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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

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tha's impatient voice behind the glass
door recalled him to the press of real
tiles of life.
Come along now" she exclaimed.
Drink your tea and eat this nice piece
of buttered toast. I've u all the
crusts Off"
The rough kindness of her tone as
she settled the cushion in his chair
comforted the old man somewhat and
he obeyed her meekly.
You're very good to me, Martha, >"
he said suddenly.
Nonsense. 'Aven't I known ye for
the last twenty years, and didn't l lay
out the poor old missus, avowin' all
the time in my cart to see you com
Portable every evenin', husband OF no
husband! And now" she added, with
a quick change of voice. 81 can't stay
another minute; mine must be 'ome by
this time and starvin'!"
Mrs. Martha Mugg was a typical
charlady. She invariably alluded to
her ''other half" as "mlne," and no
one had ever seen her without the
bonnet with red roses which always
graced her grizzled locks.
Ezekiel sighed as the ample be,
shawled figure passed out into the
warm, gray evening. She had been a
kind friend to him in her clumsy way.
How would she get on, he wondered,
with his grandson, the smart, up-to-
date young man who was coming to.
morrow to take charge of the bust
ness. He had long been too feeble in
health to manage the shop. and at
length he had taken Martha's advice
and written to his dead daughters ED
est son. He could never have given
in at the old place-but now-what
did 1t matter!
Six O'Clock struck from the old dim
faced clock. How queer and strange
was the sound as it r%everberated in
the wide, high-ceilinged parlor!
Ezekiel rose stifly, having finished
his tea with a great effort. and once
more reached out for the broad wide
awake he always wore.
Il shan't be long" he said to the boy
whom he employed to- do odd jobs
about the shop.
A thin drizzle had set in as zeckel
hobbled along the Charing Cross road,
1t had been pouring wet weather for
the last week or so, but every wen.
ing at about the same time the trem.
bling old figure could have been seen
making its way to the spot where the
best of its life had been spent.
Ezekiel reached his goal at last, his
dim eyes bent on the ground for very
fear OF what he dreaded to see.
But he had come to know.
With a jerk he raised his head.
All, dear heaven! It had been stand
ing this morning, and now a confused
mass of stones, brick and mortar alone
marked the place.
Ezekiel stood still for a space, a pitt
full figure in the falling rain. His jaw
had dropped and the blue eyes were
fixed in a piteous stare upon the RUM
of what wal once his kingdom.
why. Ezekiel" said a kindly voice
at the Old mans elbow, what are yoI
doing standing there in the rain. as /
you'd lost yOurself?"
Ezekiel recognized mi of his custom
srs.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12
THE ROAST THAT WAS UNDoNE.

Culinary Accident Due to Use Of Rub.
Der Tray.
When George Creighton goes up to
Sullivan county this summer he will
be careful to keep all of his photo
graphic apparatus under lock and key.
And his landlady, Mrs. Hubbard, will
be a little more careful about borrow
ing his things.
One morning last summer George
left two of his rubber trays on a bench
outside the house to drain, and went
fishing. Mrs. Hubbard absent mind
eddy picked up the. trays and took
them into the kitchen. When George
came back and saw the house his first
thought was that it was on fire.
smoke was streaming from the
kitchen windows, and Mrs. Hubbard
came running towards him wringing
her hands, her eyes watery.
"Oh, George" she cried. 81 don't
know what can be the matter. l put
chicken in the oven a little while ago,
and when l opened the door to haste
it the ven was full of smoke, and it
had the awfullest smell! There must
have been something the matter with
chicken"
AS George stepped into the kitchen
his nostrils were greeted with an over
towering odor of burning rubber.
Mrs. Hubbard" he said, what
kind of a pan did you put the chicken
in?"
"One like this" she replied. show
ing him the other tray.-New YorE
Press.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

man could not possibly understand its
value.
Understand! Ezekiel Strengthened
himself and chuckled at the idea.
There wasn't a man in London that
could hoodwink him into buying an
imitation of the real article! Many a
time Charles Dickens had tried to
play a trick on him, and had declared
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12
Vounq Women Defy Superstition.

