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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
BOYS IDEA OF HIS SWEETHEART
As Dainty a Compliment as One Could
Desire.

As Dainty a Compliment as One Could
Desire.
A young matron who lives in a
Washington apartment house with her
little daughter is viewing with great
interest a courtship going on under
her very eyes. The daughter, Naomi.
is the most engaging, dignihed and
dutiful little girl Of IL ever seen in
that part of the city across the creek.
So she has been taken by her mother
to call upon a great many older per-
sons, and has made the acquaintance
of numerous boys of fifteen or there
abouts. Not long ago n of these
boys came to see his friends mother
very formally and sat and talked with
her until the tensity of a formal call
nearly burst his jacket. Then he arose
and with a polite bow asked for a
portrait OF the little girl. The matron
demurred, of course.
well said the young sutton, IF
YOU will give me a goou picture Of
Naomi / will give you back a picture
/ have already. II isn't a good one at
all. But I'll give 1t back to you for
a better one
The mother was greatly mystihed.
She decided after awhile that the boy
has photographed her little girl on
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Here is a sample of the other ex-
IRENE. Said a Minneapolis lawyer to
me: when l began the practice OF
law l always lost two nights before l
had a case in court, tossing about aud
combating every thinkable standpoint
of my opponent. And l lost as much
sleep afterward upbraiding myself for
not having thought of certain points
at certain pat occasions in the prog
ress of the case" OF what value were
these night thoughts to this young at
torney? About as much value as
night sweats to a copa0mptive!
venture to say that all the business
planning a man does in life while
lying on his back at night isn't worth
an hours good thinking on his feet
On one June morning. AS compared
with the sleep it displaces, such night
thinking isn't worth forty winks after
dinner. Burning the candle at both
ends sometimes makes a fine bonfire
But it always makes a bad grease spot
of a good candle.-The Commercial
West.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

foreign news was the Continental pa
pers, principally those Of Paris, and
credit was always given to the paper,
for an assurance that we will not,
under p~retense of having private in
telligence, impose any addition of
feigned circumstances to an action"
The most modern thing about the
COurant was it's effort at accuracy. At
that time various weekly papers were
in existence, but their news was of no
unreliable a character that the jour
nails became a byword for i%naccuracy.
The Courant scorned these methods
and the evils of subsidized comment,
and, in it's clean character as well as
in its very existence, opened a new era
in news dissemination.
The proprietor of the Courant was
one E. Mallet, and it was he that first
showed the ~practicability of his own
excellent conception of a clean news
paper. Samuel Buckley bought the
Courant on April %, 1902, and added
advertisements, consisting chiefly of
announcements of new books, such as
"A Modest Inquiry Concerning the
Opinion of Guardian Angels"
Time and tide wait for no man-and
a woman is always behind time.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
IS HARD TO READ HANDWRITING
typewriter Threatens to Make m
ship "A Lost Art

Typewriter Threatens to Make
ship "a Lost Art
With the almost universal use of the
typewriter in correspondence, billing.
mercantile papers and in authors
manuscripts, has come about the in
ability of men to read ordinary hand
writing.
The use of the typewriter may have
had something to do with making
handwriting more extraordinary than
it ever was, but in the days when a
certain school Of almost illegible hand
writing was so affected by lawyers,
physicians, clergymen, journalists and
literary men, it is doubtful if the mere
lack of practice in present day penmen
auses them to turn out manuscript
to compare with that of years ago.
Whatever is the matter says an
observer in a big publishing house, 1T
is true that young men and women of
to-day have almost lost the art of
reading matter written by pen or pen
ell. They come to me by the dozens
every day, asking that l help them out
in deciphering letters or manuscript.
In such cases l know that the manu-
scripts are not as bad as those of
forty years ago, and this for several
reasons:
1--WE have better paper nowadays;
we have better pens, better pencils and
it no longer is fashionable for any
body using a pen to affect an untidy
letter. Some of this angular penmar-
ship affected by young women is hard
to read when II comes to proper names,
but otherwise | find the pen written
letter to-day remarkably easy to read.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

and had his leg cut off. | paint a
picture of a burning house and him
jumping out Of a top window with a
child In his arms, and a yarn under It:
Kind friends, l lost my leg through
rescuing my employers child That's
a sure take of a 'iver' a day.
Il make all these rigs myself" he
said, and hire 'em out 1t pays, but !
have to keep dark, for the police are
very down on my sort. This hollow
wooden cap with an iron hook Ats
yer your hand. and here's a club-foot
boot, and yonder a pair for both feet
"A queer business? You'd say so II
you knew the jobs I'm asked to do
sometimes. Only yesterday a woman
wanted vitriol scars On her face, and
actually wanted me to use real vitiol.
Didn't know what she was asking
Oh, yes. Why, bless you, some beg
CARS maui themselves horribly to ex-
cite sympathy. In fact, they'd do any
thing rather than work."-New York
World.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
woulp LIMlr LIouoa sALEs.
Prusslan Ministry May Be Asked to
Restrict the Traffic.

