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FOR RENr-uNFuRNIsHEp ROOMS.

O'N si-tNr thNishrsD iNoo-.
FOR RENT t'nfurnisbed room; well heated;
sonable; board if desired; call evenings. 1924 9th
st. nv. mlo-S
FOR RENT-Four cheerful uufurnshcd for
light housekeeping: all front: corner house; with
private family; references required. 800 c ST. ne.
MOS
FOR RENT-Three unfinished rooms; heat and
gas; bath on same floor; S25. 5l2 Il At. NV
m10-S
FOR RENT-Thrce delightful communicating
rooms; second floor: for Light housekeeping; heat
and gas. Call after 5, OWNER, 1872 CoFeoran ST.
MI
FOR RENT-Three or four choice unfurnished
rooms. heat. bath, gas. 14i6 Corcoran st. tnlo-S
FOR RENT-Bright front basement room; terms
reasonable. 1917 corcoran ct. mlo-S
FOR RENT-Two or three unfurnished rooms;
second floor; reasonable. 1899 10Th ct. nv. MI
FOR RENT-Three large rooms; closets, bath.
heat. gas; light housekeeping; Sl2 1929 ! st.
me- mI0-3
FOR RENT-Two rnfurnished rooms for light
housekeeping, or furnished for gentleman $40
st. NV. ell
FOR RENT -Unfurnished fat of large sunny
rooms; second floor: light and heat; SIS month;
or viii rent separately. i4ij Corcoran ST. ell
FOR RENTING unfurnis1ed rooms. southern
posure, heat. gas. and bath. CAS- Florida ave
NV. e9-3
FOR RENT nice rooms; first floor, housekeep-
ing. 7l5 5th ST. NV. e9-S
FOR RENT-Furnished seeond-story front room,
with communicating hall room; heat, light and
gas for cooking; SIS month. 4l6 X St NV
m9-3
FOR RENT-Two unfurnished rooms; also, one
furnished room, for gent; 81 per week 6l9 81
st. NV. m9-S
FOR RENT-s unfinished rooms Sc st. NV.
m9-3
FOR RENT-wiIl rent; nominal; to mother and
son. part Of house in suburbs will pay for any
services rendered. Address BOX 56s, this Office.
m9-3
FOR RENT-Two large. beautiful rooms; wide
alcove; steam heat; bath adjoining; near Capt.
tol. Il 4th ST. ne. m9-S
FOR RENT-Two rooms, heat. gas, and bath.
1900 c st. sw. es-3
FOR RENT-Unfurnshed. three pleasant rooms;
bath. heat light; light housekeeping; sl2. 80
Arthur Place NV. eS-3
FOR RENT-Two three unfinished rooms Cd
floor. lZ2s 5th st. ". es-S
FOR RENT-Large. unfinished parlor: also other
rooms. furnished or unfinished. AS 9th st NV.
ms-3
FOR RENT-Fivc rooms and bath: second foor
over store. 1880 North Capitol st. m5-3
FOR RENT-Two large pleasant unfinished
third-foo- rooms; beautiful location; convenient
to cars; heat and gas; light housekeeping. 633
Maryland ave. ne e7-3
FOR RENT-Unfurnished rooms: heat bath. gas;
light housekeeping. 1929 Pennsylvania ave. NV.
e5-1
FOR RENT-STCRES
FOR RENT-Store and stable; No. 1904 7tb ST.
NV; low rent. e9-3
FOR RENT-OFFICEs.
FOR RENT office rooms at oSi F st. NV. Ap-
ply to ". ]. DANTE. Room 16, Hutchins Bldg,
10th and d sts. NV. e2s-ti
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WANTED-Colored man, sober and trustworthy,
to prepare for travelling; $50 per month and all
expenses; please enclose self-addressed envelope
for particulars. SUPERINTENDENT, ZOE star
RfJr Cq,icoyo Iul
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FOR sALE-SUBURBAN.

