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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
HIS IDEA OF sANkRuPTcY.
indian Native Evidently Had Had
Painful Experience.

A native of India, who had lost a
large an punt of money through the in
s%olvency of an English merchant. ex-
planned the English insolvency laws
as follows: "In Burma the white man
who wants to become insolvent goes
into business, and gets lots of goods.
and does not pay for them. He then
gets all the money he can together.
say 10000 rupees "a rupee is SO
cents), and puts all of it except 100
rupees away where no one can find it.
With the 100 rupees he goes to a Judge
Of the court and tells him he wants
TO becom bankrupt. The Judge then
calls all the lawyers together. like
wise all the men to whom the white
man owes money, and he says: This
man Is insolvent, but he wishes to give
you all that he has got, so he has
asked me to divide this 100 rupees
among you all The judge ~thereupon
gives the lawyers 80 rupees. n the
remaining 10 rupees to the other
men. Then the insolvent goes home
to England"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
An;ient Water Pines.

Very primitive water pipes of an co..
Client late ave been discovered in the
streets of N anchester, England. They
were hollo1fed-out tree trunks fitted
together so as to make a wooden con.
duit. The joints were somewhat in
the style of those of a fishing rod, the
thin end of one trunk being made to
fit into the thick end of the other. 1t
is supposed that this means of supply.
ing Manchester with water was in use
about 200 years ago, and discoveries
OF the same kind made in other towns
go to confirm that view. The boring
through the wood was about four
inches IN diameter. The supply of wa.
ter in those days was not only much
less in absolute quantity than now, but
very much less in proportion to the
population.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Relics Of Famous Rastlls.

The famous Carnavalet Museum, of
Paris, has just received a notable ac-
questionable keys Of the Bastile and
a pair of manacles, which will have a
mournful interest for Englishmen.
After the destruction of the fortress
prison the keys we're presented as a
memento to- Santerre, brewer. soldier
and revolutionary leader, in whose
family they have remained to this
day. His great-granddaughter, Nine.
villain, has now presented them to
the museum, together with the man
acles, to which this inscription is at
tached, in the writing of S~anterre:
"Manacles which were on the wrists
of an old man, exhibited in the
streets" This old man was an Eng
lishman named Whyte, who, like
many another poor prisoner, had be-
come insane in the Bastile.-London
Globe.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
MARKETING POTATO cRope.

In line with the classic case OF the
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley Of Yale University In hts book
on Railroad Transportation, is lie case
Of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President futile Of the
Boston and Maine Railroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce. Nothing could better show
how a railroad works for the interest
Of the localities which it serves.
A main dependence of the farmers
of the Aroostook region is the potato
crop, aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels, which find a mar
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thickly settled regions of New Eng
land. The competition of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these pota-
toes always at a very low level.
Potatoes are also a considerable out
put of the truck farms of Michigan,
their normal market being obtained in
and Though Detroit and Chicago and
other communities of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun
and rains brought a tremendous yield
of potatoes from the Michigan fields.
At normal rates and prices there
would have been a glut of the custom
airy markets and the potatoes would
have rotted on the farms. To help
the potato growers the railroads from
Michigan made unprecedentedly low
rates on potatoes to every readable
market, even carrying them in large
quantities to a place SO remote as Bos-
ton. The Aroostook growers had to
reduce the price on their potatoes and
even then could not dispose of them
unless the Boston and Maine Railroad
reduced its already low rate, which it
did. BY means of these low rates,
making possible low prices, the potato
crops of both Michigan and Maine
were finally marketed. Everybody
eats potatoes, and that year every
body had all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied
to the movement of all potatoes at all
times, to all places, they helped their
patrons to find markets then. The
Boston and Maine Railroad suffered a
decrease in its revenue from potatoes,
but it enabled the Aroostook farmers
to market their crop and thereby to
obtain money which they spent for the
varied supplies which the railroads
brought to them. If the making of
rates were subject to governmental
adjustment such radical and prompt
action could never have been taken,
because it is well established that If
a rate be once reduced by a railroad
company it cannot be restored through
the red tape of governmental proce-
dure. If the Michigan railroads and
the Boston and Maine Railroad had
been subjected to governmental limi-
tation they would have felt obliged to
keep up their rates as do the railroads
Of France and England and Germany
under governmental limitation and let
the potatoes rot.-E han 10.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
There'm Be No Pie.

