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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29

VERY few good speeches are reilly
i~mproraptu," said a New Orleans law
yer, who has a reputation as a clever
ofThand talker, but It is generally
easy TO produce that effect by simply
leading OF with some strictly local al
huston. OF course thnt's a trick. but
it's trick employed by a good many
eminent orators. l was broken Of lt
myself by rather a peculiar incident.
"Onc day some years ago / happened
to be In q town where q large CONNER
cial college is located and was Invited.
by the president TO make a few re-
marks to the boys during the noon re-
cess. I mentally framed a little talk
on the subject OF energy. and as | was
going into the main hall l CHANGED to
notice the word lush In big letters on
the outside of the door. by Jove.' /
said to myself, that's the very thing /
need for locallzing my opening SEN
tence!' SO when / reached the platform
I launched out something like this:
"'My young friends. as l approached
the entrance to this room a moment
ago l observed n wOId on the panel OF
h door that impressed me as being an
appropriate emblem for an institution
Of this emlnently practical character.
] It expressed the one thing most useful
90 the average man when he steps into
the arena Of everyday life. 1t was
"'Pullr yelled a dozen Of the boys on
the back seats. There was a 0 Of
laughter. and ! vas 30 horribly dlscOn-
certed that l was unable to take up
the thread Of my remarks. The con-
Founded door had Push on one side
and Pull on the other. 1 had taken
my text from the wrong side."-New
Orleans Times Democrat.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29

Job May was one OF the first settlers
Of Bureau county. Ills. His cabin was
built ON the side Of the river blur. Ihe
site for It was partly made by an exca-
walton Into the bank, 80 that the q o
was little above the ground. The chin'-
ney, built Of stones, mud and Sticks
was n huge affair. with q fireplace SIX
feet wide I'm the living room.
One fan a nclghbor gave tie tlay
boys an old blind horse. The little Tel
lows were delighted with Oh Bob and
made a great pet Of him.
The second winter OF Boh's Etc with
his young masters proved a hard one
The snow wis deep. aud the poor
horse. unstabled and With little hay
or grass. found existence a doubtful
blessing.
One night hob was wandering
around searching for comfort In some
form when he discovered that hot all
was rising from the Kinney and too''
up q position near by.
Suddenly the family, sitting Ground
the blazing log Gre. were startled 10y
u tremendous racket up the chimney.
and the next moment a huge bohy
mmbled down Into the fireplace. II
vas Old Bob. Who hogan snOrtinG Ant
plunglng about. scattering hot coai'
and ashes 10 all directions.
The family fled with cries Of Glsmay
! Old Bob waS o 0 recognized and, Will
one shoulder badly scorrhed, was LED
limping out Of The door. Meantime
there had been a scrnmhling after fh'
Goals and lrebrands, TO prevent tbs
house from taking llre.-YOuth's Com
DanlOn.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29
Each Great In Ia. own Way

They tell n story about John Sher-
man and Bob Fitzslmmons, the prize
fighter. During his trlumphal our aft
or he had downed Corbett the great
gladiator was In Washington and
called at the state department. Then
was seen a contest between brain and
Drawn, head and hands. FitEsimmons
looked Sleeps and III at ease. but Mr..
Sherman evidently tried to make him
feel Mt home.
"Your recent contest was a severe
one. l believe. Mr.. FitzslmmonsT" he
said.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons uttered a couple Of
inaudlble words and grinned.
at seemed TO have pretty thorough
ly aroused the country, the contest.
Gid 1t notY'
Mr.. Fitzslmmons scrutlnlzed the
brim Of his hat a~ttentlvely. blushed,
grinned and said:
'rhe United States is a fine country,
your honor and backed out Of the
Office. responding with short. sharp
ducks OF the head to the secretary Of
states farewell bows. When the doors
had closed upon the then worlds cham
plGn. the wrinkles at the sides OF Mr.,
Sherman's eyes contracted into a
smile.
"a great man that. Babcock," he
said dryly to his secretary, and went
on with his wUrk.-Cinc nnatl CONNER
cial Tribune.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29
SHE is M Love.

