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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

must keep.
Men, not children. servant or kinsfolks
But each man born in the island broke to
the matter of war,
Soberly and by custom taken and trained
Each man born in the island entered at
youth to the game
AS 1t were almost cricket, not to be mas
But after trial and labor, by temperance,
living chaste.
As it were almost cricket-as 1t we're even
Weighed and pondered and worshiped
and practiced day on day.
So we shall blde s~ure-guarded when the
restless lightnings wake
In the womb of the blotting war-cloud
and the pallid nation quake.
SO, at the haggard trumpets, instant your
soul shall leap
Fortnight full-harnessed. accepting
alert from the wells Of sleep.
So at the threat ye shall summon-so at
the need We shall send
Men, not children or servants, tempered
and taught TO the end.
Cleansed OF servile panic, slow to dread
or despise,
But We say: 1T viii mar our comfort. "
Ye say: 1T will 'minish our trade"
Do We wait for the spattered shrapnel ere
We learn how a gun Is laid?
For the low red glare of southwark when
the raided coast towns burn?
Olght We shall have on that lesson, but
little time to learn9
vii We pitch some white pavilion, and
Justify even the odds
with nets and hoops and mallets, with
racquets and bats and rods!
VIII the rabbit war with your Oemen-
the red-deer horn them for hire;
The kept ~cock-pheasant keep your lie Is
master of many a shire.
Arid, aloof, injurious, unthinking, I'M
thanking, Eelt-
VIII We loose your schools to hout them
till the browbeat columns melt2
VIII We pray them or preach them or
print them or ballot them back from
your shore?
VIII your workmen issue a mandate to
bid them strike no more?
WIN We rise and dethrone your rulers?
because ye We're idle both
Pride by in%solence chastenedY Incidence
puTEed by slothO
No doubt but We are The people; who
shall make you afraid2
Also your gods are many no doubt but
your gods shall aid.
Idols of greasy affairs built for the spirits
ease;
Proud little brazen Baals and talking
fetishes;
Teraphs az sept end party and wise woot
pavement gods
snatch you from under the rodsy
From the gusty pickering gunroll with
vieWless salvOes rent,
And the pitted hall Of the bullets that tell
not whence they were sent.
When We are ringed as with iron, when We
are scOurged as With whips,
When the meat Is yet I'M your belly anc
the boast Is yet on your lips;
When We go forth at morning and the
noon beholds you broke
Ere ye lie down at even, your remnant
under the yoke.
Nc doubt but We are the people-absolute
strong and wise;
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
TIE

BY PUDYAnD MpLING

Probably nothing written IN years
has attracted so much attention and
varying comment as has the poem
written by Rudyard Kipling attacking
the stay-at-home Englishmen. Here
Is the poem IN full from the London
Times, the paper in which it original
ly appeared:
Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed by
Long did ye wake in quiet. and long lie
TIL We said of Strife: what is it7' OF
the Sword: 1T is far from our
Till We made a sport Of your s%hrunkon
hosts and a toy Of your armed men.
he stopped your ears to the warning-ye
would neither look nor heed
He set your leisure before their toll, and
your lusts above their need.
Because Of your witless learning ana
your beasts OF warren and chase
Ae grudged your sons for their service
and your fields for their camping
place.
Ye forced them to CLEAN in the highways
the straw for the bricks they
brought:
Ye forced them follow in byways the
craft that ye never taught.
Ae hindered and hampered and crippled;
We thrust out of sight and away
Those that would serve you for honor and
those that served you for pay.
Then were the Judgments loosened; then
was your shame revealed,
At the hands Of a little people, few but
apt in the field.
Yet We were saved by a remnant land
your lands l~ong-sufering STAR,
When your strong men cheered in their
millions while your stripplings went
to the war.
Sons Of the sheltered city-unmade, I'M
handled, unmeet-
Te pushed them raw to the battle as ye
picked them raw from the street.
And what did We look they should COM
breath?
knowledge unto occasion at the first far
view of Death?
So! And ye train your horses and the
dogs We feed and prize.
How are the beasts more worthy than the
souls you sacrifice?
But We said. Their vaior shall show
them" but We said, The end is
close"
And ye sent them comhts n pictures to
help them harry your foes,
And ye Wanted your fathomless power
and we Haunted your iron pride
Ere-ye fawned on the Younger Nations
for the men who could shoot and
Then We returned to your trinkets; then
ye coptented your souls
With the fanneled fools at the wicket or
the muddied OATS at the goals.
Given to strong delusion, wholly believ-
Ing a lie,
Ye saw that the land lay fenceless and
We let the months go by;
Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some
saving sign
Id~le-openly dle-in the lee of the fore
spent Line.
Idle-except for your b%oasting; and what
is yeur Boosting worth
II We grudge a year of service to the lord
Hest life on Earth?
Ancient, effortless, ordered. cynic on cycle
set
Life so long untroubled that we who in
herit forget
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
s.Neu AR IA oRlnA Town.


