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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-24
DEWEY IN PORTO RICO.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 23.--
Admiral Dewey arrived on board the
Mayfiower this morning.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-24

You win nni ths best i6c meal in the
city at the Rising Sun Restaurant.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-24

Arrived! A car OF the best Wyoming
stove coal. IS per ton. Phone sol.
5, Elnore h Co,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-24
BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Did you see those elegant suit cases
Danziger s. Co are giving awayG
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-24

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Rear Ad-
miral Schley Is i'll. suffering from an
acute attack of luumbago.
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sCHLEY is ILL.

Famous Admiral Is Suffering From
Lumbago.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Mr.. Dudley Grote, a prominent jewel
fancier of Paris, threatens the fash
ionable world with a pearl famine. IF
all the pearls in the oceans were to be
brought to the surface and offered for
sale tomorrow" says Mr.. Grote, the
market would not be flooded, nor
would the demand for the delicate
white Jewels be satisfied. There has
been a steady increase in the demand
for pearls during the past few years,
and an accompanying falling off in the
supply. The cost has gone up more
than one realizes. and l think is still
below the high-water mark.
"Since 1890 the price of pearls has
doubled. In the past three years it has
increased fully 39 per cent. The num-
Der Of oysters brought to the surface
Of the waters of the world averages
5000 daily, more than were ever ia
ken out before, and still the supply OF
pearls decreases. When l say supply !
mean the pearls offered for sale to the
public. Personally, / believe the jewels
are being bought up by investors, and
that the bulk of them never get into
the market. In fact, l know Of sever
oil banking houses in London and Paris
that have. made considerable money on
pearls during the past decade"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
How Kentucky Colonel
Protected the Whisky

did you ever see a Kentucky col
onel pack a trunk?" asked one of a
hotel lobby group the other day.
The men addressed said No" and
one of them demanded, And what IS
peculiar about it?"
1T is a most surprising operation, ."
answered the one who spoke first. -
had the pleasure of witnessing it the
other day. He was a colonel from
Paducah, and l was invited to his
room to have a drink. He poured out
two tumblers of real old whisky from
a demijohn which stood in the corner.
1 saw a finish ahead of me, drinking
so large a dose without a sign of a
chaser, but it would have been an in
suit to the colonel from Paducah to
intimate that water had any possible
connection with a drink of whisky.
Wait just a minute till l pack my
trunk he said, and I'll go down
with you
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
AN INTERNATIONAL TOWN.
Nogales Lies in Both Arizona and
Mexico.

Nogales Lies in Both Arizona and
Mexico.
It would be incorrect TO date a letter
from either NOgales, Arizona, or No
gales, Mexico. alone. for the town be.
longs so thoroughly and completely to
botn that neither half is a town at all.
1t is the most completely and %curiously
international place than can be con-
ceived of. There is no separation Of
the two parts visible as you look down
on the town from the hills, and the
life and the ordinary traffic of the
place flow back and forth with 10 one,
apparently, to say them nay. How
ever, it must not be supposed that there
is free trade across the thOroughfare,
which on one side is called Interna-
tional street and ON the other Gale
International.
In the middle of the street, where
the Gale Elias, or main business street,
crosses the international avenue,
stands a stone obelisk about twelve
feet high, and in the vicinity of this
are always n or two guards in civil
ian dress, who pay no attention TO
empty-handed passers-by, but will stop
any carriage or any person who oilers
to cross with a burden that might con-
tain dutiable material. Occasionally,
on the Mexican side, sees a MeXi-
can soldier in uniform, but the Quartet
near by is too small to hold more than
a small detachment, and neither sol
diers nor uniformed guards are ever
in evidence along the border.
The Americans live apart from one
another n individual houses of all
grades, most of which are very neat,
and some of which are quite fine and
must have been costly. Their streets
run up the sides of the mountain glen
in which the town is situated. They
have. of course, one large and fine pub
lie school building and one or two
smaller ones; churches they seem to
have little use for. In among their
houses are the adobe cabins of the
MeXicans, who are their hewers Of
wood and drawers of water these
terms being literally correct here. for
the fuel of the country is knotted and
gnarled wood brought from the hills
on dOnkeys' backs. and the town wa
ter won't run up to the higher eleva-
tions).
The air, either with the scent Of the
burning wood or without it, is delicious
and celebrating. The sunlight gilds
the Santa Rita peaks, the outpost OF
Arizona facing toward Mexico. The
climate in early spring is perfection it
self; the nights and mornings cOOl-al
most cold, yet without any chill ut all
the day from ten o'clock on till sun
set hot in the sun, yet cool enough in.
doors and conducive to siestas. The
place seems to have exactly the climate
for a winter and spring resort.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

