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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Spread a cloth of blue, and put
thereon the dishes and the spoons, and
the bowls, with the bread in the bas-
ket.-Num. iv. z and Lev. viii. 81.
Salt without prescribing how much,
and oil in a cruse.-Ezra vii. p n l.
Kings xvii. II.
The bright shining candle giveth
light.-Luke XII. SO.
rell them who are hidden I have
prepared my dinner.-Matt xxi. a.
They are strong Of appetite.-lsa.
vi. II.
Let us eat and be merry.-Luke XIV.
%.
Ye hear all kinds of music Dan. iii.
5.
Grace-Give us this day II daily
bread.-Matt. vi II.
SOUP.
Pour out the broth.-Judg. vi. 20.
Feed me with pottage.-Gen. ky. 30.
Eat this roll.-Ezek. iii. l.
FISH.
We remember the fish we did eat
freely.-Num. Xi. 8.
They gave him a piece of broiled
fsh.-Luke xiv. AZ.
ENVIRONMENTS
Bring on the fish which we have now
caught.-John xxi. 10.
Hare.-Lev. XII. 6.
Chickens.-Matt xiii. 81
Beside harts and fatted fowl.
Kings iv. 20.
Kidneys.-Lev. tx. 10.
Olives.-Mic. vi. Is.
Give a little water, for l am thirsty.
Judges iv, 10.
ROASTS.
All manner of baked meats.-Gen.
xl. II.
Roebuck-Deut. xii. 10
Wild goat and wild ox.-Deut. xiv.
5.
VEGETABLES.
Wheat, lentils and millet.-Ezek. iv.
Corn and beans.-II. Sam. xvii. 2S.
After that the full corn n the ear
Mark iv. 2S.
The leeks and the onions, and the
cucumbers and the garlic.-Num. xi. ..
Coriander-seed.-Num xi. Z.
GAME.
Partridge.-Jer. xvii. IL.
Two young pigeons.-Lev. V. Z.
Quails.-Psalms CIV. 40.
Ten cheeses.-I. Sam. xvii. IL.
DESSERT.
A basket Of summer fruits.-Am
viii. /.
Mrs. Miner in the Advance.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
oHAuFFEUR MEANS sToKER.
NEW MEXICO.
Iood joke on MmIonaire "Mobnistse-

Good Joke ON millionaire "Mobnists'-
Fads In Pronunciation.
The pronunciation of the word
chauffeur" provokes the Great Round
World to an examination into the u
thority of pronunciation fads. It says:
Where polite usage gets its authori-
ty nobody KNOWS. Now, it is saying
that valet, the final syllable Of which
we have learned to give off-hand with.
a high-bred a. shall be Anglicized just
as 'parquet' was a few years ago, and
shall appear in polite society in its
plain English st%ubbiness. It is likely
that we shall all stumble and stutter
and make mistakes at first, but event
ually fall into a line of cts
There are those who claim that a
polite suburb should have a long u
that tapestry should be a. long, and
that the sun never 'shone' politely
with a long o. The same authorities
are busy with the new automobile
importation ~ Chauffeur (shofeur)
which has been called everything that
is polite. 1t might be called something
more, for it is not a truthful term. 1t
means, when interpreted, fireman,
'stoker,' and is innocently a good joke
on our own millionaires who speed
their own 'outos.'
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
Made a unlnue Record.

Very few kings indeed can have re-
ceived the three separate rites of bap-
tism, coronation and marriage from
the same minister of God, and prob
ably the case of George III. is unique.
At the time he was born on June A,
1888, at Norfolk House, st. James
square, London, the rector of the par
ish of st. James was DR.. Seeker, bish-
op of oxford, who first baptized the
prince privately and about a month
later publicly. In 1853 DR.. Seeker was
elevated to the archbishopric Of Can
terbury, and only three years later
performed the ceremonies of marrying
and browning the king and queen.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
DO GHOSTS EXIST?
INolOENTs N pRooF OF aELIEF.
Extraordinary %Premonltlon Of Death
Attributed to Spirit information

