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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-30
QUEEN SECRETLY MARRIED
Alpbo lso Orders Fis Mother to go Abroad she
Resuses...
IN Nd Associated Pressl }

Madrid, Sept ga sensational scandal
is being circulated here today in re-
port that King Alphonso has discovered
his mothers marriage TO her Master Of
Horse, Count Escosura, during her recent
visit to Austria
Years ago the Queen plighted her troth
with the Count, but was compelled TO
marry Alphonso's father for state rea-
sons.
The King wild, and has ordered his
mother TO go abroad with her husband.
The Queen Indignantly refused
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-30
Consolidated Naval Stores Company

(By the Associated Press)
Savannah, Ca, Sept. 29.-The Consoli-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-30

We feel shame not for what we have
done
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
PASSING eLlMPsEs.

Students sang and jeered while Car
RE Nation talked at Yale, but not even
a Ratchet could have cut short her re.
marks.
Lead manufacturers have formed a
gigantic trust, and hereafter only the
man with money will be believed when
he says he has a lead-pipe cinch.
With the opening of the game sea.
son m the suggestive announce
ment that Marin county farmers are
about to go cunning for chauffeurs.
In a suit for divorce an Eastern man
named Collier has the impertinence
to complain because his wife. forced
him to carry coal. What's in a name?
If some specialist should declare that
all orators who desire to keep on max
ing a noise should rest at least three
days a week the whole country would
rise and call him blessed.
Heinze of Montana calls his new po-
litical organization the Antitrust par.
ty, but as he has no grudge against
industrial combinations, the infants
full name is probably Antitrust in
Senator Clark"
The lawyers of ex-Queen Liluokalani
are trying to prove that her overthrow
was due to a plot. At this late day 1t
would seem that it doesn't matter
much whether she was upset by a rev
olution or a banana peel.
Government surveyors now at work
in Alaska report that they recently
found a country where white men had
never been. A good many people are
anxious for particulars. They would
like to go there and stay until after
election.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

-
When a man fuses he usually
muses..
They are not always Optimists that
smile together.
Moral suasion and a whip will make
a nan do most anything.
Death occasionally discards his
sickle for an up-to-date reaper.
There is a possibility that Baer's
divine right" will get a ever jolt.
Since Gentleman Jim knows the
lady he won't stand for being counted
out.
Father Neptune is alleged to be to-
tally Indifferent to the steamship
trust
The number of smiles that go to
make the idiotic grin vary with the
idiots capacity.
It is when a man is least able to do
so that he brags about his ability to
walk the chalk line.
II we only knew the fun we we're
having while we were having it how
happy we might bel
The baby learns to cry for what it
wants; adult human nature eve gets
than half a point better.
When Old Sol stocked up sunshine
in the bowels of the earth he never
suspected the trouble he was making.
Once upon a time there was a poll
tician who failed because he didn't
have a pocket large enough to put his
pride in.
Some of the best lessons a boy
learns are learned by him while he
is playing hookey-and Immediately
afterward.
After listening to its first greeting
TO a naughty world Bobby opined that
the baby left heaven because its harp
was out of tune.
There are i7reverent cynics who
give it as their opinion that a general
of industry might be willing to dispose
of his soul on a cash basis.
Sometimes one sees a look in a
baby's eyes that causes one to wonder
if the little mite of humanity is des-
tined to forget more than he will
ever learn in the years to come.
There are white pariahs who con-
sort with savages for the sake Of the
moral responsibility that goes with
such a life. Such men simply put into
effect the wish to be boys again.
If there was a royal road to learn
ing, we might at least, miss the hob
bledehoy stage.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
SNAP

Even good luck is sometimes loaded.
Man is a SHABBY piece of building
material.
Do not use up all your opportunities
before you get to them.
Justice holds equal scales for out
siders as well as for insiders.
Boston may drive away a few of
the shivers with synthetical coal.
A great many adventurous people
would rather jump to conclusions than
not.
The man who lives far in the future
will soon find himself far back in the
past.
It takes rubbing to make a man
bright, and grinding maketh a sharp
man.
Man fancies himself a sturdy oak
and is then reminded that the ak is
laid at the root of the tree.
There are some heartless and high
ly scientific men who find even in the
willingness of the romantic belle To
climb down a rope made Of bedclothes
nothing better than a survival of an
old inclination of monkeys to slide
down grapevines.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
TREASURE TRoVE.

