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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
Heavily Fined.

NEW ORLEANS, La, February H.
Messrs. Thorne and Sargent, officials
Of the Texas Pacific railroad, who
pleaded guilty ir the United States
elrcuit court here to the indict ment
charging them with violating the inter
state commerce law, were fined each
$4,000, this morning, by Judge Par
lange.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
Bonds Forfeited.

BALTMos E. Md, February IL
General Carlos Roll # again failed TO
ppear In the U s. court, to-day, to
answer to the charge Of planning q
Cuban filibustering expaditlon, and his
bonds in the sum OF $4,000 were for
feited. DR.. Joseph Luis, jointly in
dlcted, was arraigned and pleaded not
guilty; trial March OH.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
Irrs quIar Market

WALL STREET, N. r., February IL -
The stock market opened irregular.
this morning, some OF the issues show
ing fractional gains, others, slight los
ses. Manhattan was heavy, and fell q q
10 81 Sugar was fevelish at 113s4 @
l14A en- rumors Of new competition.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
Agree to Consolidate.

BOSTON, Mass, February 17.-The
stockholders Of the Wakefield Rattan
Company met, to-day, and agreed tc
the consolidation, proposed sometime
ago, with the Haywood Brothers Com
pany. Of Gardner, Mass. The terms
are identical with those heretofore pub
lished.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
Honors Accorded WoIcott.

BERLIN, Germany, February II -
U. S. Senator Wolcott was entertained
at dinner, last evening, by Mr.. Squires,
4 the United States embassy. This
morning he had an interview with the
imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe
At noon, Senator Wolcott started for
London. He was accompanied to the
station by the secretaries of the
American embassy.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

Rev. c. q. Edington's lecture at
Roswell. on the "Civil supremacy Of
the Anglo-Ss Son.n was not as well at
tended as the merits Of the lecture war
r, nted.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

Special Telegram TO The Optic.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, February 17th,
1897 "A house substitute to council
financial bill passed the house, this
morning. The afternoon has mostly
been given up to wrangle over the
compilation Of the law bill, in the
house.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
He's All Right.

HUNTINGTON, Ind, February IL
Hon. George A. Floding, of this city.
received a letter from Msjo Mckinley,
to-dsy, assuring him Of his nomination
as minister and consul general TO
Greece, Roumania and Servia.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

Barney Suder was arrested and taken
before Justice Bellomy, at White Oaks,
on two chatges-onc for carrying a
deadly weapon, and one for assault 10
murder.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
A High-Hat Bill.

DENVER, Colorado, February II -
A bill making it a punishable effense
to wear high hat at theatrical per-
formance in Colorado, passed The
enbly, to-day, by vote OF A to 15
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

KANSAS CITY, Mo, February II =
The body Of the late General Jos. o.
Shelby was taken to the Forest Hill
cemetery, this morning, and there
placed in a receiving vault.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
For More WAGES

NEW ORLEANS, La February IL -
The motormen and the conductors on
the street cars in Galveston, Texas,
have struck for more wages.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
The Tired Man.

CANTON, O., February 17-Msjor
Mckinley passed a fairly com Portable
night, ard was somewhat better, this
morning.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
THE
LAS VEGAS
SAVINGS BANK.
JUDICIAL HANGINGs.
An Act Regulating and Prescribing
Executions in New Mexico.

Following is the full text OF house
bill No. 53, introduced BY 0. E Smith
and passed in that body:
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assem-
bly, Of the 1eryito,y,of sNeg Merico
SECTION 1. That from and after
the passage Of this act, all judicial
hangings and the execations Of the
death penalty, under The laws of the
Territory of New Mexico, shall be car
rled out and executed IN private.
Sec. 2. That as such Judicial hang
ings and executions. the number OF
persons present to witness the same
shall be limited to not exceeding
twelve persons, not less than two of
whom shall be medical experts or
persons authorized to practice ii ruoai.
cine in the Territory Of New Mexico,
and not exceeding Eve of such twelve
persons authorized to be present may
be representatives OF the public press,
and the remainder of said twelve
persons shall be such as may be select
ed and admitted by the sheriff or other
person carrying out the judgment of
the death penalty.
Sec. 8. Said number Of twelve
persons authorized to be present and to
witness said execution or judicial hang
ing, shall be exclusive Of tho sheriff or
bis deputies or assistants, but which
deputy sheriifs or assiste nts authorized
TO be present, shall not exceed
four persons in addition to
the twelve persons by section Of this
act authorized to bo ptssent at such
hanging.
Sec. 4. Such execution and carry
ing out of death sentence by the sheriff
or other person authorized and whose
duty is to execute such sentence, shall
be either in some place or room or In
high board enclosure of sufficient size
where said execution and death
sentence may be carried out in such
manner free from the public gaze or
public view.
: Sec. 5. Any sheriff or other Of
ficer authorized by law and directed
to carry out the death sentence in this
Territory who shall violate tho provis- |
ions Of this act by admitting more per-
sons to witnesa SAID execution than is
authorized by this act, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemennor, and upon
co nviction thereof be fined in sum of
not less than $50, nor more than 800
for each and every person admitted by
such sheriff or officer carrying out said
death sentence to be present and wit
ness Guy such execution.
Sec. G. All laws and parts of laws in
COT fl ct with this act, are hereby re-
pealed, and this act shall take effect
and be in force from and after Its pas
sage.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