An energetic pastor who was max.
ing preparations to build a new church
received all kinds of advice from par,
ishioners, and the greatest amount
came from those who had contributed
the least towards the erection of the
church. So at the regular services
on the following Sunday he said:
81 have been receiving lots of ad.
vice during the last few weeks. l have
been told by certain members of the
congregation that it will not do to
have too many fingers in the pie.
can assure o that | will attend to
that part Of it; there will be no pie
Montreal Herald.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Flying fish are very v|oracious. In
their turn they are preyed upon by
%barracudas, sharks, dolphins, bill-ish,
reddish and a hundred and one others.
Nature has colored the flying fish pro
tectivelv. The back is a deep blue,
merging into the blue Of the seas they
frequent, so that they are invisible a
few feet below the surface, while the
underneath is a dazzling white, and to
a fish that looks upward must merge
into the light falling on the sea. In
addition they possess the unique pow
err of flight. Flying fish are about sew
en- inches long and the spread of wings
is about equal to their length. The
wing" is of thin, gauzy substance,
having s~tiffening sinews, like the fiber
Of a leaf, to strengthen it.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
COST OF LIVING IN 1897.
Market Report In First Issue Of New
York Advertiser.

York Advertiser.
A copy of the first issue Of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, dated
Monday evening, Oct. 2, 1897, is pos
sessed by R. Burns Linderman of sy-
racuse, N. Y, having been in his fam
lily for nearly 10S years. 1t is a four
page publication, printed daily and put
at So a year.
The Price Current gives the prices
of commodities of more than 100 years
ago. Butter then sold for IA cents a
pound, while beef ranged from $40 to
$12 a barrel. Flour ranged all the
way from $3.50 to So a barrel. Pig
iron was quoted at $50 to $3.50 a ton,
country bar at $3.50 to $95, the same
refined at 800 to $11O, while rolled
iron was placed at $3.50 to $155. Oak
boards were quoted at $3.50 per NJ,
and North river pine was the same.
Nails cost IL cents a pound. Brown
sugar was sold at IA and IS cents a
pound, white sugar at 16 and 10 cents,
while lump and loaf sugar weighed
out at q and 20 cents respectively.
German steel was then IA cents a
pound.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
DISCHARGE OF A BIG GUN.
Firing Of a T~hlrteen-lneh Shell a Sight
Never TO Be Forgotten.

- ~ - = ~ 9NNANN y 0N1NNM
Never TO Be Forgotten.
To see a t~hirteen-inch gun loaded
and fired Is a sight not to be forgot
ten. The p~rojectile is thirteen inches
in diameter, three feet in length and
weighs LOO pounds. The powder
charge for target practice is ESQ
pounds. The cost of each shot is
$500.
When all is ready on the range, the
signal siren sounds, there Is a blind
ing flash, a roar like thunder and a
jarring shock; then you hear the
whining screech of the shell, for all
the world like a fast express round
ing a sharp curve. The ~projectile is
visible almost from the time it leaves
the gun; you see 1t rip through the tar
get and strike the water beyond,
throwing up a column of liquid many
feet high.
The shell skips, much like the fat
stone skipper of our boyhood, and
again a column Of water shoots up
two miles or more farther out, to be
repeated time and again. The shell
In its flight can be watched without
the aid of a glass for eight miles or
more In clear weather.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
Limits to the Value of Religion.

Some years since a meeting was
held to discuss selling the Old South
Meeting House in Boston. The argu-
ment advanced by the advocates of
the project vas that the land had be-
come too valuable for business to be
longer retained for church purposes.
The late Charles p. Thompson of the
Superior Court bench appeared in OPP
position, and replied to this argument
by saying that he was sorry to learn
that real estate had advanced to sucs
a high figure in Boston that God A.
mighty couldn't hold a cornerNlot.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
No whlstIlng on Board shIp.

