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Aol ROMANCE OF THE RECORDS | Peculiar Oustoms in the New Mexico of Two Oenturies Ago QUAINT LORE IN OLD SPANISH DOCUMENTS [ Manuer of Grantin Curions Stady In B an Antiquari Love Lette and Conveylng Lands— hriens to Delight An Ancient Rescued Santa Fe, City of the Holy Faith history scarcely equaled in romantic int by that of any otk veritable curi box on A g any one with a taste for the unie royal recompense in _rummaging antiquities for a week or two strangest and yet least known possessions are the old Spanish de which have come down through the s and around them hovers an atmosphe romance and history, of ¢ amd venture, that will whet the jaded mental appetites. Within fifty years of the landing of Colum bus at San Salvador, or just three centuries and a half ago, Spanish conquistude had adered north us far as Nebraska in search of the fabled seven citics of Cibola, whose inhabitants s rep to eat out of vesscls of gold;and in 10605, two years before the first English settlement on the Atlantic coast, these adventurous and couriers of th planted thel declared that place, then an Indian vi the capital of the province of Nuevo Mexico Thenceforward began the accumulation of uments of rarest form intest in terest. The journals of invading conquer- the pronunciamentos of Spanish dons | who lorded it in the desert with princ grants of sections of land as states, deeds, lotters and thousand and one papers incidental civilized government, all with a pious of religior. running through them, were gathered there in a great mass and gave o remarkably complete and fascinating pic ture of the life in that strange and faraway time T'o the shame of American intelligence ftsaid that a governor appointed president of the United State many of these valus cords in 18 provision had ever been made for thelr proper il he, considering them a nuisance, decided to make a bonfire of them Fortunately he had a thrifty secretary, who sug 1 that they might be sold to the chants for wrapping paper. happy circumstince is due the pres ervation of many documents, which were afterwards recovered “Bhese records scem to have been written inen paper. Though some of them are 300 years old they ave remarkably legible and ‘well preserved. Ten years ¢ when the writer first saw them, they w sca’tered about a big room in the gove mental building known as the Palace, thrown into piles ruthlessly as so much cor The quaint old custodian, who had come to Bunta e with the American army of occu pation, had evidently studicd these records fully and was' full of fascinating lore. | They had vecome his hobby. and he pounded it with the earncstncss of the enthusiast on the slightest show of interest. Kverything was covered deep with dust, and the feet left marks rather more legible than the poet's foot prints in the sands of time, but this old ant an_exhumed a paper: he i th it the of years ina gray eloud and told his One of the most curious o was’ his explanation of | strange, pu intricate flourishes with which every s s embellished These are cas, and in the old | sit was the custom for everybody to have one. In ofticial documents a sigmature with- | out its proper rubrica was not considered as | authoritative. On the other hand a public paper adorned with only the rubrica of an official was acceptedas of as much for | though signed with his name also, Some of these rubricas are the simplest of scroll whilo others ave labyrinthian_ affairs wh could have been ncquired only with much ingenuity aud practice. The gray haire eustodian of El Palacio compared a number .of docyments to show how nearly these sign manuals were duplicated. During the Mexican rule it was customary for the members of the legislature to sign the journals, but in many they used only’ their rubricas, and the r s still ing show this peculiar custom. An recent d occasion to cash a check at a bank in'an interior town in old Me sted on his put- endorsement. The stranger s none, but the banker compelled him to make a scrawl on the bac of the check before it wus cashed. 1t has been thought by some that ru were adopt people we norant and their names This theory is exploded by the fact that under the old Spanish law a per son could have another sign for him, be illustrated further on. It scenis most likely that the rubrica answered the pur- pose of the modern seal in authenticating signatures. At any rate they are a curious study. # Soine of these old documents are stored in the territorial library at Santa Fe, and others ure a part of the archives of the United States land court established about two vears ago. Among the pieces recovered from scattered pl cas u book containing a record of all the nts in New Mex- ico, which ha at sesyive 1o the new court in its mission of settling the in- numerable land disputes in the territory The writer recently had occasion to brows among these veli's of