There are thirteen young women in
Chester, Penn, who have no fear of
fate in connection with that unlucky
number. They invariably have charge
Of No. 10 table at social functions in
connection with st. Michael's church,
hold parties of thirteen and recently,
at a reception given by the chairman,
Miss Mamie Duffy, sat down to supper
at thirteen minutes of 8 and arose from
the table at thirteen minutes of 10.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Mr.. Howells is always gracious, and
always particularly gracious to young
men, who love letters. Therefore he
listened patiently TO the first sonnet.
1t was execrable. The writer of such
doggerel could not but be hopeless.
"The second sonnet is the better OF
the two" Mr.. Howells said firmly. and
he refused to listen to it. Pleading an
engagement, he asked the young man
to excuse him. The second sonnet is
the better, | assure you" he repeated.
Detroit News-Tribune.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

That Philadelphia grocer who was
found selling green tomatoes which
he had painted red must be aspiring
20 a place in history side by side with
the man who invented wooden nut
megs.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

and other modern convenienees; there
was nothing missing-nothing but
those subtle associations which alone
create the real atmosphere OF home.
And no one knew, no n under
stood. >"
He took up a brOken-backed volume
lying at his elbow and fingered its
yellow pages lovingly. It was a rare
edition Of Pilgrims Progress" much
coveted by a certain celebrated novel
ast wno had imagined that the old
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The postal Investigation will eve
cause a ripple In the Newport, Neb.,
office 1.-TWO gents umbrellas were
left in the postofice," advertises this
incorruptible oficial in the Newport
Republican. Owners may have same
by calling. We have D good = Of
cur oWR."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Presently the orator who wants to
make a Fit will refer to the boys not
as the future governors and Presidents
but the future farm hands of u
glorious country.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

There is a girl in Chicago who has
worked thlrty-one years for the SAM
family. Why should a girl like that
have to work for a living? She ought
TO be able to get big money from the
museums.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

u Is awful the way social duties
are telling on people at-Newport Some
Of them have to get up as early as .
and 10 o'clock in the morning 70 keep
~ with their engagements,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12
oFighting Bob" Evans has been r

Fighting Bob" Evans has been re-
ceived in the throne room by the en-
peror and empress of China, but the
chances are good that he would rather
be travelling around with Prince
Henry, or of Sandy Hook keeping the
course clear for the racing yachts,
not to mention commanding the Iowa
In the battle Of Santiago.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

It is reported that Andrew Carnegie
thinks OF starting a newspaper in
Glasgow. This is the first intimation
we have had that Andrew also hank
srs for strenuosity.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The Los Angeles Herald says that
the new twenty-two-story building OF
the New York Times will be equipped
with a special private stairway for
poetical contributors. Why not use
the elevator shaft and save time?
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12
Her Vacation.

you say you don't think you will be
any more comfortable at a summer re-
sort than you were at homer"
81 never could see much difference .
said the little woman with the patient
smile.
Then why do you insist on going?''
so that my husband will have to
make his complaints to strangers
about the way the house ia run"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

When you learn that those cigars
you have been buying so cheaply we're
struggled you wonder, with some in
d~ignation, why they were not sold still
cheaper.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

A mackerel Weighing 800 pounds has
been caught on Newport. Trying to
keep up with the size of the jags in
that vicinity.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The latest system of wireless teieg-
Faphy is also poleless. Unhappily this
fact does not mark progress, SC far as
the message senders are concerned,
toward the costless.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Lillian Russell has an automobile
adventure every little while now. The
automobile is apparently taking the
place of the lost jewels.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

In time the name of the man that
made the arctic fox flea famous will be
forgotten, but the fame of the flea
viii abide.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