The following statistical information
should be cut out and pasted on your Of
flee desk for future and frequent refer
ence:
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w for Free Silver, with biography
Bryan and wife; also speeches. Bonanza
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
ON THR WANH.

John L. sulIlvan's PaImy Days Dawn Upon
Him no More.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

EOR SALE.-A large lot OF new phaetons
L buggies, road wagons, harness, at a
bargain. NJ. L. Cooley's stables, on Bridge
street. 76tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17
ALTITUDE OF VARIOUS PLACES.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

T1NO EXCHANGE-Brick brsiness property
i In Clinton, Missouri, for sheep ranch; /;
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-17

EOR SALE, CHEAP.-Une ticket to Den
Il yer, for lady; apply at this once. 7O-t
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
A Great Man.

l believe that the first test of truly
great man is his humility. l do not
mean by humility doubt of his own
power. hesitation of speaking his opin.
ions. but right understanding of the
relation between what he can do and
say. and the rest of the worlds sayings
and doings. All great men not only
know their business. but usually know
that they know it; they are not only
right in their main opinions. but they
usually know that they are right in
them; only they do not think much of
themselves 90 that account. Amalfi
knows that he can build good dome at
Florence; Albert Durer writes calmly to
one who has found fault with his work.
at cannot be better done;" Sir Isaac
Newton knows that he has worked out
problem or two that would have puz.
zled anybody else; only they do not ex-
pect their fellow men, therefore, to fall
down and worship them. They have a
curious under sense of powerlessness,
feeling that the greatness is not in them,
but through them-that they could not
do or be anything, else than God made
them; and they see something divine
and God made in every man they meet.
and are endlessly, foolishly, Incredibly,
merciful-Raskin.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
DU MAURIER AND THE DOG.

Du Maurier loved dogs, as we'll as we
all do who are normally constructed
His pictures are good evidence on this
point, and one of the conspicuous orna.
ments Of his Hampstead house was the
skin of his huge Newfoundland pet. One
day, while taking his favorite walk
about the Heath, he saw gathering OF
people on the borders of the shallow
pond which is particular attraction to
Hampstead. A thin coating of ice COW
cred the water, excepting where little
dog had broken through and was in
effectually struggling to get out again
The ice was, however, so weak that
whenever this little creature drew it's
front paws up over the edge it broke
under its weight and forced him to re-
peat this painful operation again and
again, until it looked as though the poor
animal would become exhausted in his
efforts.
Du Maurier was in delicate health at
the time, and knowing that the water
was nowhere more than three feet deep,
called to the idlers in the crowd, Heres
half a crown for the man who fetches
that dog ashorew The offer was not ac-
cepted; at least not soon enough to sat-
isfy the mercurial artist. So, despite
the doctor, into the pond rushed du
Maurier, breaking his way through the
thin ice until he reached the drowning
doggie, which he seized in his arms and
brought ashore, amid the cheers of the
bystanders.
His only. thought now was to run home
rapidly in order to prevent chill. He
was overtaken, however, by man, who
pressed him to accept piece of money
by way of reward; Du Maurier de-
clined, with thanks, and pressed on with
renewed vigor. The man, however
would not be discouraged in his chart
table intention, but repeatedly urged
our artist to accept tip for his trouble.
The annoyance at length grew beyond
even du Maurier's fondness for Joke,
for the well-meaning patron insisted
upon putting tip into du Maurier's
hands while he was fumbling for his
door-key on the front steps of his own
house.
Between this and the miserable chilli
ness of his garments du Maurier finally
forgot that courtliness which was his
distinguished mark, and snapped out,
damn it, go to the DEVIL"
"Oh, beg your pardon. sir" said the
now blushing prosecutor. II did not
know you was gentleman."-Hor
Weekly
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
each HIS OWN IDEAL"

