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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-18

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mustered in aud conducted to their
seats, Commander W. H. Williams be-
ing the installing officer.
The following committees were then
appointed for Memorial day;
On Spsakers-M. L, Page.
On Munic-Mrs. T. J.. West. A. E.
Brown.
On Procuring Flowers-Mrs. A. J..
Gilmour, Mrs. g. W. Mccoy.
On Preparing Coffee-G. W. Goodwin.
p. K. Knickerbocker.
On Reception-Peyton Skidmore. M.
L, Page, Capt Knowlton.
Pearl Gilmour, Linn Page and Roy
Stewart were appointed committee to
decorate graves Of comrades buried at
Flora Vista,
The Post adjourned to meet at 10 a. m.
Wednesday, May sOth. at the school
house at Aztec.
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GAR. Post at Aztec.

The boye who wore the blue are just
aa patriotic and Full OF that spirit Of
comradory which distinguishes tho
American soldier. now as they we're in
the duys Of conflict forty years ago. The
Grand Army shows hardly any diminu-
iiou u numbere, despite tho encrcach -
ments Of death and disease, and while
The silent settles Of the dead" grow year
BY year the ranks Of the great oreaniza-
ton are quietly recruited from those
who as the years roll by feel more and
more the necessity OF uniting for coun-
eel and companionhhip with their com
rades or former days. Thus the power
of the organization is undiminished and
it is and vial continue for years to come
q factor IN the nations existence.
10 New Mexico strong department
arganizatiou has been maintained. On
the occasion Of HE recent visit to this
county, Judge McFie, the department
commander, dwelt strongly on the com
forts aud pleasures Of brotherhood Of
the veterans, and on his departure. steps
were taken by them to organize more
thoroughly and effectively
For seveial years g. A. r. post has
been in existence at Pennington. but the
old soldiers in this end OF the county
have felt that more genuine work could
be accomplished by having a good, live
post located here, which could be
reached by many who could not make
the long journey necessary to meet with
the post already established. Comman-
der McFie apparently agreed with this
view, and consequently application was
made q short time since for a charter foI
post 10 be located at Aztec, This was
promptly granted, and last Saturday
about score Of the veterans met at the
school house at Aztec and perfected
sheir organization. Special efforts wer,
made to effect an organization at tn,
earliest possible moment, because Of tn,
necessity Of arranging for observance o
Memorial day, close at hand.
The post is named Aztec Post No. II
Those who participated in its Organiza
ton were w. H. Williams, Al. Gilmour
Peter Knickesbocker, James Stephen
son, James V. Dunlap, John s. Henry
B. G., Hildebrand, Q. Fl. MeHenry, @. E
Andrus, V. NJ. Grow, P. skidmore, d
W. Freeman, H. H. Knowlton, f. v
Williams. George Goodwin NJ. L. Page
and A. A. Waggonef.
Following is the list " officers elected
Post Commander. Col. W. H. Williams
Senior Vice Commander .s......A. j. Gflmoui
Junior Vice Commander ....-. +. v. Williams
Adjutant ..,......,.,.. ............G. w. Mccoy
Surgeon ..........,............G. g. W. Freeman
chaplain Il 4..-..... Elder J. Is. Hc5.- /,
Quartermaater er.................J. V. Dunbar
Odlcer Of the Day ............A. A. Waggonel
Sergeant Major or................C. H. McHenry
omoer Of the Guard go. 81. James Stephenson
.. NJ. Sergeant .,,.....,.....B B. q. Hildebrand
fire above nsntiOn0da olfioers zl46It
mustered in aud conducted to their
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their race history and tradition. Their
governments are often republics in
name only.
One difficulty with the South Amer
lean peoples is that they have under
taken to erect republics upon the civil
law of imperial Rome and upon mon
archical traditions. They have framed
superstructures in the shape of writ
ten constitutions, modelled, in many in
stances, after the constitution of the
United States, but their political edi-
fees have failed to withstand the stress
of time because their foundations have
been faulty
The list of revolutions might be ex-
tended almost indefinitely. The his
tory of South America consists of little
else. They are all of the same general
character. A so-called presi lent at
tains power, perhaps by means of a
more or less farcical election. He rules
his country as veritable monarch I'M
til some military rival can gather about
him enough disaffected soldiers to war;
rant him in attempting to seize the
chief executive office. Then comes the
revolution. Sometimes it is successful.
sometimes it is not, but it makes little
difference to the people of the country
who are not in the immediate following
of one rival or the other.
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POISON IN A WEARY BODY.
Human Beings Are Subject to a spe-
cies of Self-POisOning by the
Eating of Game.