o romantic past, and again among them he found folded tozethe several documents that have much of historic associations and of fascinting quaintues One of them cont signatu d | rubrica of Don Diego de Vargas (the rest of his name will follow later), the redoubtable Bpanish conquistadore who recovered the province of Nuevo Mexico (“at his own €08t as he is always careful to declare in his public documents) after the Pueblos had expelled their cruel oppressors and kept ! thewm out for twel rs. That was just | 200 years ago. This bunch of pap also | fllustrates the easy wanner of making land rants in those ancient times, indicates the mdefluiteness of such grants, shows some of the odd customs iu tion with the sale of real estate, and contains a fine assort with a cest 15 4 | v city in the union, ud s 10 can fin among its Aby the [ its ments neuest most strain be the his unable to wr | elite of that villa, 5 ANCIENT NEW MEXICAN KUBRICAS. 1. Ana de Archulet £, Geueral Don de Va 8, Secretary Barrada, 4. Captain Rivas. 5. Francis Joseph de Casado, 8. Gevernor Mojollen. The first paper is dated 1696, four years | with h | Ton fo ex-| o | thus it | dearments, a romance brought to light after | ana linguist of vepute, v of 'the chaos into which | | unuble | after ! He danced iy the minuetat the big ball gi @fter Do Vargas had recaptured Santa k@ 1 T Tt 18 a petitfon for a bit of ground, possibly a piece that the former owner had desertod at the time of the rebellion, sixieen years be fore. Tra ed into English, it reads I, Ana de Archuleta, widow and reside of the town of 8. Fe appenr your excellency [De Vargas] in due form and under my privilege in the premises and s that, God having®been pleased to have this provinee tonquered through you for the divine and humane sovereignty, I pe tition your excellency as the legislator thervof in the ame of the king, our eign, whom may God prese d his r ame, for a tract of land that belonged tomy ant, Giregoria de Archuleta, as there is no person_possessed of a better right to ask it than I, which tract lies on the hither k of the river at this petwoen some plum trees, bounded by the road and Is oth wise bounded by the lands of the chaplain, Lorenzo Madrid, and 1 trust from your high ness that you will me the grant to en able me this summer to build house and plant an acre of corn, for the id tract is no largrer than that. 1 as supplicato your excellency with due submission, to be pleased irect whatever be proper, and 1 swear before God and before the sign of the cross that thi petition, is not made in dis imulation The fighting don_granted prayer in a gracious document in this manner At the town in the year 1606, before me, Di de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon, Gov. and C. G captain general] of the kingdom and prov ince of Nuevo Mexico, rest conqueror his own cost ugueror and founder 1" ete This document town, oand is the which begins was signed by De Vargas full name_and rubrica *“Before me de la Barrada, Secy. Gov. and War,” whose claborate rubrica quite over- shadows his superior's simple flourish Seventeen years later Luis Duran, a son of Ana de Archuleta, bargained to sell this property (probably inherited from his mother) to Ensign Anton Alvarez de Castril 4 sum equal to £150. On August 13, he went before Captain Juan Garciode la Ri higch con: f the inguisition and ordi nary alcalde anta Fe,” and made a written transfor in which he covenauts thut “should swit or claim [agains. Aly z) in any event oceur let the petition not be heard either in or out of court.” Duran could not write, and inplace of his signature is this indorsement by a friend: At the request of the vendor—Francis Joseph de Casado." Alva nacio ¥ Domingo ther and Mexico, who, res Mojollen captain general of New st 16, issued this order Captain Juan Garcio de la Riva, ordinary s this party ud Lands be re decree with my alde of this tow ion of the and 1 sigued juc The ensign took royal possession of the property the same day, and a_document left by Riva details the manner of that pecu liar ceremony. It says, among other things I proeeded at once to the said spot, ac- companicd by the said ensign, and being at the place and in the presence of a concourse of people, I, snid ordinary alealde, took th said ensign by the hand and passed through the hall and over the land bele said house od and_ closed th door and ited _aloud, went cast stones and plucked up weeds in the possession that in the name of the king I gave to him, and he took posses. sion in the sign of his ownership. In some of these s the ofticials apolo ize for writing *‘on this common paper, being no stamped paper in the prov s the outside, sign_ of Many years ago, while General Lew the author of *Ben Hur,” was gov xico, Mrs, Wallace sheet the remnants lated “Seville, November, 16 dressed to Antonio Eusebio de Cut 1 Don Diego de Vargas. opening mark of affection read T'o my