Has 1900 People, and Ia Located ,n-
stso a Navy Yard.
The existence Of a singular town is
brought to notice by the introduced IN
Of Senator Mallory Of Florida Of a bill
to provide public schools, n for
white. the other for oolored, children
IN the town of Warrington. Fla. The
reference Of the bill to the Secretary
Of the Navy for his opinion on its
merits is apparently unusual and un-
necessary, but it is really highly prop
er, as the facts about Warrington show.
At the close Of the Civil War TIE
business of the navy yard at Pcnsa-
cola was considerable, and the number
of employees was large. Many Of the
persons working in the yard "squatter'
upon the unoccupied land comprised
within the naval reservation, and OBJ
tanned permission from the department
to build homes thereon. The number
of home builders increased even after
the temporary activity of the navy
yard was succeeded by the lothargy
that came over the navy and lasted for
nearly twenty years. In time, the
group of houses assumed proportions
of a town; then it took a name, and
became Warrington. The Postofhce De-
partment recognized its rights, gave it
a postofice, which later it made a
money-order office, and now the town
has some 300 houses, six churches, sew
eral stores, and a population of
than 1,500 persons.
The commander of the Pensacola
navy yard rules the town; the inhabi-
tants pay no taxes, and have no votes.
The place is kept in order by the cap
tain of the ward, and "policed' as the
rest of the naval reservation is. The
bureau of yards and docks installed
and maintained the electric lights and
the system, though very few of
the inhabitants are employed by the
government. By far a greater part Of
those who thus enjoy the nations are
are engaged in fishing or in farming
for a living.
Now Senator Mallory thinks that in
addition to providing light, clean
streets and sanitation of the most i'm
proved type, the government should
also provide schools for the children
of the untaxed jewellers in Warrington,
and accordingly introduced his bill.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
eovERNok BY 0

Resemblance That Caused Trouble to a
Detroit Man.
Il don't know how on earth such a
report started" said a Detroit insur-
ance man, but my wife and l had
scarcely got settled in a little village
for our vacation last summer when it
was noised around that I was the gov
ernor Of Michigan. l denied it as fast
as / could, but the denial didn't get
around a. fast as the report. One
morning, after about a week, a broad
backed farmer who didn't look a bit
good-natured called me out to say:
Governor, I've got a leetle business
with you
I'm no governor" l promptly an
swered.
Governor he went on, 4 don't be-
long to your party
"No?"
And don't vote your ticket
"No?"
"'And I didn't believe the people of
Michigan would elect no SIGH critter
as you to Office
And the didn't" 1 said.
"No, l didn't believe it, but there
was some as did, and when l offered
to bet a $50 COW again a IS calf that
you'd git showed under 1 was token
up. Governor l lost that COW. 1
worked agin you tooth and toe-nafls,
but you sneaked in
I'm very sorry you lost the cow"
but bein' sorry don't furnish me
in milk and butter, governor; I've
bided my time and it has come. and
now I'm goin' to lick $50 worth of
spotted COW right out of your hide
Il got away from him while he was
peeling off his coat said the narrator,
but it was a close shave, and l had
to send a key Of beer out to his farm
before he came to the conclusion that
/ wasn't holding down the state Of
Michigan and responsible for his loss"
Detroit Free Press.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
whn4 1nnuenoed MInIster va.