Count Douglas. a descendant Of a
Scotch soldier Of fortune, has pro-
posed a resolution in the Prussian diet,
asking the ministry to bring In a bill
imposing more rigid restrictions on the
liquor traffic. All parties except the
Radicals, supported the measure, and
the Radicals did not speak against 1t.
The resolution of Count Douglas set
forth that he was no abstainer himself,
and that on proper occasions he liked
to get a good drink. But he was deep
ly impressed with the injury inflicted
In Germany by excessive indulgence
in drink. The Germans, he added,
spend three billion marks per year In
drink, twice the amount of the army
and navy budgets, and 10000 persons
were brought before the courts through
drink. The number of criminals was
increasing by 10000 annually, and the
number of convicted persons had in
creased from POO 94 in 1882, to 47S,-
1879 In 1899. In the insane asylums in
temperance furnished thirty per cent.
of the inmate, and eighty per cent. Of
Germany's idiots were the children Of
try through excessive drinking, was in
c%alculable.
Germany, while leading the world in
social reform legislation had done prac-
tically nothing against drinking. The
United States was far more advanced
than Germany in this respect.
He condemned the drinking cult in
the universities, saying it was a Jolly
life while it lasted, but 1t had many
tragical sequels.
Practicing physicians followed with
statements drawn from their own eX-
perience. DIR. Endemann asserted that
a%lcohOlists succumbed to tubercle ba-
cillus much more easily than others,
and DR.. Martens said the mortality in
all diseases was three or four times
greater in the case of alcoholists than
among abstainers, comparing persons
Of equal physical strength.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

A friend who was lunching with
Senator Hanna recently said to him:
Senator, you have abundant wealth, a
happy home and have been highly
honored by your fellow-citizens, but
don't you at times wish for something
more?" yes, | have a wish similar to
one expressed by an ancient Roman, -
said Hanna. Il wish that l might eat
what please and make some Demo-
crat digest It."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
~ Want Everybody to Know How
Completely II Cures Indigestion"

This shows the unselhsh disposition of Mr..
Hodge, of Orchard Cottage, Ippleden, New
ton, who, having been cured by Vogeler's
Compound, wishes every other sufferer to
know of the benefit he has received from
this marvellous remedy. He tells his story
as follows -
"~Gentlemen-I find Vogeler's Compound a remedy
above all others last year ! was in a thorough bad
state of health, and could hardly drag one leg after tho
other. had tried dozens Of remedies advertised to
cure indigestion and all its attendant evils, but was
rapidly going from bad TO worse. when | had the good
fortune to be TO take Vogeler's Com
pound. l did SO, and am thankful to say it made a
new man Of me. ! should ike other people 20 know
its virtues, and how completely it knocks under the
worst forms Of indigestion and dyspepsia.
(Signed) GEORGE II. HoDoR.
Vogeler's Compound is the greatest rene
dy of the century for all stomach disorders.
and liver and kidney troubles in both men
and women. A free sample bottle will be
sent on application to the proprietors, St.
Jacobs Oil, Ltd, Baltimore, Md.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

the sly, and in order to find out she
sem him word that she would make
the exchange.
Next day there came to her door a
long box with a note on the outside.
Il am greatly privileged TO send you
Naomi's picture" read the note. 1T
isn't half as pretty as 1t ought to be-"
The young matron opened the box
curiously. says the Washington Star.
and looked at its contents a long time
without saying a word. It held a sin
gle American beauty rose.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The prospect of having American
college yells at oxford seems to dis
woman and proved that though mar
riage may be a lottery there are no
blanks for the man with a will.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The originator OF the comic valen-
tine has just died at the age Of ninety.
He lived in Philadelphia and was
therefore very slow about facing the
ghosts of his numberless victims.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

It is the demands, not the promises.
that make men Of us; the RESPONSE
bilities, not the enjoyments, hat raise
us to the stature Of men and women.
p. T. Forsyth.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

why can't the young folks read it.?
Simply because they are spoiled by
typewriter letters and manuscript. 1
don't know if penmanship is to become
a lost art, but the reading Of it seems
to be promising of such a fate.'
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

An Illinois girl wrote her name and
address on an egg and put it in a
crate with others to be shipped east,
She Is still waiting for a matrimonial
proposition to hatch out.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Mr.. Morgan is getting perilously
near that place on the public stage
where Alexander posed while he wept
because he had no more worlds tc
conquer.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Since a Waukegan judge has decid-
ed that egg money is the legitimate
perquisite of a farmers wife. there
will be a chance for some ONE to
buy new dresses oftener than once in
ave years.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

