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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-12
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri, October ~
DIR. F. r. Riley, for the last five
years director of the Y. M. G. A. here,
left for Leeds, England, this morning,
to devote himself to Christian science
healing DR. Riley is said to have ac-
complished extraordinary cures in this
city
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BosToN, 0c,oDer l2.-Henry E
Dixey, the actor, is tinancially stranded.
He has filed 8 petition 10 Insolvency.
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A WsII-Known Actor nead

NEW YoRK, N X, October 12.-
Mr.. Thomas Wbitfsn. the well. known
actor, died 10 london, Yesterday. He
was 'he original Sir Joseph Porser, In
Pinafore.
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Bryan in Kentucky.

BowLING GREEN, KY, October II.
W.J, Bryan spoke to 10000 people
here, to-day. on the issues of the hour.
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Loser BY sIro. 600

PIrTsBURG, Pa, October 12.-Tbe
race track pluuger says he is si1s.0
loser, since The Saratoga meeting.
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New YoRK. N. Y, October 12 =
silver, b6X.
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FOR FOREIGN LANDS
The American Board of Foreign
Missions In Session In
New Haven.
STILL SCORING LEUTGERT
A Whisky Trust Of Tremendous
Proportions Is About To
Be Formed.
A BIG IRON COMBINATION

NEW HAVEN, Conn, October II -
The American board Of commissioners
for foreign missions, the Oldest. for
eign missionary society in this cou,try.
convened here, to-day, in annual ses-
sion. Unusual interest attaches to the
gathering, from the fact that the ven
erable DR.. Richard s. Storrs, OF the
Church Of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn,
who has occupied the position OF pres
ident for ten years, will retire on ac-
count Of his age and infirmities. The
position is one Of great honor, and it
is known that many of the commission
ers are in favor Of selecting Justice
David j Brewer, of ths United States
supreme court, as DR.. Storrs' successor.
The chief objection to this proposal is
the traditional one that no layman has
yet he d the Office, but there are reasons
for the belief that Justice Brewer was
elected corporate member at the last
meeting at Toledo especially with a
view to his succeeding DR.. Storrs.
The annual report sets forth that the
appeal Of the board for special dona-.
tions 10 meet the serious deficit met
with a generous response. Receipts
for August, which closed the fiscar
year, were 1929 289. or $56, ,534 ln ex.
cess OF the rrcelps for Ia same rnon b
ia 1896. The entire income for the
year was nearly $3.50 900, and the debl
carried into the new fiscal year is less
than $4,000.
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rHE woMEN,s socrErr.

JACKSON, MICH. Ocsooer 12.-The
twenty seventh annual meeting Of the
northwestern branch Of the Women's
foreign missionary society in the M E
church, representing Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan, will be In
session here four days, with Bishop
Mind presiding Four hundred dele
gates, with missionaries from Italy,
China. japan and Bulgaria have regis
tered at headquarters The branch has
$4,000 women members, who last year
raised $40, 900 far mis- ions
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

WANTED - Situation to do general
hou ,ewo ork or cooking. Apply over Hart
mans store, Bridge street. 2S2-tf
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LyOR SAEE-Fuil- blooded ST. Bernard
a. dog, one year old. Inquire at Stoner
house, Immediately. 282 5ts
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Job Printing


ID al lts Numerous and a.
verse branches done 40 Il
should be at THR OPTIC Job
Rooms.
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FOR Rem r-Furnished room, corner Of
Eighth and National avenue.
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original only complete seet
~ circular den; trained beasts
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10

The old.
ia s h / 0 n e d
savings bank
was often a
= stocking hid
in the CHM
- ney, but now
~ a-days people
W ho want
S a fety put
heir money behind
burglar : and fire
proof walls. A wo-
nan who thinks her
life and health is
worth saving won't
-isk it with incom-
oetent persons. IF
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10
To Roll Across.
queer Transatlantic craft Building in Toronto

