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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

well, Lawrence, Riker, Rapelye, Holm
strom, Potter, Barclay and Wolcott
among them to realize that this little
colony across the river vas indeed
the home of the very leaders of New
York. Great weather-worll mansions
still stand there to testify how stout
ly they were built and on how stately
a plan; but they are shut in to-day
among cheap modern dwellings, with
here and there a mill or a factory.
Hardly are the burial places of these
old New Workers undisturbed. Build
ings crowd in on them on every side
and the whole Astoria district is talk
ing on the appearance and the airs of
city life. The completion of the
Blackwell's Island bridge, which will
open this section to great develop
ment, will hasten the transformation
which now is under way.
OF the hundreds of persons who
pass along the main thoroughfares in
the changing trolley cars only an oc-
c%asional antiquarian understands why
the entrance way to q tile factory has
moss-grown walls round it and wide
gateways sweeping inward, through
which the road runs on under an ave
nue. of stately shade trees to a pile of
modern brick. Only he cares to read
the story told in the view of a wealth
er-beaten old house with Corinthian
columns and spacious porticos,
damned in among lumber yards and
factory walls. Yet it is safe to say
that between Newtown Creek and
Hallett's Cove there are still standing
more than 200 of such old mansions,
all of which are deserted saw for a
few Italian squatters. Most of the
buildings date back to the early for
ties, which is about the time that
rich New Workers as a body first be-
gan to appreciate the beauties of the
eastern shore of the river and buy
land there for their homes. But there
were others who made their choice
here long before, for the old Woolsey
mansion was built in 1856, and the
Woolsey manor house was put up in
1926.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
How to Earn Sound Sleep.

All doctors are not so careful of
the welfare of their patients as they
might be. Here is a story of one who
went to the limit. He is the proprie-
tor of a famous health resort not far
from --. When he receives a pa
tient for treatment he says:
Now, I want it understood that I'M
less o do exactly as l say, there is
no use of your staying"
This rule sometimes requires him to
be very harsh, but he never hesitates.
He acts on the theory that he can bet
ter afford to offend a single patient
and lose him that to have that pa
tient go back home and tell his friends
DR.. So-and-So had done him no good,
relates the Washington Star.
Not long ago a ~well-known clergy
man went to this resort for treatment.
The doctor looked him over upon his
arrival and said:
While you are here you must take
loug walks every day."
Put 1 can't take walks" replied
the Darson. 81 haven't done any walk
ing for years. My heart won't stand
It
They argued the question quite
warmly. AS the clergyman and doc
tol were good friends, the latter was
more lenient than usual. However,
he bided his time. The next after
noon the physician said to the clergy
man.:
IT'S a nice day. I would like you
to go horseback riding with me-"
Riding they went. When they were
about eight miles from the s|anitarium
the physician said: "Oh, doctor, won't
vol get me that flower by the road
side? l don't like to leave this
hcrse.'
AS soon as the clergyman was on
the ground the doctor galloped off
with both horses, and the clergyman
was compelled to walk back to the
sanitarium. Upon his arrived he was
very angry. and was for packing up
AID leaving at once There was no
train that night. so he was forced to
stay a few hours longer. The next
morning he came down radiant and
good natured.
Doctor" said he, 81 was pretty
sore at you last night, but l forgive
everything. l have had the first good
SLEEP l have enjoyed in months. Here
after I'll obey your order implicitly"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
Cigarettes.

Tobacco Injuries men and kills chill
drsn. The Chicago school board has
been having a medical examination Of
certain pupils before allowing them to
take part in certain athletic sports.
Boys and girls were subjected to the
same examination. Not girl was
found unable to pass, while a large
number of the boys. in almost every
case smokers, were found to be in a
physical condition which made violent
exercise of any kind very dangerous.
Twenty-one out of a hundred were
found unfit, and all but three suffered
from sorle form of heart trouble. Al
most without exception the unfit ones
were cigarette smokers.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

