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Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-01-05

BID FOR DEAD AND MATuRED
TIMBER.
Hon. =. r. Hobart. receiver Of the
land once AZ santa Re. has received .
bid from John w. Harrison. OF olor-
leta. for the dead and matured timber
on the Pecoa forest reserve. thu b.d
averaging about 81 per 1000 feet. A
cheek for $500 accompanied the bid.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-01-05
Pension oranted--Dead ana Matnrs& Tin.
Dor bond Approved.
PENSION GRANTED.

Z TflNNENFlN WIN Z N|9aEI
John r. Detler. Of Fort Beyard.
Grant county. mas been GraBted q psn-
sion Of 80 q month.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-01-05

SUBSCRIPTION RArns.
pnslY Ciuaeu, per ye1f.. .ssssss.p,F 500
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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Gathering in the Onion Crop.

When the onions go down" all at
gardener. He has no doubt in his
mind then as to when it will be best to
pull them. AS soon as the leaves
crisp he is at them with his curved
blaue>. hoe, unless the ground is either
very strong or weedy, throwing three
or four rows into one. If the crop
Is pulled by the scoop hoe the on
ions are scattered evenly over the
bed, which favors drying Eventually
all are drawn with wooden toothed
rakes into wfndrows, which makes it
easier to load them.
How long they shall remain out dry
Ing mus. be largely a matter of judg-
ment on the part Of the grower, with
three points as his guide The bulbs
must be well hardened especially close
to the stem, before they can be safely
housed, else they will be likely to
sprout. They should not be kept out
so long as to have the outer skin very
generally peel off around the roots.
II possible they should not be exposed
10 frost sufficiently severe to freeze
the surface of the ground. Onions
are very hardy and large proportion
Of the crop will stand quite a freeze
without serious injury, but the re-
mainder will show the effects of the
frost by softening on the frozen side,
which forecasts early rotting.
When, by reason of an unpropitious
season, insufficient manuring, too late
planting or general neglect, the crop
has lot of late ripenng bulbs, or even
scullions, don't sacrifice the good on
ions for the poor ones, but pull the en-
tire crop at the usual time, separating
the mature and immature into different
rows. These late bulbs will do as we'll
out of ground as in, the object being
to ripen them down. The most profit
able way Of handling them is to market
early, taking the best price they will
bring.
If the onion bed is very weedy at
time Of pulling, remove by hand the
weeds from a section of three rows and
take them away in handbarrow. Put
the bulbs from the adjoining six rows
into that and scrape the weeds up
from the ground they occupied by a
stout scraper attached to a cultivator,
the teeth of the same having been re-
moved. Thescraper l use is about Ia
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
IN A HASHEESH DEN.
Germans Visit to Resort Where MeI
Smoke Their Reasons Away.

Germans Visit to Resort Where Men
Smoke Their Reasons Away.
A German physician describes his
first visit to den of hasheesh smo-
kers in Cairo, Egypt, hasheesh being
a species of hemp priced in the east
for its Intoxicating properties. The
Germans guide was a donkey boy.
who could speak German. In dark
and dirty alley they came to lighted
doorway Entering they passed
through room filed with men play
ing dominoes to the smoking-room.
Here" said the explorer. I'VE were
welcomed like old acquaintance. The
aromatic odor and the smokers were
in very happy mood. On the walls
were Arabic inscriptions and pictures
of European beauties. In one corner
was stone bearing a mass Of glowing
Goals.
"a man cut up some tobacco, an
other filed a clay pipe bowl with it.
a third bit off little pieces of brown
hasheesh and laid them down on the
tobacco fourth added some glowing
Goals and attached the bowl to
narghilch or water pipe, which he
then handed to his neighbor. The pipe
passed from mouth to mouth, each
man taking few whiffs and expelling
the smoke from nose to mouth
The German physician declined the
proffered smoke and ordered coffee.
All the smokers talked and laughed
young or middle-aged men. Sudden
ly an elderly man rose to his feet and
stood staring at the floor. with vacu-
Gus smile. He was . hasheesh wreck,
an imbecile. "He is a philosopher"
said one of the others, and a general
laugh followed
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
MYSTICAL ODD NUMBERS.
Three, Seven and Nine Have Many Pc
culiaritics to Their Credit.

