Bent County register., March 23, 1889, Image 1

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BENT COUNTY REGISTER.
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LAMAR, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MARCH 23rd, 1889.
V'roxxx the IPioid s.md Farm.
We believe we are not over esti
mating when we put the number of
buffaloes killed for their hides and
horn* in Colorado during the ten
years from 1865 to 1875 at two mill
ions. In many *ection* of Klbert
and Arapahoe counties the earth at
one time was whitened with their
bones. Never have there been so
many domestic cattle in eastern Col
orado as there were buffaloes.
Several steam gang plow* will be
introduced in the Arkansas valley
the present season. The farmer*
south of Pueblo are up to the latest
departures In progress. They realize
that fsrmiug in this country to suc
ceed and compete with the outer
world must bo done by modern meth
ods. No country where the single
blade plow is used can compete iu
wheat growing with California and
Dakota, where steam has surplanted
the horse.
A farmer in the rain belt near
\ uma asks us to explain why we
recommend deep plowing for corn
planting, “when as we all know,”
says the gentleman, “that corn is not
a deep rooting plant.” VVe will rec
ommend deep plowing for moisture
storage purpose. Deep plowed soil
will stand more than twice the drouth
that shoal plowing will. We will
say to our rain belt friend, try the
experiment. Plow a part of the held
twelve inches deep and a part three
inches, and then give them both after
cultivation aud we will guarantee
that the deep plowed land will pro
duce thirty bushels of corn with as
much certainty as the shoal plowed
will twenty.
Those who stay in Denver or in
the northern towns of the state have
but the slightest conception of the
incoming farm people that are drift
iug into the south, the south-west
and western portions of the state.
The origiual Brut county will add
twenty thousand people to its num
bers in this 1880. The San Luis val
ley will increase its people numbers
ten or fifteen thousand and the coun
try beyond the continental divide,
over where the waters go down to
the west, will obtain fifty thousand
and more. In faot this will be the
great farm immigration year in Col
orado. The coming people will
swell our numbers to upwards of half
a million ere the general census of
1890 is taken. The increase will be!
largely in the south ami south-west.
The reasons for this will be found in
the fact of the inducements offered 1
in those sections for new settlement.
Water for irrigation will be furnish
ed the farmer cheaper and lands of
the very best quality made easy to
obtain.
Mrs. Frances Q. Allen, a lady liv
ing fiye miles north of Arlingtan,
who is seventy-four years of age, has
secured title to a quarter section of
land on which she now resides, walk
ed to town Wednesday morning to
tako the passenger train to Pueblo,
but reached the depot a few minutes
too late to catch the train. She was
on her way to the land office to file
a homestead on another tract of land
near her. It being important busi
ness she did not wait for the next
morning’s passenger but boarded the
first freight going west, in as happy
a frame of mind at the prospect of
increasing her possessions, as though
she were but a young girl, of only
thirteen, on the way to her first oan
dy party. Such pluck as this elderly
lady shows would do credit to young
and middle-aged
Review.
The Bent County Sunday-School
Convention, will meet at La Junta on
Friday and Saturday, April sth and
6th. A large attendance is expected,
as the proceedings will be of an im
portant character respecting the fu
ture welfare of the Sunday-schools
of the county and the exercises will
be entertaining and instructive, —Las
Animas Leader.
A Horae in Tropical
Africa.
Several incidents of recent African
exploration call to mind the stories
that men told of the early travels of
white men in this country. A white
man on horseback is a very unusual
spectacle in tropical Africa, and the
animal Mr. Hodister rode a few
months ago made almost as much of
a sensation as the horses that Cortez
introduced into Mexico. Hodister’s
journey was a short one, extending
only from Landana, on the coast, to
Boina, on the Congo, but it led the
traveler through a densely peopled
region of which little is yet known.
“My horse,” he writes, “made a
! great sensation. At sight of him all
the women in the villages at first
were petrified with astonishment.
They stood motionless, with then
eyes fixed on the strange animal.
Coming to themselves at last, with
their hands raised above their heads,
they raised their cry of ‘Ho, ho, ho!’
expressive of boundless astonish
ment. Seine of them threw them
selves upon the ground, smiting their
breasts. Could it be, they said, that
such a great beast, with a white man
above him, was harmless? Such an
animal must certainly eat black peo
ple.