East river, is the Enclosure where the
Rikers laid their dead. Rising above
this cemetery now is a mammoth fac
tory, and near by is what was once
beautiful Sanford point, at the mouth
of Flushing bay.
Scattered here and there may still
be found some of the quaint relies of
the first settlers-Dutch built houses
with their long slipping roofs and coy
hooks and corners-but these. too.
will doubtless soon go to make room
for the fiat house and other graces OF
modern life
Inc old Wolcott manor house was
one OF the finest in the district. II
TODD near Little He'll Gate. lust at
the point where the shore road turns
northward. and overlooked the East
river at n Of its most picturesque
spots, where, even on the hottest days
OF summer, its verandas always were
swept by cool breezes. The river
bank was walled and COPIED for nearly
an eighth of a mile by the Wolcotts
while on the side Of the roadway
away from the river a heavy cement
ed wall was built. To-day the walls
are still as perfect as when they first
were put up. The Wolcott house is
no longer in evidence, having been
burned down several years ago; but
the lodge still stands in a grove of
buttonwoods, just inside the entrance
gates though it is slowly dropping to
decay.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
COMPLETED PROVERBS.

"a fool is eve wrong; few of us
are.
"He who hesitates" when lying sis
lost"
whatever man has done man can
do" better.
mo fool like an old fool" in the
tolls of a wOman
There's many a slip 'twixt" the
cradle and the grave.
Look before you leap" out of the
frying pan into the fire.
"A fool and his money are soon part
ed" when the fool has friends.
Honesty is exact to a penny" but
not always to larger amounts.
"The second blow makes the fray"
but not if the first is well placed.
"Pity is akin to love-" but kinship
does not always signify friendship.
1.-THE best things are not bought
and sold"; they are stolen and kept.
Everything m to the man who
waits" except that for which he waits.
1T takes two to make a quarrel"
How about husband and wife, who are
one?
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
TIMELY VEGETARIAN RECIPES.

Cream Of Celery soup-lngredients
Celery tops, l quart cream or rich
milk.
Method-Put tops in saucepan, cover
with water, simmer one hour. Drain,
return water to pan, add milk and
stalks, simmer one-half hour longer,
season to taste, remove celery, thick
en- to consistency of cream. Serve
hot.
Chill neutrality-suspicious.: One
quart strained tomato, 4 tablespoon
fuls minced celery, 8 tablespoonfuls
minced onion, sugar.
Method-Put all together ia sauce
pan, let come to boil, set on back Of
range and simmer two hours. A
small piece of lemon peel and a u
of chopped tart apples will greatly
improve the flavor. Cook till apples
are done, emoye lemon peel, cool,
serve.
Candied Sweet Potatoes-Boil pota-
toes till tender. remove jackets, ar
range in oiled baking pan, sprinkle
with powdered sugar, brown in slow
oven.
Sweet Potato Cutlets-Pare pota-
toes, cover with boiling water, boil
twenty minutes, drain of half the
water, and cook till soft. They should
be almost dry when done. Mash or
put through ricer. Form in shape of
chops, sprinkle with powdered sugar,
and brown in medium oven. Serve
with sugar peas.
Porkless Baked Beans-Wash beans,
place in heavy pot and boil five min
utes. Salt to taste. Bake twenty
four hours in slow oven, keeping bare
ly covered with water, When done,
the beans should be of IA uniform
dark brown. Longer cooking will i'm
prove.
Potatoes Lyonnaise--Chop cold boil
ed or baked potatoes. Season with
salt while chopping. Stir in onions
and parsley minced. If too stiff, thin
with nut cream to consistency desir-
ed. Turn into oiled baking pan,
smooth, brush with cream. brown.
Serve in squares.
Turnlps stewed in cream-Pare
young turnips, cut in dice. Simmer
till nearly done. Drain of nearly all
the water. Add enough cream to
barely cover. Salt to taste. Simmer
till tender don't boil). Thicker
slightly. Serve.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
"Made a ereat Launh.u

There are conversational "bluffers"
who are sometimes reduced to such
straits that they make a pretence of
being entertaining on the good things
they have forgotten. Simeon Ford tells
Of one who, at a dinner, said to his
neighbor:
did l ever tell you Of a famous
good thing l once said to Mark
Twain? Well. he was alluding to nv
former occupation as an oculist. in
which he said it was no wonder I had
failed, since a man must be blind. in
deed before he would apply to me.
Well, of course, that was very good.
but | noored him completely with nv
reply. l can't ~reoollect just now what
it was, but you a depend upon it
that it was capital and made a great
laugh at the time"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
An Extra Good Annette.

