1t.

'Next week we will begin running
this paper as Captain Kidd woulc
have run.it. Delinquent subscribers
may expect call from us with thei,
accounts stuck in the muZzle of a six.
shooter. Otherwise this paper will be
running as the Sheriff would run 1t. >
--Bowersville Clarion.
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thinr Abone Fur.

a # 5W \ the majority Of people
Sia About sf6rJ The long, silver.
bed Blse lynx is more in favor in
|isSiSf fica q sS ElSsil & Sin$ England, where
II fass To- boz sand :tippets. carry
@ fs}e palm fESIpy tails characterize
ieIb5a 0i the seas ION, as we'll as the
yInimaI. ]Iigi i wbiiati5 oints after >barbaric
4aDhions y omen who would fly be-
fefS the ffafs f beatkiin animal were it,
alive lfesitate 10 iencircle their
:neokS Id sholld ders within its en-.
braee. Russian md Chinese sables so
blended are conf idershlF cheaper and
of less yaluel 8haasn tha aidson Bay and
are dissih1S iisI,eSa asE:of the red
tone oes sionsl v v Displaying white
hairs Il 81 81 star: 81. 1. i:
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Arypisi b Spy.

One man in: ar, o German
called Muller, eat beyond the
Guards camp on xsy TO Jacobs.
dal. He VASES Esry useful person,
because he supplied uA each morning
with milk and eggs. and ;vfa should
have been very sorry TO u.
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EMARKABLE as the
state m ent m ay.
seem, ever since the
day when the first
section of the Sibe-
rian railway was
Gnaned from Cheli-
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The most characteristic feature OF
Siberian farm life is that the farmers
live not scattered ill over the country,
remote from neighbors, but in villages
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DrnMbnclSS of Refinement.

Between dyspepsia and table man.
ners, there is no fun in eating any
More.-Detroit Journal.
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as near as possible to the land they
are cultivating. Each village, then,
is cluster of houses, in which live
not villagers in the usual sense, as
towuspeople in a small settlement,
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The dogs ID Bamwell County, c..
are returned at a valuation of $12, $50,
while the assessed value of the entire
property of the county in sheep and
goats is S201,
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3o ba s sure of comfort. As every one
~ Knows. ~ tea isths. staple'afticle among
tbo Russians and is consumed in
creat quantities. The Government
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1Fe e 3paDish e. 7easore'
A NCVEL
by H1rs. elizabeth 9. @inter.;
isabella cAsTELARl
6y [S1rs. elizabeth G. Winter.,
A NCVEL
isabella CASTELAR,

.conxrsst, 1899 and 1888, by RosrRr BoSsr.s ssss3
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-13

DISTRICT COURT.
Tomas Domipguez Sentenced This Forenoon
Suits Filed.

In district court this forenoon Judge
McFie sentenced Tomas Dominguez to
one year in the penitentiary for mur-
der in the third degree. Dominguez had
been recommended to the mercy of the
court by the jury which had found him
guilty. Dominguez had murdered Glenn
ente Gutierrez on June 4, 1895, for being
intimate with Mrs. Dominguez. The
murder occurred on the Galisteo road
south of this city.
Court took recess this evening until
next Saturday, when the motion for a
new trial in the case of the Galisteo
Mining Company VS.. J. M. Lucas will
be heard. The juries and bailiffs were
discharged several days ago.
Five suits were filed this forenoon
against the Ortiz Mining Company by
Mike A. Schaffer. Charles w. Dudrow,
the Cerrillos Supply Company, William
P. Gould and James G. Gilligan, to re-
cover sums alleged to be due for mate
rial furnished and labor.
A suit was filed in the district court
for Taos county by Edward B. Seward
VS.. Thomas w. Strong ct al. for 5000,
due on a contract.
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STRIKERS In CONVENTION.
This Afternoon They Ordered the Strike to
Continue.

Scranton, Pa, October 13.-The joint
convention of anthracite miners again
went into executive session this morn
ing. 1t is believed that the convention
will get through it's work tonight. No
definite plan has been decided upon as
far as could be learned in regard to the
operators offer of a wage advance. Two
plans have been suggested, one that the
whole matter be left to a committee,
and the other that the national officers
be instructed to find solution of the
complicated problem.
The convention adopted motion that
a committee on resolutions be appoint
ed for the purpose of presenting to the
convention something tangible on the
wage scale, and also on other griev-
ances. The resolutions committee was
made up of thirteen members, as fol-
lows: President Mitchell. three district
presidents, and three delegates from
each of the three districts. w. T. Ry-
an, secretarr ard treasurer Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of Illinois, addressed
the convention, and informed the dele
gates that the bituminous miners are
willing to render them financial aid
From what can be learned, it is be-
lieved that most delegates favor an ac-
ceptance of the offer Of the operators of
the 10 per cent advance, providing they
will make some concessions on the 9TH
er grievances.
The committee reported this after
noon, but the report was not made pub
lie. Many believe resolution accept
ing the increase on a fixed scale would
be favorably looked upon by the dele
gates.
THE STRIKE TO BE CONTINUED.
Scranton. Pa, October 13.-The min
ers' convention voted to continue the
strike
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COUNTY POLITICS.
As Convention Day Approaches the situa-
tion Becomes More and More Mixed
Candidates Working Hard-Pri-
maries Called for 18th, Con-
-A.. q nnxl T-.x
Yenti0n for 20th Inst.

toublVu lUI 0OUu 4AcW
1t is reported about town that over
lures have been made to j. E. Lacome
t. give up his desire for the Republican
nomination for sheriff and to accept the
nomination for the house. However,
MIR. Lacome has not consented to do SO,
and it Is not believed that he will so
consent.
Atanasio Romero, the present probate
clerk, who by the way, has made an ef-
ficient and trustworthy official, is not
saying much, but is putting in some
good licks to secure delegates to the
Republican county convention. There
is no telling at this time how strong he
is, but he seems confident, and is GER
tainly well able to take care of himself.
1t Is not believed that Doodle will cut
as much figure as some of the men who
are endeavoring to use 1T in obtaining
delegates to the Republican county con-
vention think. The Republican voters
are being aroused, and they will be-
come more aroused before the New
Mexican is through with this campaign.
The New Mexican asks nothing except
e ticket composed Of good Republicans
and good men, and for that it will fight
until election day.
The friends of Maj. Fred Muller say
they will make determined effort to
have him renominated for collector and
treasurer on account Of his excellent
record and of his brave army service.
On the other hand, the friends of Hon.
Antonio Ortiz Salazar seem dead in
earnest about his candidacy for the
same office. 1t will be hard fight.
There was meeting Of the Republic
an county committee at the office of
Hon. T. B. Catron this morning. Sher-
iff Kinsell held three proxies, those of
Jose D. ,Sena, r. C. Gortner and w. H
Kennedy, and with his own vote had
| control of the proceedings, having four
votes out of seven. The others present
| were Hon. T. B. Catron, chairman and
Antonio Ortiz y Salazar. The primaries
were fixed to be held Wednesday, 18th
| inst, and the county convention or
next Saturday, Goth inst. The repre-.
sentation Of the several precincts IL
practically the same as 1t was at the
two preceding county conventions this
year.