IN tho measure Of the oneirfl Irish Gaelic ios
sons.l
She h my love beyond oil thought.
Though she hath wrought ms GecpcEt CO..;
Yf dsarcf Tor the cruel pain
Than one who fain would make ne ui1la
She is my gllttering gem o. sens.
e Who yet contemns my forum bright,
Whose cheek but giovs with felder fccrn
Since mine has worn a stricken white
Ehe Il M run and noon and star.
Who yrt % far and cold Doth kceps
She would not even o'cr ny bier
One tender tear Of pity weep.
Into my heart unaought She c5iic.
a wasting fame. 9 haunting care;
Into my heart % heArs. nh. whyl
Anj left d sigh forever there.
Alfred Pcrcc,sl Graves In spso.ator.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29

Bass-Styies' wife Is terribly plain.
and she does not appear to possess any
compromising attractions. and YET
Styles evidently thinks the world OF
Der.
Fogg-styles Is an odd stick. When
be was-a+sehoolboy. be was actually
fond Of mental arithmetic. = Boston
Transcript.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29

The garments of workers in powder
mills are pocketless. no that they can
0 carry knives or matches, or Indeed
anything. and are made Of noninham-
mable material No one IL allowed to
30 about with trousers turned up at
the bottom. because grit is collected
IN that way. and the merest hard speck
IL dangerous.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29

"Mrs. links Is 20, and she calls htt
self middle aged"
"Wei. maybe she expects 20 I've no
BE- lO0."- Chicago Record
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
R0hi~ ON - Redbreast Acts
49, Scandalously in
Tear ~ the South.

of debauch for month or six weeks
without it's having some effect on him.
Robin soon loses his self-respect'
grows ragged, neglects his bath, and
appears generally disreputable. He Is
very sad-looking bird, and northern
visitors who don't know about China
berries can't understand what has
caused the change. He reforms when
he must-that is, when the China ber-
ries are all gone, but until then he ap-
parently never thinks of it. With the
disappearance of the China berries the
birds begin to think of their northern
homes, their family duties, and moro
prosaic but healthful diet of straw
berries and angle worms. In February
they gather in countless thousands in
the cane brakes of Tennessee and Ala
bama, apparently waiting only for
warmer weather before beginning their
migration. At this season the visitor
from the north, who would about as
soon think of eating the pet canary,
finds robin pie a common dish on
southern tables On inquiring he
learns that the robins are slaughtered
by the thousands. Men with torches
and clubs visit the roosts by night and
knock the dazed birds off their perches
in great numbers. They are brought
to market in grain sacks. The writer
heard of one man bringing into mar
ket at one time 1S0 dozen, a single
nights murderous work. The robius
are sold on the streets for from 20
cents to 80 cents a dozen. There is no
law against the wholesale slaughter,
but many people in the south are in
teresting themselves in securing such
legislation as will put a stop to it. One
reason for the Indifference with which
our favorite is regarded is that he is
only a winter visitor and doesn't COM
pete as a song bird with the cardinal
and the mocking bird, both of which
are common and great favortes. Much
Of this pot hunting is done by negroes
for sport. The robins are also shot
but the slaughter in this way is small
compared with the wholesale destruc-
ton of the torch and the club.-De-
rot Free Press.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
American Statesmen hest.

Consul Hossfeld of Trieste, after an
nouncing that cheap lamps could be
sold in Southern Austria to great ad-
vantage if American manufacturers
would initiate the tactics of Viennese
lamp makers and open stores of their
own, continues his report as follows:
mo native can sell American wares
in a foreign country as successfully as
an American who is familiar with the
language and customs of the country.
This has in recent years been demon
strated in every large city Of Europe.
The American knows what most re-
tailers in Southern Europe, at least,
still have to learn, viz: how to ad-
vertise, how to display goods, how to
meet competition, how to crafty and
at the same time to educate the popu-
lar taste, and, above all, he knows
how to hustle 1t is, moreover, diff
ficult to induce native retailer to
buy foreign wares as long as their
sale is still in the tentative stage"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