FOR SALE-SUBURBAN.
FOR sALE-Twenty farm; well improved;
six miles from Washington; will sell cheap; easy
terms. Call 81 New York ave NV ell
FOR sALE-2O acres Of land Just opposite Wash
irgton; full view of city; a magnificent building
site; price. 500 per acre; easy terms. Also,
large grist mill and 20 acres OF land, miles
from Washington on R. r.. for 50, 500; very cheap
and on easy terms Also, fine building lots on
electric road 6 minutes ride from city, FOR %
down; balance, 81 per week. JAMES E. CLEM-
FNTS, 1921 F st. NV. m9-S
FOR sALE-See WILLIAM DE MoTTE, at Bcr-
wyn. Md; 200-acre farm; two cottages rented
for the winter; 80 acres Of ground and nice i'm
provements at Berwyn; 20-acre farm, stocked;
good terms. ee-S
FOR SALE-Falls Church, 10-room house, barn,
acre ground; location fine; bargain Box 5s9,
this Office. eo-S
FOR sALE-For $50; $50 down; eight-room
house: haIf-acre lot. PIERCE L PIERCE. Nien-
ma, Va. m2S-IEio
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WANTED-A first-class bushelman steady work
the whole year round. l5Sj1a Fourteenth ST. NV
ml0-2
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WANTED-Two neat white school boys; II years;
theatre work evenings and Wednesday and Sat
urday rnat,nees; sl-25 week. Address BOX 6li
this Office mi
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wANTED-Honest white man for lunch room
work $40 18th st. NV. mi
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WANTED-Lady for vaudeville sketch; excellent
opportunity Address BOX 6l9, this Office. mi
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wANTED-A good girl to help around house
work. state salary expected. Address BON g.
this Office mlV-S
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with patents covering same. No man connected
with school. Beware OF imposters- schooi
for colored work located at 1888 " st. NV. in
charge of Mrs. L. X. Clarke. No other connected
with US in the city. We are permanently 10
Gated. giving perfect satisfaction. Lessons DAY
and evening. Patterns cut to measure guaran-
teed to fit. Dressinakers sent out by the day. mi
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wANrFD-woman for cook, general housework;
nc washing; references required. Apply 1$s
st eI
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wANTED-Cood typewriter at once Csmith
Premier OPERATOR; state salary which must be
low. Bon cog, this Office. d
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GREATEST new novelty for holiday trade; quick
seller; enormous profts: wholesale prices; sample
free. MANUFACTURER. Box $50. Chicago MI
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FOR RENT-Norily papercd and painted, furnished
or untirnished; heat. gas. sos 9th St NV. mlO-5
FOR RENf-One pleasant. furnished. back room;
second floor; one person $50 per week. 2o'
q ST. NV mIO-3
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FOR RENT-Back parlor, three windows, cabinet
mantel; also front bedroom and one adjoining;
tile bath. cabinet rnanteI in both furnace heat.
s., S. and SO. s07 A st. Sc mi
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SITUATIONS wANrED-FEMALE.

wASTED-By respectable colored girl. place as
chambermaid; can furnish good references. 1Olj
18th ST NV. MI
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BIRDS. DoGs. ETC.

BELGIAN HAREs. s. pair; from pedigree stock; /;
Cuban parrots. s. each dogs. cats. gold fish.
eic. scIMID's BIRD STORE. 7l2 18th st. NV.
m5-tf
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SITUATIONS wANTED-MALE.