Three, Seven and Nine Have Many Pc
cuIiaritics to Their Credit.
Three, seven and nine appear to have
been the favorite numbers all the
world over. The ancients had three
fates, three furies and three graces;
Neptune's trident had three prongs
Jupiter's thunderbolt three forks and
Cerberus three heads. We have three
estates of the realm, man who ac-
cepts bill has three days grace and
three persons congregated together
may make a riot Shakespeare was
we'll aware that he must have neither
more nor less than three witches In
Macbeth" and that the brindle cat
must new thrice, and our popular folk
lore insists upon three merry men,
three blind mice and three wise men OF
Gotham. Three meals q day Is the
usual scale Of feeding.
OF a more mystical character than
three is the figure seven, or, at any
rate, it has a larger number of re.
ligious applications. Noah had seven
days warning of the coming of the
flood, and when it came he took fowls
by sevens and clean beasts by sevens
into the ark the ark touched OF
Mount Ararat in the seventh month
and after seven days dove was sent
out, followed seven days afterward by
another. In Pharaohs dream there
were seven fat and seven lean kline
which Joseph interpreted to NEAR
seven years of plenty and seven years
of famine. At the destruction Of Je-
richo seven priests bore seven trum.
pets seven days, and on tho seventh
day they walked round the city seven
times, after which the walls fell. Ir
the apocalypse almost everything Is
seven, except the number of beasts
There are seven churches, seven gol.
den candlesticks, seven lamps before
seven spirits, the book with seven
seals, the lamb with seven horns anc
seven eyes, seven angels with sever
seals, seven kings, seven thunders
seven thousand slain, the dragon with
seven heads and seven crowns, sever
angels bring seven plaques, and there
are seven Walls of wrath.
In merely secular matters seven oc'
ours frequently enough. We have
seven wonders of the world, sever
champions of Christendom, sever
sleepers, seven wise men, seven plan.
cts, seven deadly sins, seven ages oil
man, and our ordinary leases are made
for seven or a multiple Of seven years
But however mystically significant
three and seven may be, they cannot
lay claim to any such peculiarities as
are the property Of the figure nine
That the ancients had nine muses.
nine rivers in the Internal regions, q
hydra with nine heads and nine gods
for Lars Porsena to swear by, or that
in modern times nine tailors to make
man, or that possession is nine points
Of the law, are facts that pale into in
significance after one has sat down
with pencil and paper to investigate
some of the special peculiarities Of the
figure nine. For instance. II you null
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Apples as Food for Stock.

The fallen apples should be utilized
for the pigs or disposed of in some
manner, in order to destroy as many
insects as possible. 1t is claimed that
where COWS are allowed in the apple
orchard they fall off in milk flow. EX-
perienced dairymen assert that the loss
of milk is due to the cows ranging
from one tree to another to secure
the apples that fall daily instead of
eating grass. Apples, if given as a
portion of the ration, will increase the
milk flow, but too many apples will
not prove beneficial. Apple trees
should not be in a regular pasture,
as they do not thrive in such loca
tions, nor should the orchard be given
over to cattle, the sheep and hogs be-
ing more serviceable in consuming the
fallen fruit. Cattle may be allowed
in the orchard, however, after the ap
piles are harvested or before they be-
gin to fall.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Montana Said to be Sliding.

Is Montana creeping into Idaho and
Wyoming? There is some evidence
on the Affirmative side of the question,
but not enough to cause alarm in any
of the three states. Still, for several
years it has been known that there is
some trouble with Montana's founda-
tions, which are slipping. and leaving
evidence of the fact on the surface of
the ground.
Railway companies have found quite
plain and strange twists in the align
ment of their roads, and civil engi-
neers have found bench marks"
changing their elevations in a confus-
ing manner. Quite recently these rea-
sonably suspected movements have be-
come apparent, and left large cracks
in the earth at several points In the
city Of Butte, extending for number
Of feet, and being in extreme cases ~
inches wide. The effect OF this is not
only to throw railways out of line, but
to cause much more serious damage to
gas pipes and water mains
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Immense Use of Corn Harvesters.