It must make the women golfers Of
Halifax feel like swearing to have that
Halifax clergyman accuse them Of
swearing on the links.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The debts of Alexander and Draga
are $4,000. They will now be paid.
Perhaps the massacre was not a mat
ter of politics after all. It was very
b~usinesslike.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The chewing gum trust has a sur
plus. after paying dividends, of $776.-
900. The news has set a great many
other jaws wagging.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

It appears that the New York fruit
handlers are engaged in a banana war.
They certainly have their troubles
punched to begin with.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Your dollar will buy a reserved seat
Rt the circus just as quick as John
kockefeller's dollar. But no has the
dollar.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The matter of preserving seal life
In Boring sea has very appropriately
been referred to a high joint commits
sion.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

A Berlin physician makes the claim
that arsenic will cure cancer. II
taken in large enough doses It will.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Some real distress, nevertheless,
has been caused by the slump in
stocks. 1t has cut a lot of promising
summer vacations in half.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Russell Sage is SS, but those who
tried to take money away from him
report that he is not childish.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

The philanthropist is still undiscov-
cred who gives his money back TO the
people he got It from.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Harry Lehr should be careful or he
viii sprain his wrist.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

They are lawyers. not dentists, mind
you. who are going into the Sawtooth
mountains.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Diamonds have gone up 20 per cent
In price this year. This is a sympa-
dhetie strike of another kind.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

That she may be in still finer fettle
% figAt for peace, Russia orders an
other bunch OF warships.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Women may live longer than men,
but do they live as much while they
are at 1T
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Lou Dillon is a terribly fast young
ching, but there is still quite a gap
between her and the two minute mark.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-09-12

Milwaukee has taken to golf. What
O. the matter with ponuchle?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
Personal.

w. B. Crowninshield, a brother of
the admiral, who recently resigned
from the navy in a huff, is a day la
borer at Bluffton, Ind, where he works
as a horticulturist.
The trip of Gov Odell to the st.
Louis fair will cost the state of New
York $50 600. The executive will take
an entire regiment along with him as
his personal escort.
Miss Florence Lindley, a school
teacher of Brown county, Kansas.
years ago made up her mind that there
were great possibilities in the Indian
territory. So she saved her salary
and bought seventy-two lots in the lit
tie town of Sapulpa, paying the Indian
owner a trifle under 81 for each lot.
The Indian rued his action and when
the court house and many real estate
records were burned not long ago he
brought suit, claiming the young wom-
an never had paid him. At the trial
after he had testified under oath that
the land was not paid for Miss Lindley
brought forward his receipt for the
amount in full which she had pre-
served. The Indian is on trial for
perjury. The town lots in question
are valued at not less than $4,000.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29

takes; revising and correcting his err
rors; quitting the drivers seat, from
which he dashed the steeds so furiousiy
and took the ditch so disastrOusly, TO
put his shoulder TO the wheel of the
old carry-all and to help get her out
Of the slough of Populism and Social
ism and Free Silver Republicanism, all
dating back to 1896.
The foregoing extracts indicate pref
ty fully the feeling between the fac
tions of the party. 1t is regrettable
that there are factions. There are
no good reasons for them. 1t is certain
that the Democratic party cannot win
in the contest next year if these fac
lions continue TO exist. In order for
them to get together it is necessary
that there shall be concessions. 1t looks
as If Mr.. Bryan does not intend to
make concessions. He talks as if he be-
lieves that he and those acting with
him are the only honest leaders in
the party, and that it is their duty
to save the party by insisting on con-
trolling it. The effect of such a course
as he is pursuing is to make it more
difficult for Democrats 20 get together
and harmonic their differences.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
lie did All lie Could.

