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Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-11-02

Sunday afternoon last, A. E. Baker,
the well known miner while scuffling,
fell. or was thrown, and sustained a
very serious fracture of the right leg
well above the knee. The seriousness
of his hurt was not realized until Mon
day morning, when he was taken to
the hospital and given proper atten-
ton He is well along in years, and
while his age is against him, the fact
that he is a strong and seemingly
physically strong man is in his favor.
He owns several groups of mining
claims near Prescott, which he has
been developing for years, and some
of them are said to have fine mineral
showings
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-11-02
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST
OUR WESTERN NEIGHBOR


facturer, who has an even 10000
shares.
Colonel VIM. c. Greene is now in
complete control of the company,
though his stockholders and all inter
ests are working in harmony for the
first time in several years. There are
now no Amalgamated, Hartman,
Gates or Hawley holdings in the com
pany. Those interests alone have
been largely responsible for the stock
market troubles of Colonel Green and
the Greene company in the past.
Carl Rickerhouse was again in Pres
colt with a bottle of placer gold and
a piece of iron colored ore which fair
ly glistened with the protruding stud
ding of gold which it carried. The
gold is solid, and not of the flaky
variety often seen in quartz. A few
tons of that sort of ore would make
a man ricn. Joe Reiman bought the
piece Of ore and it can be seen at his
place of business. Rickerhouse makes
regular trips to Prescott with this
placer gold, which, it is stated, he
beats out of the quartz. He will not
tell where he gets the rock or the
gold, but it cannot be a great distance
from Prescott.
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-11-02

Passenger train No. l from the east
arrived in three sections last night
and No. Z in two sections. The heavy
travel was due to the regular semi
monthly homeseekers' excursions to
the southwest Railroad officials say
that the travel TO New Mexico, Ari-
zona and California this year is un-
nrnrcGpntpd
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-11-02

Bert c. Talmadge, one of the most
popular Santa Fe switchmen en-
ployed in the San Bernardino yards,
met a shocking death Tuesday after
noon, by being run over by the trucks
of a box car, and the trainmen who
were with him are of the opinion that
he was Knocked from the car by a
fence post which was leaning far out
toward the track.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15

The late Louis Fleischmann. the mil
lionaire baker, not only distributed
food to poor men in the bread line"
he had established in this city. says
the New York Tribune, but he also
got these men employment. He went
among them and conversed with them,
and the delicacy Of his questions to
them. the care he took not to hurt
their feelings, was remarkable. Ona
day he said:
The more unfortunate and wretch
ed people are the more sensitive they
are-the more easily they are wound
ed The public does not bear this fact
enough in mind.
And yet it Is fact that is con
tinually being proved-sometimes pa
thetically, sometimes humorously. 1t
was proved humorously to a friend If
mine last summer in Scotland.
He was making walking tour.
He was climbing mountains and view.
ing lakes and torrents. one morning
on a quiet road he met young wo-
man, tall and comely, who wake I
barefoot.
Surprised. my friend stopped the
young woman and said:
do all the people hereabouts 20
barefoot
She answered:
Some of them do and the rest
mind their own business
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
BOATING ON THE NILE.
Craft Frequently Run Upon Sand Bars
that Fill River.


Navigation on the Nile is not so CON-
plicated matter as upon the north
Atlantic, says a writer In Outing. To
run full speed upon a sand bar is an
occurrence of such frequency as hard
ly to elicit a comment from the pas
sengers. The crew take more interest
because they are obliged to push the
boat off again with poles, and this en-
tails great amount of shouting and
some work The Nile below the first
cataract Is a fairly broad, muddy river,
flowing between deposed banks vary
ing from six to eight to twenty or
thirty feet in height Its surface is
Interrupted everywhere by sand splits
and islands upon which are to be seen
thousands of birds.
The channel, If such 1t can be called,
winds from one side to the other and
changes completely with every food.
Hence even the best pilots run aground
two or three times a day. 1t is, of
course, impossible to proceed at night,
and each days voyage comes to an
end wherever darkness happens tc
overtake one. The boats nose is sim
ply run plump on the bank. two men
leap out and drive stakes to which to
make fast. and there you are for the
night A very simple and effective
method. without any ostentation and
requiring little knowledge Of mathe-
MATES. 1t has also the advantage Of
variety.
Sometimes one finds ones self alone
beneath the wonderful Egyptian moon
lighting up the river. the distant cliffs
and the silent. empty plain. Or, per
haps, one stops near some little native
village, in which case the bank is lined
with silent, curious figures who crouch
for hours wrapped in their white cloth
coverings. Once we tied up beside a
lonely brick kiln. The sight was a
weird one The red flare Of the fur
mace fed with sugar cane, cast inter
mittent flashes of light into the night,
in aud out Of which moved black, half
clothed natives, while overhead was
the cloudless, star-llt sky Of Egypt.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15