The most satisfactory way of har-
vesting the fodder crop is of course
with corn binder. After the lower
leaves and the husks have turned color
but while the tops are still green is
the proper time to cut corn. The
GRO has then fully matured, and while
the kernels remain little soft they
harden just as we'll in the shock as if
.Ae corn was left standing.
Corn harvesters work so SATISFACTORY
iy and their price is so reasonable that
every farmer who raises corn should
own one, unless he can arrange for
the use of a neighbor's machine. There
will be probably $4,000 corn binders
sold this year by three or four large
harvester manufacturers-about one
third as many as the yearly output Of
grain binders These, with the ma
chimes already in use, will harvest a
very large share of the corn crop of
the country. Rather than lose the val
liable fodder crop, which will be need
ed so badly this winter, farmer who
does not own corn binder and can
not buy one this year should arrange
with his neighbor to use his machine
at night. Machines that have been run
day and night in this manner have cut
several hunured acres in a season.
Farm, Garden and Fireside.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
The Fall Potting.


Adapt your selection of plants to the
surroundings that you can give them.
II your windows are very sunny Sc
lect plants that require a great deal
OF sunlight
II the room will have to be kept at
temperature of 10 degrees all the
time, select plants that will grow in
that temperature. Many will not.
Do not select a plant for winter
blooming about which you know abb
solutely nothing, because it looks so
pretty in the catalogue.
You must be guided by your own
judgment in many things in the cul-
tivatlon of plants, and careful obser-
vation and interested study of the in
dividual plants will often make your
own judgment your best guide.
Disappointment is in store for the
amateur who takes up plants in full
bloom and pots them for the window
garden in expectation of having tn hem
keep right on blooming all winter. This
ready for their first budding, or those
that have had rest through the sum-
mer, with every opportunity for sturdy
root growth.
Do not delay in sending your or
der for bulbs intended for inside
blooming. They can be depended upon
for winter flowers where other plants
would rail to bloom, but they must
be potted early if we are to secure
flowers for the holidays.
A potting soil of common garden soil
with a Slight mixture of sand and fer
tilizer is suitable for almost any plant
you will want to cultivate in your win
dow garden. Mix the ingredients
thoroughly and pack the soil well
about the roots of the plants.
In planning the window garden do
not forget to supply some sort of
green's fos bouquet making The smi-
lax is always the standby, but many
other delicate leaved plants may be
transplanted from the garden before
freezing weather
A collection of carnations should be
found in every window garden; if they
have been raised from seeds or cut
tings started early in the spring, with
all the buds pinched off during the
summer they will be ready to bloom
throughout the winter. In purchas-
irg different varieties this fall, ready
for immediate blooming, select bushy
plants ana increase by layering.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31

"Well, | wonder" put in the cadav-
erous man outside.
"John," came the voice from above.
''it's as little as you could do to drop
that hose and come up here just for
second"
BE up shortly" replied the man on
the lawn. Don't know what I'll ask
the old chap for next" he went on.
addressing the man outside. "but I
guess I'll nail him for couple of hum
dred of dollars wherewith to go down
to the seashore for week or SO with
my family And the man with the
hose laughed uproariously.
Good" said the man outside. "Well.
guess I'll be goin," and he walked off
down the street.
The man with the hose was still
the front door.
'Such bright, entertaining person
you are, to be sure" sne said to her
husband.
"Huh?" he inquired.
Il say, I've such a brilliant individ-
ual for husband" said his wife.
Say, what are you talking about?"
he demanded.
ooh. nothing" she answered, cheer
fully, except that the old gentleman
you've been telling your business to
for the last half hour-that's why
was calling you, to shut you up-is our
landlord, and if you don't get notice Of
an increase in rent inside of "a hours
I'm not a prophet nor prophecies
sister, that's all."-Waverley Maga-
zine
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Her Faith Was Shattered.

"Oh. Henry" walled Beatrice Fitz-
muggles. "Oh, Henry, to think that
you have shattered my faith in you.
Go. You are fallen idol for me-"
But, Beatrice" pleaded Henry Big
ellsworth, do not spurn me in this
manner. Even though my feet be of
clay, yet my"
mo, Henry" interrupted the fair
young girl, while the light of firm
resolution illumined her countenance.
mo, Henry, cannot be merciful. Not
only are your feet of clay, but hence
forth you name is Mud"
And Henry strobe wrathfully out in
to the night, which happened to be on
duty at the time.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Hatching and Feeding Young Chicks.