A good appetite is a symptom Of
good health. An extra good appetite
is sometimes a symptom of constltu-
tional disturbance somewhere. A sam
pie letter sent to the Questions and
Answers" column Of a prominent
health journal was something like
this:
Il am troubled with pimples, not to
a great extent, but still very annoying.
They appear principally on the fore
head, but occasionally on other places.
l oGen feel languid. and tire easily,
and cannot gain flesh, although | have
an extra good appetite. Still / ant
not sick, and have not been in bed for
a day in my life. Age, nineteen years.
VIII you kindly advise me what you
think would remove these pimples?"
There is little doubt but that the
extra good appetite" alluded to az
fords the key to me situation. The d.
gestive organs have more than they
can take care of, and consequently do
not properly take care of anything fur
nished. There will be frequent head
aches, skin disorders and alternate CON
.stipation and diarrhea with such per-
ons. Pimples are a natural result of
such depraved blood conditions.
With many people the habit OF
hearty eating is continued when tho
warm spring days come. Food which
was appropriate when the thermomet-
er was at zero is continued in the
same quality and quantity when the
thermometer rises to ninety degrees
in the sun. and averages above sixty
all day and night. The person who
loses his appetite under such a condl-
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
LIttIe Now Left but Memories.

There are few left now who remem-
Der this district in its palmiest days,
when the only roads were %driveways
of gnarled oaks and beeches that led
to great country houses, set in the
midst of cedars of Lebanon and
guarded by tall hedges. But here and
there some old inhabitant whose
memory of the place carries him back
fifty or sixty years will point out to
you a block of buildings and tell you
that there was the home of a famous
banker, while beyond it, where a bit
of bluff reaches out into the water,
was the house of an old-time mer-
chant prince. Wonderful gardens had
they both, the beds of old-fashioned
flowers fringed with hedges of box,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
Mtha~r ~ mrA [oou1s5

ward, are still kept up by the familea.
During the Revolution the Holstrom
house was part of a block house sit
uated further up the river, and was
removed bodily on skids to its present
site. The Rapelye house also dates
back to the days before the revolu-
ton, and during the British
OF New York was tenanted by the
English troops, who used it as a sa-
loon and inn.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

s FRESH AIR FOR CONSERVATIVES
3 Most Effective Weapon Available for Conflict {
With Dreaded "White Plague" 8


The following abstracts from an ar
ticle by j.. e. Stubbert, NJ. D., in the
Medical Record, should receive wide
aad careful attention. No doubt il
these ideas could be carried out, the
white plague would be robbed of
much Of its terror:
In ancient times it was highly i'm
proper to expose a tuberculous pa
tent, especially one beyond the first
stage, to a breath Of fresh air except
on the mildest days in summer, while
the night air was dreaded and avoided
as the plague. Then the o observ-
ant and thoughtful men noticed that
those who lived more in the open air
did not die as quickly as the %hot-house
patients, and they began to urge an
outdoor life and moderate exercise
as a prophylactic as well as a cure
for those in the early stages of con-
sumption. Those in the more advanc-
ed stages were allowed fresh air only
when it was at summer temperature,
but even this was better than being
kept indoors in warm, ill-ventilated
rooms the whole year.
There are several plans by which
the victim of tuberculosis may con-
tinuously breathe pure, fresh air by
night as well as by day. Sleeping out
in the open air is not harmful to a
large majority of tuberculous people.
Millet, of Brockton, Mass, reports
the cases of five patients whom he
recommended to sleep out of doors at
night. They were allowed no roof
over their heads except in rainy
weather. They wore soft felt hats
and cotton nightshirts, sleeping under
ordinary b%edclothes in beds arranged
on the roofs of their houses. I'M
provement was noted in two weeks.
Coughs disappeared, temperatures be-
came normal, respirations were easier
end weight increased rapidly. No at
tention was paid to dampness and
drafts, and heavy dews were regarded
as inconvenient simply because of the
necessity Of drying the %bedclothes.
Sleeping in a small room with an
open window does not appear to be
nearly so beneficial to the patient as
when the nights are passed on a YER
anda or in a tent where there is a
free circulation of air on all sides. If
a patient were fortunate enough to
have a large room with a southern ex-
posure and containing one or two
open fireplaces, in addition to large
windows on three sides, which might
be opened at night, he might derive
approximately the benefit incident to
tent life.
McGraham, of South Carolina, pre-
fers the circular to the army tent, and
thinks it better to place it on a plat
form two feet from the ground, and
to do without carpets and ~draperies.
Draperies are not necessary, but Jugs
add greatly to the comfort and con-
v%enience Of those in i'll health, and
their use can be made perfectly safe
by exposing them to the sunlight for
a few hours daily.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