The Board Of Trade of Springfield,
Mass, was anxious to secure Chinese
Minister WI Ting-fang as a speaker at
its annual dinner in March. and Cor
gresham F. H. Gillett, who was uTs-
ing him to accept the invitation. was
startled by the abrupt question;
Where is Springfield, anyway" When
told that it was the seat Of the largest
small arms plant in the world and the
home of dictionary making in the Unik.
ed States the Chinese diplomat said he
would go.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
Thought She Had a Right to Know.

The postal savings bank department
Of the English postofice is said to re-
ceive more curious requests and in
quiries than any other branch Of the
public service. Recently the following
letter was among those delivered to
the chief of one of the department bu-
reaus: will you be kind enough to
let me know If Mr.. John Smith has
got a hundred pounds in the savings
bank, as he has been paying his ad-
dresses to me for some time? I am
only a widow and do not wish
to be taken in by him"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

The point where Utah, Colorado, Ari-
zona and New Mexico touch each other
is called the four corners. This fact is
not a strange one, but when we come
to find that is the only place where
-four states or territories point, we find
that this spot is in some ways a unique
one. Not only is this the only place in
the United States where such a juno
ton occurs, but 1t is the only one OF its
kind in the world. This statement
seems a broad one, but a short study Of
the maps of an atlas will show that it
is correct, and, more than that, that at
no other place IN the United States do
mor han two 1tate corners touch each
other.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
she G,lnea rnpn.s consent.

A pretty girl announced to papa her
engagement to dear Cholly. The old
man became very grave at once. Cho.ly
had a good salary, was to all appear
ances a nice, steady young man, but
them said papa, "let the engagement
be a long one, my dear. In that case
you will have time to and out each
others faults and failings, and dis
cover serious defects of character
which would make you wretched for
life If you marry"
But, papa" i%nterposed the sweet
girl, Il object to long engagements if
they are so apt to be broken, don't you
know" And while the old man medi-
tated she rushed off into the parlor to
tell Cholly it was all right and resume
the yum-yum business.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
ABsINrHE AND ITS ORIGIN.
French Physician Said to he the Invent'
or of tho stun.

or of the stun.
Temperance people in Europe were
recently much surprised at the discov4
cry that the deadly abslnthe was orr
iginally an extremely harmless med
ical remedy.
1t was a French physician who first
used it. His name was Ordinaire, and
he was living as a refugee at Couvet;
in Switzerland, at the close Of the
eighteenth century. Like many other
country doctors at that time, he was
a druggist and his ~favorite remedy was
a certain elixir of absinthe, Of which
he alone had the secret.
At his death he %bequeathed the form
ula to his housekeeper, Mile. Grand
pierre, and she sold it to the daughters
of Lieutenant Henroid. They culti-
waited in their little garden the herbs
necessary for %concocting it, and after
they had distilled a certain quantity
of the liquid they sold it on commits
sion to itinerant peddlers. who quickly
disposed of it in the adjacent towns
and villages.
Finally, during the first decade of
the nineteenth century, a wealthy dis
tiller purchased the formula, and very
soon afterward he placed on the mar
ket the modern absinthe, which differs
greatly from the old medical remedy,
since the latter contains no alcohol
and very little absinthe.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Mr.. Pettus, the venerable United
states senator from Alabama, is one Of
the best poker players in congress, but
at times has extraordinary uns of bad
luck. As attorney for some b%ondhold-
ers he once earned a $4,000 fee ana
lost nearly all Of it next winter play
ing poker in Montgomery. Mr.. Pettus
is father of the remark often heard in
some form at the poker table: Chips
haven't any permanent h%abitation."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