A civilian on the quarter deck of a
battleship vas waiting to see an ON.
Ger, and to beguile the tedium of wait
ing began to whistle a popular air
softly. He had not gone far when he
was requested to desist. Seeking q
reason for this rule. he was told that
whistling would interfere with boats
wain's calls. 1T isn't your single
whistle that would cause the trouble, D
he was told, but If whistling were al
lowed, there would be a chorus of /.
going on most of the time, and then
the boatswain's whistle would stand a
poor chance of being heard"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Don't tell me what YOU are going to do.
To-morrow's too far away;
Don't tell me too much of what you've
done.
But what you are doing to-day?
"Im-going-to" is a lazy lout
That's always calling to YOU
To sit in the shade while the weeds grow
rank
And your notes lapse, overdue.
"See-what-Tve-done is a bold faced
brag
That stands in the self-same track.
And stops you just as the race begins
And gets you to looking back.
'Tis only ~"I'm-doing" that ought te
speak. -
Or that ought, at least. to be heard;
B4t ne Is the fellow who's doing so much
He hasn't time for a word.
Floyd d. Rae, in Brooklyn Eagle.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Arise. let us go hence"
The twelve heard their Lord. and quickly
Together they had sweetly talked and
Now. %strifel It must no longer be de-
layed
arise, let us go hence"
The year Is past. To you it has been
Your mind. your heart is now oppressed
by fear?
He cried the same to you-your duty's
clear.
Arise, let us go hence"
What does It matter that clouds have
prevailed?
Is character less worthy because as
Has hope no place because you once have
failed?
arise. let us go hence"
He-stops; not again will He be denied.
Last year you turned away when thus
He cried,
1t cost you much. Cast out your sinful
pride.
arise, let us go hence
Danish the past year from your heart and
mind.
Look now upward! onward! and not be-
hind.
There light, joy, peace, and triumph you
shall find.
Chalmers p. Dyke. in New York OBJ
server.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

The Union Pacific Railroad Passen-
ger Department has put before the pub
lie a folder of the Lewis and Clark Elk
position at Portland. 1t is wonderfully
neat and attractive, colors having been
employed in the printing. Contents en-
brace a very complete description OF
the Exposition and it's attractions, in,
GLIDING a bird's-eye view of the beau
tiful grounds and buildings, done in
numerous colors. Scenes in and around
Portland are strikingly portrayed, and
all contemplating visiting the Exposi.
ton this summer should have a copy
of the folder in order that they may
know of points where the greatest en-.
joyment and satisfaction may be found.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Every h~ousekeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save 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 %-pound pack
ages. and the price is the same. 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package 1t is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures "16 ozs." Demand De-
hance and save much time and money
and the annoyance Of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
Chinese Woman Gains Honors.

Miss Ii Ri Gu will graduate from
the Woman's Medical college at Phn-
adelphia this year, and takes high hon
ors. 1t is said that she is the tirst
Chinese girl to take a degree in medi-
cine in this country.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Escaping from the recent great
earthquake, a number of refugees built
themselves huts at Mandi, India. A
few days later the huts were struck
by lightning and twenty-three Of the
occupants were killed.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Some grocers say they don't keep
Defiance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand Of other brands
containing only u OF in a package,
which they won't be able to sell first.
the same money.
Do o want 16 OF; instead of u OF.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
Fortune is evidently blind If we may
judge by the way she passes us by and
bestoWs her faVors upon others.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
TEA

was a royal indulgence two
hundred years ago. It's yet.
Your grocer returns your money II you don't
IKE schiling's Best.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Was ever a wicked man
or woman especially fond of
tea, do you Think

The Lord hasn't time to help a mar
who is too lazy to help himself.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
Detained staroh

should be in every household, none so
good. besides 4 OF. more for 10 cents
than any other brand OF cold water.
starch.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, dis.
covered a pleasant herb remedy for women's
ills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. 1t is the
only certain monthly regulator. Cures
female weaknesses and Backache, Kidney,
Bladder and Urinary troubles. At all Drug
gists or by mail so cts. Sample mailed
FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co.,
Leroy, N. Y.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Before attempting to size up an easy
going man arouse his temper.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

When a man looks at his own aults
he never has occasion to use a Micro
BCODN.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

When a fellow has a difference with
his best giri, it's just as well to split
the difference.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
Here is Relief Tor Women.

why is it that one never sees the
portrait of an angel in trousers or of
the devil in p~etticoats.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

1t is almost as easy to pick the
wrong woman for a wife as il is to
pick the wrong horse in a race.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

In every package Of schlllng's Best Tea is a
booklet How to Make Good Tea.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Every time a mans neigh0ors kick
1t makes him sore.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

If a patient has lots of money any
doctor can relieve him-of his coin.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II. 1900.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

In the Affairs Of men the tide may
be united by a divorce imdge.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
TEA

How different tea and
coffee feel even good tea
and coffee.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

It's easy to win a smile from a
woman IL she has pretty teeth.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Money is naturally tight with the
man who is shy OF loose change.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