TORONTO, CANADA, June =. There is
being built at the dock of the Poison Iron
Works Company, steamboat builders
here, a strange looking craft, and the
huge skeleton as it stands high in the air,
would puzzle the most expert shipbuild-
er as TO what it was intended for. 1t is
the invention of F. A. Knapp, barrister,
of Prescott, Ont, and if it turns out to
be successful, this strange looking craft
will revolutionize lake and ocean travel.
1t is said by the inventor that it will make
the trip from New York to Liverpool in
forty eight hours, without pitching and
tumbling in a choppy sea, and without
danger of seasickness and little of ship
wreck by striking hidden rocks-a boat
that can skim over shoals that would
wreck the smallest ocean vessel. boat
without paddle wheels, and one in which.
while portion is constantly revolving
with prodigious rapidity, the passenger is
quietly reclining on level plane never
disturbed by the sudden lurch and never
irIitated as on board ship by his dinner or
his wine falling suddenly into his lap
The craft is made of quarter inch steel,
stoutly ribbed, is 10 feet long and 20
feet in diameter. There is an outer and
an inner cylinder, and On the latter is a
series Of small stationary paddles. In the
middle are a number Of diamond shaped
ventilators for the escape u smoke, and
on each end is rudder for steering pur-
poses. The craft looks exactly like
great gas pipe many times magnitied. 1t
will BE propelled by a l50- horse power en-
CINE, and instead Of emitting through the
water will roll along the surface sidewise
The inner cylinder will be fixed securely
in the Xlp and will pitbp1. yya,,l, Inv ,,,aapl
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10
A Maine Inventor.

Mr. Ezra Totman Ring, according to re-
ports that come from South Troy is the
most ingenious inventor in Maine. fnot in
the world. In fact, he invents 50 much
that he hasn't time to remember halt the
things he thinks Of. one OF his contri-
yalces is Il panel in the bottom of the out
side door, with a hinge at the top and
a spring 50 that when the cat goes to the
door and scratches to get out, the scratch
ing opens the panel for her. Reasoning
that the natural way for a cat to come
back is by way of the window, and having
a dog that is death on all cats but the
one that lives on the place, he has fixed
contrivance SO that when the dog goes to
the window and puts his paws on the win
dow sill, the act will open a slide, and if
it is the cat that belongs there, She Il come
in: if a stranger, the dog will scare her off
Another cOntTlvance is a movable bar so
arranged that when the rooster flies on it
in the morning on his way down from his
perch, the bar settles and pulls cord the
cord pulls out pin that holds up a board
ing in front of the feed boxes, thus feed
ing the cattle without any one getting up
at half past four to go to the barn. Mr.
Ring says that when he wants to be called
early himself he just hooks the alarm cord
on the feed boarding and when it goes
down, plump, it pulls the clothing off his
bed, strikes a match and sets the kitchen
fire going, opens the faucet in the sink
and sets fresh water to running, opens the
kitchen door, lets out the dog, and does
many other little chores
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10

she has any disease or weakness incident to
her sex, she obtains the services Of an edu-
Gated, experienced physician.
One of the most eminent of living spe-
cialists in wonens diseases is DR.. R. V.
Pierce, of Buffalo, n ". chief consulting
physician of the famous Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, of that city. He has
devoted life time to the study and cure of
feminine disorders. His "Favorite Pre-
scription " is the most perfect cure for such
complaints ever known. 1t is the only truly
scientific remedy which reaches the inner
source of trouble and completely heals,
strengthens and tones both the special or
gans and the entire nervous system. 1t is
the only medicine for women, invented by
a regularly graduated physician, a skilled
and experienced practitioner
Any woman may consult DR.. Pierce either
personally or BY letter and will receive
sound professional advice free of charge.
No woman who suffers from these delicate
troubles should trust to any preparation
compounded by mere nurse or any other
unskilled, unscientihc experimenter.
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser a thousand-page volume prepared
by Dr.. Pierce and his staff of physicians,
with over three hundred engTavings and
colored plates really a medical cyclopedia
in one volume, will be sent paper bound
cents in one cent stamps to pay cost of
mailing onlr Address, Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association No 663 Main
Street Buffalo, n Y. If French cloth
bound embossed stamped covers are pre-
ferred send ten cents extra to pay extra
cost only OF this handsome binding.
For constipation. the true, scientific cure
is Dr. Pierce's Pellets Mild harmless, yet
sure. No other pill can compare with them.
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10