WAATED-By young woman, situation as Office
cleaner, evenings $. &, GO II ST. ne. es-2
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SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE AND
EEMALE.

wANTED-By nice reliable people, places, situa-
tions in stores, offices. cafes and other lines Of
business. Help furnished free. 32l Pennsylva-
mia ave. NV eI
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FOR RENT-Pleasant rooms in choice location
moderate prices. Ig2s Columbia road. ml0-3
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FOR RENr-Comfortabiy furnished rooms; hot
water heat electric, lights; for Sl.5O per week
l29 Indiana ave. NV nl0-3
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FOR RENT-tnturnished room; well heated; rea-
sonable; board if desired; call evenings. l4st 9th
st. nv. mlO-S
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wANTED-MISCEL
WANTEp--JobbinG in plastcring, pointing. and
cement WORK; cheap. address BOX ClS. this
Office. iulO-3
wANTEn-F-tiuatcs far v1lipapcriBs rooms;
only I'm aorA wanted. Address BOX Cl6. this
Office nlO-2
WANTED-A lady wishes 10 exchange Rambler
bicycle In good condition. for typewriter. Ad-
dress BCN $40, this Office. m3-3
NEW SCOw for hire. 201sO: also want to know
who has wood the Potomac 10 be shipped. ".
". GILES. 1905 At. NV. es-3
WANTED-Second- hand printing press; also type
writer. Address BOX $40. this office. ms-3
HIGHEST cash prices raid FOR ladies' and gentle
nrn's csst-on clothing. Address postal and !
will call. ". RICE, 1892 9Th ST. NV. ms-lm
wANTED-HigheSt cash prices paid tor ladies'
and gents cast-of clothing; drop postal. I'll cali
b. TARsHEs, 1905 eth st. NV. m2l-lmo
wANTED-Highest cash rrioes paid for ladies'
and gents east-of clothing; drop postal, Ill
call. S. KEBEsKy. 1906 I'll; st. NV. m21-lnio
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FOR RENT-Furnished rooms; bath on every floor.
l413 st. NV. SO up. m6-3
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

An English writer discussing jour
ualistic blunders remarks; II do not
allude to what are obviously mere mis-
prints, such as the Morning Post an
nounced at the head Of its fashionable
intelligence that Lord Palmerston had
gone down into Hampshire with a
party of iends to shoot peasants, but l
refer to plumbers due to gross ignor-
sance of a pretentious order. Perhaps
the best instance wigs when one of the
fyoung lions of the Daily Telegraph
ia a leading article enumerated the
great masters of Greek sculpture as
Phidias, Praxite1ess and Milo. ignorant
Of the fact that Milo is not a sculptor,
but an island. The Times was even
worse when, installing Prussia for
Austria, it devoted a whole leader to
discussing why Prussia had Joined the
Zollverein. The Saturday Review once
explained at great length hat the pop
ulation might be nourished gratuiti-
ously on young lambs, II killed I'M
weaned before they had begun to crop
grass, having therefore cost nothing to
feed"
One Of the first women to be given
a place OF honor in the French Acad-
envy of Science is Nine. Sklowdowska
Currie Of the Paris Municipal Scboo.
OF Physics, who has Just discovered
the new substance radium and who
won thereby a prize Of 1000 francs.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

lie is Il II old gentleman, every
jne who takes daily trips on the --
street car line will say so. He is kind
ly c~onsiderate of the rights of his fell
low passengers, and, though he usu-
ally occupies the end seat, it is not be-
cause he insists upon having, but be-
cause his fellow passengers insist that
he shall have it. His p%oliteness is of
the old, old school, and his Difference
to the ladies is beautiful to behold,
says the indianapolis News. He has
been seen time and again when the
conductor was slow OF remiss in his
attention to women with babies and
washerwomen with baskets to assist
in taking them, with their membrane
es, of and on the car. In view of these
things, the happening of yesterday was
pathetic.
A young woman, indeed an extreme
ly handsome and well-dressed young
woman, was seated before him. The
old gentleman whose eyesight is no
longer of the %clearest, noticed a bug
in the knot of hair punched above the
white neck Of the fair young woman
- Abf bANNA bh6f hNaAAg 10 AGA5N
as ones thumb nail. He leaned for
ward to perform an act of kindness;
he would brush the insect away. He
brushed. The bug, to his view, but
took a irmer clasp on it's lodging
place.
The old gentleman made a second at
tempt. With thumb and finger he
seized the insect and pulled vigorously.
The young woman turned a. this; fire
was in her radiant eyes, anger in her
voice. She uttered but one word
"S-i-r!"
1t was enough. The odd gentleman
was paralyzed. He attempted to ex-
plain, but his tongue refused to make
an articulate sound. Covered with
confusion he touched the electric but
ton and alighted at the next crossing.
A few of the passengers smiled; one
or two even laughed. The bug was a
Brazilian beetle attached to a long pin
in the young woman's hair.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18
l leave this earth. Meet me in heaven.
l remain your brother in Jesus.
THOMAS e. KETCHUM."
VAL srREEr A poKER oAME
Western Men Get the Credit Of Keeping
II notn0.