The eating of high" game is I'M
doubtedly attended with risks and the
poisonous effects are probably due
to the toxins produced in the earlier
stages of the putrefactive process,
says the London Lancet. The advan-
tage, of course, of hanging game is
that the flesh becomes tender and
decidedly more digestible than when
1T is quite fresh. The ripening proc
ess, however, may mean the elabora-
ton of toxins. 1t has been stated
that the production of the character
istic fiavors of game is related direct
ly to the amount of sulphuretted n.y.
drogen or sulphur-alcohol set free,
but it is rather repulsive to think
that the delicate favors of game is
dependent upon that invariable prod
uce of decomposition of rotten eggs
sulphuretted hydrogen. The smell
evolved during cooking of "high"
game is even more disgusting.
Fresh game sometimes sets up mys-
FERROUS poisoning symptoms, which
have been attributed to the face of
the game having been overhurried
and fatigued Fatigue products, in
deed, have been separated from over
hunted game which when injected
into a healthy animal have produced
marked poisonous effects. There is
no doubt that fatigue products under
certain circumstances are also elab-
GRATED in the human body and give
rise to species of self-poisoning,
characteristic symptoms of which are
headache, stupor and gastric and in
testinal pains. The flesh of over
driven cattle may prove poisonous
from the same cause.
This curious formation of poisonous
products in the flesh of animals
through state of terror or exhaus-
ton is a question well worth consid-
ering in relation to the wholesomeness
of animal foods and emphasizes the
Importance of staying animals intend
ed for food in the most humane way.
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RUSSIA WANTS PEACE.
Her Principal National Scheme IL
the Development of Her
Resources.

The present ear has been some
thing of a puzzle to the world. Much
was expected of him by the friends of
Russian progress because of his known
inclination toward liberalism. His
course has been somewhat, but not
wholly, disappointing. A considerable
influence has been retained by Pobe-
donostzeff. The Russion national par
ty has grown in strength until revolu-
ton and socialism, if they exist, are
lost in greater movements and are
heard of no more. The good understad-
ing with France continues, being based
on the solid ground of financial self
interest.
The general peace policy inaugu-
rated by Alexander III. has been en-
phasized by an attempt to reach ba-
sis of universal peace through the
peace congress at The Hague, says
writer in the Chautauquan. The ini-
tiation of this movement by Russia has
been the subject of heated contro-
versy as to the Russian motive. 1t may
have been due in part to the enlight-
ened views of the car, but its promo
ton by Russia was unquestionably die
tated in self-interest. 1t is TO be noted
that Russia is now at the highest point
of prosperity that she has yet attained,
and is putting forth strenuous efforts
to extend and consolidate her vast en-
pire.
Peace is the need of the Russion ma
tionalist-a peace that will enable
them to negotiate with China for Man
churia, and to utilize their wealth in
the building of railroads and in pro-
noting unity in other ways. They do
not wish to be disturbed in the Russi-
fication of Finland and the other prov
inces, which is an important part of the
national scheme.
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THEY SUFFER NO PENALTY.
Scores of Men Who Rob Banks Are
Never Brought to the Bar
of Justice.

"Alvord's theft of 100000 and
Schreiber's of 100000" said an expert
accountant, according to the Philadel-
phia Record, "go to show that in all
business it is impossible to prevent dis
honest men from stealing. No matter
how thorough the auditing may be, no
matter how closely the heads watch
those under them, every man who
handles money can steal, with a reason
able chance of escaping detection.
That more such men don't steal speaks
Awell for human nature, but must quail
ify this statement with the additional
one that many do steal and are caught,
but their employers, while discharging
them, do not make public their crimes.
1t isn't charity which impels the en-
ployers to do this, though; it is fear
of hurting the credit of the firm.
"You can safely say that 90 per cent.
of the thieving employees of Philadel-
phia are not brought to justice. Usual
ly they arrange to pay back their defal
cations on the installment plan. know
a bachelor of 43 who in his youth robbed
the bank that employed him of $4,000,
with which he speculated, hoping to
make enough to marry. He lost all,
was discovered and is still paying off,
out of paltry salary, that debt of
shame. I know the histories of scores
of defaulters, and in every case the
thefts were, in way innocently begun.
The money was taken with the deter
mination that it would be replaced"
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Antiquity of Anatomical study