Hatching and Feeding Young Chicks.
The natural method of allowing the
hen to sit on her eggs and hatch out
her small family is host for small
yards 1t is never difficult to secure 4
broody hen at this time Of the year.
Short legged fowls make the best sit
ters. When they show a disposition to
sit, do not discourage it, but test them
for day or two on a nest of glass
eggs to find out whether they mean
business. If you have healthy flock
of fowls, select the best, unless you
prefer to obtain your eggs from an
other source and keep the eggs from
these hens.
Place the sitting hen in dark, quiet
spot, where she will not be disturbed.
Thirteen eggs are enough for sit
ting. Mark each egg, so that if any
eggs are laid in the nest they can be
easily detected and removed
In 10 days the eggs should be tested,
which is done in the dark. Hold the
eggs in front of lamp, one by one,
with the thumb and forefnger of the
right hand, while the left shade the
large base. If the egg is fertile the
air chamber is Opaque while the rest
of the egg Is dark and heavy looking,
the two portions being divided by a
clear dark line. If the eggs are light
and Opaque throughout like fresh laid,
there is no use returning them to the
nest. Sometimes more than half the
eggs turn out bad, and then if several
hens have been set at the same time,
the good eggs can be punched, thus
economizing the stock of hens.
Sitting hens should have a daily
run in the open air and a chance to
feed and take dust bath. When the
chicks are breaking through the shells
do not take them away from the hen,
as it only makes her uneasy. The
natural warmth of her body is better
for them than artificial heat. Chicks
will do without food for the first "a
hours, but when they do begin to feed
they should be fed constantly. At first
their food should be bread crumbs dry
or soaked in milk, and the yolk of
hard boiled egg. Afterward give grain,
wheat, groats, canary seed, little
hemp seed, bits of cooked meat and
sparingly of green stuff.
Feed every two hours for the first
two weeks, then gradually extend the
time until the meals are given three
or four times day. When the chicks
are week old they should be allowed
to run about in the open air. Keep the
old hen confined in coop. Do not let
the chicks out too early in the morn
ing, even when a month old, as the
wet grass is bad for them BY Septem-
ber the chickens Matched early ought
to lay. If it is desired to fatten spring
chickens for market they should be
confined in small coops when two
months old and fed on moist food.
They will put on flesh rapidly and get
plump and tempting looking when
trussed up ready for market-W lillian
A. Simpson, in American Agricultur-
ist-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
MARRY OR NOT.
A Really and Truly Modern Novel of tho
Subiimely Soulful Sort.