went aft to view the wreck. There was a
ragged. gaping rent in our vessels side
through which a team could have been
driven. Huge fragments of the Hekla's
bow were jammed into the side, together
with a broken anchor, sections of wire,
RIGGING and blocks The steering gear
was also clogged, thus rendering the Ship
unmanageable.
I'm few minutes a signal from our
whistle was answered by the Hekla,
and she again appeared steaming slowly
out of the mist astern. She ran within
hailing distance. Her port side was so
crowded with people it gave her Slight
list | should judge there were from
three to five hundred passengers in sight
"Her bow presented a sorry sight.
There was an immense cavity in it ex-
tending almost to the water line, and
broken spars and rigging were hanging
from her shattered foremost In haiiing,
each commander reported his ships dam
age to be all above the water line, and as
the Hekla steamed away her captain re-
quested us to report that he had sailed for
the nearest port for repairs That is the
last we saw of her.
After clearing away the wreckage
about our steering gear and finding it in
tact the engines were started and we con-
tinued on our course.
THE passengers had but one opinion
of the GOODNESS displayed by Captain Can
mons, his officers and men throughout the
trying period Immediately following the
collision. The boats We're ready, and we
could have left the steamer inside of ten
minutes had it been necessary
Looking at the accident from nom
professional standpoint, | fail to see
wherein the officers of the Mississippi
We're in the slightest degree responsible
for the collision
II believe that the signals from our
ship, and the presence of mind of our cap
tain in sending the Mississippi ahead at full
speed at critical moment, alone prevent
ed our being struck amidships, which
might have meant fatal damage.
The injury was repaired as thoroughly
as possible under the circumstances, and,
! except that we were somewhat delayed by
| continued thick weather, we completed
our voyage without further mishap.'
HART L. WooDCoCK.
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10

FROM BELFAST.
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10
Galley Stove Upset.

ST. JOHN, n. b., June /. The Ameri-
can schooner Walter W, Rasin, 64S tons,
went ashore at Griifin's head, N. b., three
miles from Quaco, on Monday afternoon.
and overturned The galley stove was
upset and the vessel caught fire and was
completely destroyed, nothing being left
but the chains and anchors.
The schooner was in ballast and was
going from Boston to Hillsboro, n. b. for
a load of plaster. The vessel was built
at Baltimore, was seven years old, and
was only partly insured.
Capt Nanaman and crew came to st.
John this morning and called at the
American consulate. The vessel got out
of her course in the fog and struck a reef.
Then the crew left her, fearing she would
topple over as the tide fell, but a rising
tide carried her up on the beach and there
the stove upset. All the captain papers
were destroyed.
The merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is literally written in blood.
1t is traced in the vital fluid
OF millions of the human race.
Its positive medicinal merit
And curative power is written
Upon the hearts, and craven upon
The minds of thousands
Of people whom it has cured
And given good health
When there seemed nothing before
Them but darkness and despair.
1t cures all diseases arising
From or promoted by impure
Blood by its intrinsic merit as
The One True Blood Purifier.
CASTo7IA
The FAC n
simils ~ Il o.
Hgnature/ - NJN@ every
q 1<H2T %LLEE<zL wrapper.
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10
Maine Central R. R.
TIMETABLE

On and after Oct. 4, 1896, trans connecting al
Rurnham and Watervil'e with through trains for
and from Bangor. Wareryille, Portland and BoS
ton VIII run as follows
FROM BELFAST
The Republican journal., 1897-06-10

Pure blood is the secret of health. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters insures pure blood.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
THE-~.@~~aMaA Up=To=Date Drug Store. 306 Mena Strtee.
306 Mena Strtee.

We are opening the largest and most complete stock of Fresh Drugs, Pure Chemicals Fine Toilet Ar hces Paints, Oils Etc, brought to Polk county We have everything usually kept
 in First Class Drug Store. . Our Prescription department under J. T. Crow, Ph G. IS complete. Your patronage solicited. Satis- faction guaranteed Call on
 Yours to Serve, Jackson Wheeler
 Drug Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
ALMOST LED AsTRAY.
Nice OId Gentleman and q Checs<
 Nearly Ruined Him.