1t has been brought out in a Connec-
ticut divorce suit that the man was
drunk twice a day for 1854 days in sue
cession. Why he missed on the 365th
Is not explained.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The habit Of talking back at the
preacher during the delivery Of his
sermon is becoming so common as to
make church services unusually attrac-
tive.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

And the greatest victory that Wis
consin Grand Army veteran ever won
was in securing three kisses without
having to pay for them.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

William Waldorf Astoria has given
500, 900 to an English university, but
when last heard from he was still
waiting for that title.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Carnegie advises young men not to
strive to obtain more han a compe-
tence. He will not have to plead very
hard with the majority Of them to
get their consent.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

During the year 1901 nearly half a
million cases of champagne were i'm
ported into the United States. 1t will
be remembered as an extra dry year.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Kubelik and Paderewski no sooner
wind up their season than it is an
pounced that the seventeen-year To-
Gusts are headed this way.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Having seen a few portraits Of King
Leopold we shall not be surprised al
anything the people who see the origi-
nal every day may take a notion to
do him.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
Why Is Il

That St. Jacobs Oil always affords instant
relief from pains, after all other remedies
have signally failedl Simply because it is
peculiar to itself, wholly unlike another rem
edy, 1t possesses great penetrating power,
reaching the very seat Of the disease. 1t
acts like magic. 1t conquers pain quickly
and surely. 1t is an outward application,
and is used by millions Of people.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

A man with a live body and a dead
mind has been found in Chicago, but
nobody is reported missing from the
railway station bureau of information.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

King Edward belongs to twenty
elubs-and probably nothing disagree
able would be done even if he should
not pay his dues.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

People who are in the habit Of sell
ing their old books to the junk men
should keep the fact in mind that an
old volume bearing the date 1867
brought $1,1OO in New York recently.
There was nothing valuable about the
book but its age.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Kansas City has a bribery scandal.
1t seems to be a mere matter of discov-
ering the briber in order to put all
American cities on the same footing.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Some people are not bothering so
much about the price of meat since
the cost of cigarettes is being reduced.
All kinds of living are not dear.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The ordinary wedding is closed with
4 ring on; but that telephone matri-
monial alliance down in Kentucky end
ed with a ring off.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Paris has prevented j. Pierpont
Morgan from carrying off one pair Of
iron doors, hut the city ought to be
careful how it treats our covetous mil
lionaire. He may yet transfer the
Latin Quarter to the Bowery, New
York, or Clark street. Chicago,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Novels of Babylonian life are not rare.
but hitherto no writer of fiction has ven
tured beyond the shallow depths of the
classical legends which formerly We're
taught as "Assyrian history This
rgues a lack of enterprise or originality
in the novelists. as the fund Of material
that has been gathered since Botta
struck the first pick into the ruins of
Sargon's palace i'm 1912 is ample and var
led enough for either history or romance.
A new writer. Josiah NJ. Ward, is to.
strike out into deeper water. and take
his readers back into the times of Neb-
uchadnezzar and the last days of Nine
veh. The title of his book. Come with
Me into Babylon" is a pleasant promise
which challenges attention. One expects
something more than a glimpse into the
lives Of the Babyi6nians. whose name
has come to be a synonym of luxury and
wantonness. Those were heroic days re-
ally. when the greatest nations of that
remote antiquity. the Babylonians. Modes.
Lydians and Egyptians. met over the
carcass of Assyria and engaged in that
fierce struggle for the mastery Of the
world.-Leslie's Magazine for May.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

If a successful airship ever be de-
vised 1t will be worth far more than
the $25O,O0O Sir Hiram Maxim offers
10 pay for it.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
California Farm Machinery.

In no locality has modern steam
farming machinery been applied with
such effectiveness as upon the grain
ranches in southern California On
one ranch the engine used to draw the
machinery is of hfty-horse power, and
has drive wheels eight feet high. 1t
consumes twelve barrels of oil every
day, and its operation requires the SER
vices of seven men. In blowing, fifty
five burrows are turned over AZ one
time, covering a breadth Of forty feet
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

II the Prince of Wales comes we
can promise him that the menus will
always be presented in our choicest
French.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Belgian socialists who want the lone
man one vote plan evidently intend
to do the voting for their wives. as we
do In this country.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

BY the way, just ask your wife what
the phrase, the differential sugar"
means, OF course you know. yourself.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Venezuelan soldiers seem to think
that f~oot-racing is the greatest of sol
dierly accomplishments.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., is taking
cooking lessons. Now let the hired
girl beware.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

President Loubet's life has been
threatened. The people of France are
becoming restless again.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Sightless men of Toledo have form
ed a trust. This looks like a blind
deal.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The meat combine is said to expect
II great profit on stored eggs, but it
may be counting its chickens before
they are Matched.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

We are made for co-operation-like
feet. like hands. like eyelids, like the
rows of the upper and neither teeth
George Eliot.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

The shortest way to honesty is
around expediency.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Those we call the ancients were In
reality quite new.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
MINING Machinery s4 and

Leather and Rubber Betting, Puileys, Mil Supplies,
etc. Write Tor complete catalogue Just issued Fair
banks, Morse a Co, l00O-l602 nth st., Denver, Colo.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
Red River PrOSpectOr.