The private secretary of a New
York millionaire recently sold as old
paper a package of 1000 letters, all of
which had been sent to his employer
a little more than three months and
every one of which was a request for
pecuniary assistance.
For a time" said the secretary"
We got these letters at the rate of six
ty or seventy a day. 1t came right
after Mr.. Blank had contributed So, 900
to a fund for the relief of widows and
orphans of some West Virginia min
ers who were killed by a gas explo-
sion. The gift was accompanied by a
request that nothing be printed about
it, but it got into the newspapers
somehow and Immediately the letters
began to pour in.
I'VE had always had our share of
begging letters, but now we were
swamped. The tales of trouble, mis-
fortune and suffering which were
spread out for our reading would
have narrowed ones soul, if he didn't
know that they were largely manufac-
tured.
Most of the letters were from wo-
men, or %purported to be, and all
wanted money. The demand ranged
from S. to $500, and in every case an
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
Horse Still

The horse has not yet gone out Of
date Notwithstanding the prophecies of
a ~'horseless age" Gable and electric
cars, bicycle and automobiles, portable
engines and steam plOws, are not yet
able to eliminate him from the affairs
of men. Great Britain, in connection
with the BOer war, paid n of the
largest bills for horse supplies, it Is
said, ever paid in the history of the
world. The United States has lately
carried on with foreign nations an un-
precedented trade In mules and horses,
the total export Of the government for
the first eight months of the current ffs-
cal year amounting to more than S0,'
OOO,OO0,OOO.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
Clinging to old Beliefs
Sailors Of the Present Day Are as SuperstHous as Wero
Their Ancestors.


It is a mistake, according to a we'll
known young naval officer. to suppose
that the sailors of u present navy
are free from superstition. Il remem-
Der" he said, only five years ago,
when / was in the training ship Sara
toga, that the old salts there were as
full Of old superstitious beliefs as
any OF their ancestors could have
been.
When at sea In a dead calm, the
swaying of the masts in a motionless
atmosphere sometimes causes a pc
culiar wailing sound like distant cries.
This, the old seamen assured us, was
the moaning Of the souls of sailors
lost at sea.
Another one Of their pet belief. is
that all sailors that die by drowning
are at once transformed into Cape
Horn pigeons, or, as they are also
called, Mother Carey's chickens. Of
ficers are supposed to find their re-
i~ncarnations in seagulls and news,
while the big, solitary a~lbatrosses, fol-
lowing the wake of passing vessels,
are the souls Of captains who have
gone down with their ships. These
are the reasons why sailors never kill
these birds.
Il remember nat these tales i'm
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
Wrote Begging Letters
New York millionaire Received thousands Of These Misslves Recently

address was given and a request made
that the money be sent at once.
"A vast variety of excuses were
given for the demands, one Of the
most popular with women being that
they wanted to have their sons COM
plete their education, but couldn't un-
less they had a certain amount Of
money at once, and with men, that
they had a chance to embark on a
successful career, and only lacked the
few hundred dollars necessary to get
a start.
"Of curse there were hundreds OF
stories of restitution, but like the
others we tossed them aside without
reply. For three months following
this contribution to a fund for the re-
lief of miners families these letters
continued to come.
"Then they stopped just as sudden
ly as they began, and We are now only
getting the regular supply Of five OF
six a week. There were in the lot
that sold to a junkman the other
day in the neighborhood of 1000 oil
these letters and $40 in stamps had
been spent in sending them to US.
And not one was productive Of q
contribution from Mr.. Blank New
York Sun.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
s eENEaous To AER DEfrNDERs.
How the United States covsramsnt
,nr.. ror Ia nlsablea sotdtor.-