A plant in the room on washday is
worth more than a bunch of flowers
On Sunday.-Nature Portraits.
A persons mind has no call to be
all clothes. They are all that stands
between is and savages, some think.
Mrs. Tree.
Readiness to answer all manner of
questions involving book learning is
the beginning of a species of idiocy.-
The U~nspeakable Scot.
Men folks is like pickles-some;
women is the brine they're picked
in--they don't keep sweet without
'em.-Mrs. Tree.
A person who can't argue is like
a person who can't chew; he swallows
the facts of life unprepared for diges-
tion.-Those Delightful Americans.
Financial reciprocity
Is built upon this plan
A man first makes the money, then
The money makes the man.
-Whimlets.
Thar new was a plant as hard to
get rooted as charity is, and a body
ought to have it whar they kin watch
it close. Itn die a heap o. times eff
you jest look at it, an 1t mighty nigh
always has bad soil ur a drouth to
contend with.-Abner Daniel.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
WAY LEAVES CHANGE COLOR.
Chemical Elements Produce the Huec
We All Know.

Chemical Elements Produce the Hues
We All Know.
A leaf is composed of a great mum.
Der of cells, the walls Of which are
brown. In the spring and summer
these cells are all filled with fluid,
colored with minute grains of red,
yellow and other pigments, which,
mixed together, appear green. In the
autumn, through the cold, oxidation
and other changes take place in the
leaf cells, destroying more or less
rapidly certain of the color elements.
AS soon as one Of these elements is
gone the leaf no longer appears a
normal green. but assumes the shade
Of the remainder of the color ele.
ments mixed together. When only
the red element is left the leaf is red;
when the yellow alone remains the
leaf is yellow, and when all the color.
ing matter has gone the leaf is brown.
Frost is not the sole cause of the
changes of color, but it is an import.
ant cause. The more gradual the
changes of temperature from summer
heat to winter cold, the greater will be
the variety and brilliancy in the color
ings of the autumn leaves.-Woman's
Home Companion.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
WIII DC Improved coaI chute.

Arrangements are being made by
the Union Pacific to spend hundreds
of thousands of dollars in improve
ments in coaling stations all over its
system, and the adoption Of a new
coal chute whereby n man can do
the work that formerly needed the
services of a dozen. A trial of the
new chute has been made in Lexing-
ton, Nebraska, and has proved its
worth. w. e. Wilmer of the coal de-
partment, has just returned from a
tour of inspection in Nebraska and
southern Colorado, and reports favor
ABBY on the working Of the new chutes,
1t is understood that in all thirty coal
ing stations in the Union Pacific sys-
TEN will be equipped with the new
chute within a year, and that 1000
new coal dump cars of seventy-ive
ton capacity will be ordered built. The
first one installed in Colorado will be
built at Julesburg.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
ACTORS