-
Extraordinary P%remonition Of Death
Attributed TO Spirit information.
DR.. Mipot J. Savage in Ainslee's:
"The history of the world is full OF
reported apparitions or ghosts. DO such
things as ghosts exist2 / am perfectly
certain that they do. This does not
mean that l feel that 1 am ready to ex-
plain their origin or nature. 1 simply
recognize the fact. Whether they are
purely subjective or whether they rep
resent some objective reality-this is a
question to be settled I'm each particu-
lar case. 1 have many instances in my
notes; but they must be omitted for the
present.
There is one case, however, which
is of a very extraordinary kind. It
occurred about a couple of years ago
here in the immediate vicinity of New
York. There was a certain young man
who had been studying abroad. He had
been at Heidelburg university. He was
of anything but IN imaginative tenn
perment. Tall and stalwart in build,
he had a reputation as an athlete. His
favorite studies were mathematical,
physical and electrical. He had return
ed home from abroad, and, so far as
anybody knew, was in perfect health.
He was at the summer home of his
mother. 1t was his habit, after din
ner, to go out on the piazza and walk
up and down while smoking his pipe.
One evening he came quietly in, and,
without talking with anybody, went
up to bed. The next morning he went
to his mothers room before she was
up, and laid his hand on her cheek in
order to awaken her quietly. Then he
said, Mother, l have something very
sad to tell you. You must brace your
self and be strong to bear it, OF course
she was startled and asked him what
he was talking about. He said, Moth
err, 1 mean just what l am saying. 1
am going to die, and very soon
when his mother, startled and trou-
bled, pressed him for an eXplataiOn, he
said: Last night, when l was walking
up and down the piazza, smoking, n
spirit appeared and walked up and
down by my side. l have received my
call and I'M going to die The mother,
Of course, was seriously troubled, and
wondered whether anything might be
the matter with him. She therefore
sent for the doctor and told him the
story. The doctor made Il careful ex-
animation, said there was nothing the
matter, treated the whole thing as a
bad dream or a hallucination, told them
to pay no attention to it, and said that
within a few days they would be
laughing at themselves for letting such
n thing worry them. The mex morning
the young mar did not seem quite as
well as usual, and the doctor was sent
for a second time. Again he said there
was nothing the matter, and tried to
laugh them out Of their fears. The
third morning the young man appeared
in still poorer condition, and the third
time the physician was summoned. He
now discovered a case of appendicitis.
The young man was operated on and
died in a couple of days. From the
time Of the vision until his death not
more than five days had gone by. Some
time after this experience the mother
visited a psychic here in New York.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Senator Quay's speech was the long
est ever printed. 1t occupied over 100
pages, and included a complete history
of the manufacture of iron and glass
from the earliest dawn Oh history to
the present day. Everybody remem-
bers that speech and its purpose. 1t
was prepared for Mr.. Quay when the
Democrats were engaged in revising
the tariff. Every time they proposed a
reduction In the iron and steel sched-
ule Mr.. Quay would take from under
meath his desk a pile Of manuscript
ABOUT three feet high and Degin to
read. After he had kept this up for
two or three days and had made no
apparent inroad into the mountain OF
typewriter sheets the Democrats
would succumb and suggest a compro-
misc. AZ the close Of he session the
speech was printed It ought to have
been placed "a the state Library Of
Penn Yaaia, and labeled THE Bull
wars Of Gun Pro ctsd Interests"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

He Thought lie Knew It All.
1 knew a man who thought he knew It
all.
He knew how earth became a rolling ball.
He knew the source and secret Of all
life.
He also knew how Adam came to all.
He knew the causes Of the glacial age.
And what it was that made the deluge
rage.
He knew, in fact. he knew most every
thing.
In his own mind he was earth's greatest
sage.
Ills knowledge was of such s%tupendous
girth
It took in everything upon the earth
And in the heavens; but most strange
lie didn't know a thing of real WORTH
He knew where people go when they are
dead.
He knew an wonders ever sung or said.
He knew the past and future; out for
all
He didn't know enough to earn his bread
He was a marvel OF omniseience.
He knew the secret of the hence and
whence.
He was a bundle Of great theories.
The only thing he lacked was ommon
sense.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEM.
Names of Prominent Persons That Are
Commonly M-Ispronounced.