How the United states covernmont
Cnres Tor It's disabled oldiers.
The United states expends s3,OOO.-
600 annually on its national homes for
disabled volunteer soldiers, and $780,.
600 annually on the national home for
disabled regular soldiers. There are
1000 disabled soldiers In the volun-
teer homes, and 1925 in the home for
regulars. The volunteer homes are all
under one board of management. and
the home for regulars is under the
management of a board Of army Of
hcers, with Gen. Miles as president.
There are in addition 20 the national
soldiers homes at Washington,
Hampton, Va. Dayton, o.; Milwaukee,
Wis; Togus. Me; Marion, Ind Leav-
enworth, Kas. Danville, H.; Santa
Monica, Cal, and Johnson City, Tenn,
26 State homes for disabled soldiers.
In all, over 40, 1000 soldiers are cared
for by the national and state govern
ments.
At the close Of the wal there were
272,583 soldiers on the lists of
WOhAuGus ON1A HVNfNNN OAhNA
had been discharged on account of dis
ability from various diseases. Prob
ably rs per cent of the latter recovered,
and fully 80 per cent of the wounded
entered into the activities Of civil life.
There were, however, thousands OF
the seriously wounded, and Of those
who came from the hospitals perman-
emily disabled by disease, to be taken
care Of. For a time too many of the
disabled class drifted into the county
infrmaries and charitable institutions.
Then Congress extended the national
home system and the states took up
the work, until now nearly all OF the
disabled volunteers and regulars who
are not cared for in their own homes
or in the homes of relatives are com
fortably housed and cared for by the
government. 1t is a great work, OF
which not much is said, but it is some
thing to be proud of.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

The advent of Easter has been in
variably followed by a flood Of Easter
stories, and this year has proved no
exception to the rule. One OF the lat
est is told by Rev. DIR. Greer Of st.
Bartholomew church, New York.
It was at the services at the mission
on Blackwells island. The exercises
had proceeded in regular style, and
we're near to an end.
The clergyman in charge rose and,
with becoming dignity announced:
I'VE will now sing Begin. my soul.
thy exalted lay'-a pause-'at the
conclusion Of which the Easter eggs
will be passed"
In the general laugh that followed.
the speaker was among the arst 70
join.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

can we'll remember the time when a
man, If perchance he met a lady while
he was smoking in some rather unfre-
quented street, always flung his cigar
away and rather tried to look as If he
had not been doing II. Yet so far we
nave Travelled that not long ago, at a
hospitable house not a hundred miles
from Berkeley square, the hostess and
her daughter were the only smokers In
a large luncheon party, and prefaced
their cigarettes by the courteous con
dition. IF you gentlemen don't mind"
-Tatler.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

It is now possible to insure at
Lloyds against the risk of smallpox
breaking out in the house on either
side Of you-the idea being, Of course,
to protect the assured against expense
incurred by temporary removal. The
rate is a minimum Of 10 shillings per
cent for the year, the risk, of course.
extending over an indefinite number OF
people. One broker, who was in this
business from the start, has been do
ing hardly anything else for the last
ten days. and many who at first
laughed at the whole thing are now
coming into the market.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
JOINS CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.
Miss Helen Griggs Rents a Hall for
Meeting Place.