RED RIVER NEW MEXICO.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Probably love makes the world &c
round because it is so cranky.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05
DENVER ASSAYER

g.. ]. Ermlich, Assayer and Chemist, 1728 Curtis St.
Denver, Colo. ORE SHIPPERS AGENT ~ years.
experience In sampling ores. We save eampling
charges and make settlement with amelters for Won.
Our charges are small, write for prices. SPECIMEN
ASSAYS; Gold or Silver, 76c.; Gold and Silver. az.
curacy guaranteed. sample sacks mailed free on
request Cyanide Tests, MIL Runs, ETC., carefully
made. NTR AND UMPIRE YORK solicited.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-05

Time and tide wait for no man-and
woman is always behind time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-12
He WAS CHAINED
Frank johnson Wiu Not Play with
s'frc ANY lloFe.

Frank Johnson is little coiored boy
who lives On Sorth Washington avenue.
and he Is a most ardent follower OF Vui-
can and rejoices II nothing more than
10 see the blaze Of a forge r. A. Young
has blacksmith shop in the gu block
on East Douglas avenue. and Tor the
past several wacks has been troubled
with the small boys 81 the neighborhoeJ
burning his coal Vow that article is
rather expensive since thu reign II ihe
coal tr,.st and he srTenuously objected
70 the promiscu0us use of his starle
article for The benefit ~ the small bay
NJ Young lives several blocks away
from his shop ana has been - the aruit
of leaving ths doors open. AMI during
his absence - linner tf- sins.l i-'y>
Ar Young returned from his noonda.
neal earlier than expected ard folT3
Prank johnson heapinE ooal on the
forge. and with the e.6 q the bellows.
making much smoke. and he wore
most ccngen.e5 smile NJ Tcu1E cap-
ture6 the young man ard. taking q chsia
that was attached - the wan f1r rytnE
horses while being s1od. r. p.scel fhe
heavy chain sroEnd the lads recz and
u-ith a pa5lacs fastened X therc TIE
lad WIS compelled 20 sta7d aeasast -he
wssn al che afternoon ard received The
tutr 81 ths foxes as 5ibes shroua az
hirn b. rs companies ana aa=sershy
TIE hrawuy blacksmith only s-nnes
when asked the meaning q the lads
queer position At eight IL Toa1s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-12
German American Building and Loan
Association

The German American Building and
Loan association has just completed its
first year existence. The business of the
first year has been far beyond the expec-
tation of the most sanguine of its pro-
motors and warrants five per cent div
idend for the past six months which was
declared.
The association has become one of the
substantial institutions of Wichita, over
two hundred thousand dollars of stock
having been subscribed the first year.
The third series of stock was opened for
subscription on July LIST. The association
meets every Monday night at the Ameri-
can State Bank. and bylaws can be OBJ
tanned Of any of its officers or directors.
The installment stock is issued in shares
of $500 payable 81 each week. The asso-
citation also issues deposit stock, interest
on the same payable scmi-annually. The
books are now open for subscription and
persons desiring to join in this new series
should apply at once. The following are
the names of the directors:
Goddard Gehring. A c. Husey, J. n.
Richardson. Henry Schnitzler. Jacob Eek
ert, Daniel Boone, W. H. Herbig. O. G.
Eckstein, W. S. Grant, Gus Saur and
John Knoblauch
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-12
WORKING CONFIDENCE GAME
john Roberts Arrested on That
Charge Yesterday.

A man giving his name as John Rob
ers was arrested yesterday by the police
on the charge of being the man who
worked some harvest hands with con-
fdenee game known as the paddock
scheme. The way the scheme was worked
on the unsophistfcated harvest hand was
that this man Roberts IS alleged to have
hired young harvest hand, and while
taking him to the farm met another man
who had a lock that was Of very intricate
workmanship and he offered TO bet the
farmer and his hired man that neither
could open it. The farmer had seen such
locks before and he knew how they were
opened, but he was short on cash at that
moment and woulO borrow the money
from the harvest hand, promising to pay
it back the next day. 1t is alleged that
Roberts feeced man out of $40 in this
city last week, but the man is out in the
country earning some more money and
the police cannot locate him. but Mr..
Roberts viii be held until the man can
be found