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Red River Prospector RED RIVER, NEW MEXICO, NAME8 AND THEIR MEANING. Agatha Is a Greek name, the Good ne. Caesar, Latin name, means Hairy Kan. Oliver Is of Roman origin, an Olive Tree. Milk and Edltha are Saxon, Happl MM, Douglas Is Gaelic, signifying Dark Gray. James Ib of Hebrew origin, the Be Ruller. Daniel Is Hebrew, meaning God Is Judge. Roxana Is a Persian name, the Day Dawn. Harold, the Champion, Is of Saxon wrigln. Matthew, a Jewish name, signifies A Gift. Esther is a Hebrew word meaning 8ecret. Huldah. from 'the Hebrew, means A WeaBel. Meredith is Celtic, the Roaring of the Sea. Constantino is Latin, signifying the Resolute. Isaim, a Hebrew name, means I ughter. Catherine, a Greek name, means the Pure One. Eugenia and Eugenie are French, Well Born. Agnes is of German origin, the Chaste One. Moss, a Hebrew name, means Drown Out. Lucy is the feminine origin of the Latin Lucius. Deborah is of Hebrew descent. Big nifying a Bee. Dorcas Is from the Greek, signify lng a Wild Rose. Ir- YOU WOULD BE YOUNG. Kep in the sunlight; nothing beau UfOl or sweet grows or ripens in the darkness. Avoid fear in all Its varied forms ol expression; It Is the greatest enemy of tho human race. Avoid excesses of all kinds; they are injurious. The long life must be a temperate, regular life. Cultivate the spirit of contentment; all discontent and dissatisfaction bring age furrows prematurely to the face. Don't allow yourself to think on your birthday that you are a year old er, and so much nearer the end. Never look on the dark side; take sunny views of everything; a sunny thought drives away the shadows. Be a child; live simply and natural ly and keep clear of entangling alli ances and complications of all kinds. Dont live to eat, but eat to live. Many of our ills are due to overeat ing, to eating the wrong things, ant! to Irregular eating. Exchange. PASTE JEWELS. The last chapter of love-on-a-pall la usually christened Duty. There are certain phases of truth fulness with which no man will wound a woman. Poets are born just the same at other poor unfortunates. When you are dining with a poet send a few provisions on ahead. She who hesitates has to hustle to catch up with ljove. Love that has to knock longest (usually lingers longest. Life is a lottery and they who draw prizes generally lose them the next turn of the wheel! New Orleans Plo ayuue. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. An Atchison girl whose name is June really looks like June. As a rule a girl whose name is June looks more like July or August. When people who are not very well acquainted begin to gossip, a boy on thin ice doesn't feel his way more carefully. When it is said that a man is pa tient, the world believes it has found a bero. Those women who look "as If a wind could blow them away," can .usually sweep and dust all around (heir heavier sister. Famous. Texan wno3fnvu and was Last or wt G!it AT ComDfRATE IfAfflS ' Tall nnd rugged, every line of bis face Indicating Indomitable will, there stood upon the western bank of the Red river a stalwart young fellow of twenty years. In his hand a small bundle tied in a blue handerchlef his eDtlre wardrobe. In his pockets a $10 bill issued by the hank of Holly Springs, Miss. his entire fortune. His face was toward the setting Gun nnd he looked Texasward. It was the afternoon of May 29, 1839, nnd us the young man looked he real ized that in all of the great land be fore him there was none to whom he might look for aid. His future was his alone. About him on every side were the foes of the frontiersman, but not for a moment did his feet falter; not for a moment did his heart fall. He was strong with the strength of one who knows himself, and without fear he took up his Journey Into a strange land. Three score and six years after, the young man, now in his six and eight ieth year, had closed a marvelous ca reer. In his life he had served under three flags, had honored and been hon ored by the people In whose cause he was as valiant in war as he was wise ir. peace, and finally. In the fullness of years and achievement, passed to his eternal rest. Born In Sevier county, Tennessee, Oct. 8. 