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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

Motherhood means either happiness
- misery. There is scant happiness for
the mother, who in pain aud weakness
brings into the world a weakiing babe
which she can neither nurse nor nourish.
Dr.. Pierce's Fnvorite Prescription eta
women for motherhood. II strengthens
the maternal organism. II tranquiiizes
the derives, encourages the appetite and
brings refreshing sleep. II makes the
birth hour practically painless and gives
the mother the nouriShment to give her
child.
There is no alcohol ia rFavodte Pre-
acription," and it is absolutely free from
opium, cocaine, and all other narcotics.
"wotds eannot express how grateful I am foe
yOur Kind advice and your 'Favorite PTescrp-
ton, " writes Mrs. n. b. 8arrieks. 81 PerfoWs.
Campbell Co., We. NJ feel that Il has cured ne
had been In poor health for four yeara. SAT-
iered greatly with my right side, aiso WITH
e~eaTtng-dowu pains. and my nerVea were In z
dreadful state. After using four bottles Of your
'Pavorite Prescription I am now we'll. Am
the mother OF two children. with the Art
Child I suffered twenty-eiRht hours, aud With
the second ! used your medicine and was sick
only three hours. believe Dr. Pieree'S FnSsN
tie Prescription 90 be the best medicine IN the
world for suffering females. I wish you great
success, and hope that God will blels you In
your noble WORK.
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in paper covers, II sent 6eS on
receipt OF Al cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address DR..
r. V Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

Daily sleeping cars from Deming a.
Denver. Kansas City and Chicago
Leaves n ming 500 p. NJ. Arrives
Oomjnv 100 4. VI. Agent Santa F.
Route, D-ming. will make reserva.
tinns.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

w A. Hawkins, the we'll known
lawyer. &C .mpanied by his wife, was
IN Clifton last week, where Mr.. Haw.
kinS was engaged in looking up the
titles Of some mining properties.
They returned last Friday.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

FOR SALE-An eighteen light
acetyline gas machine, hut little used
and practically as good as new. Has
heen replaced by electric lights. Ap
nlv tn Mrs. o. S. Warren, Silver City,
Now MPYirn.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

Mrs. e. F. Pearson left Tuesday for
Las Cruces, where she viii stay some
time visiting her daughter MIS-
Trust,
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

J. p. Kerr is in Las Cruces serving
a. 4 grand Juror in the GnlIed STATES
court which is IL session 10 that lsne-
sOme bgmleG
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-04-05

Sanford Robinson has been down
from Steeplerock this week, ENJOYING
the friyolitieS Of life in the metropolis.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Antiquity Of Playing cards.

The game of cards was first played
in the east and seems to have had a
military origin. Cards were introduced
from Asia into Europe at the time Of
the crusades and were first used by
necromancers to foretell fortunes They
soon became popular amusement in
the south of Europe, where the Sara
Gems and Moors taught the people how
to use them, and card playing spread
to all parts of the continent. The state
records of Germany mention the fact
that Rudolph L., in 1875, was fond of
the game and played with his court
iers.
After the invention of paper the man.
ufacture of cards became extensive,
but declined somewhat when card play
ing was forbidden by several of the
German states and by the English gov
eminent on account of the supposed
immoral tendency. Before the era of
paper cards in the orient We're made
of ivory, papyrus and canvas. less fire.
quently of the precious metals and
quite commonly of wood.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
For a Very Good Reason.

81 told him would make him eat his
words" declared Mr.. Beechwood hotly,
speaking of a quarrel he had had with
Mr.. Brushton. "He has been telling
things about me that are rank I'M
truths"
GLOW foolishly men talk to one an
other" commented Mrs. Beechwood
placidly.
what do you mean?" demanded her
husband do you intend to insinuate
that men talk to each other more fool
ishly than women chatter?'
"Of course do" the lady went on
imperturbably. "Now. women never
try to make each other eat their words.
no matter how angry they may be-"
Certainly not" retorted Mr.. Beech
wood, "and for very good reason too"
what reason?" she demanded.
Because their digestive apparatus is
inferior to their vocabulary" = Pitts
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
When Coal Wa. Prohibited.