Henry Miller talks from one side of
his mouth, and seems to draw in his
upper lip.
William Faversham has a stride. It
lengthens in proportion to the tension
Of his speeches.
John Drew's favorite position is to
stand with his hands behind his back
and his legs spread wide apart.
Tim Murphy has retained his Texas
Steer trick Of shaking the f%orehnger
Of his right hand when he wants to be
emphatic.
Otis Skinner looks from beneath
lowering ~eyelashes, and when he ges-
lures he throws his arms straight
out before he begins any light -four
ishes.
Robert Drouet talks with ms mouth
partly open, and the words come in
pants. The suggestion is that of a
FISH out Of water, gasping, open-mouth-
ed, for air.
Charles Richman holds his hands be-
hind his back, but more loosely thar
Mr.. Drew. When he sits at a table
OF stands by a mantel he leans on his
elbow, with hand on chin.
James X. Hackett likes to stand
with his arms folded on his breast.
When he does a lock of hair invariably
falls over his eyes, and he has to re
lease one arm to brush 1t back.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Hon. David Meekison is well known
not only in his own State, but through
out America. He was elected to the
Fifty-ffth Congress by a very large
majority, amidst the acknowledged leader
of his party in his section of the State.
Only one flaw marred the otherwise
complete success of this rising states
man. Catarrh with it's insidious APP
proach and tenacious grasp, was his
only u~nconquered foe. For thirty years
he waged unsuccessful warfare against
this personal enemy. At last Peruna
came to the rescue. He writes
al have used several bottles of Pc
rnna and I feel greatly benefited there
by from my catarrh of the head. 7
feel encouraged to believe that if use
Ii short time IOngerI will be fully able
to eradicate the disease of thirty years
stsading. David MeekisOH, Member
of Congress.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he viii
be pleased to give you his valuable add
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus,
Ohio.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
THE MODERN NovELrsrs.

People get to like a soul, but a sat
~lsfactory hat makes an impression at
first sight-John oliver Hobbies ia
The Soul Hunters"
There is no such certainty Of knowl-
edge on all subjects as one holds at
IS and S0.-Richard Harding Davis in
Captain Macklln."
When l want the brutal rhetoric of
common sense l listen to ladies of
blameless virtue.-John Oliver Hobbies
in "The Soul Hunters"
Human condolences must be mutual.
It is onlyto God that man can continue
telling, telling, telling, and never get
ting a word in return.-Henry Seton
Merriman in The Vultur IS"
It is a fundamental law Of a happy
and useful life that we must keep
sweet. for bitterness perverts the
judgment and corrodes the heart
Charles Frederic Goss in The Loom
of Life"
Fortunately, emotions primitively
barbarous are not indicated by exter-
nal labels, or walks in the street
would be fraught with strange dis
coveries.-Anthony Hope in The In
trusions of Peggy"
The knights of the world no longer
fight in armor, but in every street Of
every city there are still men Sans
peur ct sans %reproche," who not only
live for love but who are ready to die
for loves sweet Subsidiaries Fred.
eric Goss in The Loom Of Life"
There is no corrosive like wounded
egotism. 1t eats into the moral
nature, %corrupting its victim, destroy
ing all sense of proportion and blind
ing him to everything save his own
passionate longing for reprisal.-
James Creelman in Eagle Blood"
1t was between twilight and candle
light, the gentle half hour when the
kind old Sand Man steals Up the
stairs of houses where children are;
when rustic lovers stroll with slow
and quiet steps down country lanes,
and old bachelors are loneliest and
dream of things that might have been,
Booth Harrington in The Two Van.
revels."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Criticism of N. p. willis.

N. P. Willis was a clever man in
many ways. But his inherent soft.
ness justified the saying current in
his day, that the initials of his given
name stood for mandy pamby."
This was his style (%speaking of wo.
mem; 81 have si4hed in France, l
have loved in Italy! l have bargained
for Circassians, and have lounged at
Howell & James Of a sunny day, but
nowhere is there such a work of God
as an American woman in her belle
hood" Good sentiment but bad tone.
The Howell 6 James referred to kept
a restaurant in London and shouldn't
be mistaken for the writer's of those
names.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
woRTH REPEATING.

wit and wisdom from Love and the
Soul Hunters"
Nature makes memorable war IN her
failures.
like to let a man feel hat he has
the laugh on me. 1t makes him feel
good.
An overstrained systeml J
call It excess of self-consciousness-
egotism, that's all.
Flippant people often have a great
deal of sense in the conduct of life.
Their hatred Of peril and pain makes
them %instinctively farseeing.
However precious the gift Of humor
may be, It is a question whether those
who possess it make the truest
friends. Terror of the laugh, and the
fear that T. can be justified is often
a misfortune, oftener d restraint on
confidence, and oftener stlll 1t giVea
an %ironical tinge to sympathy.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
DIAMONDS INJuRE THE SIGHT.
New Peril viii Not Greatly Trouble
the Average Man.