1818. end dying at his home at Palestine, Texas. March 6, 1905, the activities of John Henninger Reagan I furnish an inspiration to all Ameri cans. In the Republic of Texas he fcught In many campaigns against the Indians. In the State of Texas he served the commonwealth as colonel of Its militia, justice of the peace, sat in its legislature and upon the bench. Then he went to Congress and was counted one of the ablest members of the House, which he left in 1861 be cause he believed it his duty to cast his fortunes with the confederacy. Under the stars and bars his was Ugh political preferment. First Post master General ml the Confederate States of America, he relinquished that post to become secretary of Its treasury, devoting his energies and his fortune to a cause he loved and fondly hoped might prevail. But when the fortunes of war decreed that the southland should not depart the Union returned to his people to advocate con ciliation and unity. Ripe In experience, he again became a legislator of the nation, serving as a senator from 1887 until 1891, father ing the "Reagan interstate commerce law," which as afterward amended by Senator Cullom of Illinois became the law which is now in force. The life of Judge Reagan links the history of the old with that of the new. His work was strenuous, history-making. For more than sixty-five years and during the greater part of this period he was in the political The Late John H. Reagan. arena. He remembered the great tar iff debate of 1832, which resulted in the passage of the nullification act by South Carolina. He could recall the fight made by Andrew Jackson against the United States bank. As a young man he was thrilled by the cry, "Remember the Alamo," and it may be said that he never ceased to be inspired by Sam Houston's In junction, He saw the Republic of Tex as set Its star in the flag of the Union. He saw the great West and Southwest won Into the circle of civilization. Ho felt that the war clouds were forming as early as 1840, and he witnessed the compromise of ten years later. By him the "Dred Scott" decision was heard as It came fresh from the lips of Taney, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was read and given his careful thought almost the moment it came from the prers. When the Butler-Drooks-Sumner in cident occurred in the Senate Judge Keagan was a member of Congress. His associates were the great men of Gulf Stream Lore. It 1b said that the gulf stream Is run ning so much more rapidly than for merly that sailing ships can not make headway against its current. This "river in the ocean" Is caused by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico piling up until that oval caldron rises two or three feet higher than the waters in the mid-Atlantic. Florida strait, about urn. m miles broad, forms the only egress for the waters, which flow through this narrow outlet, between Key West and Cuba, at a speed of eight or ten miles an hour. both North and South the period of 1840-1860. Clay, Cal houn. Webster, Benton, Houston, Breckinrldee. tkmnlna. Cars these he knew Intimately. Upon the southern states he saw the war cloud burst all of this he saw and part of this he was. He was with Jefferson Davis at Montgomery and at Richmond. He saw the confederacy rise and he saw it fall. He met and chatted with Lee and Jackson and Stuart and Johnston and Beauregard and Gordon. He wore the gray when McDowell was routed at the first Manassas, and he was vi taring It when the great Lee, on that April morning in 18C5, said to the he roes of the Army of the Virginia: "Men: We have fought througi this war together. I have done thi best I could for you. My heart is toi full to say more." The uniform of gray was worn b; Reagan after that. He still wore 1 when, with Jefferson Davis, he starte' on that fateful ride to the southward ftom Richmond. Through the period of reconstruc tlon he passed. And he lived to re Joice that the men who plundered th South in her poverty, oppressed her ii her weakness and mocked at her i her calamity were cast down. In th times of depression, of failure, of dis couragement, he turned his face to ward the morning, he looked to the dawn of a new and better day. Shoul der to shoulder he stood with the great men who emancipated and re deemed the land he loved best of all. In a talk with a friend some timo before his death. Judge Reagan said : "I am hoping to have time to write a little something on a subject very near and dear to me. I am not fighting the war over again. God forbid that 1 should say one word to revive the dying embers of passion and prejudice. What I would do and wllat I would have all true southrons do is to pre serve the true, loyal spirit of the con federacy and take a positive stand againRt the perversion of the history of the conflict and Its causes. "It is not for the past that I would flgtit, but for the future. It Is not for ourselves, but for our children. It is for them to perpetuate all that is noble and grand and manly In the his tory of their fathers and forefathers; and to keep aver In mind and bring to the eye of all the world the history the true history, of the confederacy, and the