1t makes the present generation smile
to read the accounts which have come
down to US concerning the prejudices
which were formerly entertained
against certain articles which are of
everyday consumption.
For instance, it is said that when coal
was first used in England the prejudice
against it was so strong that the house
of commons petitioned the king to pro-
hibit the use of the "noxious" fuel.
A royal proclamation having failed to
abate the nuisance, commission was
issued to ascertain who burned coal
within the city Of London and it's neigh
borhood, to punish them by force for
the first offense and by the demolition
Of their furnaces if they persisted in
transgressing. A law was finally pass
ed making it a capital offense to burn
coal in the city and only permitting it
to be used by FORCES in the vicinity. 1t
is stated that among the records in the
Tower of London a document was
found according to which a man was
hanged in the time of Edward 1. for no
other crime than having been caught
burning coal. 1t took three centuries
to entirely efface the prejudice.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Grain Moved In Streams.

Nowhere in North America will you
come on more thrilling night scene
than the fresh water cargo tank I'M
loading at Buffalo, says Rollin Lynde
Hartt in The Atlantic. Here she lies
beneath the towering grain elevator,
which thrusts a long pumping pipe
(called the 'leg'O down through her
hatchway. Mount the gangplank,
lodging the spinning ropes that make
your head reel, stumble about on the
dark deck, look down, down, down
through the open hatch, and, POUNDS,
what sight! The hold CLOVIS with
electricity. 1t is misty with blown
dust. 1t roars with mechanical activ-
ity.
An enormous steel Shovel" big as
the inside of n house and manipulated
by countless flying ropes, charges back
and forth through the whole length of
the ship, pitching the yellow grain be-
fore it and heaping it up where the leg
can get hold of it to whisk it into the
bin that is somewhere up in the sky.
beneath, in the hold, an army of blue
clad men with wooden scoops" barely
dodge the deadly shovel as they swing
the grain into its path.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
8unkoing n Japane.e.

~. P. g." was only an enlisted mar
in Uncle Sans navy, but his mess
mates called him "the Swell' because
whenever he went ashore he carried a
suit of civilians clothes. At Yoko-
hama, in his fine raiment and white
felt hat. he passed himself off to a
Japanese coal merchant as the pay
master of the fleet and contracted for
several thousand tons of coal. The
price named was $14 ton.
what is my rake OFF," he asked the
dealer, who offered generous commits
sion. make the price sixteen dollars
ton and have thousand tons
ready for delivery at the earliest pos
sible hour tomorrow morning." he said.
The merchant opened wine, and
when thoroughly warmed up the sailor
remarked, looking indolently at his
watch: by the bye, I'm expected to
visit the club tonight, and it is prob
able that l may need little more
money than have in my pocket. Per
haps you had better advance me three
CT four thousand dollars on account"
OF course he got what he wanted
Next morning the vessels were sur
rounded with scores of bargeS laden
with coal, and it was all the officers
could do to prevent the Japs from un-
loading their cargoes. The dealer dar-
ed say nothing, for he had entered into
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment, so he pocketed his loss in 81
lence.-New York Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
coa1ins a British Visitor.

A big British battleship coming here
to attend patriotic function of some
kind on the invitation of our govern
ment ran short of coal, and Uncle Sam,
as host, agreed to fill her bunkers free
of charge. This courtesy was done
through the medium Of Jersey City
merchant, who supplied fine furnace
coal, worth from So to 81 ton and
presented his bill to the English cap
tain. Send it to the navy depart
ment," said the latter, and to Washing
ton it went, to be returned by the next
mail with memorandum attached
saying that an error had been made
in the charge, ''the government con-
tract calling for coal at So ton.'' And
that is all the SMART Jerseyite ever re-
ceived.-New York Pre....
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Reasons For a Divorce.

The Druses sometimes divorce their
wives for apparently the most trivial
causes. Thus man named Soleiman
Attala had wife, Isbakyeh. The wo-
man frequently worked for us, and on
several occasions had to complain
that she talked too much and worked
too little. At length l was obliged to
tell Soleiman that owing to his wife's
laziness I could employ her no longer.
Shortly afterward l went to England.
On my return after couple of
months absence was surprised to
find that Soleiman had divorced Isbak-
yeh and had already married another
woman. On inquiring from him the
cause of this he replied. "Your honor
told me that you would not employ my
wife again, so I thought / would get
rid Of her and marry another woman
whom you would employ
woods Magazine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
About Ozone.

