Carlsbad Current, 1899-12-09

to Justify ono in paying SO per cent in burst on money for a f ow months' use, sod yet that Is exactly what many termors' aro doing, says Alva Ageo In Eio National Btockman. Freight rates J tfiaterinlly to tho prlco of all fer fertilizers. - tilizers. fertilizers. On this recount a dollar unit fes not moro than a faiT pflco for avail siblo phosphoric add. Buy irlff,f or .cash, sno need not pay moro than a dollar tor ecl. unit In tho figures giving per per-KBtsgo - KBtsgo per-KBtsgo of available phosphoric add. lire farmer may buy 10 par cent goodd tor 15 It bo buys his fertiliser with the amo method that bo uses In buy inn -a barrel of sugar, Jlut tho credit ystetn prevails, And tho result Is tbt taoro phoebbbrlc add Is sold for 51.38 si unit tb&n Tor a less price. The samo , eotdltlon of things in a leas marked degree prevails In tho farm Implement business. Thcro Is a "long" and a 'short" price. Tho country merchant welling on crodlt must furnish supplies to farmers at relatively high prices or lse go into bankruptcy. No blamo at tachoo to tho manufacturers and mer merchants - chants merchants for demanding comparatively Ugh prices for farmers' supplies so pong as tho farmers demand credit frhoro aro big risk and cxpenso Id tho credit system, and the coniumor must foot all bills, or elso Merchants must

tbrro days, which ho mainly dovotes to tho business, of drinking, and evory bousoholdor, by a tacit consctit plants a bffmboo grove in front of his shop or bouso and hangs out as many Colored lanterns as ho can 1 conveniently dis dispose. - pose. dispose. Tho last night of the old 'year no Japanoso goes to bed. Tho shops and theaters nro kept open most' of tho night and tho roost popular shops aro thoso which sell battlodoors and shut tlococks, for shuttlecock Is the great Now Year game in Japan. For at least thrco days it is played by ovcry ceo staid fathers of families, old women without a roroalnlug tooth, girls, young men and schoolboys. Tho whole thing strikes a westorn barba barbarian - rian barbarian as extremely childish. Td' do tho Jbpauese Justice, how how-vet, - vet, how-vet, it Is only onco n year that they dettdad to tbeso frivolities, Ueneraily speaking, they have adopted tho more vigorous games of the west and Japa Japanese - nese Japanese regattas, race meetings, bloycls races and athletic sports bear frequent witness to tho fact that tho youth of the nation has a muscular Ideal Wore it whleh It is steadily pursuing.

country lit years past. When captured Kelly was taken completely by surprise as ho was not aware that tho authorities wero alter him and had no show to mako any resistance, so surrendered peaceably, lie donles his guilt, but thcro Is llttlo doubt as to his Identity as ho tallies exactly with tho description which Sheriff Jiskcr has ot tho mad hb Is supposed to ho. Kelly was brought to Alamogordo Moo Moo-day - day Moo-day and placed lu Jail to await tho arrival ot tho officers from Torn fJrecnfcouaty. DsUgats and Mrs. l'edro Pstsa ars oooupylng apartments ai the Metropolitan hotel in Washington. Mr. 'A. It. I'eteo, thslr son, I studying law at the Ustholio university, and spsnds every Bondsy in the city with bis pareuts, It is expeated tbst Dslsgats Psrea will be named a intra ber of the oommittoo on ttrtitoiles, on military atfnlra and of private land olaltns st tbs coming smilon ot oongrets,

(Jang for Years. Alamogordo New. Nov. jw. Probably tho most Important arrest that lias been mxdo.by Otero eounty ofllelsls suieothoeapluroo((corgo Mcsgrava and thrco of his pnls taut April by Eddy and Otero county officer, was made last Sun Sunday - day Sunday by Sheriff linker when he surprised and eapturcd W. II. Kelly on tho l'ctiatco who Is wanted In Tom Urcen county, Tex Texas, - as, Texas, for murder committed several years go. Tapers for tho arrest ot Kolly have bean In tho hands at the sheriff for tho last tffo.yoars, bnt all efforts to locate him provod frultlelj. lio was traced to Canes Urandet, Old Mexico, where all traco ot

Nor aervaat, ebtkt nur wire, But victory was hl-be ne'er Uad blunderad In bit life. Cfateego Kawa Almoet Uot It Name. Oommunleatlon had been ostnbllsbed it last with Mars. Tho man at tha in terplanetary teUphene called out: "Hellot" "IIullol" catno tho answer back. . "Am I speaking to Marst" f To whom!" Mara.rt "Try again. I don't understand you. Stand a llttlo farther away from, ihe 'phone, please." "I say hear me any better now? "Yea." Ia this Marsr "What!" i "Mars-fourth planet In "order of dis distance - tance distance from tho suti-JMercHry, Venus,