causes, the real causes, which led up to the war between the states.' This passing of the "last of the con federates" calls to mind the cabinet of the South. Its chief, Jefferson Davis. Its vice president. Alexander H. Ste phens. Robert Toombs of Georgia was secretary of state; C. G. Mem mlnger of South Carolina, secretary ol the treasury; L. P. Walker of Ala bama, secretary of war; S. R. Mallory of Florida, secretary of the navy, and Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, at torney general. The companion and peer of such men as William L. Yan cey, "the morning star of session"; Benjamin H. Hill, R. Barnwell Rhett, James L. Orr. R. M. T. Hunter, Augus tus H. Garland and Ixnils T. Wigfall In the Senate, and Meredith P. Gentry, Roger A. Pryor and Thomas S. Bo cock In the House, his was a position both enviable and influential. In 1876 Judge Reagan was In the turmoil of the Hayes and Tllden con test, and although he believed that the latter was elected and the former seat ed, he accepted the decision for him self and saw it accepted by the South with absolute loyalty and absolute self control. He witnessed all the Interest ing political and social developments that have made for progress In three score years. Throughout his long life he conserved the boy into the man and stood for honor, justice and truth. Pioneer, surveyor, lawyer, soldier, legislator. Jurist, statesman, patriot, honest gentleman, John Henninger Reagan, true to himself and false to no man, leaves upon the (roll of fame a name which adds luster to the glory of the country. Henry Barrett Chamberlin in Chicago Record-Herald. FEAR INVASION OF "TRADE." Fashionable and Exclusive New York ers in Commotion. Fashionable New Yorkers who live on the exclusive Forty-seventh street block between Fifth and Madison ave nue reported to be much disturbed over the purchase by a modlBte of the house formerly occupied y Richard Canfleld as a gambling resort. It Is understood that the house Is to be con verted Into a tailoring establishment. Among the dwellers on the block are Perry Belmont, the Boardmans, the Alexanders, the Stevenses, the Gilder ileeves, the Baxters and many more of New York's ultrafashionable folk. They fear tha' this proposed commer cial establishment Is the entering wedge on their block for the invasion of trade that Is driving society off Fifth avenue. As a result of the fasTl louable alarm some curiosity Is ex pressed as to the school of morals prevailing In a district which protests against a dressmaker but tolerates a gbinbler. Railway House Party a Fad. The railway house party is a rap Idly growing institution among Amer ican multimillionaires. The hiring of a special car for eighteen full fares from New York to the Pacific coast is of common occurrence. One Pacific coaBt magnate makes the trip regular ly every few months In Ins own pri vate car, seldom with anything aboard but his private secretary and bis valet. He pays $5,662 mileage for the single trip and declares he saves that much money in the amount of businesa ho tram-acts. ?F0R HEALTHY Simple Rules, the Observance of Which Will Double Capacity for Work and Pleasure Daily Exercise. Clerks, bookkeepers and thousands of other Indoor workers suffer from tho lack of pure air and muscular ex ercise. If an attempt la made to be gin systematic exercise, or an hour or so Is spent in digging or chopping wood, undue soreness and fatigue are produced. This disagreeable result often stops the experiment. Instead of discouraging the trial, the very soreness should point out the great need of the body. If the work were persisted In and gradually Increased the stiffness would soon disappear, and leave In its place a general feeling of increased vigor. The nerves are strengthened and the bodily activities quickened. The ef fect is not alone on the muscles used, but upon each organ. The blood Is purified and the digestion strength ened. The effects of a prolonged Bedentary life are overcome only by working off the accumulated poisons and creating an appetite for new pure food. This Is built up in the body, and thus the whole man Is renewed. Exercise must be carefully Increased and adapted to the Individual muscu lar strength. The weakest muscles must be brought up to the standard of the others. For feeble persons who are not able to do the desired work, massage. Swedish movements and mechanical exercises should be employed. For more robust persons, walking, horseback riding, rowing, bicycle rid ing and especially swimming are to be recommended. How to Have a Clear Head. The man who desires to have a clear head, a brain keenly a'.lve to the subtle influences of the universe about him, alert to