beads. There are some wads of cot
ton in the bowl, and under them lie
two carved stone figures of great an
tlquity.
Every person arriving places a
flower in the bowl on the cotton, until
it is completely filled with gorgeous
tropical blossoms. Soon after sunset
the ceremonies commence with long
prayer to the morning star, the tutelar
genius Of the Cora, who is invited to
come and to bring with him all the
other gods. When the dance begins,
after nightfull, the principal singer ac-
companies himself on the musical bow.
This is the only musical instrument
Of the Cora.
They dance in a sort Of quick two
step, and every time a dancer arrives
in front OF the altar he turns twice
sharply around. OF course, each man
dances for himself, one behind an
other.
Just before dawn, when the morning
star is brightest, the ceremonies are
concluded with fervent prayers. Then
bowl is brought to the officiating
leader in the singing This bowl CON
tains water from a sacred lake in Cora
land, and dipping a red orchid into the
sacred water, he sprinkles tho water
over the Mother" bowl, oves the ears
of seed corn to be used for the spring
planting, and over all the people, and
the food the women have prepared for
the feast to be held after the dancing
and other ceremonies are over. This
sprinkling symbolizes the refreshing
dew which the morning star sends to
earth to delight everything living. BY
the time the sun Is up, everything is
over and the Cora are allowed to end
the long fast which precedes every
dance of this character and restore
themselves with the good things their
women have prepared for them.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
RIDING The HORSES TO WATER

When the clover bloom whltened the
pastures,
And wheat fields cleaned bright in the
sun,
When the meadow-lark, hid by the road
aide,
Sang In joy Of new day begun
When the wild rose bloomed ia the
thicket,
Half hid by the tall, dewy grass,
To ride the horses TO water
A barefooted laddie and lass.
When the sun trailed his crimson and
purple
Behind the tall poplar trees,
When the bird note was hushed In the
thicket.
And the clover bloom dreamed Of Its
bees,
We hastened away to the meadow,
Down the path, thro the soft, warm
grass,
To ride the horses TO water
A bsrefooted laddie and lass.
oh, my beautiful ciover-starred meadow,
How far off you seem to-day
And you, little path on the hillside,
Were never 30 far away;
Ny heart ever cries for the children
And the stir Of the wind-blown grass
As they rode the horses to water
A barefooted laddie and lass.
Detroit Free Press.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
SOLR ART TREASURES.
Married Man Thought They We're Only
Mere Junk.