Western Men Get the Credit Of Keeping
1t Going.
This is not a stock market; II is a
western poker game. Half the buyers
pay no attention to railway earnings,
to business conditions, or even to COM
binations or deals. Everybody, in all
classes of life-clerks, ministers, doc
tors, priests, lawyers and mechanics
is grabbing for stocks. The low priced
Il are the particular favorites with
these newcomers, who are tiocking
into Wall street like an army Of To-
Gusts, %devouring everything in their
pathway. What they want is some
thing cheap, not for investment, but
simply for a gamble. 1t is remarkable
that, with this vast demand for stocks,
prices are attaining unprecedented
heights. Such a condition makes man
ipulation easy. The rumor-monger,
the Wall street bunco-steerer, the
shark who is looking for victims to
whom he can sell his tips for his re-
cipes for getting rich quickly, are
reaping a golden harvest. l do not
say that there are not some stocks
which are a fair purchase from the in
,vestment standpoint, even at prevail
ing high prices. l only observe that we
are in an era of the widest and most
reckless speculation that Wall street
has had in a quarter of a century. A
great majority of the o~ld-fashioned,
conservative investors Oh the street
stand aghast at the rising tide in
prices. For months they have been
predicting a climax and a disastrous
reaction. But the new brood of spec
u~lators, largely from the west, who
have made vast fortunes in the recent
rise, insist that we are to have still
higher prices, and point to the fact
that many stocks are below the prices
that ruled in the boom era after the
resumption of specie payments extend
ing from 1877 to 1881. One of the
ablest bankers and financiers of Wall
street, whose opinion is of great value,
predicted two months ago that the
boom would continue, with possibly
slight reactions, almost throughout the
year, but he told me it would end like
all other booms, in a serious collapse.
There is general agreement that such
a collapse must follow the unprece-
dented rise of 1901, as it has always
followed an extraordinary bull move
ment in every epoch. The only differ
ence of opinion is as to when the eli
max will come.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18
REFLECTIONS OF AN OLD CAT.
M e-a-ow-ow-ow!

Me-a-ow-ow-ow!
l wonder where Tahby is.
Wow! that looks like a shaving
mug.
Close call. 1t didn: miss me two
inches.
I'll make things interesting from
now On. Watch me.
Me-a-ow! Owl Wow! SPIT! SPIT!
Me-a-ow! Me-a-ow! SPIT!
Never touched me! Me-a-ow! Wow!
Wow! Why does everybody hate a
cat?
Some day Ill get hold of that sore
eyed lap dog that's in the house, and
l won't do a thing to it.
SPIT! Me-a-ow! Who's to blame that
I'm on the earth, anyhow? Did l have
anything to do with bringing the first
cat to this country? l guess not.
E-a-ow-wow! Missed me a mile!
Does the constitution follow the cat?
1t ought to-. Everything else does. SPIT!
SPIT! Some people think a cat hasn't
any rights a human being is hound
to respect. Ye-a-ow-oopl l ate the
canary. l broke the crockery IN the
kitchen. l fed the strawberry short
cake to the policeman. l wore the
madames dress to the cake walk. I'm
a devil! I'm a devil! I'm a devil!
Wow-ow-ow-oop!
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