1t is not given to every man to enter
on a trade in his eighty-third year.
But this may be said to have been
the lot of the famous Dean Hole, who
was presented at Rochester. England,
with the freedom of the Tin Plate
Workers company. The worthy dean,
who is everywhere known as a deter
mined raconteur and as a mighty
grower of roses before the Lord. re-
ceived the honor in his drawing room
from the hands of the master Of the
company, r. Bruce Millar, who was
surrounded by leading tin plate work
ers. The freedom" was presented on
an Illuminated parchment full of his
toric emblems and early typographical
niceties taken from the guilG's
archives. Although a very small com
many, the tin platers are not a feeble
ok; they have organized two exhibit
lions Of tin and wire work since 1873.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
EngIand,s Naval Power.

There is some skeptcism in certain
English circles regarding the fervent
praise Of the British navy which Com
mander Richardson Glover, U. S. N,
naval attache to the United States m
bassy, uttered in a recent interview 10
Washington. Commander Glover was
quoted as saying that the British navy
is far more efficient than continental
powers believe. This, says the Hamp-
shire Telegraph, lis a good thing 10
publish to the world. but it is to lie
hoped that the continental powers
and particularly the more belligerent
mons them-will take the statement
to heart. But the British public ought
to be sufficiently informed by now to
be proof against Capt. Clover's insidi
Gus lattery. When he says that Eng
land to-day is stronger on the seas than
any two of the most powerful CONT
mental powers, with another power in
cluded, he is merely soaring into
heights of imagination whittier no
British naval expert can pretend to fol,
low him"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

The papers say that a New York
lawyer is suing a steamship company
for 81 $500 damages for the loss Of an
Egyptian idol which he shipped to New
York from Palermo. Times have
changed since the hymn-writer sang of
"tho dearest idol l have known,
where'er that idol be-" and pleaded to
be relieved Of it. Here's a man who
wants his idol back-a pretty dear one
at that. Better for him to be content
with his damages. The average col
lector's attitude toward a good old
Egyptian god must be almost too wor-
shipful. to be encouraged in a Christian
country. The hymn writer's sentiment
was afer.-Harper's Weekly.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

A point Of great interest to Califor-
MIA tourists is the quaint little home
of Ramona" immortalized by Helen
Hunt Jackson's graphic pen. Travel
ers O Los Angeles to Santa Barbara
pass Camulos, and within a stones
throw Of the house where Ramona
lived.-The Four-Track News.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
want No Portuguese Domination.

want NO E~OrtuEueae Domination.
The Chinese colony in Honolulu is
very much wrought up over a report
that the Heongsan district in the prov
ince Of Kwangtung, China, is to be
coded to Portugal. This is the district
to which most Of the Chinese in this
territory belong. A mass-meeting was
held recently and attended by more
than 500 Chinese. At this meeting
many patriotic speeches were made,
and a memorial protesting against
the cession will be sent to WI Ting
fang, Chinese minister at Washington,
and to the imperial government at
Peldn. Most Of the Chinese declare
that II the province is coded or if Por-
tugal attempts to seize it they will re-
turn to China and organize an army
to fight against the foreigners.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Some day Buddhists may petition
the authorities at South Kensington to
hand over the huge black Buddha in
their museum, so that they may form
a London center for the Buddhist mis-
s~onarles who are now being dispatched
81 over the world.-Burma Times.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Tho Toronto Mail makes a claim
that IF the teetotalers were counted it
would probably be found that. in pro-
portion to population. they are more
numerous in Canada than anywhere
else In the civilized world"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

In 1861 only i,s9s.O 900 acres of land
we're under cultivation in Australia.
In 1899 there were over 10, 0OO.0 900
acres.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Whatever your heart has desired We nave
not withheld from your eyes.
on your own heads, In your own hands,
the sin and the saving Hest
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

end, and in as open and mischieYous
a n as Stevenson in some of his
horrors or Orphant Annie with her
witch tales by the evening freight
You know Shakespeare is far from be-
ing historically servile in this play.
It is he and not Richard who does
these prodigiously Immoral, not i'm
moral, things, for the simple purpose
OF causing us to go back to the days
Of our childhood. before VI became
casuists, the days when we could be
amused by Bluebeard and Jack the
0iant-killer."
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