"I learned by an incident in my early | life how young men who know what is right and are disposed to do it may be led astray by temptation"
 The man who thus introduced his story is very wealthy and is looked upon as the soul of honor
 "f was standing at the dock in New York;" he continued, Ito watch the de- parture of one of the big liners for Liverpool. Nearly all the passengers were aboard when benevolent-loohng old gentleman with fatherly smile and pair of steel-bowed glasses set his valise down beside me, muttered some thing to himself and then said: You look honest, young man. I've done q very careless thing and must leave on this ship. Here's 0 check for my wife that she must have. Deliver it and she will pay for time and trouble.' A de- tectiye standing by glanced over my shoulder ut the signature and then re- stunned his work of scanning closely all who passed him.
 '1The check was for S3,000, made tO bCalCAs UT duy lb about with me. I needed money for a start in life. A man who could travel abroad, live at the address given me and leave his wife such sum for spending money. could easily spare $3,000. But I could not sleep. Nothing afforded me any pleasure. was sick and distraught because of the battle between my two natures. One day resolved to draw the money, go west, make a fortune and in time return the sum with com pound interest. That's the way men throw sops to their consciences.
 Beside the window of the paying teller at the bank stood the selfsame detective I had seen at the dock. My knees quaked, but walked boldly up, spread out the rumpled check, said that l had been taken suddenly i'll after re- eeivingg it and asked the official to see that it reached the woman for whom it was intended. He glanced at the sigma ture, winked at the officer and only said: Rank forgery
 'The detective swore hotly under his breath. Fooled me slick and clean he growled. I suspected that old man might be made up till he worked the check racket Then there was more swearing and I walked out unmolest- ed. Detroit Free Press.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08

We have everything usually kept in First Class Drug Store.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
The Peacock nt Horne.

The real home of the peacock or pea fowl Is in India. There they were and are hunted and their flesh is used for food. As these birds live in the same region as the tiger, peacock hunt ing is very dangerous sport. The long train of the peacock is not its fail as many suppose, but is com posed of feathers which grow out just above the tail and are called the tail coverts. Peacocks have been known for many hundred years. They are mentioned in the Bible; Job mentions them and they are mentioned, too, in I. Kings. x. Hundreds of years ago in Rome many thousand peacocks were killed for the great feasts which the rrnperors made. The brains of the pea rocks were considered great treat and many had to be killed for a single feast
 The largest order for carpets eve given for single hotel, 1t is said. ha been given for the new Astor hotel. Nev York, adjoining the Waldorf. It ha. 1000 rooms.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
LESSON TO A TRuckMAN.
One Who Stood Ills Ground and Yet
 Wns Not Run Over.

His general appearance was that of doctor of divinity, but his shoulders and chest were those of prize fighter. He had snow-white hair and beard and must have been about 70 years old. As he stood in the roadway at the junction of Montague and Court streets, Brook iyn, waiting for trolley car, people gaxed at him, because he was very no- ticeable specimen of mankind. If he noticed the notice he gave no sign of 1t, but leaned on his cane, waiting pa- tiently.
 Down Montague street came q truck driver of the pestiferous variety. As soon as he saw the old gentleman he howf7ed opprobriously at him in the language of his species, which is gen. orally unintelligible; a very good thing The old man didn't move. He didn't even look around. Now, there was plenty of room for the truck to pass in front of him. In fact, If the driver had kept in straight line he would have cleared the waiting man by ten feet. but he didn't keep to the straight line. In order to assert the superiority of him who goes on wheels over him who goes on foot the truclman headed directly for the old man, yawping:
 'sGiddout q wayl Whats de matter wit yer ff''
 Still the threatened one made no move. When the horse was almost upon him, however, he polOedhis stick gently into it's neck. Naturally the animal swerved aside. The truckman pulled aIp. leaned over and poured out a flood of vile language, addressed to and re- garding the old gentleman. That worthy looked up and inquired, mildly:
 4-Are you talking to me 2"
 The driver had got fairly started in another tirade when the other, with back-handed sweep of his cane, cut him full across the face. With a yell of rage the truck ruffian dropped the rein5 and seized his heavy whip. There was n crack like pistol shot as the cane fell across his wrist and the whip dropped. Again the cane swung, and this time the truckman went over back ward in his seat with 0 red welt across his forehead. X smart cut across the horses fianlos from the same weapon sent the animal forward with leap, ;;s-ssia he truck was clear over at Fulton street when the driver sat up, rubbing his head in bewilderment. The old gentlemans car arrived and he boarded it, leaving about s0 witnesses in q con- dition of gleeful and ecstatic satisfac- aion.--N. Y. Sun.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
LOVES YOUNG DREAM.
It Seemed Fe ding Away But Miss smifr
 Merely Misunderstood Him.