own true love and faithful knight, from his Rosita astile,” nder language the little Rose of Cas e of her father and brother, away in the wars of Al , and she sent a sweet song which she had just learned to sing and to play on her mandolin, She related in a love letter and ad- sec quaint terms how she eluded her duenna to | al out into th car the river, basil moonlit night and down the of sweet dost remember ro?” And in the sweetest of love's en- two centuries iv the tomb of oblivion, only to leave the interested sympathizer in doubt t0 its termi iese ancient 0 thoroughly nge story m manuscripts have never mined, and many a ¢ be hidden among them. In most countries they would be considered precious relics of a (uaint but_stirring an- tiquity, but New Mexi ly neglected them. The wonder is ny have survived this lumentabl Some time ago Prof. Bandelie harologist s commissioned to bring order out these ancient pay to securs rs had fallen, but_he was pay for his labor, and several months spent in the un- grateful task he abandoned it. Thr fourths of the people of New these lead a simple, patient, struggling life that would be regarded as abject poverty among the aces. Living in isolated groups, often miles from a railroal, generally \king and understanding only Spanish, o people have ignorance as well as in digence for a heritage, and in the light of these facts their indifference to the value of ous antiquities is understandable. is a pity, just the same. 1"1ED BENZINGER. ODDS AND ENDS, The United States chewed eighty-five tons of tobacco last year and begged about half of it. The r sold prop last year. Only eight of the 69,000 Frenchmen who fought under Napoleon at Waterloo are now alive and in France. ction bets in California have been de- 10ff on the ground that neither Harri- eland ed the state. Harri- n getting one Clevelund eight elec al estate brokers in New York City ¥ worth in aggregate $4 s nd tot A citizen of Pittsburg has had his mother- in-law arrested because sho was in the habit of knocking him down, throwing paper wolghts at his head and indulging in like familiarities. Some men are touchy A bright y named Whalen, who pos- sessed a whole lot of qualities but no scru- ples, went to St. Louis and “did up” the 2 to the tune of §20,000 by weans of nicely engraved but bogus min- ing stock “The vico of swearing is to be deprecated at ll times and under reustances, but the vecordi )1 might be expected to blot out the s of the Cook. county out the marri v Miss Maud Zicvierzshkowitinsk Albans, Vt., a farmer recklessly four barrels of cider in an ineffe to put out the five which was bur up his home, but forgot that the last b which was also empiied, contained whisky His frieuds are trying o keep him out of the lic old Massachusetts town of re the famous Medford rum is 1o license’ at the recent muni- but the voters p slap at the town's chief electing the leading distiller to ity espondent of the New York Sun, of suys, print these four lines with- out punctuation and no one would believe them, yvet rightly punctuated they are true: very lady in every land Has twenty nails on each hand Five and twenty on hands and feey This is true without deceit.” Oue of the famous white oaks of New Jer- sey stands in the Presbyteviun churchyard Basking Ridge. It measures 14 foot 4 s in_ circumference feet high, while the branches shade a circle of 115 feet in diameter. It been a famous tree for more than a century, and it was, no doubt, a noble specimen in 1740, when a log churoh was built on the ground where the present 0 now stands. The most ecomonical youth in the whole realm of gilded society resides in St. Louis. n by the Daughters of the Conféderacy and he hus rendered to the management a bill for 85, which sum he expended for the pair of pads that filled out the calves of his silken hose. He will get his #, but the much-disturbed “daughters” think the price was a trifie steep for imitation veal. e After o nigl $ with the boys Yours for a clear head-Browmo-Seltzer, atoned for the dustr; 5,000,000 | age license | widow's { 8. Feon the first of Feb,, | | her art 2 then presented a memorial to Juan | rub- | | ments ring to the | | and over Wal- | discovered on | Its | | should 1 | open air, to sing too loudly, or to sing notes | must not try to be | some soothing, mildy astringent lotion. I | Even a moderate use of alcohol may theve oup Is good food for a singer. 