Carlyle was impatient of Emerson's
fne-spun sentences and transcendental
slight-of hand. Indeed, from a literary
point of view. one of the most interest
ing phases of the published correspon
dence between these two notable men is
the value which each unwittingly set
upon his own methods and work. Each
would have the other like himself. EN-
erson wants Emersonian epigrams from
Carlyle, and Carlyle wants Carlylean
thunder from Emerson. Each was I'M
consciously his own ideal. How surely
each one of us would make our fellow
over in our own image!
Carlyle owed everything to his power
of will and to his unfinching adherence
to principle. He was in no sense a lucky
man. had no good fortune, was borne by
no current, was favored and helped by
no circumstance whatever. His life
from the first was steady pull against
both wind and tide. He confronted all
the cherished thoughts, beliefs, tenden-
cies of his time; he spurned and insulted
his age and country. No man ever be.
fore poured out such whitening scorn
upon his contemporaries. Many of his
political tracts are as blasting as the Sa.
tires of Juvenal. The opinions and
practices of his times, in politics, reli-
gion, and literature, were as stubbly.
branbly field, to which he would fain
apply the match and clean the ground for
nobler crop. He would purge and fer
tilize the soil by fire. His attitude was
one of warning and rebuking. He was
refused every public place he ever as
pired to-every college and editorial
chair. Every mans hand was against
him. He was hated by the wings and
feared by the tories. He was poor,
proud, Incorporating, sarcastic, he
was morose, respondent, comprised
about by dragons and all manner of evil
menacing forms; in fact, the odds were
fearfully against him, and yet he sue
ceeded and succeeded on his own terms.
lie fairly conquered the world; yes. and
the flesh and the devil. But it was one
incessent, heroic struggle and wrestle
from the first.-Johm Burroughs.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
HORTICULTURE.

Plant your Strawberries among black
berries, il you do not choose to cultivate
them; Strawberries require shade and
blackberries moist soil. There is a mn
tual benefit in the plan.
Cultivate the raspberries. Then if
you have timber and labor to throw
away, stake them; if not, make bushes,
not vines, of them, as you would cur.
rants or gooseberries.
About the hills of melons or cucum.
bers place light board frames. without
tops; no covering of netting will be
necessary. The bugs will fail to find
the plants inside these frames.
Farmers would make much more of
their gardens if they would make
practice OF preserving seed in abundance
for their own use. Gardens will pay for
all the "tinkerin' round" they get; and
the more of it they get the better will
they pay.
Because apples and pears are hardy
and do comparatively we'll on almost
any soil, and in very adverse conditions.
it does not follow that it would not pay
to give them better cultivation.
AS rule our fruit trees are utterly
neglected and allowed to take care of
themselves from the day they are once
established. This is why the many find
no money in the business.
We can not give the larger fruits high
culture, but they need fertilizers as
much as any other; we cannot pillow
about them because of the roots; but
with mulches we can keep the surface.
soil moist.
There needs be no further demonstra.
ton that in the growing of strawberries.
and other small fruits high culture
makes all the difference in the world,
with the quality and the size of the
fruits.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22

good COW has no power to make some
thing out Of nothing. On the other
hand. poor COW can make nothing out
OF something and not half try.
The worth of COW depends in large
measure upon her capacity to eat and
digest large quantities of food. The
capacity of the .owner is shown in his
ability to feedIher right.
There is no.proft in 10 cent butter. If
you are not sure of your ability to do
better than this, .keep:out of the dairy
business; but there is no question as to
your getting above this mark if you
try.
Ii all the details, from bedding to
milking, be carefully and correctly at.
tended to. there will be no animal odor.
Animal odor is manure odor-nothine
more nor less.
Ii the right kind of stalls are provid
ed and proper bedding and enough of
it is used, the udders OF the COWS will
be fairly free from Objectionable mat.
ter. Be there ever so little, brush it off,
The time heifer is allowed to 90 drv
before her second calf affects her habit
all the rest of her life. Three or four
weeks is enough. The very best cows.
can be hardly dried off. the inbred ten.
dency to milk production having been
developed so strongly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
POULTRY,

Ii chickens are stunted by being over.
crowded in their coops, or by insufficient
feeding. or by failure to keep them
warm and dry, or by not protecting
them from vermin. it will be difficult to
raise flock with profit.
Poultry will be Improbable if not
given good start. like all things else
on the farm. 1t only pays to keep them
when you keep them well, attending TO-
their needs as carefully as you do those,
OF the horses and the COWS.
Invest $40 in a good COW, and as much
In poultry, give them equal care and
keep strict account of expenses and
receipts (you will not expect the cows.
stable to go uncleaned for month. nor
the COW to pick up her own liyinp).
You will then know whether fowls nav
or not.
One reason why hens lay more eggs
in summer than in winter is because
they are dependent upon themselves.
They pick little here and there in de.
--6A'A 'oAi0byS anu udV6 no c0aQC6 to
glut themselves.
Often he censures his own manage
ment who complains that his chickens.
die from gapes. They should not be al
lowed to follow their own uncleanly
tendencies. They befoul their own
water, and drink endless numbers of
disease germs.
Give the little chicks your best atten.
ton; even pure bred fowls, with scrub
treatment, are never satisfactory. Es-
pecially give the little ones pure air to.
breathe at night.
Young fowls need to be especisllv
we'll fed when putting on their coat of
feathers. This is merely one of the
steps in that good management which
results in profts-profits which never
come from haphazard methods.
Every poultry raiser should have a
Matching house, be it ever SO small: if a
little dark so much the better. Any
place will do where the hens may sit in
peace and quietness. provided it be clean
and the floor covered with loose soil. a
little moist rather than dry.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
STOCK.