When Il married man gets out OF his
orbit. or off his half Of the domestic
carpet, so to speak, the consequences
are always more or less disastrous to
him. says the Detroit Free Press.
We've just moved" said an unhap-
py-loDking man in a little neighbor-
hood crowd Of men who were buying
their evening cigars at Il corner tUDacco
shop or rathe-, we are half moved
Half our household truck har gone over
to the new place, and half is still with
us. Then sold lot. too, and got
myself in awful lot water. You know
how it is when man starts out in his
own house to do things without ask
ng his wife,
"Oh. yes. we know" echoed all the
others.
In our stable attic" the nan con-
tinued, we had lot of old stuff
stored. I've heard my wife say doz-
IN times that we must look it over and
sell good deal of it the next time
we moved. To-day she was over to the
other house, and as | was kind of
standing round not knowing where to
lake hold next. along came junk man
Trough the alley. l hailed him and
ooll him up in the stable attic; there
sold him an old table, an old high
chair, battered old crib and a car
pet. He gave me So for the lot.
found box of old battered brass trays,
plaques and picture frames after he
was gone. and peddled those off at Il
nickel apiece TO some neighborhood
children who were tagging ME around
al day.
'Of course, man never really
knows what he has sold until his wife
tells him; and tomorrow I'm to chase
all day after that junk man. I've sold
our best parlor carpet, taken up when
SUMMER came In. my wlfe's own high
" treasured infants high chair and a
crib which was also her mothers, and
real mahogany table she had stored
away to have done over. She herself
had paid 50 for the old table, and was
glad to get it at that. Old tables are
getting scarce, she says"
How about the brass Objects" some
man asked.
"Oh, I've got to go around any buy
those back, too" the man replied, sad
ly. "They were hlgh-art beaten brass
nondescripts which my wife made her.
self at the age of 10, and she says her
mother wouldn't part with them for
anything"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
COMPENSATION.
All Things Are to BE Had if One VIII
but Pay the Equivalent.

but Pay the Equivalent.
Life consists almost wholly Of buy
ing. selling, paying. There are no gifts,
nothing that does not call for an equiv
alent. If we cannot pay for gifts in
kind we must pay in gratitude or SER
vice or we shall rank as moral bank
rupts.
If would have a good situation I
must pay for it not only in labor, but
in promptness, intelligence, faithful
ness and good manners. If l would
have good service l must pay not only
In money, but in consideration, recogni-
ton, appreciation, fairness. l can
hold no one to me If misuse him.
All things are to be had for the buy
ing. Would you have friends? Then
pay the price. The price of friend
ship is to be worthy of friendship The
price of glory is to do something glo-
rious. The price of shame is to do
something shameful.
Friendship, glory, honor, admiration,
courage, infamy, contempt, hatred, are
all in the market place for sale at a
price. We are buying and selling these
things constantly as we will. Even
beauty is for sale. Plain women can
gain beauty by cultivating grace, ami
nation. pleasant speech. intelligence,
helpfulness, courage or good will.
Beauty is not in the features alone; II
is in the soul also.
Good will buys good will, frlendli-
ness buys friendship. confidence be
gets confidence. service rewards ser
vice, and hate pays for hate, suspicion
for suspicion. treachery for treachery
contempt for ingratitude, slovenliness
laziness and lying.
We plant a shrub, rosebush, an or
chard, with the expectation that they
will pay us back. We build roads
mend harness and patch the roof will
the same expectation. We will trus
even these unconscious things to pa
their debts.
Some of our investments are gooC
and some are bad. The good qualitie
| we acquire-mOderatio industry
courtesy. order, patience, candor-ar
sound investments. Our evil institu
lions and habits are bad investments
involving us In losses. We becom
debtors to them, and they are exact
ing creditors. forcing payment in full
in money and labor and sometimes II
blood, agony. tears, humiliation o
shame.-From Balance: The Funda
mental Verify" by Orlando J. Smith
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15

An INFANT WONDER.



Mrs. Prattle looked at her visitor
with reproach in her wide blue eyes.
"Talkr she said. eagerly our baby
talk"' Well. / guess he cant He's
three months younger than my cousins
boy, and he's a year ahead Of him in
language. You know often people tell
you their children can say things, and
when you hear them you have to work
and work with your Imagination to tell
what in the world they're saying.
Now, there's my cousins baby
the one l spoke Of They declare that
child has vocabulary of fifteen words.
but. my dear, If you could hear him!
He says bay when they show him
bread, and "fils' for fish, and Gang for
candle. and hort for horse, and 'apa
for father. Those are just a few in
stances. Now I'll try Harold with
those very words, and you'll see the
difference.
Say bread, Harold, bread -
bre-e-ad."
We'd" said the baby.
"Now say fish, fish, fish"
"Whlsh," said the baby.
That's a splendid boyl Now can
you say candle for mother? Candle
candle"
"Wangle," said the baby.
"And now, horse" said Harold's
mother. Horse, ho-orse, hor-r-se."
"Woss." said the baby.
and here's the last for a precious
to say" declared Mrs. Prattle, gaily,
land you say it best of all-father,
fa-ather fa-a-ar- Their"
"Wahwah," said the baby.
There, you seer cried Mrs. Prattle,
in triumph. HE seems to catch the
sound Of every word. He has vo-
cabulary of twenty-five words, really;
but | don't tell my cousin 50. She's
one Of those mothers who think no
other baby is as smart as her own. l
feel sorry for her Now say good-by,
darling, and then nurse will take you
upstairs. Good-by, goo-ood-by-y-y."
"Wy-wy," said the baby.-Youth'
Companion.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15