From the Chicago Daily News.
He did all he could to be hearty and
strong.
The trouble he took was surprising;
But nothing he tried seemed to help
him along.
His weakness was past all disguis-
ing.
He took iron tablets and essence of
steel
And tonics whose taste was as bad
as their smell,
And pepsin before. also after each
meal,
Yet he seldom felt well.
He never fed rashly-his diet he'd
choose
By formulate scientific.
A steak or a chop he would sternly re-
fuse,
But the way he ate oats was terrific
He gorged on chopped feed and on
millet and bran
And such stuffs sanitariums sell,
But in spite of it all, it's a fact that
the man
Hardly ever felt we'll.
He slept in a draught on pillowless
bed
That was hard as Gehenna's gate
hinges.
He bathed in ice water, thing that he
said
Ought to help his rheumatical
Also Indian clubs and dumbbells would
he swing
Until with exhaustion he fell.
So it seems-does it not?-a remarka BILE
thing
That he seldom felt well.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says:
eff Col. Watterson persists he may be
able to stir the -Four Hundred" of
New York up to resentment. That init
nation of admixture of the races was
wormwood."
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem) says:
Senator Pritchard had a hard fight,
but he succeeded in keeping North
Carolina from being Crummed, and he
deserves credit for what he has done.
IL we are to have two strong political
parties in the South, the Republican
party will have to follow the Pritch-
ard lead. There is no other way"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: at is only a few foolish and
fanatical enemies of ex-President
Cleveland who suggest the possibility
of his nomination for third term i'm
spite Of his absolute rejection of the
proposition. George Washington was
not without the same class of enemies,
who suspected him Of entertaining de-
signs OF kingly rule"
The Memphis commercial-Appea
Oem) says: Mr.. Bryan is entitled to
his opinions as is any other private
Democrat, but the leadership OF the
party must go 10 other hands. He has
made a pronounced failure OF II. and
II would be suicidal 20 make him chair-
man OF the National Democratic Com
nittee. The Democratic party IL 10
longer the tail 20 his kite"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29

Ernest Thompson-Seton was talking
about the Indian medicine man the
other day, says the Philadelphia Led
ger.
did you ever notice." said he. that
the Indian doctors two prime remedies
are to-day the prime remedies of the
most advanced medical science also?
They are massage and the vapor bath.
The early explorers all ridiculed these
two features of the medicine mans
treatment as much as they did any of
the rest; but enlightened physicians
have adopted them now. OF course, the
medicine men practiced all sorts of
fraud and deception, but they were
shrewd judges of character and that
was the reason of their holding the po-
sition they did. Here is an example
of it.:
Running Deer and Lame Dog had
a quarrel. 1t was smoothed over and
forgotten. A year afterwards Running
Deer was found dead one morning in
his tepee. The medicine man retired
and remained invisible for two days.
Then he called council.
When all were seated in order, he
said: I have tasted and have had Wis
ions, and knowledge has been granted
to me. You see this knife. There are
three spots of blood on this side the
blade, three on the other side. / wipe
OFF the blood this side is clean, this is
clean. i put the knife behind me, so,
in the council fire. Each man shall
stand in turn. When the blood spots
come back on the blade, that man will
be the guilty one.
Storm Cloud. stand up. No blood
comes on the blade. Storm Cloud, sit
down. You are not guilty.
"'Blue Buffalo, stand up. No blood
comes on the blade. Blue Buffalo, sit
down. You are not guilty.
Lame Dog. stand up. See, the
blood comes back on the blade. Lame
Dog II guilty
Confronted by this supernatural
proof Of his guilt, Lame Dog broke
down and confessed. and was thus
brought 20 justice through sbrewd
judgment END q simple trick q slsight-
Of-band."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
Arbitration ia thc Nursery.

Naughty Algernon demanded more
raspberry jam. and Nurse said he
couldn't have it, says the New York
Post. Thereupon the spoiled child tore
Nurses apron, tipped the baby out of
her cradle, and flung himself kicking
and screaming on the floor. Nurse call
ed for help, and from below entered
the bad boys mother, to pronounce
judgment.
"Algernon," she exclaimed, Il am
ashamed of you! Your violent temper
is disgraceful. If you keep on this way
no one will have anything to do with
you. TO think of a big boy like you
making his little brother cry! And to
hurt that darling baby so! Why, l
have no patience with you. You ought
to be shut up in the closet. No one
can live with you if you don't behave
better. Do you hear, you bad boy?
I've mind to give you a good whip
ping. Something has got to be done
to cure you of your wretched greedy
and quarrelsome ways. Now, Nurse,
give Algernon his jam, and let me hear
no more noise up here"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
story of Victor Hugo.