Miss Helen erisss Rents a Hall for
Meeting Place.
Rooms have been rented in the Or
pheus building at Paterson, New Jer-
sey, by the wife and daughter of form
er Attorney General John w. Griggs
for a meeting place for Christian Sci
entists.
The ladies are enthusiastic believers
in the faith and are determined the
sects should no longer be without a
home in Paterson.
All the Christian Science publica-
lions win be Kept on file there for
the benefit Of the members of the cult.
Following their lead, many of the
social leaders of Paterson have joined
the Christian Science ranks, among
others who are prominent being Mrs.
Alexander Gray and Mrs. William X.
Newton.
Mrs. Griggs has frequently arranged
to have prominent leaders in the moye-
ment go to Paterson and explain the
theories Of Christian Sentence ana
through her 1t has become somewhat
of a mark of distinction to be num-
bered among the members.
Previous to the fire the Christian
Scientists had quarters in the First
National Bank building, but their
books and furniture were burned.
Thanks to AIRS. Griggs' devotion and
determination, however, the new quar-
tiers Will far surpass those destroyed
and in every way will be better APP
pointed for the meetings that are fire.
quently held to discuss the questions
and problems that interest Scientists
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
Row CHEAP BAKING POWDER IS
MADE.

The Health Department Of New
York has seized a quantity OF so-called
cheap baking powder. which IT found
in that city. Attention was attracted
to it by the low price at which It was
being sold in the department stores.
Samples were taken and the chemist
Of the Health Department reported
the stuff to be IAN alum powder"
which analysis showed to be compos-
ed chiefly Of alum and pulverized
rock.
The powder was declared to be dan
gerous to health. and several thou
sand pounds were carted to the offal
dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to
experiment with these ~so-called
Cheap" articles of food. They are
sure to be made from alum, rock. or
other injurious matter. In baking
powders, the high class, cream Of tar
tar brands are the most economical,
because they go farther in use and are
healthful beyond question.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
JAps DON'T WORRY ABOUT COLD
Almost No Attempt Made in Winter to
Keep Warm.


Almost No Attempt Made in Winter to
Keop Warm.
Although the Japanese winter is
most trying on account of the con-
tinued dampness, the Japanese are
content to remain cold. They make
almost no effort to overcome it. The
OLD chivalrous idea of the 'samurai'
(knights) was that it was effeminate TO
feel cold, and such is their severe
trsining that they do not really feel
it as we do. The wearing of some
extra "kimonos" and the use OF a
"hibachi" or brazier in which are a
few tiny sticks of lighted charcoal are
the only concessions to winter
weather. With the "hibachi' they
neve pretend to neat more than their
finger tips, which they hold over the
Goals. 1t is used when the house Is
entirely open. The houses, are every
one knows, are built of thin, light
wood, and the sliding panels which
serve for doors and windows have pa
per panes. They are as apt to be open
as closed during the day.
The coolies wear thin blue cotton
clothes and are always padding
through the mud. The storekeepers
sit out in their open booths and the
women go bareheaded about the
streets. In the houses of the rich the
still cold behind the closed panels is
often more intense than that outside
in the sunshine, where the air is stir
ring.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29
HORSES HAVE NOSE FOR FIRES
captain of a Fire Company Tells a
Story to Prove Ills Claim.

captain of a Fire Company Tells a
Story to Prove Ills Claim
At a certain fire station a few per-
sons were engaged in feeding Jim, the
pet horse, with dainty morsels Of
cake and sugar. The captain looked
on approvingly, and at length began
to talk of horses.
did you ever know he said,
that a horse brought up in the fire
brigade can scent a conhagration
miles away? Well, it's a fact. Jim,
there, will take the engine to a fire
without any guidance at all. He al
WAYS knows exactly where it Is.
do you know what happened the
other day? We had been called out
to a small fire. which we soon put out.
Then we trotted leisurely home, but
we hadn't got far on u way when
Jim gave the tip to his companion,
and the horses suddenly prieking up
their ears, broke into a gallop.
1T was no use trying to hold them
Il knew they'd smelt a fire. They
took the engine round a score or two
Of streets, and then they pulled up
short behind a nan whose coat-tails
were burning. You see, he'd put a
lighted pipe in his pocket"
jim, who had been listening atten-
lively to the narrative, swished his
tail and tried to look through the
stable wall.-Tit-Bits.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

with a cataract of about 100 feet was
explored for a distance of several
miles without discovering it's source
or outlet. A few articles of stone and
copper utensils and some human
bones were also discovered in one Of
the large apartments explored. There
were other evidences that at some
time in a prehistoric period the cave
was used as a %habitation. The pres
ent entrance to the cave was made
by some lime quarrymen at a point
LOGO feet above the bed of the JEFF
ferson river while engaged in blast
ing rock. The formations of stalac-
tite and other natural decorations
throughout the cave are pronounced
the most beautiful and varied ever
seen.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