Subiimely Soulful Sort.
She stood on the threshold.
Geoffrey D'Odenreid was sitting, or
rather crouching, before fire whose
| Jets Illuminated his tall, bent figure
A covert coat was thrown across his
shoulders; he held it together about
mis- throat with one hand. There was
something imposing in his attitude
and his solitariness. The room vas
dark except for the fitful flicker of the
fire, and for a radiant moon which
hung in the window pane, flooding
the apartment from floor to ceiling. 1t
drew strange traceres of cold light
and weird shadow upon the floor and
the yellow damask furniture.
At the sound of her footstep he
turned; he looked dazed a moment.
She noticed that he was deathly pale.
He sprang to his feet, jerking the
coat from his shoulders. 1t fell to 'Ae
floor
ment on the threshold.
"Ah" he murmured Il thought you
would come to me, queen of my soul"
Yes she said, as if not needing
his words, Il have come"
You see, he continued, at was
useless for me to continue to strug-
gle. From the first | knew that was
yours. You see, needs must feel
that the worship l give to you has for
an hour, at least, made our souls one.
| sometimes think you must have
seen it all on that first night. l knew
that my soul had found its master in
tenderness illimitable. All, from the
first I saw you as you are-angel and
goddess. There is no act of self-re-
preston, no act of self-immolation
man may not commit for you--no
fond and foolish thing one has read
of, but has scarce believed You bring
enchanting. elevating thought; why,
you fill with joy the whole horizon of
the world. Until l met you l did not
live-I slept. But now | am awake.
Yet | love you, you see, and would
like to whisper it in your little ear.
But | would not dare. All l would
dare is TO fall at your feet so-looking
up-maybe you would be kind.
might catch the murmur of your low
voice, listen to its music, and see love
shape himself on your sweet lip. You
saw 1t, did you not, darling, the very
first time? You know that never be-
fore had l caught sight even of loves
fiuttering garment. Why, it must
have been SO plain to your deep heart.
If you doubted 1t, it would have been
calumny-not to me, but to yourself,
your loveliness. You knew from that
hour that all else, all else, all others
do you dear?-were chaff borne on the
winds, froth lashed away to nothing
ness on the first breaker of fathom-
less sea-"
Bertha Detracourt LIE Moyamensing
stood motionless, clasping and un-
clasping her hands. In her whiteness
she looked like vision from some
other world. Only on her face a
strange glow was growing, growing
up from her mouth, irradiating her
low, broad. moon-touched forehead.
jeff she said, slowly, calling him
lAe dear diminutive she always
gave to him when he fell into one
Of his talking spells, eff you mean
business, cheese that lingo and give
me plain English; but if you are just
doing a language stunt, keep moving
you're hitting it up to beat the
band d"-Washington Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
DESTINY.

see star In the silent sky;
And its cold eye seems to play
Like the eye Of Fate inscrutabla,
Mysterious aiway.
Year after year, age after age,
Ger the dark earth 1t has shone
With the pale, cold CLEAN OF spark struck
out
From the midst of q soulless stono.
Year after year, age after age,
Till the long years moments seem;
Love, Hope, Ambition have looked up
And caught but chilling CLEAN;
For the eye of Fate and the soulless star
Melt not at mortal's pain,
Nor pity feel, nor loosen yet
One link Of the binding chain.
Lowell o. Reese In San Francisco Bulletin.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
The Temperature for Cream.

From 81 to 60 degrees is the temper
ature for cream when it goes into the
churn, but the condition of the cream
and the manner of churning will in
fluence the quality of the butter Use
a thermometer when churning, as fire.
quently when the butter does not come
the fault may be due to too high or too
low temperature.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
Milking Twice y Day.

Milking Twice u Day.
The advisability Of milking COWS on
dairy farms more than twice day has
been questioned. Tests made at the
New Jersey station seem to indicate
that the objection is we'll founded.
The third milking will not pay as a
regular farm practice. Under special
conditions it might be desirable.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31

feet wide, made by local blacksmith
from stout iron. After scraping the
weeds are raked up IN piles and carted
off before the seed shells out. gath
Ell the onions, potatoes and corn in
bags of about two bushels capacity,
putting about one bushel in each to
make convenient handling.-J. :. H.
Gregory, in New England Homes lead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31

This year there have been planted
1900 acres of cantaloupes in Pecos
Valley, N. NJ, with an estimated yield
of something less than one carload to
the acre.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31

According to the director of the geo.
graphical survey of Canada there are
in that country 100000 square miles
of unexplored lands, out of a total of
o.450257 square miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
|E:;EyF2j4]ER}S
!MC)QlE(>1ER
Give a Variety Of food.

Variety of food gives more rapid
growth to young stock and increases
the flow of milk Of the dams. All
kinds of stock are more thrifty when
they are not confined to one or two
articles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31

tiply nine by any other number
will find that the figures compC
the product when added together
always amount to nine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-07-13
It Dazzles The World.

No discovery in medicine has
ever created one quarter of the ex-
element that has been caused by
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con.
sumption. It's severest tests have
been on hopeless victims OF Con-
sumption, Pneumonia, Hemorrhage
Pleurisy and Bronchitis, thousands
of whom it has restored to perfect
health. For Coughs, Colds, Asth-
ma. Group, Hay Fever, Hoarseness
and Whooping Cough it is the
quickest surest cure in the world.
1t l, sold by the City Drug Store,
j. l.. Watkins proprietor, who will
guarantee satisfaction or refund I'll.
money. Large bottles soc and
81 20.