She had met him at the door with a loving kiss, but moment later, when they had taken seats in the parlor. rapidly removed the six engagement rings he had given her and handed them over with the remark:
 "Mr. Samuel X. Johnsing, I'ze frew wid yo, and yo'r deceit, and yo' can con- slider our engagement dun busted in two"
 "W-what!' he gasped as the jewelry dropped from his trembling hand and great beads of precipitation came out on his forehead. "Hain't yo' my true Tub no mo'?"
 No, sah," she replied, coldly. "A man may deceib dis lady once, but de second time she's gwine to discert her self"
 "B-but, muh angel" he stammered, 'who's bin putin dis trash in yo' sweet head bout deceibin' yo'?"
 No one, sah. dun seen de hull thing wid my own two eyes"
 .'B-but how'd I do it, muh luhbly dream, how'd I do it?"
 ''Mr. Johnsing," she answered, ''Pze
  mighty young, mighty innercent and as trustin' as a spring chicken, but Pze got eyes and saw yo' wipin' off dat kiss I slowed on yo' as yo' come in dis eavenin'."
 TT nebber did, muh--"
 Dis am de second time yo' dun dat low down trick, sah, and I can nebber trust yo' no more. Huh, and only las night yo' said dose kisses was desrer to yo' dan pigs feet!"
 "B-but-"
 And den yo' wipe em off as if dey was dirt Mir. Johnsing, leab me while I shed bitter tears over my pore broken heart"
 He had been doing deal of think ing while she was talking, and there was look of injured innocence on his face as he stood up and said:
 Miss Sniff, sometimes things hain't jes' what dey seem, and dis am one of de times. Stead of wipin' off dose kisses yo' speak of I was pes rubbin' dem in kase dey was so sweet"
 And then the cold look disappeared from Miss Smiff's face, the engagement rings were hunted up and restored to her fingers and the lovemaking that went on in that room during the next hour could have been heard block away-N. Y. Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
A NEW NEW ENGLAND.
The Effect of the Network of Trolley
 Roads.

The trolley roads are rapidly cover kng Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut with a network that is slowly and surely redistributing the population; it seems almost inevitable that a great part of the present rural nrea of these three states will ultimate y be included in the suburbs of their numerous and widely scattered indus trfal centers and of their dozen or more larger cities. When this condition ar rives, if it does arrive, rural life will inve become suburban and farming, aside from market gardening, will have practically disappeared. The bicycle aud good roads are exerting a minor but considerable influence in the same direction.
 Equally important is the fact that large areas iii all sections Of New Eng land are in process of transformation from farms to sites of country seats Residents of the cities are coming more and more to make their real homes in the country. They are building their country houses with more comfort and more solidity. and are living in them a much larger part of the year than formerly. The country season extends already from the 1st of May to the 1st of November, and is still lengthening Improved railway and steamboat trans portation, the multiplication of large fortunes greater leisure. above all Il growing appreciation of the sports and resources of country life. have contrib nted fo this result. It looks very much as if our urban society were attaching itself primarily to the land--living on the land and leaving it for the city only in the festive season. Whether this ten dency will produce again q landed aris- toeracy instead of m aristocracy o5 other forms of wealth, who can say? One thing only is sure--it would pro- fucc thereby new New England Atlantic.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
Able to Risk If.

My stars!" ejaculated a traveller who had, while iourneying through the Ar kansas baciwoods. stopped at a cabin to get his dinner. ''You should not let that child play with that loaded re- golver; it is terrible rislS!" "Aw. I dunno" replied the host, non chalantly. I've got about fou'teen more children around the place some whurs "-N Y. World.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-08
surfeifed.

Sentimental Individual Cat the sea- side)-Don't you enjoy watching the breakers? Burly Individual--Naw, I'm tired O that sort O thing. I've had charge of a workhouse gang fer two years-N. Y. Journal.