1t is a ver: concentrated formiml hourishment and is very digestible. Porphaps, too, as Silas Wogg—that amusin® tharacter of Dickens in “Our Mutunl Eriend"—would say, *Tt mellers the organ.” Take Pleily O Exercive, Of all the various forms of phys cise, T think walking is the form m fie o singer. Maderate billiard 50 be good, beaause it involy alking. In, , plawing bill hour or two one will'Walk several miles with- out the slightest ¢énsclousness of effort or ling of fatigue, a_fact due to the mind being s0 pleasantly absorfed by the game. ome anatomist has said that ¢ two implements which. br muscle in the body—thes, WME. PATTI GIVES ADVICE La Diva Offors 8ome Excellent Hints to Am- bitions Singers, al exer- SHOULD PROTECT THE VOICE WHEN YOUNG Teachers Who Are Co Who Are Not—-A Prima Douna's Honors Are Not Easily Won ~Rules to Observe. petont and Those “What must I do to be an opera singer?” This Is the question constantly asked of Mme. Patti-Nicolini by ambitious young women with some voice and talent, which bove all, the singer who ice must be especially careful to cold, and to refrain’ from sing ftor she has done so, When going out drive in _damp, he must be careful to have h 3 protected. For this purpose a silk scarf is best. A handkerchief held over the mouth is a wise precaution to prevent the cold, damp air from reaching the larynx and legs should be protected with overshoes nd leggins. There ure most people wishes to pre. they long to air in public your trade be art valuable You must be a workman at you can be an artist in your answers, and supplements it with adyice in a letter recently published On the operatic as on the dramatic stage most young women expect to shoot like rockets straight to the zenith of the sky of They expect to take a few lessons in vocalization, hurry off to the dressmaker’s, getl some handsome gowns, rush before the 1 ts, and blossom out_luxuriantly as Leanoras or Marguerites: They cannot be made to realize the fact that a long and ar. duous course of preparation, involving years of wearisome study and practice, during which it is necessary to deny one’ f many of life's pleasures,” is absolutely essential to ly worthy and meritorious a it, without which they cannot win an _ephemeral succ nor would be will to undergo the labor and hardship required. They are also ignorant of that other great fact that financial suc cess upon the stage is by no means wholly ndent upon me , but is largely a mat- of opportunity and circumstances. To attain _perfection in singing, as_in al- rything else one should begin at a e, anc it is of the utmost im- ance that one's first instructors should fory sho two vul lo entirely neglect points to guavd, I ars receive sound. Physicians tell us that eustachian tube, berwe throat, and cold air thus readily aff s larynx. To p this it is well for a singerto keep her stuffed with small pieces of cotton wh of doors in cold weather. ' caution for everybody to “ake generally adopted there would cases of those inflammations are so distressing and so common, Great singe re often severely blamed for “‘disappointing the public nd it popular notion that they are never re ndisposed when it is announced that th are, and that they only pretend to frem s motive of jealousy, pique or self-intere This is a great mistake. Singers are quite mortal and quite as subject to all the ills that flesh is heir to as other people are, and be the very best obtainable. Above all, the | When a great singer, suffering from a scvere would-be prima donna should be thoroughly | cold and hoarseness, must choose between and correctly grounded in the rudiments of | “‘disappointing the public’ and permanently This can only be done by one who | injuring her voice, perhaps, can she be is a complete master of vocal training. Tt is for choosing’ the fc Iternative a common and very serious error to think T'he young woman who is atabitious to be it inferior teachers ave good enough fora | come a really great singer does well to abroad to study. One of the best sineing teachers 1 the world—I know of n ne better ) i of Paris, the traine v and Trebelli. There alsc excellent teathers in Milan In singing, as in cverything else, it is prac- that makes perfect. Those who wish to °rs must practice untiringly. Hard work is the principa tistic succe ienius and_voice little without it. Thomas Mox Irish poet y said, in his life of Rich- d Brinst “Labor is the father of all the g world, whether in literature or stone, pootry pyramis and it applies with peculiar force to gre achievements as a singer. Young wom 1 the entering the and ear ear the dvent ears n out 15 1s o wilh pro- If it were be no more f the ear which Teaching Is Important, Pirst impressions are always the most | nd bad habits and mannerisms of vocal- wequired at the outset can never be overcome. Many a promising young singer is completely ruined in this way, having for her first instructora wholly incompetent pe Such teachers begin at the w rone idea seems to beto teack pupil to sing songs or operatic the pupil should first be taught the rudi- of musi Her voice should then be carefully and judiciously d veloped—and particularly its weak points strengthencd —by suitable vocal exercises. hat done, she should render herself familiar | with operatic aspirations come to my pe with the vocal works of all the great masters | formances and, after they have heard me, of composition—not by having thewm drummed | exclaim: “‘How casily Mine, Patti sings! 