II the Ohio river were straight 1t
would not be nayigable. The length
of the river, including all its present
windings, is 948 miles; yet the distance
from its source to its mouth. in. a
straight line, is only GA miles. The
river now descends FIVE inches In a
mile, which decliyity, slight as 1t is, is
sufficient to cause a current so rapid
that at some seasons of the year
steamboats, a scarcely force their
way against 1t. At all times the as
cent of the Ohio is a very different
thing from the descent. S~traighten
out all the bends and the river would
rush along at a rate that would render
It worse than useless for the purposes
Of man. 1t would be a torrent. The
same is true OF the Mississippi and all
the other great western rivers, all of
which resemble the Ohio in what may
be termed the uniform irrgularity Of
their course
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18
MISS EvA PRoTzMAN.

should touch a responsive chord in the
heart of every one.
Once, years before, a woman in a lit
tie town urged him to give up crime
and come back to civilization, and for
a moment he wavered, but the old fas-
cination was upon him, the awakened
memories of his childhood faded away
as a dream and he was again BLACK
Jack" the fierce and hated outlaw. But
there is an end 10 all things, and fin
ally BLACK Jack" was caught, red
handed, in the act of holding up a
train, and was sentenced to be hanged
on March % last; and reprieved till
April &c. Friends left him to his fate,
and black gloom settled down upon
him. Suddenly came the letter from
the one friend he had left on earth. r.
repressible gratitude surged from his
bosom to the unseen angel. He had
ever known his mother, he had never
felt the magic caress of a m Here
was the chance to satisfy the craving
for that which arose in him, but he
was without his right arm and must
trust these new feelings to the with
ering scorn and contempt of a fellow
prisoner. Eagerly he sought to IN
swer the letter in his crude way, for
letter-writing had never held any at
traction for him before this. A con-
Wet who, perhaps, realized the hui
man side, offered to give expression to
'"Black Jacks" thoughts, of which the
following is an EXTRACT:
II have made the decision which l
think is correct between God and l.,
and have Joined religion. My con-
science is clear and l feel 1 have done
right and hope to meet you in the next
world Hoping to have your prayers,
am, yours truly, .
TOM E, KETCHUM.G
BUT that letter was only the first
that "Black jack wrote the girl.
Through the busy winter days he prac-
ticed with his left hand till finally one
week before he died he. was able to
pencil the following:-
Dear Friendi : Will try to answer
your kind and welcome letter. I am
always glad to get a letter from you.
but. cant write very well and / am
setting by myself now and have to
write myself. And the prisoners are
allowed one letter a month to write
and 1 don't want to ask for too much
from the officers here. Well, / am sem
fenced to be hanged April 26 at Clay
ton, N. M, for my crime and attempted
train robbery. They have got me ac-
cused of all the crimes that the man
by the name of Black Jack done and
won't give me a chance to prove that
/ am not. the man at all. They have
me accused of several murders, but
they can't prove them, as l never done
a murder IN my life, although l should
be punished for my crime, as l was
doing wrong. But feel that God has
forgiven me for all my past life and
all is well with M now, and l don't
dread death at all and / am willing to
go, for if one is prepared to leave this
sinful world they are better OFF dead
than alive when there is nc show to
have their liberty on this earth or a
square game. Well, l will close for
this time. viii write o again before
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18
Training of Home Makers.