Many people talk about ozone with
out SO much as knowing what ozone is.
There is a prevalent idea that it is
something you get at the sea and that
it is good for the lungs. What that
something is, however, few people have
sufficient curiosity to inquire. Ozone is
what chemists call an allotropic form
of oxygen-that is to say, it is oxygen
highly active and concentrated con-
dition. In ordinary pure air ozone ex-
lists, but only in what chemists call
traces" Larger amounts are found in
ocean and mountain air. 1t instantly
disappears when brought in contact
with decaying matter, dissipating it.
self, as it We're, in the act Of oXidizing
that matter.
Ozone is known to occur more plenti-
fully during thunderstorms, and we
have, of course, the analogy of its be-
ing artificially produced from oxygen
by electrical discharges in the labora-
tory. On the body ozone is believed to
act as a stimulant; hence the popular
notion of it's beneficial effects as expe-
rienced by the sea, but in any greater
amount than mere traces it is violent
1rritant. One authority goes the length
of asserting that it is doubtful whether
1t is beneficial to animal life at all.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Trials of a Lecturer.

A well known English woman lee
turer tells these stories at her own ex-
pense:
81 was" she says, ION tour through
the provinces, and one night as I APP
peared on the platform in small town
the chairman introduced me to my au-
dience in the following way: You have
heard of Mr.. Gladstone, the Grand Old
Man. Let me now introduce to you
the grand old woman This was in
tended as sincere compliment.
ION another occasion bluff old farm
er. who boosted of his ability to look
on all sides Of a question, announced
me as follows: This lady's come here
to talk about her rights he said. She's
hired the hall, and so she's got right
to be here, and if any Of you don't like
what she's got to say you've got an
equal right to walk out in the middle
on't,'"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Colnred syYedes.

A little Swedish monthly magazine
published in New York city requested
its readers short time ago to send in
accounts of the experiences they had
when they first arrived in this country.
Here is the prize specimen: IN my I'M
sophisticated days l once started out
to call upon girl had known in the
old country. l was told that she lived
at Madison avenue and 49, street.
When l reached that corner, l was in
doubt which house to try, but l finally
went up the steps of one that faced
on the avenue and rang the bell A girl
came to the door. Does Miss Nelson
live here? asked as politely as I
could.
81 don't know any such person. she
answered, and I was turning away
when she called after me, is she
winter
''That irritated me. Did you ever
know any Swedes who We're colored?'
asked.
"'Well, have seen some green
Swedes,' was her retort, and I did not
continue the conversation.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Why Water Won't Fr,

Why cannot we fry in water? Be
cause water can only be heated to the
boiling point, PIP degrees, and any adj
ditional heat does not increase it's tenn
perature. Two hundred and twelve de-
grees of heat will not brown the sur
face of anything. Fat, on the contrary,
can be made much hotter, the tempera-
ture depending on the kind. There is n
lesson here for the economical house
wife. Don't stuff the stove with fuel
when the vegetables, meat, ETC., are
already boiling. They cook no faster
because of the increase of heat.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
All Cheese Is Densely Populated,

Professor .Ndametz. who devoted con-
siderable time TO the study of the fra
grant subject. said that the population
of an ordinary cheese when few
weeks old is greater than the number
of persons upon the earth.
Professor Adametz made some inter-
esting researches dealing with the mi
mute organisms found in cheese. From
a microscopic examination of soft
variety of Gruyere cheese he obtained
the following statistics: In fifteen
grains Of cheese, when perfectly fresh,
from 10000 to 100000 microbes were
found, and when the cheese was sew
enty days old the population had in
creased to 100000 in each fifteen
grains. An examination of a denser
cheese at twenty-five days old proved
it to contain 100000 in each gram
about fifteen grains) and when forty
five days old 100000 in the same
small particle.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Riding the wooden Horse.