1t into her by hier teacher as a parrot learns to | is no trouble to be a great prima donna if say “Preity Polly,” but by industriously | the gift of it is born in one.’ Ah, they studying them for herself; by secking dill- | not know the weary hours I spent in y gently and patiently for' the composer's | and practice of the mest & ‘duous meaning, singing each doubtful pussage over | and at an age, too, when othe: girls were Azain in every of interpre- | thinking only of dolfs and bonbons. I tell tation and striving most earnestly to satisfy | you there is no royal road to becoming a herself as to which is most in harmony with | great singer. tho true spirit of the composition and the 0rue meaning of the compose When at last she Las wrrived at what seems a satisfactory conclusion she should listen to various renditions of the same work by skilled artists, comparing their interpre- tation of it with hers, and comparing the arguments in favor of each The chief aim of e ar tic ! — ELECTHIC NOTES. The electric sleigh is anfounced. The latest whaleback ste lighted throughout by -electricity. Electric cloth cuttets are one of the latest novelties on the market, The patent office has ‘recently granted a number of patents for magnetic ore sepa- rators and also several for printing telegraph systems, Prof. L. F. Blakd'of the Unive Kansas says that he ronsiders lightning rods for buildings in cities, except high struct- ures, altogether unne 3 An electrically controlled machine which will effectively stamp 50,000 letters in an hour is ane of the interesting inventions that has been adopted in the Postoftice depart- ment. A number of small-elcetric launches are to be sent to the World's fair to be used for small excursion parties. The motive power supplied by mesns of storage bat- bury is y vocal instructor be to develop and strengthen his pupil’s voice, to impart to her a correct technique o able her to sing any com- position at o How much, or rather how little, of such fnstruction Ay most young women who aspire to be great singers receive? aid that to be a great singer one must begin young. 1Isang in public on the stage from my seventh to my eleventh year and carried on my doll when, to alarge audience, 1 made my first appearance at the former age, singing “Ah! non giange'— the finale of the third act of “La Somnam- bula’—in a t Niblo's garden, New York, Decs N ftar I had passed my eleventl or i I did not again sing on the pleted my fifteenth: year, and all those inter- vening years I devoted most faithfully to constant, uuremitting study and practic was the night of the 24th o o when I had passed my fifteenth that I mac debut in oper Academy of M in New York, sin; title role in*'Lucia di Lammermoor ’ nrly Singing Not injuriou 1t is thought by some that it is injurious to develop the voice at so early an age, but 1 do not think so, provided due care is taken not to strain or overtask it. To sing in the sity of and permits the occupant of a closed k with the driver without ing the head out of the window. cetric arc lamp is destined to replace um or oxyhydrogen light for optical ns and theatrical use Its bril- liancy, steadiness, whiteness and fixedness are superior to those of the lime light. An electrically propelled invalid's chair has been brought out. At one side of the seat is a lever connecting with a resistance box for controlling the single reduction slow- speed motor. Current is supplied from stor- age batteries placed under the seat. An electrician of St. Louis claims that by coating the carbons used in arc lamps with copper of about the same thickness as that usually employed and then with a heavier coating of zinc the carbons can be made to burn nearly twice as long as with merely the copper covering. Electricity is to become a great factor in prolonging human life. It has been discoy- ered that ozone when manufactured and in- troduced into air by the electrical process tends to give the air healthful qualities by exterminating all the disease germs and imerobes it may eontain, The fact is now placed boyond question that both the flower and the kitchen gard- ener ve secured in the electric light a meaus of largely increasing the possibilities of plant culture. Prof. L. H. Bailey, in his report to the Cornell university, formally establishes the commercial value of electro- culture for certain winter crops, and espe- cially for lettuce. One of the prominent manufacturers of electric heaters advertises electric pressing irons, polishing and smoothing irons and hat irons, cooking utensils of all kinds, including house and hotel broilers, pan baking o killets and spiders for and soldering irons, embossing plate: ing-wax heaters, curling—tongs, glue pots, disk heaters, house and office and car heat- ers. In some r¢ ng the that are t0o high for the easy range of the voice is ruinous to it, especially if done