respond to every call made upon It by the bodily organs un der Its supervision ready to receive impressions from the infinite Source of universal thought, and capable of thinking the high thoughts of God after Him, must live simply, abstemi ously, naturally, and must avoid every harmful and Inferior food. He will select the choicest foodstuffs. These consist of fruits, nuts, dextrinlzed grains that is, well toasted grain preparations, toasted bread, toasted wheat flakes, etc. He will eat spar ingly, naver to repletion. He will exercise out of doors at least two or three hours dally, living as much of the time as possible In the open air. He will sleep eight hours at night. He will take a vigorous cold bath every morning on rising, and will take at least two or three times a week, a warm, cleansing bath, just before going to bed at night. He will con serve for useful work every energy of mind and body. He will endeavor to live righteously In the largest sense of the word. Night Air and Consumption. The old fallacy that night air is a dangerous miasm it not yet dead. Much has been said about fresh air, outdoor life and sunshine for tubercu losis. Many victims have experienced the healing power In these natural agencies. But too often the consump tive, after a day in the sunshine or iu the cold, crisp winter air, retires for a night's sleep In a dark, stuffy, airtight room. Don't be afraid of night air. Open the bedroom to all the sun possible during the day. The room will then be dry, though cold. Damp ness is dangerous and more apt to oc cur in a closed than in a wide-open room. Keep at least one window in the bedroom open day and night, sum mer and winter. The door should shut the chamber off from the rest of the house. In the morning the patient should be taken quickly into a warm room for the cold sponge bath. Insidious Poisons. The poisonous effects resulting from the use of tea and coffee arc very decidedly manifest to one who has given thought to this question, and has made careful observations in relation to It. The sallow complexion, common among women of the higher classes who have reached middle life, the almost universal nervousness among American women, and many common digestive disorders, and the increasing prevalence of nervous or sick headaches, afford to the experi enced physician ample evidence of the toxic or poisonous character of tea, coffee, and the allied beverages, cocoa and chocolate. The well-known ef fect of these drugs in producing wake fulness, banishing as if by magic the sensation of fatigue, affords sufficient evidence of their poisonous character. No one would doubt for a moment the poisonous character of a drug capa ble of producing irresistible drowsi ness In a person who is not weary. The power of a drug to produce wake fulness in a person strongly inclined to sleep as the result of fatigue, is equally evidence of its poisonous char acter. The Only Safeguard Against Tubercu losis. Tuberculosis is a low-level disease. People are not subject to it until their bodies have become weakened and their whole constitution undermined. It used to be thought that one could not have tuberculosis if oiily he ex ercised bis lungs. A man who had this disease went to a professor in Vienna ;"or advice. The professor said, "You had better get a horn and learn to play it, to exercise your lungs." "Alas, professor," answered AND LONG LIFE the man, "I am a band master now." To live a natural life Is the only safeguard against tuberculosis. One climate may do as well as another if only you live out of doors, get plenty of cold, fresh air, bathe the body with cold water daily, eat simple, nutri tious food and take as much exercise as possible without exhausting the body. Inherited Consumption. Some people think that because their parents died with consumption, they are doomed by Jie same plague. This is not so. Cases of Inherited consumption are very rare. The real reason why so many In a family suf fer from tuberculosis Ib to be found elsewhere than in heredity. The afflicted member does not know the necessity for personal cleanliness, for religiously collecting and burning all matter spit up. The use of the ordinary pocket handkerchief and the washing of it in the family laundry is a constant source of danger. Rice paper handkerchiefs or old linen should be used and then burned. The person himself is almost harm less. It is only the lack of care In scattering the genus that makes him a dangerous companion. These bad practices are usually due to Ignorance. It Is not necessary to isolate the pa tient for the protection of the family. Each person not affected should breathe fresh air, exercise out of doors, eat