torture on grand scale went ont
with FELTON,, the assassin of Bucking-
nam, but torture on small scale con-
tlhued TO be practiced on military Of
Ienders down to the eighteenth cen
fury. The form most frequently resort.
eu TO was that known as the wooden
7 horse, to ride which was the punish.
ment accorded for petty thefts in.
subordination and SO on. The wooden
morse was made of planks nailed to.
gether SO as to form a sharp ridge or
angle about eight or nine feet long.
This ridge represented the back of the
morse and was supported by four posts
or legs about five feet high placed on
stand made movable by truckles. To
complete the resemblance to the no.
blest animal in creation a head and
tail We're added.
When soldier was sentenced, either
by court martial or by his commanding
officer, to ride the horse, he was placed
on the brute's back, with his hands tied
behind him, and frequently enough, in
order to increase the pain, muskets
We're fastened to his legs to weigh
them down or, as was jocularly said,
to prevent the fiery, untamed, bare
backed steed from kicking him off,
London Graphic.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
The Camphor Eater.

1t is surprising what a number of
camphor eaters there are among the
well to do classes. The idea seems to
prevail that this gum, taken in small
and regular doses, gives peculiarly
clear creaminess of complexion, and
scores of young women buy it for this
purpose. The habit is, moreover, very
difficult to cast off, for camphor pro-
duces mild form of exhilaration and
stupefaction, and in many instances
where very large doses have been swal-
lowed the habit has become sort of
slavery.
These camphor eaters all have a
dreamy, dazed and very listless air,
and in most Of them there is an ever
present longing to sleep or at least to
rest. Extreme weakness generally fol-
lows the taking of regular Doses and |
have seen cases where it has been al
most difficult to tell the effects from
those Of alcohol. AS to the complexion,
If CHASTITY pallor be an improvement
camphor certainly produces it.-Clinic.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Now They Never Speak.

A GOODNESS growing out of the fol-
lowing conversation has sprung up be-
tween Jones and Smith.
II had splendid time last night"
said Jones. II spent the evening at
little social gathering at the Goodman
mansion"
Are the Goodmans nice people?"
queried Smith.
swell, l should say so. They are
very aristocratic. To get into their cir
Gle one must have either a great deal
of money or great deal of genius"
You don't tell me so? And you say
you were there?'
EYES,"
"You were invited. were you?"
"Of COURSE"
"And to be invited a man has to have
plenty of money or great deal of gen.
ius?"
Precisely"
well, Jones, am very glad to hear
you have become rich all of sudden.
Lend me five pounds!' -London An
swers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
When .Pluck. Was Slang.

The word "pluck" affords another in
stance of the way in which slang
words in the course of time become
adopted into current English. We now
meet with 'pluck" and "plucky" as the
recognized equivalents of courage"
and courageous" An entry in Sir
Walter SCOTS Journal shows that in
1927 the word had not yet lost it's low
character. He says volume 2, page
3O). want of that article blackguard-
~ called pluck" Its origin is obvious.
From early times the heart has been
popularity regarded as the seat of cour-
age. Now, when butcher lays open
carcass he divides the great vessels of
the heart, cuts through the windpipe
and then plucks out together the united
heart and lungs-lights, he calls them
and he terms the united mass ''the
pluck. Notes and Queries.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
observations by Mildred.

Scene: Tramcar. Dramatis persona:
Four-year-old girl, mother and several
passengers.
Child Gn high, shrill treble)-Mamma
did you get papa's birthday present?
Eyes, dearest"
what did you get, mammal"
cigars, lovey."
''The cheap ones that Aunt N1illie told
you about?"
Silence from mamma, but heighten-
ed flush on her face that was not entire
ly the reflection from dearest lovey's"
red velvet hat
Mamma, that man over there has on
dreadfully dirty necktie. You told
papa the other day that no gentleman
would wear soiled neclltie.'
Man giares and pulls his coat about
his i,cc,i
Mildred. stop talking"
s-.ld!'eG US sent for little while.
'.t.aii.li.;l. Lat lady over there forgot
TO pa..:,h lser shoes this morning.
LG@..o. ::;i,;.Gc Moments.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Living Like n savage.

Civilized people will be shocked at
the advice of an English physician to
a wealthy patient to live like savage
to be cured. Savages. it may be re-
called, do not belong to clubs, have no
stock exchanges, know nothing of trust
and trade combinations, run no polit-
zeal campaigns and so reserve some vi
tality and nerve force for purely living
urposes.-Baltimor American.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
spiders Are Industrious.