When a bee loses its temper look
out for a singing retort.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-18
Atlantic City Horse Show.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July 1S.-
Society deserted the pleasures of the
beach and the board walk today for
Inlet Park, where the seventh annual
exhibition of the Atlantic City Horse
Show association was opened under
happy auspices. The entry list this
year is exceptionally large and of a
high class and the snow promises to
be highly successful. Five thousand
dollars in prizes in addition to a num-
Der of trophies will be distributed
among the winners in the various
classes. The exhibition will continue
until the end of the week.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-18
PROSPEROUS TIME AT STATE
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
LAST SCHOOL TERM.
Catalogue For Year Is Now Out Giving
Much Information Relative to
That Institution.

The catalogue of the State Agricul-
tural college for the year 1905 has just
been issued. This volume is much
larger than the catalogues of former
years have been, indicating the rapid
| growth of the institution during the
past year.
| A new department of instruction,
that of Domestic Economy, has been
added to the college, making in all the
following twelve collegiate depart
ments: Mathematics and civil engi-
| neering, chemistry, botany and zoolo-
gy, agriculture, English language and
| literature, economic science and his
| tory, mechanical and electrical engi-
neering, modern languages, mining en-
gineering, geology, domestic economy,
and military science and tactics.
There are also maintained schools of
pharmacy, veterinary science, music
business, dairying, the school for arti-
sans, the elementary school, and the
winter school for farmers. In these
departments and schools faculty of
seventy professors, instructors, tutors
and officials give the instruction and
administer the affairs Of the institu-
ton.
The total enrolment in all depart
ments of the college during the year
recently closed aggregates 1913 stu
dents, about $50 in excess of the high
est number ever reached before This
does not include nearly one hundred
now in attendance at the summer sci
ence school for teachers, who have
enrolled since the catalogue list was
made up.
Twelve states of the Union British
Columbia and Japan were represented
ing some from nearly every county of
the State. A noticeable feature is the
unusually large number in attendance
from Puget Sound points. The West
side of the state has been represented
by an unprecedently large delegation.
The list of graduates given in the cat
alogue is also interesting, showing
that every graduate of this vigorous
institution is holding a good position
in life Many occupy lucrative posi-
tons of responsibility, although the
first graduating class was sent out
only eight years ago.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-18
CONGRESSMEN TO Be HEARD
WAsHiNGTON'S DELEGATION TO
HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
ABOUT IRRIGATION.
Reclamation Service May Be In For a
Strong Roast Relative to the
PaIouse River Project.

Although the full report of the en-
gineers has not yet been received, the
opinion prevails at the headquarters
of the reclamati ton service here that
the Palouse irrigation project will be
abandoned-at least for several years
to come, states a report from Wash
ceived by the chief engineer of the
sedvice indicate that the Palouse
would cost over $50 an acre; and al
though this estimate is not the final
one, it is believed that the formal re-
port Of the engineers in the field will
not reduce the total average below this
figure.
The reclamation service has repeat
eddy said that no federal project in ir
rigation will be begun where the esti-
mate of cost exceeds $35 an acre, ex
cept in very exceptional cases. 1t is
possible that project costing as much
as s45 an acre, according to the pre-
liminary estimate, would be under
taken in case the land to be irrigated
promised unusual fertility and was
situated most advantageously with re-
gard to railroad lines and centers of
population. No scheme of this sort
has been Endorsed up to this time,
however, and the reclamation service
is not eager to undertake one.
Too Costly for Government.
The field work which has been going
on for several weeks in the PalOuSe
region is believed to have convinced
Engineer Noble that the project would
be entirely too costly for the govern
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-18
johnson to Meet Ferguson.

BOSTON, Mass, July 1S.-Tne
Douglas Athletic club of Chelsea has
arranged a promising card Of events
for it's boxing show tonight. Jack
Johnson and Sandy Ferguson, two of
the foremost negro fighters in the