simple food, bathe daily and sleep eight hours each night. This will increase the body's vital power and resist the deadly genus which may be breathed in. The rest of the family being thus fortified, the patient should co-operate in the pro tection. Let him study to prevent the germs from being scattered broadcast through the house. Then let all co operate In the fresh air cure of the patient, and he may live in peace and pleasure, gradually fighting his way back to health, and in no way dan gerous to his friends. When every consumptive intelli gently co-operates with the family and physician, the day of "inherited consumption" will be passed. Stomach. The majority of people never stop to think that the stomach is anything more than a receptacle for things that have been chewed. They get hold of something that tastes pood and swal low it Into the stomach to get it out of the way, so there will be room for something more. That might be all right if the stomach were a garbage box that could bo . carried off and emptied; but nature Intends the stom ach for another purpose. We are constructed of what we eat. We should Btop to think of that. We should be careful what we swallow, for it be comes brain, heart, limbs, blood; and if we are to have good blood, clear brains, sound minds, sturdy legs and strong arms, we must eat food that is capable of making that sort of tis sue. Foot Prints of Alcohol. Employers find that those addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages are not to be depended on. Even if they are always at their work the charac ter of it suffers just in proportion to their indulgence. Now this condition is only a sign of disease in certain con trolling centers In the nervous sys tem. In this simple condition, as well as In a multitude of other diseases of the nervous system, we may trace the foot-prints of alcohol. Here we have an explanation of the overcrowded in sane asylums of to-day, to say nothing of the army of sufferers at large. Sta tistics from France and other Euro pean countries show that the increase of insanity is parallel with the Increase In the consumption of alcohol per cap ita. RECIPES. Cheese Straws.--RolI scraps of puff paste thin, and sprinkle with nut cheese, grated; fold, roll out, and sprinkle again, and repeat the pro cess. Then place on Ice to harden. When cold, roll in rectangular shape one-eighth of an Inch thick; place it on a baking pan, and with a pastry cutter dipped in hot water, cut Into strips four or five inches long, and less than a quarter of an inch wide. Bake In a moderate oven. Easter Lily Cake. Bake sunshine cake in layer tins not more than one inch thick wheu done; also bake an gel food in the same way. With a fancy pastry cutter of lily design cut the white cake into small cakes. Cut the suushlne cake in the same way, and put one of the yellow flowers on top of the white, with a white filling between. Cover the top of the sunshine layer with white Icing, or If tho white flower comes on top, cover the white with a yellow tinted icing. The cakes might be served separately with the lily formed from icing put on the top using white for the petais and yellow for the centers. Tomato Sauce. Put half a can of tomatoes over the fire in a stewpan. with a cuarter of a minced onion, a little parsley, a bay leaf and half a teaspoonful of salt. Boll about twenty minutes. Remove from the flre and strain through a sieve. Melt in an other pan a tablespoonful of cocoanut or dairy butter and as it melts, sprin kle in a tablespoonful of flour; stir until It browns a little. Mix with the tomato pvlp and It Is ready for use. NERVOUS HEADACHE MARRED A YOUNG WOMAN'S HAP PINESS FOR SEVEN YEARS. Inl- K.-. ...I With Her Rorlnl lutln and Tlirpnteneil 1i nnn Hr Retire ment IIuw Nlie 'tm G-tred. Every sufferer from nervous hendache knows how completely it unfits one for tho duties and pleasures of life. Any little excitement, or over-exertion, or ir regularity brings it on. Sometimes the pain is over tho whole head. Again it is liko a nnil driven into the brain, or a wedge splitting it open, or a band tight ening about it. At one time it is all in tho top of the hend, at another it is all at tho base of tho skull. Most headaches can be traced to some faulty Btto of the blood. When the blood is Beauty or charged with poison, and the nerves nro imperfectly nourished and tho digestion weak, one of the com monest results is frequent nnd severe headaches. The important thing is to get rid of the diseased condition of the blood tha causes tho nttack by the nse of a remedy that will do tho work quickly and thoroughly. What is that remedy? The experience of Miss Ellen McKenua fur nishes the