New Peril viii Not Greatly Trouble
the Average Man.
Somebody has advanced a new the
Org. 1t is declared that the fashion
of wearing so many large diamonds
is injurious to the eyesight.
This news will not interest a large
percentage of the feminine popula.
ton, for obvious reasons. Neither is
it likely to make unhappy the one who
wears a tiara and a sunburst the size
of a plate.
The danger is only to the admiring
and envious few who surround the
wearer of the gems.
If they gaze too long and earnestly
at her jewels, according to this semi
medical authority, the effect produced
on the eyes is somewhat like that of
the electric light, a sense of bedaz-
element and strain, which is hardly
noticeable at first, but tends to be.
come strongly marked.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
BROTHER DIcKEY's PHILOSOPHY

De nan what starts out ter make de
worr better nos inginrully winds up
by feelin' wusser.
De Day err Judgment looks so fur off
ter some folks dat dey can't even see
Gabrul polishin' his trumpet.
Riches may be a curse, but wen it
comes ter dat, lots er US feels dat
we kin stan a good deal er cussin'.
Some err desc hard-headed sinners
kin take dis fer dey consolation: Dey
won't be any coal strike in de place
whar dey gwine.
Wisdom didn't die wild Solomon.
You'll find lots err folks in dis worl'
whatn tell you Solomon didn't know
a thing erbout it.--Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Irritation figures.

The third annual report of the irri-
cation Investigations of the Office Of
experimental stations, United States
department of agriculture, made un-
der the direction of Elwood Mead,
says that averages of measurements
embracing nearly all of the arid states
show that during the past three years
enough water was turned into the
heads of bitches during the irrigation
season to cover the land irrigated to
a depth of 4.45 feet; or, stated in an
other way, 4.45 acre feet Of water
were taken from streams for every
acre Of land irrigated.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
ORIGINAL Profanity.

A correspondent sends the follow
ing to the New York Sun: How Is
this? Private James Burns, Battery
L. First United States Artillery, COW
cred with a wet blanket, lying fiat to
keep from being roasted by the flames
of the burning big barracks, which
were driven in sheets, where We were
trying to protect ourselves on the
morning of April 10, 1851, at Fort
Sumter, South Carolina, jumped up
when his blanket began to sizzle, and
yelling, "Hell's bells and blue blazes!"
made a dash for the c%istern, drew up
a bucket of water and turned it over
himself.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Both Reserved.

Some time ago the lord lieutenant
of Ireland agreed to attend a certain
race meeting and a carriage was re.
served for his e%xCellency in the spe-
cial train run from Dublin on the race
day. Seeing that the adjoining car.
rage was reserved for Lord Ardilaun
of brewing fame, n Of whose prod
ucts is a malt liquor known as the Xxx.
a porter took up A piece of chalk and
wrote upon the one carriage. For
HIS Ok" and on he other. " For His
Xxx"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Gives Advice 70 chInamen.

Choy See Ken, a Chinese nobleman
Of liberal views, addressed the Chi
nese Merchants association of New
York the other day and advised his
hearers to cut off their pigtails and
acquire American n in dress
and customs. In that way, he said,
it will be more easy for them to abb
sorb the ideas necessary for them in
the new regime in China, which he be-
lieves will come when the empress
dies. In all possible ways he would
have his country opened to American
and European enterprise.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

After putting her autograph on the
hotel register the actress handed the
clerk a package. saying. Put it in the
safe, please; it contains $4,000 worth
of diamonds"
Very we'll" replied the genial
clerk. "Tll see that the safe is robbed
in time to get an account Of your loss
in the morning papers"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Eleven Points in the Evidence.