Brooklyn boasts of the finest course
of instruction in domestic science to be
found in this country. The diplomas
that are presented by Pratt's Institute
to graduates entitle them to position
as teachers in the best colleges and
manual training schools in the land.
Instruction is given in homework Of
every kind, the selection of foods, the
hygiene of the home, the mysteries of
the laundry, and everything from the
building Of the kitchen fire and the pol
ishing of the range, to the fine starch
ing and the creation of the most deli
cate dessert. There are also classes in
marketing and in catering and pur-
veying. Women are taught to be ma
irons of great institutions and stew
ards of steamboats, and hotels. The
course of training is suitable for a
middle-aged woman who wishes to fit
herself for the position of matron of
an institution. All this class of in
struction is in the direction of solving
the servant question, a problem which
is an impossible one to the usual
housekeeper in large cities-impossible
to a great extent because she is her
self ignorant of the duties in her own
position as mistress of the home. Mod
ern domestic science holds that the
mistress must be master of her art OF
home-making.-Ledger Monthly.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

A London newspaper describes a
school in which there a be no sug-
gestion of class distinctions among the
pupils. An English woman is the
teacher, and the fifteen scholars are all
~princesses OF the royal family of Siam.
The instruction is varied. The sight of
a princess with a broom or engaged in
baking indicates the practical nature
of the teaching. To wash clothes thor.
oughly, lay the table properly, ar
range flowers, in short, to acquire a
good knowledge Of housekeeping, is
one branch Of accomplishment which
the. royal group neither " scorns nor
Sights. There are American girls, ac-
cording to common report, who would
not care to be photographed as broom
users, cooks or washers, from a false
idea that useful work might detract
from their social rating, The royal
women of Slam, on the contrary, seem
TO covet the best domestic gifts. .,g,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18
rhe wa,. Of .he Moasrn rn.hsr.l

A friend of the Ledger Monthly tells
a story illustrating the ways of the
modern father in dealing with mis-
chieyous boys. He has three, all in
the first rank in point of mischief-mak-
ing capacity. A few days ago two of
them anointed the household pet pup
by with syrup of rhubarb. Their moth
err coming in shortly after and
getting a lively welcome from the
little dog, her dress is covered
with the sticky syrup. Shortly af-
ter the father, hearing of the domes-
tic catastrophe turned to the boys and
quietly, locked the elder twenty-five
cents from his weekly allowance. and
the younger ten cents from his allow
ance,' causing Immediately a tremen-
.dous fall in the market value Of mis-
chief. This, our friend says, Is far
more effective punishment than scold-
ing or whipping, as it brings mischief
to a point where its return can be cal
culated in dollars and cents.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

From California comes an echo of
BLACK Jack" one of the NEST noted
outlaws, who paid the penalty of his
crimes on the gallows at Clayton. N.
M, deserted by his friends and jeered
at by his enemies, but not unlovcd. At
Lodi, Cal, lives a girl who will carry
his life's image with her through life.
c%herishing her memory Of the dead
bandit as only a sweetheart can. Miss
Eva Protzman, a little Salvation Army
~lassie, is the only woman that ever
brought cheer to his lonely heart; she
alone was able to bring a tear to those
cold gray eyes, and cause him to throw
off the black cloak of sin for the white
raiment Of repentance.
About one and one half years ago
in a remote orner of the west, she
first read an account of BLACK jacks
capture at Santa Fe, N. M, and his ul-
innate death sentence, and her heart
went out to him. She resolved to save
him from a terrible hereafter, and
with that in mind she wrote him a
touching letter, quoting verses from
the Bible, and in%terspersing them with
words of love. What Joy that letter
gave to the forsaken man, what new
feelings it aroused in his hardened
heart are seen In his letter. 1t showed
him for the first time the beauties of
a life to which he had always been a
stranger. At last he knew the mean
ing of the word love-" and he hum
gered for it. Outlaw that he was,
there is a pathos about the story that
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-07-18

The engineers Entrusted with the
building of the tunnel to connect Eng
land with tbs Isle of Wight hope to
begin operations in September. 1t is
more thaD likely that the trains will
be propelled by electric motors, max
ing it the only tunnel OF the kind in
the kingdom. The total length Of the
new line will be eight miles, but that
of the tunnel proper will be no more
than two and one-quarter miles. OF the
estimated cost of e55O,OOO, as much
as 100000 will be spent on boring
under the Solent. When the project is
completed passengers will be carried
from London to the Isle of Wight in
the record time of two and one-half
hours.