Bennett (frigidly)-l never admired
Mrs. Sherlton.
Edlth-Why. Mr.. Bennett! Every
one likes Mrs. Sherlton. She isn't
pretty, to be sure, but everybody ad-
mires her.
Bennett folding his arms across his
breast-I am really very sorry for
everybody, and feel constrained to
say that everybody's taste is question
able. In my opinion. Mrs. Sherlton is
an intrusive, meddlesome, designing
old
Edith-Old!
Bennett (savagely)-Thlrty-hve if
she is a day.
Edith-Why, she's only 800 last
June.
Bennett-If she IS such an excellent
authority on continental towns, why
doesn't she write Il guidebook? And
if she isn't, what right has she to go
around booming Rome and making
dlsparaging remarks about Venice?
Edith lin amazemenN-BOom
Ro--l Mr. Bennett, you are getting
angry.
Bennett-Haven't every reason to
be?
Edith (contritely)-I didn't know
you cared so much about Venice, Or
Bennett-I don't care for it. I've
never been there and don't know any
thing about the blooming town, except
that it is laid out in the water and Is
noted for its gondolas. tumble-down
palaces and its prize exhibits of cathe-
drals. 1t isn't that, it's the principle
of the thing
Edith-The principle of the thing!
Bennett desperately the prin-
ciple Of the thing. l was talking to
YOU about Venice, and then Mrs.
Sherlton's eccentric views on Rome in
situated themselves in your mind and
inspired you to-to-- | said Venice
was good place for honeymoon,
and
Edlth-Why. l didn't say it wasn't,
Mr.. Bennett
Bennett-Wen. Will you go?
Edith lin tone of surprise) Go to
Venice?
Bennett-Yes, with me. VIII you be
my wife?
Edith-YOur-
Bennett-Wife. Edith gazes at him
in establishment for several moments
Bennett takes her hand)
Edith confused Well-yes-but-
Bennett-But what, darling? But
what?
Edth-But Pm sure Lorenzo didn't
propose to Jesslca that way.
Bennett (stroking her hand)-No-
mo- dare say Lorenzo didn't 1t was
in such n night as this. but (kisse,
herr, well, the circumstances were
different, dear.-Black and White.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
an lNplAN sATTLEFlELa.
Scene Of Contest Between iowa and
kansas Tribes Discover ed.