while it is growing and developing. All of these injurious practices should be most cavefully avoided. How well I remember the night. when I made my first apdearance an any stage asa child of 7 years. I can remember the dress 1 wore—a white silk with but little trim- ming. The ovation I received from the audience was one of the greatest and most gratifying with which 1 have ever been favored, thongh one I shall always remem- ber as a companion to it ndered to me at Naples some years the last night of one of “my sments in that city. The warm hearted, gener- ous Neapolitans literally covered the stage with flowers. Not only was I presented with large and beautiful floral designs, but small bunches of flowers and even single ones were showered upon me. At first 1 tried to pe sonally receive all the elaborate designs t were handed up over the footlights, but the task soon became an impossible one. The leader of the orchestra was almost entombed in flowers, and the front of the stage was a ct bank of them. Finally the stage wds had to clear the loose flowers with ance of a ild- she lo before completing her m far from being the only ir t singer who made her debut in c hood. Albaniwas a mere child whe sang diffcult avias at concerts, and she m: her operatic debut fifteenth year. Having” developed a voi thing of importance is to p s nothing that will spoil it or wear it out more qui which by being | excessive becomes abuse. Twice a week, or three tin mostt, if the singer bé in is quite is often as one should she desires long to retain the stine freshness and power of her voice. e, the the next A 2 it. There ont experiments in the light- as from a balloon projectors wdle power were used, and when these w d to the height o the rays of the electric light co face of about 1,600 feet diameter, in spi a thick mist. Kven ata height of 500 fey luminous ray could: be projeeted which T'hose prima Gonnas and tenors who sing six | showed e object’ within its focus dis- nights and two matinees u week had better | tinctly at the distangg of three-quarters of a v whilo the sun shines,” for no j 1s can long withstand so severe a generator: weighing 83,000 pounds is to be installed 4n a railway power- house in Ottawa, Canada.’ It is to furnish current to heat tho €ntied premises, as well as help operate the trolloy road,and is the largest generator ever: taken into Canada. The powerhouse will_be he first building that country ever ‘heated throughout by | electricity, ‘and probably the first power station heated in this yunper in the world. It is reported that o Buffalo man has in- vented an instrument which he calls the “telephotus.” It is desilmed for communica- tion between vessels gt'sed, for lighthouses, lightships and for geusral employment in the United States signal service. The ap- paratus consists of 106 incandescent lamp: which are operated bya keyboard somethin on the principal of 8 fypewri.er. A code of siguals founded on the Morse telegraph alphabet is used, and experiments have shown that signas can be read fora dis- tance of fifteen miles. An English electrical paper is responsible for the statement that the nickel-in-the-slot principle is to be applied to the production of clectrical energy. Hitherto the puulic has | fed the automatic machiue with coins in re- turn for value. In the latest plan the process has been reversed. The public is now to re- ceive money fustead of paving it. o the person who turns crank 100 times the ma- chine will deliverup 2 cents. The crank is connected with a dynamo, and the 100 revo- lutions of the handle manufactures a qua tity of electrical energy which Is eventiza! | to be retailed by the owners of the machine for purposes of illumination or power. The anuouucement was recently made that a tool had been inveuted whereby sculptors ly than a use v and trouble are great to the singing voice. These should be fully avoided. It follows, therefore. as ural consequence that s singer should have an abundance of rest. As her profe: sion keeps her up till quite a late hour she | u early riser. She must sleep late in the morning, or sufficiently late to socure nime or ten hours of rest. She wust learn that sleeping in the day time can be made just as shing and heneficial as sleeping at night if one only krows how to do it to the best advantage. The point is to your room made us dark by heavy shut- ud curtains and to quiet a8 pro- ould have it at night. Insuff » will soon injure the nervous sys- tem, and through it the voice. Before golng on the stage to sing it is &n excellent practice to gargle the throat with vousness, often do this before going on to attempt any remarkable fight of melody There is no particular diet thut is of spe- clal adyantage to a singer, but to retain he: voice in_perfect condition she shouid have perfect health, and should therefore avoid all_indigestinle or otherwise deleterious food. Alcoholic stimulants of any kind tend to irritate the throat and should bo entirely abstained from. Even light wines are no ception to this rule. Most people are familiar with the hoarse voice of the hard drinker, and it is often suid of such an indiyidual that he has *‘burncd his throat out with drink fore tend to make the voice husky. 