Fast trains that make time; smooth
and level tracks, charming scenery;
luxurious through sleeping cars; excel
lent dining cars; barber shop and
bath; stock reports and daily and
weekly papers; ladies' maids and stem
ographers; bufets and libraries;
courteous and attentive employees, and
centrally located stations, are a few
OF the reasons for the marvellous pas
senger traffic of the New York Central
Lines.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
Their Modest Request.

Chairman Griggs of the Democratic
national congressional committee was
rather pushed for speakers in the re-
cent campaign. Many urgent requests
have been received, but by all odds
the most modest was this from an
Iowa district; Send us two speakers
at once for the last week. Nobody but
Bourke Cochran, Carl Schurz or Cleve-
land. We will pay board and furnish
teams"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Rev. Benjamin De Costa Of New
York. who is reported to have describ-
ed Newport as a cakewalk ornament
ed with divorce, has evidently studied
the literary style of the inimitable Mr..
Watterson.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11
The ST. PAUL CALENDAR

Elk sheets 1Ox15 inches, OF beautiful
reproductions, in %colors, Of pastel
drawings by Bryson, is now ready for
distribution and will be mailed on re-
ceipt Of twenty-five (25) cents-coin
or stamps. Address F. A. Miller, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

nasmuch as a corruption fund Of
100000 for use in the city council has
been discovered in Havana there APP
pears to be some mistake in the re-
ports that the Cubans are not fitted
TO conduct a modern, up-to-date gov
eminent.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Mexico has lost it's case before the
Hague tribunal, but it should feel
some satisfaction in making the sue
cessful claimant take so large a sum
in Mexican dollars.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Hall Game has no complaints to en-
ter against the sleeping al system in
this country. 1t is averred that he
hangs up his hat and turns in with
his clothes On.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

The coal operators insisted that
there was nothing to arbitrate, and
the President responded on behalf Of
the people that there was also moth
ing to burn. With the one supplied
the other will follow.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

A Syracuse gentleman named
O'Connor is accused by a widow of be-
ing engaged to both herself and her
mOther; that's one way to solve the
mother-in-law problem.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

There is something in a name. Colo
mel p. b. Hogshead Of Staunton, was
the Virginia delegate at the meeting
oil the National Liquor Dealers asso-
citation at Washington. Mr.. Tank
was not present by name, but he was
well represented.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

A STAFF Of enumerators in New Jer-
sey is asking each family in Essex
county: Have you a Bible Of your
own" The question should be added:
IF SO, do you know where it ISL"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

A lot of Swiss hicyclists are coming
to the United States through the Ca
madam border. The whole people will
now have a chance to do some maneu-
vering.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Mascagni is learning a lot of new
things concerning the advertising
methods Of American managers. His
artistic soul might rebel if it we're not
for the handsome profits that are &C
cruing.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

California will produce 100 900, 900
pounds Of prunes this year. which is a
tip to married folks not to break up
housekeeping. Wait until the season
when the crop fails.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Just stand in the middle Of Main
street and holler Carrie Nation!"
Then listen to the rapid slamming of
saloon doors the full length Of the
street.-Houston (Texas) Post.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

One magazine has received 10000
unsolicited manuscripts within the
year. OF course, the burden of re-
turn postage fell on unappreciated
genius.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

President Eliot of Harvard says
gambling is a vice of savages. The
gentlemanly Fiji islanders in Wall
street will please take no dee.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Mrs. Burton Harrison advises wo-
men TO talk politics in the family
circle. But Mrs. Harrison should n
derstand that there are times when
the masculine worm will turn.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Leading Mani believe money can
be made If you will let me do Hamlet.
Business Manager don't care who
you do, just so you leave me alone.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Col. Taylor of Chicago has fallen
heir to a castle in Germany. He will
find that it costs more to maintain it
than a castle in Spain.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

The Women's Federation at Toledo
discussed the ideal mi Can't tell
you anything about it until the model
arrives.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

Mary MacLane received 100 offerB
of marriage while she was in the East.
No wonder Mary thinks the East is e
crazy old place"