Names of Prominent Persons That Arc
Commonly M-Ispronounced.
Because there are no rules for the
pronunciation Of proper names innum-
cradle errors are made in this matter.
There follow the correct pronuncia-
tons of the names of some persons Of
renown.
"A. T. Quiller-Couch sounds the on
of his last syllable as the 90 is sound
ed in root. Jerome X. Jerome accents
the first syllable Of his last name; he
pronounces 1t to rhyme with tear EN-.
In the name of Robert Louis Steven
son the Louis is pronounced as though
it were spelt Lewis. Sir Walter Bes-
ants name has it's first syllable accent
ed, and rhymes with pleasant. The
poet Richard Hovey's name has its
first syllable sounded so as TO rhyme
with dove.
The name of Andrew Carnegie, says
the Philadelphia Record, is accented on
the second syllable; it should be pro-
nounced as though it were spelt Car
Maggie.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
MAY HINDER |MArRIMoNY.
Married Men Fined So for Staying Out
Late at NIGHT.

Married Men Fined So for Staying Out
Late at Night.
At Uelzen, a city in the western part
of Hanover, the authorities have just
passed n law which has met with the
warm appreciation OF the women of the
place and the indignant protests of the
married men. The town was getting
altogether too conviyial. The old time
honored excuses Of 1.-THE lodge and
business" and sitting up with a sick
friend were worn threadbare. The
women resolved to act. They exercised
all their influence with the city fathers
and finally got a law passed requiring
that all married men be home at or be-
fore IL o'clock every night. The pen
atty for a violation Of this law is fixed
at a fine of So for each offense. Half
of the fine goes to the person making
complaint, who, in all cases so far, has
been the wife.
BY means of this law the homes Of
Uelzen are expected to be in an ideal
condition before long, and the wife's
authority therein unquestoned. If
hubby" forgets himself and stays out
after IL o'clock some night the Wife
can either have him fined and get her
share of the proceeds, or she can do
what is better-she can hold the knOwl-
edge Of his l~aw-breaking over his head
as a club with which 10 enforce ODE
dience and good behavior generally.
Needless to say, the married men OF
the neighboring German towns are
much exercised over the action of the
city authorities of Uelzen, for the law
is working so well there that they are
afraid ii will prove contagious and
spread to their own %boroughs. The un-
married men Of Uelzen, Of course, are
as much pleased with the law as the
women of the town. They can now
stay out at night and enjoy themselves
free from the incubus Of the old
fOgies.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
POVERTY AND MARRIAGE.
Long engagements Not Conducive to
Prosperity, According TO Some.

Long engagements Not Conducive to
Prosperity, According 10 some.
All unconscious of the man in the
next seat, two girls on a Germantown
train were discussing engagements.
81 don't care what folks would a y p
remarked the one with red hair, "if
l really loved a mar and he was poor
I would insist upon marrying him at
once, rather than submit to a long
engagement
Slhat's the way l feel said the
girl with blue eyes. The young man
who stays single until he can save
enough to get married on is up against
it. At least, that's what my brother
Jack says. He says the trouble is
that when a fellow is engaged to a
girl he wants to show her a good time
and the consequence is that he never
ave anything"
Jack is right" said the girl with
red hair, according to the Philadelphia
Record. Il know a case that proves
it. The girl has been engaged now for
eight years. Her iance is in business
in New YORK, but he comes over to
visit her once a week. He comes over
on Saturday afternoon and goes back
Monday morning. Saturday night he
always takes her to the theater, and
there's generally a supper afterward.
I'm sure that makes a big hole in his
salary every week. Now l.
But the train had pulled into tbs
Reading terminal.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Monte, a fox terrier from the Blem-
ton kennels. mas the tobacco habit. She
uses the weed after the fashion known
as the poor mans smoke.
When she sees her master smoking q
cigar or cigarette she whines and begs
until he blows the smoke in her face
Then she goes beside herself with de-
light, dancing and biting at the smoke
and tapping it with her tongue.
When she has had a good smoke she
likes to &c to the vichy bottle to draw
herself a drink.
The dog is owned by DR.. NJ. R. Pal
mer, a police surgeon, who resides or
Seventh avenue.-New York Times.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
Turnlp,s wonderful crowd.