1f from sickness or other cause aleoholic stimulus should be imperatively needed u very little whisky, largely diluted with water, is the | and others into whose occupation the cary way iu which the singer may take it with | ing of marble, stone or granite entered the least chauce of injury to the throat. 1 largely could n future dispeunse with slow, I'he feet | which | mean the little openings through which the | | > | polic; do | way of ¢ appl calling. he d the side of the tool. to vary from strokes per m The m ute. trical industries, used, the ode, a sul used for request by lectur others who desire to paper or other object shield their own e al “pocket’ ba handy little lam | and is so light and roni fortably into the t ed on lamps, made m vari 0 the purp | | intended, are and street The Appley 1 Ber ched a state of pe | lav head that has there is a direct connection, known as the | ldentified with the Applegate lamp rded and | adopted, | Suc ssful la ) | fleld as a The Appl tirely evades the possesings num other lamps. combine in makes the Applegate ble. Factorics thus save themsely business b | dis an and ‘omy closing a n this direction. | increasing | monthly.” T dison gener of the busine | United § 18 10 | plegate, evades quently the Edison | busy supplying the can do this, and it is t of the Edison ( not be backward in de olty from those factor business. T'he to come to the | and _protect th | hands of monop at the | s by < Depends on t A boy one day last weelk called on a Jeffer- | son avenue merchant says the Detroit Free “I want an of Tcan get the ri want a job? “Yes, sir,” respondc I take it I'd like to ance of promotion.” merchant thoughtfully, boy. ad here owned the whole place before he d been with us sixty days.” | oo Well,” said th | “that depends on tt | ha nomical, costing It is" delicious, DIGESTED, Sold by 6 us handwork and sclves in & most thorough and cation foe weighs about six pounds ond is provided with a plunger, the r | of whose stroke is regulated by a button on otie-eighth inch, ot & speed varying from 800 to 600 wfacture of electric hand lamps must now be numbered A smu ance which is likely to be lar such purposes made with a five-cell battery, and is much in rs, period of four h a moment’s Hus now being us ar conductors ate lamp building to be manufactured in large quantities which titor of te lamp, Idison patents as v us he rapid s from being forced monopoly lamp on which Edison iderable business is ant The demand for cent lamps throughout the Uni 1 electric is given the Jison’s gite comy 16 of from oppression at the it kind of a one. Unlike the Dutch Process 7 No Alkalies Other Chemicals W. BAKER & C0.’S BreakfastCocoa which 4s absolutely pure and soluble. It has morethan threetimes the strength of Cocoa mixed with Btarch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and s far more eco- Usss than one cent a cup. nourishing, and EASILY avail thom satisfactory of eiectricity to their pidity "he stroke of an 1 be mado ch to one among modern elec 1 storage battery is 1of which is lith One special fors photographers and project the light on a and at the s time Another form is a ry of the two-cell type p will give a good 1 irs with one cha mpact that it will at pockot and can be notice. The grades of strength i by policemen on exhibition last fall stion and is re in has dy T'ho been 1s been different ma led to it is nter t the it combine. as it stands today, en- oAl as wtages over all los made by the up all lamp factories lamp the more valua sufferivg the edict n out of by using the only no claim. A con- pated in royalties n S0 prominently nt ad mps 0, (00, monopoly court of the cepting the Ap- patents, conse- mpany will be kept No one factory 0 be presumed that the seneral company will manding a liberal roy- ies who continue in the ny proposes wfortunates, sup) mp, ¢ thos; he Boy. concerning o Preds . hie said in reply, “if Do 'you piace, d the boy, “but before know if there is any The last one we —oR— are used in the preparation of is | ich they are | can’t, cors evorywhere. W. BAKER & 00., Dorohester, Maas, other Cocons.—It s HOOK GLOVES ARE STAMPED FOSTER'SO LICENSED UNDER FOSTER'S PATENTS. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS! Dr. SYDNEY RINGER, Prof Author of the Standard"* VAN is in no way injurious to il tain adyertisements (from misloading, and cannot possibl The false reflection on authority cited to injure i, is thereby prompted o ine it @ very handsome (st ig v PATENTS, R sor of Modicine at_ G Handbook of Thel and 1 tain], rade rivals) frc /AN HOUTEN'S Cocoa and highly digestibl We can't We can it is Company Corner 13th and Farnam. LADIES, Nebraska Made Flour Is the Best. LOOK FOR THE MHanutacurers and Gonsumers Association Label ON the SACK. N v curoly paoked) tlon that eul y them in men TLY CURED. ‘DR. McCREW THE SPECIALIST. 