"He picked up the demijohn, which
was still half full of whisky, and
placed it in the center of the trunk.
Around it he wound a pair of trousers
and then a froek coat. He kept up
the wrapping process until most of his
extra garments were tightly wound
around it. Into the vacant places at
the corners he stuffed the rest of the
outfit.
There! I could carry that whisky
to China and back without danger OF
splitting a drop he said as he stepped
back and surveyed the packed trunk
with pride.
Rather hard on the clothes.
though, saio l. thinking Of wrinkles.
b asst the clothes, said T. e co olel
That whisky has got TO be protect
ed New York Tribune.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Perhaps the increasing sale Of cheap
pianos in agricultural districts has
something to do with the growing
eagerness of men to leave the farms
philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Poor little Queen Wilhelmina has
had her share OF troubles since she
assembled the throne, and. from all
accounts, the typhoid fever has not
been the worst of them.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

we have forgotten the name OF Rus
sell Sage's landlord. but he is exceed
ingly presumptuous, whoever ne Is III
thinking he can raise the rent on
Uncle Russell.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

pressed me a great deal in those days
when l was still a mere boy. On one
occasion l was sitting in the fore
castle on my watch below, chatting
with the boatswain's mate. a real old
timer. when our conversation was in
t%errupted by a low wall of agony.
louder than that usually produced by
the wind. We listened in deep, awed
silence.
Boy said the goatswain's mate,
we hear that-that's a seaman's call,
wot's been drownded.
Again the wall disturbed the 81
lence.
YES said the old sailor, in an
anxious whisper, that's some old salt
wot's lost his life on board this yes
sel-likely he's come for something
he's forgot
After a while 1 ventured out on
deck. The walls we're coming from the
roof of the %foreacstle. l climbed up,
and there found the captains little
son tugging away at the cats tall,
which the poor animal was resenting
with the full power Of its lungs"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

One Of the learned doctors an
nounces that he can find evidences OF
paresis in any man owe 20 years OF
age. We would like to see him try
TO find a few in Mr.. ]. L. Sullivan.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Miss Stones says that the brigands
were kind 10 her, and her way OF say
ing It leaves the impression that they
aid everything to make her stay
among them an event In her lie long
10 be remembered with pleasure.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

The Chicago goods who cannot pro-
duce u clay because every girl in the
amateur company wants to be a star
shows that they have the true profess
sional spirit.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

An Indiana man and a Chicago man
are going to try to reach the north
pole in an air ship. To save time their
obituaries may be written before they
start.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

A Penn Yam woman has Just paid
for an Easter hat bought eighteen
years ago. By strenuous effort and
thrift she managed to accumulate the
amount.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

A Chicago skirt dancer and plastic
nose" artist has testified in eour tnat
her salary was $40 per week. But she
was probably advertised as a 'oOO-a-
week" attraction, II her manager kne"
his business.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Few men fought more brilliantly
for the Lost Cause than Wade Hamp-
CON. few lost more by It, and few
accepted the consequences so sweetly
and philosophically. Indeed, there
was an amount Of philoso-
ply in the old Generals makeup.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Bands Of M%acedonians are collecting
for the purpose of invading Turkey
with the money they received from
Miss stone the M%acedonians VIII be
able to have a lot Of fun with the sui
tan.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

In case it comes to an outbreak OF
hostilities between Italy and Swltzer-
land the Italian navy may be utilized
to blow holes in the Swiss cheese.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-05-29

Gen. S. B. Buckner, heretofore a
popular idol in Kentucky, has present.
ed the town Of Munfordyille in that
state with w~aterworks.