The seed of the globe turnip is about
the twentieth part of an inch in diane
ter, and yet in the course of a few
months this seed will be enlarged by
the soil and the air into 27,O00, 900 times
its original bulk. and this in addition
to a bunch of leaves. 1t has been
found by experiment that a turnip seed
will, under fair conditions, increase its
own weight fifteen times in a minute.
Turnips growing in peat ground have
been found to increase than 49,
600 times the weight of their seeds in
a day.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Sixty degrees below zero is the
frightfully cold atmosphere in which
Alaskan gold hunters must often work.
They make ~freplaces of snow in that
desolate region. The snow is pressed
into blocks like bricks, and a fire
place two feet or three feet square is
built with them. When the fire is
lighted the snow, of course, melts on
the surface, but when the fire is out
this freezes so hard that the next fire
causes it to become only damp. a
snow fireplace used only for cooking
purposes will last for an entire winter.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
BOSTON I'M HISTORY.
~AntiqUerians Welcome . Book Recently
Written on the Subject.
fsnaao1T eHerN

One of the most interesting series
shows the gradual leveling Of Beacon
Hill to its present vestige of a once
proud eminence. Harvard College is
given a very full treatment. together
with the monumental history OF Cam
bridge Common.
The revolutionary period offered q
wealth of material, from which has
been selected a gallery of old prints
that gives a story Of the actions
around Boston, at once moving and
informing.
Many of this series come under the
head of the Excessively rare" in the
originals, and though they appear here
and there in HISTORICAL publications,
the average reader. or even a fairly
good a%ntiquary, must welcome this
grouping of the scattered treasurer.
The same might be said of a number
of features in Boston history, as the
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Strange things are found among the
plants and vegetables. A well-known
student of nature once tried the grow
ing force of a squash. When it was
Is days old, and measured p inches in
circumference, he fixed a sort of har-
ness around it, with a long lever at
tached. The power Of the squash was
measured by the weight it lifted, the
weight being fixed to the lever. When
it was 20 days old, two days after the
harness was fixed IN it, it lifted 60
pounds. On the nineteenth day it lifted
5000 pounds.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Stark presents them in a chronology
cal series, showing the advances in ac-
curacy and completeness of the record.
It was a rapid growth, SC that in l722,
when Capt. John Bonner made his
map. the result was a highly credita-
BILE work. that remained standard for
many years. 1t is the Oldest map OF
Boston in existence showing the
streets and prominent places.
The old houses are, Of course, given
in detail. each with a brief. though as
a rule. picturesque. history. a merit OF
tho whole feature being the grouping
In one place Of so much that is scat
cred among periodicals and old rec
ords.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

The great American Locomotive
VI orks built last year 1884 railway en-
gines, besides an unknown but much
smaller number built in railway shops,
says the New York World. This is the
greatest record ever made, and shows
much activity in improving and equip
ping American railroads. But though
the United States is by far the best
engine market in the world, 10 per cent
Of this great product. SS7 engines, were
for foreign markets. A still larger
number were exported in 1900, when the
home market was less insistent. The
Baldwin works alone have in the past
three years sold engines in these coun-
tries: England, Ireland Russia, Spain,
Denmark. Germany, Belgium. Holland,
Norway, Sweden. France, Finland,
Japan, India, China, Assam, Burmah,
Tunis, Canada, Alaska, Soudan, Next
co, Hawaii, Egypt, Cuba, Peru, Chill,
Brazil, Algeria, Uganda, Ecuador, Por-
to Rico, Colombia, Nova Scotia, Yucca
tan, Costa Rica, British Columbia, San
Domingo, Cape Colony, Australia. Far
more than the British drum-beat
tue scream Of the American locomotive
whistle and the thunder Of its mighty
wheels are heard round the world"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

Chicago hremen who CROPPED their
way through fire and smoke and drag
ged six bodies into the street from
Bennett hospital, thought that they
we.o res ling persons wno had been
asphyxiated and not until the flames
had been subdued did the learn that
the rescued bodies were from the dis
seetir- tables Of Bennett medical col
lege.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
90 Moasy lar Dad rurpo.s.

Two hundred years ago John How
of Guildford, England, left property,
real or personal, upon curious terms.
Its income was to reward "the female
domestic who remained at least two
years In one situation within the bor-
ough. and who should throw the high
est number with two dice in competi-
ton with another aspirant for the
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

A curious custom in Seoul, Korea,
is the law which makes it obligatory
for every man to retire to his homo
when the huge bronze bell of the city
has proclaimed it to be the hour Of
sunset and the time for closing the
gates. No nan is allowed in the
streets after that hour under pain Of
logging, but the vomen are allowed to
go about and sit their friends.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

1t has been a ource of much sur
prise to Prof. Nordenskjold that dur
ing his expedition within the arctic
circle, in regions where animal life is
abundant, he has found very few re-
mains Of animals which died a natural
death. No one has any idea of what
becomes OF the bodies of such animals;
and it is indeed very strange that on
%Spitzbergen it is easier to find bones
of a gigantic lizard of remote geologi-
eel time than those of a 'self-dead''
seal, walrus or bird. The same is also
true Of some places not so far north.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
Reonrds on EnrlIsh nooks.