auswer. She says : "For more than seven years I was a great sufferer from nervons headache aud I dizziness. My stomach was disordered, and I became so restless that I conld not sit still any length of time. Dizziness interrupted my work greatly. At first1 the attacks were not so severe, bnt they gradually grew more violent, and finally beenme so acute that I was on the point of relinquishing my membership in the different organizations to which I be longed." , "What saved yon from that necessity?" "A very simple thing; the call of a member of one of the clubs.who strongly advised mo to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills before giving up. I acted on her sugges tion at once, aud after steadily using this great blood and nerve remedy for two mouths, my liendnches nnd my dizzi ness entirelv disappeared. Miss McKeuna is secretary of the Associated Ladies' Guild, and resides at No. 48 Wait street, Roxbury, Mass. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills havo cured many hundreds of similar cases, aud can be confidently recommended to drive nil poisons from the blood aud to give needed strength to tho nerves. Every druggist keeps them. "Yes," remarked Mrs. Malaprop, "It was a grand sight. First came the king, carrying a spectre in his hand and wearing a beautiful red mantle all trimmed with vermin. It was a grand sight." COMMISSIONER GARFIELD'S RE PORT ON BEEF INDUSTRY. The report of Commissioner Gar field on the beef Industry has" at last been published. It must be some what of a surprise to those who havo been indulging in wholesale adverse criticism upon the methods of the Chicago packers, as it discloses facts and figures which dearly show that the great food producers have been innocent of the serious offenses with which they have been charged. They have been ft'1 a long time accused by newspapers Ail over the country of extortionate prices demanded, and ob tained, of depression of values of cat tle at the various stockyards where their business is conducted, of enor mous profits wholly disproportionate to the capital employed, and, in gen eral, of so carrying on their business that the public, under an organized system of spoliation, were being robbed for iheir exclusive benefit. We find now, however, that not a single one of these charges has been sustained but, on the contrary, that rigid and searching investigation, of ficially made, has resulted in com plete acquittal. Instead of extortion it is shown that no industry can be found where so narrow a margin of profit prevails the actual records and original en tries, to which the commissioner had free access, showing that the high est net profit any of the packers made on their sales of beef was two and three-tenths per cent in 1902 and in one Instance that the profit realized in 1904 was one and eight-tenths per cent. The variations in the market prices for cattle are exhaustively treated and no evidence of any kind was dis covered, or even hinted at, tending to show that values of cattle are in the slightest degree Improperly affected or controlled by packers at any of the chief centers of the industry. On the whole, the report completely dissipates the prevalent idea that great fortunes are being amassed by illegal and Improper methods em ployed by western packers, showing that notwithstanding the high prices for beef prevailing in 1902 the busi ness was less remunerative than in years characterized by normal values, both for cattle and product. He says "that the year 1902, Instead of being one of exorbitant profits, as has been commonly supposed, was less profit able than usual. In fact, during the months when the prices of beef were the highest, some, at least, of the leading packers were losing money on every bead of cattle slaughtered. It was not possible -to advahce the prices of beef In full proportion to 'he great advance in the prices of cattle at that time." After all that has been written re flecting upon the great, business in terest engaged In the marketing and distribution of the product of one of the greatest of our national indus tries, it is gratifying to all fair minded people that the prejudiced attacks upon it have failed of verification; and the great western packers may be congratulated for having passed through such a searching and thor ough official investigation unBmlrched. The results of this Investigation, based as It is upon exhaustive data, officially obtained and verified by United States government experts, must be accepted without hesitation, 8B the Investigation was made under circumstances that guaranteed com plete accuracy with a possible dispo sition indeed, to arrive at entirely different results.