Sir Norman Lockyer points out that
the statues and plaques carved in
stone and wood to be seen in the
Gizeh museum prove that the priest
mummifiers O. Memphis 5000 years
ago had pr ind knowledge of an
atomy. Science, he therefore thinks,
is as old as art, and they have ad-
vanced together Another remarka-
bic fact is that the ex ~vations in
Italy have brought to Z scores of
finely finished surgical -nstruments
for certain operations which are in
almost every particular of form pre-
cisely like those reinvented in modern
times and used by the most advanced
surgeons of to-day.
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Considerably more than half the hui
man race is ruled by women. Two
women - the empress dowager of
China and the queen of England
alone govern about half the entire
population of the world. The third
in Importance is young Queen Wilhel-
nina of Holland, whose home land
numbers less than 5000, 900 souls, but
whose colonies have 100000. Spain
is ruled by a woman, Queen Regent
Christina, in the minority of her son.
1t is expected that the queen mother
Margherita will have great influence
over her sons kingdom, but her case
is not needed to establish the prepon-
deranee of woman-ruled races.
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EASILY LOSE THEIR NERVE.
Many People ColIaI.-,- Utterly When
They Are Confronted by
Danger.

"I remember once hearing of fellow
who, coming uninjured out of a railway
wreck, worked like a demon to assist
his less fortunate fellow-passengers !"
said railway official recently, accord.
ing to the Cincinnati Enquirer. "All
the timshhe was at work, however. he
held one land to his collar, and, when
it was over, one of his companions dis.
covered that he was holding tight to
his necktie, which he had been in the
act of tying when the collision oc.
Cured. -
people actXery queerly when they
are or think they are in danger.
81 know a young girl who had learned
to swim quite we'll and one day she tried
to swim across river. There were
plenty of people about and the distance
was not great, but when she was half
way across some one called out: How
deep is it?' She let her foot down and,
of course, found she was out of her
depth. Instantly she lost her nerve
and sank. She came up once, tried to
scream, but the water ohoked her and
down she went again.
"A man, realizing that something
was wrong, jumped IN, clothes and all,
and pulled her out. He was none too
soon, for she was unconscious when he
pulled her up. 1t was the sheer fright
of knowing that she was out of her
depth that caused IT all, as otherwise
there wasn't the slightest danger"
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New Form of Photograph.

Among the exhibits at the Paris
exposition was a photograph, invent
ed by Valdemar Poulsen, Danish en-
gineer, which uses wire-wound in
stead of a wax-covered cylinder The
wire is of steel, and over it, in place
of the usual stylus, passes a small
electromagnetic connected with q tel
ephone transmitter and battery. The
sound waves cause a variation in the
intensity of the electromagnetic, and
the magnet, acting upon the wire
passing beneath it, leaves a perma-
nent impression upon the latter.
Upon reversing the action the wire
reacts on the magnet and correspond
ing sounds are transmitted by the tel
ephone. In order to obliterate the
magnetic trace on the cylinder it is
only necessary TO revolve it under the
magnet while this is subjected to q
continuous current.
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FINEST NEW YORK PULPIT.
Beautiful Work Lately Completed
for All Angels Episcopal
Church,