“When we convinced them at last
that a horse was harmless and that he
was a very useful animal they ven
tured nearer. They had no eyes for
anything but the horse. As we pass
ed through the villages many of the
inhabitants followed us. The men
turned back after a mile or so, but
many of the women, who showed the
greatest interest and curiosity, fol
lowed us for three miles. When my
horse trotted they trotted, too, their
eyes fixed on the beast. Unmindful
of where they were stepping they fell
into the furrows in the manioc fields,
and tumbled down in the tali grass.
They kept pointing the animal out
to the babies that were fastened on
their backs. From some of the vil
lages deputations came to me asking
me to stop a while in their towns
that they might haye time to admire
the prodigy.”
A whole menagerie of African cur
iosities would not excite so much at
tention in the civilized world as this
horse aroused in a part of Africa
where the zebra never roams and no
species of the horse family is known.
—New York Sun.
Many people come to Colorado be
cause they want to sea a country of
which they have heard so much.
They stay because they like it. They
like it beoause there is so muoh about
the stale that satisfies and pleases.
They become identified with its for
tunes because it is not the law of hu
man nature to turn back upon that
whioh invites and fulfills the pledge
of hospitality. They refuse to leave
because there is no reason why they
should not remain, and it is easier to
stay than go. The children of Colo
rado love their state because it is
worthy of their devotion. They ding
to her destinies because in so doing
they are borne along on the tide of
progress and prosperity. They would
not forswear their allegiance to her
if they oould and they could not if
they would.—Colorado Springs Echo.
A tramp appeared at a boarding
house on Furnaoe street the otber
day, doffed his hat and oomplacently
asked the landlady if she would sup
ply him with a little meat, some
warm bisouits, and make him a oup
of fresh coffee. He said nothing
about a new spring suit apd tile.—
Pueblo Merry World.
“Why not have the stars and stripes
above every sohool house during
school hours?” asked the Cincinnati
Times-Star. “Let the flag wave
over the coming Americans, shelter
ing them beneat its shadow, while
they are at their books. When the
school lets out, let the flag be hauled
down,” adds that journal.
The Little Lie.
F'rom the National Puasongur.
Scene I—A Chicago railway sta
tion.
Time—s a. m.
A yduug lady, wearing among oth
er things, an engagement ring, is
discovered seated at a car window of
a train that is apparently on the point
of moving oat. Young lady looks
anxiously out of the window, as if
momejtarily expecting some one.
Train, after a delay of two hoars and
a half, finally pulls out. Last glimpse
of young lady shows her with her
handkerchiet to her eyes, seemingly
in a paroxysm of grief.
Scene 2—Sleeping apartment of a
young man. Chicago.
Time. The same.
Young man is aroused from heavy
slumber by the sound of alarm-clock
at sa. m. Young man yawns prod
igiously, rubs his eyes and mutters:
“By Jove, that dash thing
goes! Five o’clock, and I promised
Mabel faithfully to see her off. Gad,
but it’s cold.”
Pulls the blankets more closely
abont him.
“It can’t be helped now, however.
I’ll just patch up a little lie and make
it all right.”
Turns over and sleeps till 9 o’clock.
Letter No. 1 (the little lie):
“Dearest Marel: I have not the
language at my cammand adequate
to express ray griet on failing to be
in time to see you off.
“But the fact is, my darling, my
work kept me up very late the night
before and when I awoke the next
morning I was horrified to see that
it lacked but a few minutes of 5; and
though I dressed with all possible
dispatch, literally throwing myself
into my clothes, I was enabled to
reach the station only in time to
catch a glimpse of the rapidly reced
ing train—the train that carried all
that was most deff to me in this
world—etc.
“Your own Harry.
Lett No. 2:
Mu. Harhy Blank—Sir: The
train you speak of did no leave the
station until half past 7 o’clock.
“Inclosed you will find engage
ment ring, which I return to you
forever.
Mabel Redhead.
Wonders of Sea..
The sea occupies three-fifths of the
earth’s surface.
A mile down the water has a pres
sure of a ton to the square inch.
It has been proven that at a depth
of 3,500 feet waves are not felt.
The temperature ip the same, vary,
ing only a trifle from the ice of the
pole to the burning gqq of the equa
tor.