ing away at huge tubs. The wine
presses were being scrubbed with will
and having their joints and screws Or
dered. The whole available population
had turned out into the vineyards to
pick, and at every turn of the road
one met carts piled high with grapes,
and drawn by teams of patient oxen
with satin hides and enormous won
dering eyes and curly formidable horns
that set one marveling how they
should bear the yoke SO tamely. Not
hillside but has its terrace of vines,
not cottage without it's pergola, not
a garden that lacks its burden of grape
bearing, not a foot of space that can
be cultivated from which the bounty
of Nature has not brought forth a
gift to add to this plenteous harvest
ing. The very railway stations are
festooned with gracious trails, and
amid the LEAKAGE can be spied the ripe
punches that are to furnish afresh the
station masters cellar. And with all
this profusion of the soil there is a
pleasant carelessness on mans part
that to a northern eye has a special
charm. Man seems to vie with nature
in open-handedness and generosity.
In the Vineyards.
The vines are trellised even along
the open road, and the purple clusters
with their delicate bloom the breath
of autumn upon them, hang within
reach of any hand that should think
it worth while to pluck them. 1t is
their very profusion that keep them
safe. After all, if few punches are
picked, what matter 1T is but
spoonful out of the sea-" This is, at
any rate, the view Of a peasant propri-
etor who is working in the midst of
his grape-pickers, laughing band of
peasant girls, and who invites passers-
by with grace of manner that would
do credit to an archduke, to enter and
help themselves. The pickers are more
interesting than the grapes, but the
informal guests take handful, and de-
licious they are, warm with the sun.
and re- ened in the soft air to an ex-
quisite delicacy OF flavor. Still, as It
happens, their aim is not the satisfac-
tion of their palates Would it incom-
mode the signorine If their pictures
were made? So far from incommod-
ing, 1t would delight the signorine be-
yond everything. Then might one pre-
sumo SO far as to ask the signor to in
vite the signorine to stand with their
basksts-vo! and next, scissors IN
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

Many of his northern friends will be
shocked to learn that Robin Red
breast leads a double life. Well
dressed jaunty, brimming over with
good nature, devoted to his wife and
babies, he is a model Of respectability.
It's true we do not like to share with
him our very earliest peas and choicest
cherries, but he is so great a favorite
and his thieving is carried on with
such calm assurance that we readily
forgive. He has no enemies but the
family cat All this here at home.
When Robin goes south for his win
ter vacation he is tempted and falls.
1t happens in this way: In December
and January the robins find on the
gulf coast a climate that suits them.
They also find an ornamental tree
bearing a hard, yellow berry about as
large as a small pea-China berries
of which they are extremely fond.
Now, the China berry. while innocent
in appearance, is a very dangerous
food for robins. 1t contains some mar
cotic principle that affects robin just
as alcohol affects a man. 1t makes
Robin drunk and when he Is drunk he
acts precisely like a drunken man.
EXhilarated at first, he dances about
and sings in 'We-won' t-go- -home-till-
morning" sort of way This happy
condition is soon followed by drunk
en- stupor-the bright eyes grow dull
the head droops, and the bird loses
all sense of danger. While in this
stupid state the negro boys easily pick
the birds from the low branches,
where they are perched After a lit
tie the birds recover, but only to hunt
more China berries. AS long as there
are China berries Robin is consistently
and persistently drunk. He apparent
ly eats the berries for the single pul-
pose of getting drunk and because he
likes it. He isn't hungry for he is
gorged with the berries to such an ex-
tent that when, as sometimes happens,
he misses his drunken hold and falls
to the ground he bursts open so stuf-
fed is he. Now it must not be thought
that even robin can undergo this sort
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

hand, Under the large vine-plant-
giusto! and yet again upon the ladder
set against the tree, which supports
the trellis-exact! 1t is done, thank
you. And so the guests go on their
way again, more than sufficiently
thanked for the buono mano they have
left for host and his helpers to drink
their health with, and pursued by the
salutations and good wishes Of them.
italian characteristics.
Everywhere you go in Italy you find
this same gentle courtesy of manner
smoothing the apperities Of life. Even
when he cheats you--and the town
Italian, at any rate, never loses an op-
portunity in this direction-he does 1t
with smiling grace that is we'll worth
the money A London cabman who
grumbles at your shilling, grumbles
like a bear, leaves you irritated by his
bearishness, makes you think i'll of the
whole tribe Of cab-drivers. An Ital-
ian cab-driver-better still gondolier
of Venice-swindles you with an ex-
quisite charm. He will rapidly paint
a picture Of the wrong you do him by
not allowing yourself to be swindled.
He will call to witness the bystanders
and will appeal from earth to heaven.
He will overwhelm you with torrent
of words, cajole you, and finally, with
some pennies over and above his due,
will drive off, protesting he bears you
no ill-Will.
From Vine to Wine.
From the picker's hand to the
baskets carried yokewise across the
shoulder or else on the back, from the
baskets to the huge tubs on the oxwag-
ons, from the tubs to the press or the
treading cart. These are the stages in
the transformation Of grapes into wine,
red or white. White, if you separate
skins and stalks before the grapes go
into the press; if everything goes in,
red. The Italians are careless wine
makers. They are not so particular as
the French about what goes into the
press. Therefore is their wine rougher,
lacking the quality of sickness which
wine merchants do so extol. Finally,
the press yields it's oozings into the
tubs, and then comes the work of
casking. After this, all that remains
is to dispatch the casks to purchasers;
or, if the wine is to travel far, to fill
one of the enormous tanks upon wheels
that one sees at the railway s.atians.
The Italians do not do much with the
industry of bottling their wines. Ev-
erything goes into casks and is dis
posed of that way.
w. M. STANTON.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
Slavery in
Zanzibar.