All Angels Episcopal church, West
End avenue and Eighty-frst street,
has just acquired what is described
as the finest pulpit in America. It
is the work of Karl Bitter, and was
given to the church by Mrs. Sarah
Cornell in memory of her husband
and two sons. The style of the pull
pit is italian renaissance. changed
slightly to conform with the interior
of the church, says the New York
Herald
Standing against column, the pill
lar has for its foundation a repre-
sentation of Moses with the tablets
of law, and corbels presenting the
head of the prophets, intended to
symbolic that the Gospel preached
from the pulpit is based upon the law
and the prophets.
A choir rail, which leads up to the
pulpit rail and surrounds the pulpit
itself, is decorated with a procession
of angels. Above the Aulpit is a can
opy of oak, surmounted by an angelic
figure holding a trumpet, and forming
an apotheosis of what is begun below
in the procession.
There has also just been used for
the first time in the same church an
altar and reredos. erected by MEM
bers of the Hoffman family in men,
DRY of the most liberal patron of All
Angels church. the late Rev. DR..
Charles F. Hoffman. The altar is sur
mounted by canopy of brass, per-
haps the only one of the kind in this
country, although such are common
in northern Italy. The new rectory
of the parish, costing 100000, is al
most completed.
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A CLEVER CHINEE.
He Draws a Keen Comparison of His
Religion and Other
Peoples.

Zone of the most brilliant men of my
acquaintance is Chinaman," said John
B. Galore, of New York, to a Washing
ton Post reporter. HE has tea house
up in our metropolis, and he is a scholar
as well as importer of the leaf. We were
talking about the Chinese imbroglio
several days ago, and conversation
drifted from Boxers and the taking of
Picking to the teachings of Confucius.
He called attention to the fact that mis-
sionaries were trying to Christianize
native Chinese who cling to religion
which has stood the test 5000 years,
and had nearly 100000, 900 followers,
while the Christian religion is scarcely
1900 years old with many followers of
divided belief.
"'You Christian believers remind
me- he explained, of the Chinaman
who stood on the river shore and
watched the moon rise over the hill. A
ray of sublime light came to him. 1t
was beautiful. His friends were sta
toned at other places and he called to
them to come quick and behold his own
beautiful ray of light. They replied
that they also followed beautiful rays
of light to the same moon. From what
ever position they looked they. Saggh.
a ray equally as beautiful. ThaVs the
way with religion, and especially yours.
You are locking at the light of good
ness, emanating from the Divine
source, and each thinks he has monop-
oily, like the lone Chinaman with his one
ray of light"
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Quicksilver FIasks.

The bottles or TASKS used for trans
porting quicksilver are generally
made of boiler iron and are cylindrical
in shape, about IL inches in height
and four inches in diameter, with a
screw plug inserted in one end. The
capacity of flask is 76h pounds and
its weight about IA pounds. Such
TASKS are used by all producers of
quicksilver, and pass through the
hands of various dealers till they
reach the consumer The total num-
Der used in this country cannot be
veV large, as the total product last
year of quicksilver in the United
States was but 2s,S79 TASKS, and the
same flask can be used again and
again till it gets too rusty inside. A
flask can easily last rs years. We I'M
derstand most of those now in use are
made abroad, but an American firm
also has made them. Most of the Sec
ond-hand TASKS can be bought for rs
or 80 cents apiece.
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snow Three Feet Deep.

snow in this vicinity and northern New
York is unprecedented for thus early in
the season. There is fall Of three feet
on the level along the Rome, Watertown
and Ogdensburg railroad and drifts from
four to ten feet deep. A train became
stalled on the Watertown branch and
finally was abandoned from Carthage to
Utica. Last night trains were from two
to three hours late, the earliest blockade
by snow in the recollection of the oldest
railroad men.
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Too Mech Pork; Not Enough Fat.

Without doubt the fat in pork is about
as hard to digest as anything can be. A
person has to have strong digestion and
must be engaged in hard work IN order to
true large number of persons depend
upon it through the cold weather. The
fact is, however, that as a rule fat is
largely deficient in our food; that is, a
fat which can be easily digested and
promptly assimilated by the system. Cod
liver oil, as we find it in Scott's Emul-
sion, is the most easily dlgested of all
fats; it is just the food the body must
have to give it nerve power, brain power
and digestive power.
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TO AWE THE SULTAN
Battleship Kentucky Ordered
to Smyrna.
AMERICAN CLAIMS TO Be PRESSED.
Turkish Government Owes Uncle Sam
About 100000 For the Destruc-
tiOn of Missionary Property and
Has Proved Poor Paymaster.