The following stand in England as
literary records: The largest circula-
ton of any English novel in copyright
is that of East Lynne of which the
public have bought nearly half a mil
lion. The earliest published work still
in copyright is Tennyson's Poems by
Two Brothers," which dates from 1897.
The largest amount ever given for Sc
rial rights in England is $1,000 $685.
O00), paid by Cornhill for George Ell
lots "Romola." The largest check ever
given to an English author is 920,0OO
tS1OO, O00), received by Lord Macaulay
for his history. The most expensive
single volume lately Issued is Morris
"Chaucer," published at $50 (S1OO).
The thickest single volume in print is
the Catalogue of Current Literature, -
which measures ten and a half inches
across the back. The highest price
given for a first edition is 545 g~uineas
49, $500 for an uncut copy OF the Kill
marnock Burns"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

There is a certain little fly that vas
observed to run three inches and make,
in doing it, 44O steps-all in one-half a
second of time. TO equal this, in pro-
portion to his size, a man would have
to run at the rate Of twenty miles a
minute.
The common flea leaps 200 times its
own length. To show like agility a
man six feet tall would have to leap a
distance OF 200 feet. The cheese mite
is about o%ne-quarter of an inch in
length, ard yet it has been seen to
take the tip of its tail in its mouth,
and then, letting go with a jerk, to leap
out of a vessel six inches in depth. To
equal this a man would have to jump
out of a well from a depth of IA feet.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
smane.t nank Nole. Ia.usd.

Bank notes for about a farthing each
circulate freely in Paraguay. 1t takes
two notes to get ones boots BACKED
and eight to pay the postage Of a letter
to England. Yet n of them will buy
in the season fifteen oranges. three
bananas, or a water melon.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02
TIE QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Some Recent and Remarkable happenings Placed on
Record.


money"-that is to say. It was to en-
courage fidelity Of service and, It must
be feared, a spice Of gambling. So the
other day Clara Howard and Florence
Ansell. both Of whom mad been in one
service over eight years, threw against
one another, and Clara. casting seven
to Florence's FIVE, received a check for
twelve guineas $500
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

churches, the bridges court houses,
almshouses, theaters, markets, rail-
roads, etc, each discussed separately,
focusing, as it were, the varied and
scattered bits of information that so
delight the antiquarian and yet are
usually such a tax on his patience and
time.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

In Holland no landlord has the pow
er OF raising the rent or Of eylctlng
a tenant.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

When a begins to grumblo
she shows her age.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-02

and In
deed the ordinary reader,
will welcome the second
edition, just issued, OF
James II. stork's An
tique Views of We Towne
of Boston" Whoever
has tried to find out
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-08-19
NEWS OF THE CHURCHES
CONFERENCE OF METHODIST PROT
EsTANT CHURCH IN SESSION.
Candidates for Ordination to BE Ex-
amined This MOrning-LOng List
of Speakers.

The sixty-third annual session of the In
diana Conference of the Methodist Protes-
tant Church began at the Hoyt-avenue
Church last night. The Rev. c. S. john
son, pastor of the church. welcomed the
delegates, and the Rev w. w. Lineberry,
president of the conference, responded. The
Rev. II. Schwarzkoff, of Elkhart, preached
the sermon. This morning candidates for
ordination will be examined At o'clock
in the afternoon the Rev. j. r. Lenhart,
of Naples. will deliver lecture to students.
The service this evening will be opened
by devotional exercises conducted by d.
w. Hetrick. A good citizenship meeting
will follow, the subjects being THE
Christian as a Citizen" by d. w. Evans;
The American City as a Peril to Good
Government" by the Rev. G.. w. Bundy,
of Sheridan, and THE Saloon Against Good
Government" by the Rev. j. o. Ledbetter,
of SwayZee.
A paper on 'The Philosophy of Prayer"
will be read by L. Coomer at O'Clock to-
morrow morning, and at o'clock the con-
ference proper will open with the Rev. Mr..