And yet the anti-slavery societies
cry wildly that slavery must be erad-
icated in Zanzibar, and the civilized
world, between wars, re-echoes the cry,
so the British consul and his officers
work industriously to that end 1t is
not an easy task, either, with the num-
Der of cruisers supplied. The territory
to be watched is SO wide that the con-
sui could make use of a small fleet
instead of which he usually has one
ship. When l was there last sum-
mer, the Barossa had the station, but
two days after she sailed north to
Mombassa a courier rushed into the
consulate to report that two dhows
with twenty girls had slipped away to
Arabia, under cover of moonless
night, and there was no ship to make
pursuit. 1t is this sea-borne traffic that
is most difficult to suppress. Just now
tin December), when the monsoon
sweeps the Indian ocean, it is active.
The lean dhows from Muscat steal
along the coast, and, concealed in many
creek and river mouth, wait for their
agents inland to bring them a cargo.
Then, Selling moment when the war
ship is engaged elsewhere, they slip
out and dart eastward The favorite
girls are those captured from the Ma
sal and the Boran Gallas, whose
charms appeal to Arabian Mos,ems
somewhat as those of the Circassian
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
Seven Days Rest Association.

A curious society exists in the town
of Bradford, England. Its name is the
Seven Days Rest Association. Tt is
composed of men who make 1t a rule
to do no work, and yet they are held
in the greatest esteem by all. They are
men who, born in humble life, have
by steady labor saved modest com
petence, Now they spend the evening
of their days in the parks and other
places of rest far from the roar Of the
forge and loom, with which their early
life was associated. Nor are the en-
joyments of the Seven Days Rest AS
sociation, as they are styled, entirely
selfish. At their second annual dinner
just held they entertained some Of the
comrades Of their youth who had fail
ed to attain SO satisfactory share Of
the worlds goods. combining a quiet
self-gratulation on their own secure
position with a kind and CHEEKY hos
pitality to these less fortunate breth-
ran.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
Girls Are Stolen De-
spite the Vigilance Of
British Cruisers,

women do to the Turks. The Borans
are particularly renowned for their
beauty, and a slave thief will risk his
life to obtain one. This tribe, which
occupies the northernmost district ol
the protectorate, is altogether swathed
in romance. White men have never
reached its capital, where the stockade
of the royal palace is said to be of pure
ivory. The Boran warriors are the
only ones in Africa who fight on horse
back, and such is their valor that they
have time and again repulsed the fierca
Somalis from the border. The Nasal
girls are considered the equals of their
Boran sisters in attractiveness, but not
in refinement; the latter, rumor has it,
practice the rites of Abyssinian Chris
tianity and the lost arts of centuries
past. The Nasal girls are easier t.
capture, and are, therefore, more COM
mon. The tribe was formerly cele.
brated for its vast flocks and herds
but a devastating famine some years
ago left it almost destitute The war
riors thereupon began a system of
raiding on all sides, and another fierce
tribe, the Wakikuyu, took advantage
of their absence to descend on the Ma
sal, kill off the old men and steal the
women and girls. These are now being
disposed of at comparatively low rates
to local Arab or Swahili middlemen
who retail them at big profit.-Allen
'angree, in Ainslee's Magazine.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
PETTY ECONOMIES.