ton of Missionary Property and
Has Proved "a Poor Paymaster.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-The first
class battleship Kentucky, now in Med
iterranean waters, has been ordered to
touch at Smyrna, Turkey, on her way to
the Philippines. The Kentucky has been
in Mediterranean waters for some time,
has made stop at Algerian port and is
now at Naples. She is going to Manila
via the Suez canal route and is in COM
mand of Captain Colby NJ. Chester. The
Kentucky's presence in Turkish waters
will be coincident with renewed efforts
ON the part of the administration to col
lect from the Turkish government pay
ment of the indemnity claimed by the
United States for the destruction of mis-
sionary property in that country some
years ago.
These claims have been pending for a
long time. The payment of the indemnity
was urged in turn by Ministers Angel
and Straus, and Mr. Griscom, the Amer
lean charge, now at Constantinople, has
been persistent in his demands for set
Element, but thus far apparently without
any definite assurance that the claims
will be paid. The claims approximate in
amount 100000.
Smyrna lies at the head of the gulf of
that name, has large population and for
centuries has been the most important
center of trade in the Levant. The city
lies out of the ordinary line of travel to
the Suez canal.
Naval officers are proud of the splen-
did battleship Kentucky, which only re-
gently has been launched. She has a dis
placement of 11,525 tons, an indicated
horsepower of 10000 and has % guns
in her main battery. Much admira-
ton has been expressed for her appear
ance at the places she has stopped, and
the detour to Smyrna is said in official
quarters to be for the purpose of showing
her off
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Thirteen killed In Railway Wreck

BAYONNE, France, Nov. 16.-The
southern express was derailed at noon
yesterday between st. Geoures and Sau-
busse, near OAK, about 33 miles north
east of Bayonne. The restaurant car
was precipitated over an embankment
Thirteen persons were killed and 20 9TH
ers injured, seven seriously. Five pas
sengers are missing. The list of killed
includes Senior ]. f. Canevaro, Peruvian
minister to France, and an attache of the
Peruvian legation in Madrid.
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To one quart baked beans add one
quart water, two slices of onion and a
stalk of celery. Simmer 30 minutes,
then rub through a strainer and add
one cupful of stewed tomatoes. Season
with salt and pepper. Cream together
two tablespoonfuls each of butter and
-four and cook ten minutes after it is
added to the sOup.-N. Y. Post.
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Disseminated Turks.

The number Of disconnected Turks
must be enormous. Forty-eight thou
sand have been exiled during the last
IL years. To these must be added
those who have fed and those who
are related to the exiles. During the
last five years more than SASS 900
has been spent by the sultan in try
to persuade the fugitives to re-
turn.
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wheat From Quebec to Liverpool.

QUEBEC, Nov. 19.-The new Cana
dian transatlantic route, which is 800
miles nearer Liverpool than any of the
other lines, has been opened by the sail
ing of the steamer Albanian of the Ley
land line, this city, with a cargo of $780,
600 bushels of western grain, which was
loaded from the recently constructed
Great Northern elevator. The erection
of this elevator, which has a capacity of
100000 bushels, was largely due to
backing by American capital.
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Population of Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The popu.
lefnn of the state of Pennsylvania as
officially announced by the census Blu.
reau is 6,3O2,115 against 5,25S,O14 in
1890. This is an increase of 1,O44;101,
or 1913 per cent. The population in 1886
was ,2S2 ,S91. an increase of 975, 123, OF
22.7 per cent sm 1880 to 1890.
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Four Men Cremated.

OSWAYO, Pa, Nov. 19.-Four men
were burned to death in fire which yes
terday destroyed the McGonigal House,
three story frame building; the hotel
barn and the opera house. The three
buildings were burned to the ground in
half an hour from the time the fire
tartad
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Gives 500, 200 to a Church.

BLOOMFIELD, N. j., Nov. IT,
James N. Jurvis of this place has mott
fed the Westminster Presbyterian church
that he will build on property adjoining
the church building two story stone
building, harmonizing in architecture
with the present structure, which he will
equip with all facilities for church and
Sunday school work and public library
Of $4,000 volumes, the whole to cost
500 000
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Engines For south Africa.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Nov. 10
An order for ten engines for the Cape
government of South Africa is being
filled by the Schenectady Locomotive
works. They are essentially American,
but English in appearance.