1s unsurpassed in tho treatment of all PRIVATE DiSEASES and all Weakness and Disorders of MEN 18 yoars experience. Write for cireulars and question list froe, 14th and Farnam Sta., _Omaha, Neb. DISORDERS Ana KNESSHA DERILY Fall” STRENGTH 10 every part of the body. LK K 1o any sufferer tho presorip- 0 Of thoso troubles. all tho Y, ETC. and traln of that a0 PERMA- and tone UIC 1 will send Addrass, L. S1'S NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT- ment, n specific for Hystorla, Dizzin ralgia, Headache, Nervous liquor or tobaceo, wakefaln Softness of the Hrain, causing insanity, mis cay, death, Promatare O1d Age, mpotency, Power In e1thor se: Fomale Wenknesso torrhea caused by ov mouth's treatment §1 antee d boxes Lo cure. In stroots. Omaha rapeutics, ~Th 0 my book on T 0 VAN HOUTEN'S CocOA s thus effectually repe oluntary Losses, Sperma- ~exortion’ of the brain. for $5: by mall Knoh order for 6 boxos with # will send written guaranteo to refund 1f not cured. Guarantoe lssued only by Theodore K. Lowl Kist, nole agent, southoast cornor 16th and Faroan iversity College, London, A actually writes as follows} From the careful analyses of Prof. ATTFIELD and others, I am satisfled that HOUTEN’S COCOA it is decidedly more nutritious than ) quotations in cer- rapoutics are quita d, and th ¥its, Nou- onused by Mental Deprassion, stratid y, do: rvousness, Loss of Luuoorrham aad all A We guar- drag- very L B OPPORTUNITY, 75 buys ongo Singer. §i the highest grade the world, the §65 Chi- S8 Dnly 10° odorn, style sewing machine in Do like our friends who sell $15 suits for $5.00, for the simple suits we sell for $15 are almost that much, and plain that in order to sell we would get such enormous profits it would be an easy matter to sell at $5. But we can't. reason that the wholesaled for therefore suit for $5 a$l5s Some people can, but we sell you a cheviot or plain cassimere suit in cither cutav yay or sack, in all shades, principally gray, brown, blue and fancy colors that we sold last month for §10.50, for the phenominal price of $8.75. We could say the former price was $20, so as to make you think we were just losing $8.75 on every suit we sold, but it’s a $10.50 suit for $8.75. Columbia Clothing Wo wish o tost the valu Of this paper as an A vertising lum, I mako the following procedented offer on sew- ufacture until Feb. 1 only. o Above Factory Cost 13D|FF[HHITVLIIAT INTERMEDIATE PRICES R RUXCRRLENS T W On 10 dayw’ approval; 1f returned, frelght ch zefunded tor adve for obf Write at once for catalogue 1. 60 & 8 sewing maching Isement will not appear agaln. CHICAGO SEWING MACHINE (0., 4210 62 N. Halsted-st., Chlongo, 1L How Many PEOPLE are putting OFF THE DAY Intending soon to consult a Successful Specialist WHY THIS DELAY? Chronio, Pri te, Surgioal Disen«ny, CURED. and Lost Nervous Manhood, Femalo Weaknesses, Ete., CURED. CONSULTATION FREE., Treatment by Mail. Address with stamp for partio lars, which will be sent in u plain enveiope, C. W. WILLIAMSON, M.D. Rooms§, 8! 0, 18 §, 15th St il AWNING! Omaha Tent-Awni COMPAN Flags. £ and Rubi « Bend for catalogue. Farnam st COMPANY. Our Hotled Cabinet Boor deliversd to any part of, the olty, 1007 ackson st 8. F. Gilman, 1013-16-17 N, 16¢h a8, FLOUR. NIk P[bme Fred Krug BrewlngTfimmnrewing Assn Vienna Beer. Furniture, Carpets and Draperies. 1208 Farnam st Omeha Milling o, Omoe and Mill 1618 N.16th ob Paxton & Yierling | IndustriallronWorks 1RON WORKS. Wrought and Cast Iron bullding wor k, Englnes, brass work, etc. Manufacturing and re pairing of all kinds of machinery. 714 8. lith st Telophone 1419. Omaha Safe and Iron WORKS. Enfes, vaults, Jall work, utters and fire o Andreen & Ger i4th and Jackson. o trade ouly Nicols sh. 1803 velty Works, No: M ey facturing and all kinds of electro-plating. Chase Mrg. Co., ter, Neb. Weeplag Wa- PRINTERS, Reed Job Printing COMPANY. Bes Bullaiog By purchasing goods made at the following Nebraska Factories. cannot find what you want, communicate with the manufac to what dealers handle their goods. Omaha Rubber Co. Manufacturers and job. bers of all kinds of rub- bor “Fish Brand” goods. 163 Farnan If you urers as SEWIND puqn}g;gui | New Noble 2 Lincoln | b 0f the best mes % on the market. | Made ana sold to the | trade by Chas Mfg. Coy coln, Neb - SOAP. Page Soap Co. | Mauufactarersot Union 115 Hikory b Farrell & Go.” Jell s,preserves,mince meat aiid appie butter, molasses, d Faranm, cor. | STOVE REPAIRS, James Hughes, 07 8. 15th st. All kinds of sL0ve re- pairs on hand. Gasoline stoves repsired stoves storod (HITE LEAD, | Carter White Lead Co © orroded and gut Uy Vire whie toad [ | 8 Bl

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