The time limit now has all to do with
the profit in raising stock. Give good
food to stock of early maturing tenden-
cies. and the pork or beef will be made
in half the time our fathers counted on.
II live stock is proftless during the
winter it is not owing to the necessities
of the case but rather to the character
of the stock or the mode of its keep.
Stock is property which grows the
year around, whereas perennial plants
and all productive growths from the soil
are dead property during considerable
portion of the year.
There is no animal which is not bene.
fitted by an occasional grooming-even
hog. 1t would be easy to give the
COWS a brushing every morning when
stables are cleaned, if good stiff broom
was kept at hand.
1t the weather be warm. it is no ex.
cuse for not warming the milk for the
calves, for cold milk will upset their d.
gestion at any time and give them a
backset to be regretted.
In fruit grating we procure the full
duplication of the fruit of the higher
quality, but with stock we can not de.
pend upon the sire giving more than half
his good qualities to his progeny.
When ground with corn the cobs are
of great value on account of their per.
centage of potash, and the potash is
necessary as a chemical element to
change the blood to milk, and the albu.
men to casein in cheese.
Bury the dead animals deep under
ground, covered with lime or carbolic
acid before the soil is thrown over them,
that no contagion of bacteria may infest
the air or drain away into the water.
Keeping stock contented is a great
factor toward keeping it thrifty. An an
imal will then rarely be restless, and will
have nothing to keep it from converting
food with rapidity into some valuable
product.
The same expenditure of feed, care
and time upon we'll bred animal means
a much larger percentage of profit than
when scrub is the recipient. To prove
it. try it.
1t is of no advantage to have food be-
fore animals all the time; whether it be
grain or roughness, the economical plan
is to give them what they will eat up
clean.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
PLEASANT TO LIVE WITH.

Jane is a very pleasant person to live
WITH" said Mrs. Horton. speaking of her
sister-in-law.
listened to this information believ-
ingly. for knew something of Jane my
self. But, at the same time, felt sure
that if she we're really pleasant to live
with it was because she exercised good
sense and sound reason in her efforts to
live agreeably with others.
I had noticed that Jane seldom
omitted her daily walk. These outings,
doubtless, had great power in keeping
her temper serene and her feelings fresh
and happy. A happy person is generally
pleasant person to live with. But one
cannot be happy who is weary, bored,
exhausted. In such state the tendency
is to be difficult" jealous, easily in
jured. Sometimes Jane went by my
house in the morning with little satchel
on her arm. Once l went out to give
her bunch of sweet peas. She told me
that she was going for little excursion.
81 didn't really feel much like it," she
said, "but find that if | do not break
up the monotony of life by frequent
changes, get cross"
Wise Miss Jane! AS she went gayly
down the street shifting at her flowers, l
resolved to follow her example.
more than half guessed at another
of James ways l felt sure that she con-
scientiously refrained from criticising
her housemates. They were not perfect,
but they we're the persons with whom
she spent her days. bound up with her
in one social body. One would not pur-
posely injure ones own hand or foot, yet
in the body of the family the injury of
one is the injury of all. An unkind re-
mark is sure to react upon him who
makes it, while at the same time it in
wolves all in the pain that follows.
/ have no doubt whatever that one
reason of James pleasantness was her
good health. But in order to have good
health at her age one must not overtax
ones nervous energies. Though the
road might be enticing, 1 was sure that
Jane did not walk SO far as to tire her.
self out. l believed that she did not
read at night till her eyes gave out. that
she did not sacrifice weeks pleasant
ness in order that some piece of work
might be done at the exact minute de-
termined upon.
Happening once to be in James room.
l saw that she had a shelf full of small,
helpful books. AS looked at them she
told me that she called them her wing
strengtheners. When, like tired bird
her spirit came falling to earth, a glance
at some radiant sentence would set her
soaring again. All. if Jane were pleas.
ant to live with, there was reason for it!
The flowers of human nature do not
grow without cultivation,
One especial and fragrant p.easantness
l must not omit, Jane was given to
praising her friends-not unduly, not
flatteringly, but their kindness or their
cleverness was sure of appreciation from
her. Life has many clouds at the best.