Every housekeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will ave not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron. but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in A-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from al injurious chem
icals If your grocer tries 20 sen you
a 12-oz. package II is because le has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before be puts in Defiance
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let.
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De
hance and ave mTch time and mone
and the annoyance Of the iron stici
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
old 5enner Homestead.

At the foot of Woolsey street there
still stands a massive residence.
double porticoed, faced with auted nil
lars and crowned by a stately cupola.
IL Is the old Benner home, and some
OF h family live there to-day. The
high hedge that once surrounded it
and kept its famous rose beds from
the intrusion of the outside world has
grown into a row of trees. dwarfed in
height, but with thick and rugged
stems.
The old La Rogue house is still
fairly well preserved, and is a good
example of what many of the other
houses must have been fifty years
ago; but the large Vandeventer house
has been partly demolished. as il was
in an unsafe condition. The Rapelye
and Holmstrom houses, however,
which stand near by on what former
ly vas Broad avenue and the Boule-
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
GE A. ME nm mar
HdHEJZEA0S

while over veranda and pillared por-
tico wistaria and a wealth of fragrant
creepers chung. OF all this little but
the memories remain. Masters and
gardens have long since passed away.
THAT large gray house." the old
timer will say, (which is now used as
a school house. was built originally on
an island, but the channels were filed
up long ago and streets made up of
dump and the city's refuse run where
once the clean tides swept to and fro.
Those big pillared houses on the hill
are where the Blackwells went to live
when their island was bought to be
turned into a prison house.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
Special Hospitals for consumptives

Special Hospitals for Consumptives.
\ hundred years ago the city of
Naples, Italy, erected a large hospital
for consumptives, and required the
isolation of all persons suffering from
this disease. 1t is only recently, how
ever, that the authorities of modern
cities have become awakened to the
Importance of this sanitary measure.
Recently a number of cities have
taken steps for the establishment of
hospitals especially for the treatment
of cases of consumption by the so
called ''open-air method" Excellent
results are reported from this method
Of treatment.
The German government has a
large central committee numbering
more than thirteen hundred persons,
organized for the purpose Ct erecting
hospitals for the treatment of tuber-
culosis. This committee has under its
supervision seventy-four such hospi-
tails, and last year treated over thirty
thousand patients, of whom eighty per
cent were returned TO their homes
practically cured after remaining il
the hospitals on an average of a little
less than three months.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
EEEEcrs

In the six
greatest prosI
average prices OF u
60 per cent, meats >. Gent, dary
and garden prodt J&9lEs, per cent,
and clothing 241. All these were prod
ucts of the farmer and stockman who
profited moi than any other class of
the community by these advances.
The miner benefited 42.1 per cent by
that advance in the average price of
metals. The only decrease in the
average prices of commodities in that
period was in railway freight rates
which decreased frou .79S per ton
mile in 1897 to 1903 n 1893, a loss
of "A per cent. The report of the In
terstate Commerce Commission shows
that the average increase in the pay
Of railroad employees in the period was
a trife above S,5 per cent.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
A GREAT MEDICINE
BRINGS HEALTH TO THREE MEM.
BERs OF SAME FAMILY.