kansas Tribes Discover ed.
George Remsburg believes he has
discovered the scene of a great fight
had between the Iowa and Kansas In
diens near what is known as Oak
Mills, in Atchison county. The Kan
sas Indians held the country along
the Missouri river until about the
time Of our revolutionary war. when
they We're driven away by the Sac
and Iowa tribes, which came down
from the north and conquered the re-
gion. The Oak Mills location is sup
posed to have been the place of one
of their greatest battles. At this point
meay human bones and implements
Of war have been plowed up.
Kansas has been the scene OF In
dian battles innumerable, and almost
every county has traditions of fights
of this character. says the Kansas
City Journal. One Of the most re-
markable engagements Of the kind
took place in comparatively modern
times between the Pawnees and Sioux
in the valley of Beaver creek, near
the northwest corner of Kansas. The
Pawness were slaughtered in great
numbers. the Sioux being the victors.
After the battle the Pawnees return
ca and cared for their dead. This
they did by erecting platforms out Of
poles and branches, and putting the
bodies on them out of the reach of
wolves and other animals. When the
first fringe of the white settlement
/ had reached as far as Phillips coun-
ty some of these platforms were still
standing and still supported the whit
ened bones of the dead reposing upon
them.
A buffalo hunter once told Topics
OF a curious sight he saw at this
graveyard. Some "horse hunters"
were hunting in the vicinity. Horse
hunters were those who chased the
buffalo on horseback and they were
hated cordially by the foot hunters"
who stalked the game, because they
ran the buffalo out Of the country.
On this occasion mentioned the horse
hunters stampeded a great herd of
buffalo right through the Pawnee
graveyard They struck the rotten
poles in their mad flight and sent the
bones of the dead flying in every d.
rection. Indeed, when they had pass
ed not a platform remained standing.
In the years which followed many
passing hunters picked up skulls and
o her bones and carried them away as
curiosties One of these skulls was
secured by man at Hays City. 1t
was remarkable from the fact that an
iron-pOinted arrow had gone through
one side aEd nearly through the other.
People who had seen the bow only in
its toy form used to look at this skull
and marvel at the prodigious force
which the Indians could give to their
primitive weapon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
Luck I'm Rusty Nails.

Don't do that exclaimed the
pretty stenographer, as the clerk, TAX
ing her to luncheon was about to kick
a nail off the pavement. please pick
1t up and give it to me when we are
back in the office. You were telling
me the other day that baseball play
ers are superstitious about passing
empty barrels Well. stenographers.
among the women. anyway, believe
there is a hoodoO in giving nails the
go-by. 1t is always lucky to pick up
n nail on the street | don't mean
a dozen or two of them, when you hap
pen to be passing a building where
carpenters are at work. but just one
lone nail that has wandered on by
itself and makes you wonder how it
ever got there.
Il know girls who have cigar box
full of nails picked up at one time ami
another, each Of which is a mementa
of some piece Of good luck. Sgme
girls keep one nail in their pocket until
they find another. Ii you are look
ing for a job and pick up nail on
your way to answer an advertisement
II Is sure sign you'll get the place.
Girls think it is a particularly lucky
sign II you find nail when out walk
ing with a young man. I'll let you
guess why."-New York Press.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
The Baby Camel.

The baby camel is curious looking
little creature, but one which you
would hardly select as a household pet.
Like all young beasts, 1t is playful, in
a modified, solemn sort of way, and is
as clumsy as it is odd to look upon.
Some one has said that If camel
were rid of its deformity it would be
quite a respectable appearing beast.
But the hump is in nowise a deform-
ity, and a camel who possessed pride
of race would die Of shame If such a
thing were to happen to him. In other
words. he would be a camel freak.
And with a baby camel, as his hump
grows apace, he. too, becomes unusual
ly proud and consequential.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15

"Will you keep my daughter in the
style to which she has been accustom-
edT"
"No, sir; I'll keep her in a style to
which she has not been accustomed"
"All right, my boy. Take her and
be happy. Now her mother and myself
will be able to put on a little style to
which we have not been accustomed"
Houston Post.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
Knew She'd Find Ont.

At school little Charlie, being one
Of the geography class, was deeply
interested In learning the points Of the
compass. Said the teacher: You
have in front Of you the north; on your
right the east, on your left the west
What have you behind your" After
few moments reflection Charlie ex-
claimed: "A patch on my pants" And
to make the Information more binding
Charlie continued in a shame-faced
manner: Il knew you'd see it. told
mamma you would"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-15
A ouick witted Waiter.

A western Congressman says that
while he and certain friends were
studying the bill Of fare in hotel on
the New Jersey coast mosquito
alighted OIL the card. 1t instantly lost
its life by quick blow from the man
holding the card. its little carcass re-
naming on the bill. With a smile the
man pointed to the remains and said
to the waiter:
do you serve these on toast hereT'
"They're on the bill, sir" was the
witty retort Of the waiter.