The Peris papers have unearthed
new incident about Victor Hugo. Dur
ing the latter years of his long life
he was very fond of surveying man.
kind from the vantage ground of the
top of an omnibus. He used to make
long excursions through the gay city
perched on the top of the homely bus,
which he seemed to prefer to any other
vehicle. An amusing and characteristic
anecdote of the great poet, who was
most courteous and attentive to the
lovely sex, is related by a review. One
fine day, as he was enjoying a ride
under these conditions, a fascinating
young woman climbed to the summit
of the tramcar on which he was seat
ed, and steered her way toward the
one next to him. She was about to
take possession of it when a sudden
jolt sent her instead into Victor Hugo's
lap. AS soon as she recovered her
self, the pretty girl turned to the poet,
and, her fair cheeks suffused with
crimson, said: II beg your pardon,
monsieur And l." he replied gall
lantly thank you, mademoiselle.'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
believes the Jonah story.

Frank Talmage, son of the famous I.
De Witt Talmage. is more satisfied to-
day than he was two months ago. says
an exchange. Frank is a clergyman,
and like all preachers, must answer
at least once in his life certain stock
questions. Among these questions are
the evolution of man." eternal hre"
and "Jonah's whale"
The question, propounded at a liter
airy society composed of embryo ora
tors and statesmen, was as follows;
"Mr. Talmage, do you believe that the
whale swallowed jonah" Without a
moments hesitation, Mr.. Talmage
said: What proof you have, l have.
Why the same facts should make me
believe and you disbelieve, cannot
say. In order to come to a decision let
me say that the whale did swallow Jo-
nah. For Jonah was a preacher, and
the whale has been spouting ever
since"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
LEGAL SALES.
CITY A1ARsHALs' SALE.


City Marshals' Office, Savannah,
Ca, March 8, 1903.-Under direction OF
the Committee on City Lots and Open
ing Streets, and according to a reso-
luton of Council, passed March 4.
1903, will offer for sale at public out
cry, to the highest and best bidder, in
front of the Court House. in the city
of Savannah. on TUESDAY, APRIL
Z, 1909. between the legal hours of
sale. the following described property
of the city of Savannah, to wit: Lots
Nos. Is and rs, Thomas ward. mini
mum appraised price Cs2,50O), twenty
five hundred dollars, for each lot: Lot
No p, Thomas ward, minimum ap-
praised price $4,000. three thousand
dollars; western three-fourths of Lot
No. 20. and eastern one-fourth OF Lot
No. 30, Thomas ward. minimum APP
praised price ($2,500), twenty-five hun
dred dollars.
Terms cash. purchaser paying for
titles. HENRY L. DREEsON,
City Marshal.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29
BRIGHT BITS.

Mrs. Brown-"Mrs. Smith is just
too silly for anything!" Mrs. Robin
son-"What has she done now?" Mrs.
Brown-"She stayed home from the
Mothers Meeting to take care of her
sick baby. "-Puck.
Casey, the contractor is gittin'
on very peaceable wild his wife these
days" remarked Mr.. Rafferty,. Peace
able" answered Mr.. Dolan; 81 should
say so. They're SO peaceable they
amt even sociable. "-Washington Star
-She-"The milliner told me that
she had been down to the dentists
to have a nerve killed" He-"Well,
from the prices she asks for hats, 1
should say the dentist must have kill
ed the wrong one. "-Yonkers States
man.
Husband (reading) . "Old Mr..
Hoppson was buried yesterday" Wife
why, is he really dead?", Husband
(sarcastically)-"The paper doesn't
really say whether he is dead or not.
1t simply states that he was buried"
Chicago Daily News