- AMuHnNnENA
Nervous Prostration.
II have recommended DR.. Williams,
Pink Pills to many people," said Mrs.
Gossett, " because I have seen such good
results, time after time, right in my own
family There are three Of us who have
no doGbt about their merits. We do not
need to take anybody s word on the sub
ject for our own experience has taught us
how well they deserve praise.
lit was just about ten years ago that
1 first read about DR.. Williams Pink
Pills, and bought my first box. Twas at
that time all run down, weak, nervous
and without ambition. I had been doc
toring all summer for malaria and
stomach trouble. Everybody thought I
was going into consumption, as my
mother had died Of that disease.
Thanks to DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
I am now alive and hearty. I began to
improve as o as I began to take them.
and when 1 had taken three boxes wasa
well woman. Everyone wonders how I
keep SO well and am able to care for my
home and six children without j
DIR. Williams Pink Pills explain j
my Oldest girls heath began
when she was about fourt ~. s
nervous, complained of
her head, would get dea.
have to leave the school roo
air to revive her. Igave SIS
She took only a few boxes, bu
her troubles, and caused he.
into a perfect picsrre of health.
husband took them 1tv rheuma
found that they would cure that
you see we have all got great goo
using them, and that is WIN. we
mend them to Others"
Mrs. Minnie B. Gossett ]
Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co., OF
is well known, as she has resided
same neighborhood for more
teen years. Her story s.
medicine which makes the
and the nerves strong, OVert
ETY. of diseases and should b.
every household. Dr. WILLIAMSBURG
are sold by all druggists everyv
They have cured anaemia, and all 10
of weakness, also the most stubl
cases of dyspepsia and rheumati
They are indispensable for growingF
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

Respect is the father and admira.
ton the mother of love.
A lie will live as long as a truth if
you do it up in an equally neat cpl
gram.
The Russian government ought by
this time to be aware that the discov.
cry of dynamite made it an anachron-
ism.
If ones love survives after his re-
spect for its object has slipped away
he is apt to feel his respect for him.
self slipping away, too.
It's a curious fact that any woman
who argues for the rights and indie.
%pendence of women is almost always
accused of despising love, marriage
and the home. Do the two positions
necessarily go together?-New York
Times.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20
To NatIonaIIze RaIImaus-

The Italian government has placed
before the legislature a project for
the taking q by the state Of near
ly all the railroads of the country.
This would involve an outlay Of $780,.
COCO
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

DINKELsPlEL's DEFFYNlsAuNs.
A fool und his money vas soon spot.
ted.
A schwelled head always gets It in
der neck.
Der meaning Of Flattery vas der
'ankvitch We use ven We tell a man dot
Te envy him.
Der meaning Of R%etribution is a
mar dot marries for money und only
gets a meal tigget.
Der meaning of Gossip is ven two
Vlmmens get a sudden attack of palpi-
tation of der tongue.
Annuder meaning of Gossip is a
woman dot can put two und two to-
gedder und make five.
Der meaning Of a Hypocrick is a
choke dot Nature plays ven she makes
a pink lobster looks like a nan.
Der meaning of a Sweet Disposition
ment is a m dot can veal tight
shoes und a loose smile simultaneous
ly.
Der meaning of Self-Control vas a
woman dot can pass a looking-glass
mitouid giving it a short, quick rub
Der.
Der meaning of a Prude vas a fe-
male dot wishes somebody
will say someding to make her blush
her face.
Der meaning of Pin Money depends
on der woman. Some use it for clothes
pins, udders use it for diamond pins,
und dare is it.
Der meaning of Critickism is der
ability to make your private opinion
look like a public opinion und get a
salary for doing it.-George V. Hobart
in Chicago American.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

ton is on safe ground. The person
with an extra good appetite will have
to exercise s%elf-control or be placed
on the retired list to learn wisdom by
experience.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

Isn't your grandfather an octogen-
arian, Bobby? 2" asked the visitor. NO,
ma'am," replied the little fellow. Hes
a Methodist"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-20

Mamma-Tommy, l don't ]
have you play with boys who az
Tommy-But the good boys
good, mamma.