If you would convince others that
you are a fool boast of your wisdom.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Many who formerly smoked 10c cigars,
now smoke Lewis "Single Binder" straight
Sc cigar The best combination Of the best
tobaccos. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

DR.. David ennedy's Favorite Remedy, the
Great kidney and Liver Cure. World Famous. Wlte DIT.
kennedy's Sons, Rondout, N. ~ for free sample bottle.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

In scraping an acquaintance be sur
you don't rub him the wrong way.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

All Up-to-Date Housekeepers
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be-
cause It is better. and 4 OF. more OF It
for same
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

wuite for our knowledge Book, A. sehmhns a
Company, San Francisco.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Some mems idea of dignity Is not Il
be called by their first names.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03

Mrs. Winalow's SOouning syrup.
For children t~eething, sOftens the gums, reduces IN
~hammation, alayB pain, cures wind colo. 25c a bottle.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-08-03
TEA

Coffee is fine too: but fine
has a different meaning in
coffee.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03
BANK ACCOUNTS
IN FIFTY CITIES
Explorer Willard Glaciers Els.
tate, Worth $4,000, Invest
E ed in Unusual Way.

Albany, Nov. 3.-The late Colonel
Willard Glazier, the Labrador explorer,
who was also widely known as an au-
thor and lecturer, left money in saw
mos banks in more than fifty cities in
fifteen states. With the exception Of a
few Thousand dollars invested IN real
estate, his entire fortune OF $!34,55O
was deposited in savings institutions.
The report of the inheEitance tax ap-
praiser filed in surragate's court here
today shows that Colonel Glazier had
money in eighteen savings banks IN
New York city alone, and in one or two
banks in all the large cities up the
state.
Here are the other states in which he
had savings bank accounts: Pennsyl-
vania, six banks; Ohio, six; Maryland,
two; Rhode Island, three; Wisconsin,
three; Michigan, two; Connecticut, one;
Massac husetts, ten; Minnesota, five;
District of Columbia, one; New Hamp-
shire, two; Missouri, one; Iowa, one,
and Illinois, five.
| In every one Of these states where
| there is collateral inheritance tax law
|, in operation the attorneys for the ad-
! ministratrix will be compelled to take
out ancillary letters of administration
| in order to get the money on deposit in
! the banks. The amounts average about
I 81, 500 in each place and vary from $500
| in a bank at st. Paul to $4,595.99 depos-
Lifted in a bank at Pittsburg.
, The estate will be divided among Har-
riet A. Glazier, widow Of the explorer
J and his daughters. Alice and Helen NJ
Glazier.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03
CorHenn.AN. 8,-6hSl
IN THE BUCKWHEAT BELT
Milwaukee Free Press.

Milwaukee Free Press.
"Good buckwheat weather will soon
be here" said Henry l.. Morse, Pitts
burg. HGood news for all lovers Of
buckwheat cakes comes from the great
buckwheat belt Of America, comprised
in the counties Of Butler, Armstrong,
Westmoreland and Indiana in Pennsyl-
vania. What promises to be one Of the
largest buckwheat crops harvested in a
decade is now ripening In the fields, and
griddle cakes galore are promised for
next winter. :,
In those four counties are grown al
most four-ffths Of Pennsylvania g crop
of this cereal. Pennsylvania buckwheat
is eaten in nearly every large city in
America, and is exported to many for
eign countries. Last year more than
100000 acres Of land in tine United
States were planted in buckwheat
yielding 14,529,770 bushels, valued at
SIS, 1854, 704. More or less Of the crop is
raised in twenty-five different states
from Maine to North Dakota, and from
Wisconsin to Tennessee and Virginia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03
lapIllan $
9th and NicoIlst
Specials for Saturday.
ICE CREAM AND ICES.

Our special combination for your
Sunday dinner will be BISQUE
OF ALMOND and CHERRY
ICE, quart .......... 6O
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03

EMPIRE COATS.
The popular coat Of the season, In
black, blue, green, brown covert and
gray mixtures; 30 Of the favored
styles 60 on sale Saturday at
8l3.75, worth $3.50.
English tourist, tight-Atting and
empire styles; best Of workmanship,
quality and style combined, at the
lowest possible prices. Saturday,
&16.75, $3.50 and $22.5O.
FUR LINED COAT.
Best German squirrel lined, high
storm collar Of Persian lamb outside,
made Of the best quality broadcloth,
worth $4,000. Saturday special,
$3.50, $3.50, $500.