At some places the force of the sea
dashing upon the rocks on the shore
is said to be seventeen tons to the
square yard.
The water is colder at the bottom
than at the surface. In the many
bays on the coast of Norway the wa
ter often freezes at the bottom before
it does abovo.
If a box six feet deep were filled
with sea water and the water allow
ed to evaporate in the sun, there
would be two inches of salt left at
the bottom. Taking the average
depth of the ooean to be three miles,
there would be a layer ot pure salt
230 feet thick on the Atlantic,
Waves are very deceptive, to look
at them in a storm one would think
the whole water traveled. The wa
ter stays in the same place, but the
motion goes on. Sometimes in
storms those waves are forty feet
high and travel fifty miles an hour—
more than twioe as fast as the swift
est steamer.—Pittsburg Djspatoh,
Bent, oounty’s honorable board of
county commissioners were in town
yesterday on business connected with
the proposed new road to Rooky Ford,
and also to view a site for a new
bridge across Tempas creek, about
two miles below the flume.—La Junta
Tribune,
NUMBER 41.
ROCK ISLAND AHEAD.
Latest Tiring m Toxxr
i»t Sleeping Cars.
The Rook Island has inaugurated
a new feature, which promises to cre
ate considerable interest m railway
improvement, it being a free tourist
car seryice, with nearly all the con
veniences of the palace car, includ
ing colored porter in attendance, fine
hair mattresses, pillows, blankets,
soap, etc. When made up for the
night, the fourteen sections are par
titioned off with sliding pannels, and
curtained with heavy damask draper
ies. Tables, attachable to the sides
of the interior, are provided for each
section. The cars are heated by
steam, the aisles carpeted, and cus
pidors for the cleanliness of the ears,
are added. The duties of the porter
accompanying each cy will be simi
lar to those of the palace car service
—to look after the wants of the pas
senger and see that the car is kept
perfectly clean. In one end is the
ladies* lavatory, and in the other, one
for gentlemen, which are as nicely
appointed and furnished as the most
fastidious would desire. The inten
tion of the Chicago, Kansas A Ne
braska is to furnish these cars free
of charge to tourist or excursion par
ties when the number of persons is
sufficiently large to justify the usoof
a car or cars. With such accommo
dations, and without change, there is
no further necessity of a western tour
without sleeping accommodations,
nor is it necessary to make suck a
trip expensive. It is a great induce
ment for parties, clubs, or any con
siderable number of persons contem
plating a trip to the Rocky Moun
tains, for instance. And, too, the
Denver A Rio Grande has adopted
the same scheme, and as the Rock
Island connects with this route in
Colorado, the free tourist car system
will no doubt *be generelly adopted
by those in search of the pleasuro
and health-giving regions of our con
tinent.-—Kansas City Journal.
It would be no more than just for
President Harrison to appoint a Col
orado man as Commissioner of the
General Land Office. No better se
lection oould be made than that of
Ex-Senator Chilcott. Mr. Chilcott
would oertainly fill the bill, as he un
derstands and appreciates the needs
of western people. Whoever the for
tunate appointee may be, it is not
likely that Mr. Harrison will commit
such an unpardonable error as Mr,
Cleveland did, by appointing a man
who was a fit subject for a lunatiq
asylum.—La Junta Tribune
The guests at the Box Social bo.
came so enthusiastically religious
that they engaged in numerous kiss
ing games, chaste and pure kisses, of
course. At this innocent and highly
entertaining osculatory exercise it is
said that even the young ladies ex
hibited a knowledge of the art per
fect in every particular, a knowledge
that could only be acquired by long
practioe. “Jack the Kisser 1 * could
find a broad field in Granada for bis
business.—Granada Exponent,
Cullen Greene, aged sixteen years
son of one of our prominent farmers
John Greene, residing north-west of
town, met with a sad mishap last
Sunday afternoon. He was riding a
mule driving his fathers cattle to
water, when the animal became
frightened throwing him to the
ground with violent force, breaking
the clavicle bone.—Sheridan Lake
Times,
Exohange fiend: “Ha! ha! ha!
here’s a good one, by geergo”—
Editor) “Hold up there, that was
read to ua by moo other fiends before
yon came In. It'a very good, but
just pleaae read it to yourself—the
editor does bis own reading.—Boston
World.