No small insect ever escapes from
the web Of a spider, a fact which is
not to be wondered at when it is con-
sidered that an ordinary sized snare
may contain as many as 10000 viscid
globules. The spinner Is constantly
engaged in repairing injuries to the
web inflicted by wind, stray leaves or
captured insects. Once day the whole
snare is subjected to rigorous examina-
ton, and any broken or loosened
threads are adjusted Cornhill Maya
zine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
A ylctirn of scotch Logic.

Ahfghland hotel Keeper was one day
having a squabble with an Englishman
in the lobby Of the hotel about his bill.
The stranger said it was gross impo-
sition-he could live cheaper in the best
hotel in London.
The highland landlord replied, ooh,
nae doot, sir, nae doot; but dae We mo-
ken the reason?"
mot bit of it." replied the stranger
hastily.
"Weel. them" replied the host, las We
seem to be sensible bit Gallant, I'll
tell We. There's 365 days in the Lunnon
hotel keepers calendar, but we have
only three months here. Dae ye under
stand me moo, freen'? We maun maxi
hay in the hielan's when the sun
Shines for it's unco seldom she dis't."-
Scottish American.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Italian Brigandare In 1s4s.

One summer evening in the crowded
theater an impatient house demanded
the drawing Of the curtain preliminary
to the first act. When at last it was
appraised, II Passatore and his armed
band occupied the stage, with muskets
aimed at the affrighted audience. The
chief stated that he should levy tax
per head, which he then and there col
lected. The gang made off with their
booty unmolested. - Lady Presturchs
Essays"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
A Share In a Jewel.

There is story told of a French serv-
ant who was shown priceless jewel
by great duke.
THANK you, my lord duke" said the
man of science, "for allowing. me to
share with you the possession of so
great a treasure"
''In what way" said the duke.
why. your grace can do no more
than look at it, and you have allowed
me to do the same" = All the Year
Round.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Away From Home

1t is becoming the fashion for wo-
man to seek maternity hospital that
her children may be born amid conven-
fences lacking at home. The children
are sent away from home to school,
They are married away from home, and
members of the family are taken to
hospitals for their final illness and bur-
led from an undertaker's parlor 1t is
becoming fashion to take everything
from home except the family rows.
They are still sacred to the family
hearth.-Atchison Globe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
No Rebate.

When Adelina Patti visited Madrid
one time in company with her husband,
Signor Nicolini, who thought himself a
tenor singer, there was an effort to en-
gage the noted artist for an especial
occasion. The opera director asked:
How much will you charge us if you
and your honored husband appear on
this occasion for one night?"
"Ten thousand francs, SIR
"And how much if you come without
the signor. madame?"
'"Ten thousand francs"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Thunder.

Winter thunder is considered through
out Europe to be Of very i'll omen, but
April thunder is considered to be very
beneficial. In Devonshire and other
cider counties of England there is a
saying that when it thunders in April
you must clean up the barrels'-in
readiness, that is, for plentiful crop
of apples.
The French consider April thunder
to be indicative of good yield from
their vineyards and cornfields.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
The Sponge.

The sponge reproduces it's kind main
ly by eggs. In each animal are con-
tanned both the male and the female
elements. and it throws out the ova to
be Matched in the water. At first the
young are free swimming, and after
ward they attach themselves to con-
yenient spots and grow.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
Gold.

The specific gravity of gold is 1850
that is, it weighs nineteen and half
times as much as its own bulk of wa
ter The ductility and malleability of
this metal are equaled by no other. By
ductility is meant the property of al
lowing itself to be drawn out into a
wire and by malleability it's property
of fattening without splitting under
the hammer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-17
The Amman WAY

The famous Appian way. mentioned
by almost every Roman writer, con-
nected the Eternal City with all parts
of south Italy. For many miles from
Rome the space on each side was filled
with sepulchers. many Of them of per-
sons distinguished in history. To have
sepulcher on the Appian way was
equivalent to being buried in Green
wood. in New York, or Pere la Chaise,
n Paris.