Many of Them Are Highly Amusing to
the Ordinary Observer.
A great majority of women have the
instinct of economy very highly de-
veloped, although not always in the
right direction. Some of the economics
Of well-to-do women are very funny.
Take twine, for instance. In the mind
of many opulent housewives it is
sign of wicked waste to cut the string
of parcel, and they will carefully
and laboriously unite every knot of a
package. however intricate, and then,
at the cost of much time and patience,
they will do it up in neat little rolls.
which are carefully put away. as If
they were valuable possessions. Every
time that string is needed in the house
hold they produce one of these preci-
eus rolls from their hoard, with a glow
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
THE WRONG BOTTLE.
Why One Young Woman's Hands Are
Blistered.

Islistered.
Grace is afflicted with a sensitive
skin, and when cold weather arrives
uses up more bottles of soothing lotion
for her poor, chapped hands than
would stock a small shop. The last
thing before she goes to sleep she cod
dies her white digits with a liberal
dose Of the liquid that best suits them.
She did this the other night, and as
she rubbed it in" observed that it
took long time to dry. Finally she
gave it up. She had a most uncom-
Portable night. Whenever she moved,
the sheets stuck to her hands, and she
fought them off much after the fashion
of cat standing on four pieces of
sticky fly paper Once her hair got
tangled around her left hand, and it
nearly came out by the roots before
she loosened it. This thoroughly
awoke her, and she got up and lit
the gas. She had the most remarkable
looking pair of hands in Cook county.
This was not altogether surprising,
when she found she had used the bot
tie of furniture polish for lotion.
And, not content to let bad state of
affairs alone, she put on kerosene to
take off the polish. The kerosene has
blistered both hands to lobster hue,
and she has three card parties on
hand, and is going to act as bridesmaid
within week.-Chicago News.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

Of satisfaction over their thrift. Now.
large ball of twine costs about G
cents. and contains enough for a year,
at least, and yet not one housekesper
in hundred, it is safe to say, will
ever buy ball of twine. Rubber
pands, too, are felt to be invaluable
and are put by religiously, for the idea
OF buying comfortable box of as
sorted bands ready for use would never
be thought of, although the cost would
be infinitesimal. Yet these very wom-
en- will squander hundreds Of dollars
In useless fineries and overlook wastes
In their kitchens that would, II
stopped, reduce their butchers and
grocers' books considerably. Such Ia
their Inconsistency.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
American Consular
Methods

The attention Of Germans is being
attracted to the extremely practical
and useful manner in which American
consuls abroad write up their reports,
says a Berlin correspondent of the
London Express. These reports are OF
immense benefit to American manufac-
turers, and the Germans have not
been slow to adopt the system of their
American friends. The American re-
ports on economical subjects are pub
lished in Washington in three ways
first, on their arrival as advance
Sheets" secondly, as monthly consul
lar reports" which include the lad
vance Sheets and, thirdly, in the
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

The Paris Petit Journal publishes
the following telegram from Bourges:
In the course of recent visit of the
minister of war to the military estab-
lishments of Bourges experiments were
made with a new gun, the inventor Of
which is Capt. Tournic, of the Artil-
lery, who is attached to the foundry
here. This weapon is Of great power,
and is worked o. very ingenious sup
ports, invented by M. Battaille. Ex-
periments were also made with illumi-
mating shells. These projectiles, on
bursting above point previously de-
termined, send forth several globes Of
fire, which vividly light up large ex-
tent of country for considerable
ength of time"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22
The DUTY OF MOTHERS

What suffering frequently esab
from mothers ignorance; or md
frequently from q mothers neglect
properly instruct her daughterl
Tradition says woman must 4
fer" and young women are SO tausd
There is little truth and great I'd
Of exaggeration in this. If you
woman suffers severely she ns.
treatment, and her mother should :
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take u.
daughters to a physician for exami1|
tion f; but no mother need hesitate
write freely about her daughter
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and seed
the most efficient advice withol
charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address
Lynn, Mass.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-22

y 13 year-old New York youth has
jus! been arrested and sentenced to a
juvenile asylum there as a professional
gambler. When he appeared before
the magistrate he was logged out in
Enery that was the envy of the slums
He had on his person over $3.50 in gold
and bills, which he confessed he had
acquired from an original investment
of % cents in crap game, and he was
rather proud of his achievement than
otherwise.