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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-22

New York, April S.-There was a
tremendous excitement in the wheat
market Saturday. Prices advanced
cents bushel in two hours. Dealings
ran up in the millions War news and
foreign buying were the factors which
occasioned the tumult. The latter was
by far the heaviest seen here in a
long time. No limit was set On the en-
ecution of the foreign orders. They
simply said buy wheat The market
was at fever heat all day and left off
at its widest point. Total sales were be-
tween 100000 and 100000 bus hels.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-22

Constantinople, April 1S.--Following
the news of the incursion by Greeks
on Turkish territory, war was de-
clared. The council of ministers at the
palace yesterday recalled the assembly,
gave passports to Prince Maurocordato,
the Greek envoy extraordinary and
minister plelipotentia1y, and ordered
Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military
commander-in chief, to take the Of
fersive.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-22
Turkeys Whine.

Constantnope, April 1S.-A detailed
circular sent Saturday evening to Turk
ish representatives abroad recalls the
weeks invasions and states that the
newest ncursion was participated in by
Greek troops which therefore estab-
fishes war. The circular expresses the
hope that the powers in spirit of JUS
tice will agree that the entire respon-
sibiity for the war falls on Greece.
Turkey has no idea of conquest and as
fresh proof of the pacific sentiments
offers to retire the Turkish troops on
the frontier il Greece will retire hers
from the frontier and from Crete.
Greeks Must Hold Positions.
Athens, April IS, 10 p. m.--Orders
were sent Saturdya afternoon to the
Greek troops to keep strictly on the
defensive, but to maintain their posi-
tons at all cost.
Turkish Camp Vacated
Larssa, April 1S.-The valley north
west of Elassona, where the Turkish
headquarters are situated, was almost
denuded of troops Saturday. The cor
respondent saw only three squadrons of
cavalry, three batteries of field artillery
and few battalions of infantry. There
was no semblance of big camp
whereas three weeks ago, according to
observations on the frontier and the re-
ports of correspondents with tie Turk
ish army, there were some $4,000
troops in position at Elassona. The in
dications are either that the Turkish
troops have been withdrawn behind
the ridges surrounding Flassona for
concealment or have been moved west
ward to some other point on the from
tier in imitation of a similar movement
on the part of the Greek army. No
further news has been received from
Macedonia regarding the movements oil
the Greek lrregulars. The weather is
bitterly cold in the mountains
Turks Make an Attack.
Athens, April IS, a. Unofficial
dispatches from Larissa say that the
Turks under cover of darkness are as
saulting the Greek forces at Anal
lpsis with great fierceness The Greeks
still maintain their positions. The
turks continue to abandon their ad-
vance posts, general movement ap-
parently taking place. Firing is re-
ported from Molune In yesterdays
night at Mt. Analipsis, the Greeks lost
forty wounded and three killed
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08
A Chinese Railway.

After using a canal for many centu-
ries, tine Chinese are soon to enjoy the
convenience of a railway from Tien-
Tsin to Pekin. Heretofore it has re-
CURED several days to make the jour
ney, although the distance is only eigh-
ty miles. Travellers are lowed up the
Peiho river by men. who often wade
through the water up to their waist,
and make twelve or fifteen miles a
day. Hereafter the journey will be
made in five hours. The railway has
already been completed to the town of
Yang-Tsun. thirty miles from Pekin.
and a train is running each way daily.
The rest of the track is graded. and it
is expected that the rails will be laid
by the first of May. Through trains
will not be attempted for several
months yet, however, because of the
delay in constructing a bridge over the
Peiho river. which is to be a remarka-
BILE structure, built upon the Chinese
plan, to last forever, with piers of sol
id cement. eight feet square. This rail
road is being built by Chinese engi-
neers. under the direction Of Mr.. Kin
der, who has been manager of Ii Hung
Changes railway. which runs from
Tien-Tsin up to the coal mines of the
gulf of Pichili. Capital is furnished by
the Chinese government.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

lection looked liked marked d~iscourtesy
to Gen. Thomas c. Catchings, of Missis-
sippi, who had been a member since
March 4, 1855, and who had served on
the committee on rules through Mr..
Crisp's term as speaker. When Mr..
Reed appointed his committee on rules
at the beginning Of the Fifty-fourth
congress he put Benton McMillin in the
place occupied by Gen. Catchings. This
was strictly in line with precedent, Nc
Millin having served sixteen years in
the house, but when Crisp died he set
aside all precedent by appointing Mr..
Bailey. But the most marked sign Of
Mr.. Reeds p%refermert for Mr.. Bailey
was shown at the beginning of this ex-
ira session. The Texan had never been
a member of the ways and means com
mittee, yet the speaker placed him at
the head of the minority on this com
mittee, jumping McMillin and other
Democrats who had served many years
upon it. Thus Bailey's six years of
service have brought him more honor
than the eighteen years spent by Nc
Millin in the house. There are men
who are SO ungenerous as to aver that
Speaker Reed made this appointment
with the view of fomenting disturb
ances in the Democratic party. Mr..
Bailey is, however, no political Belize
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

tor. Through whatever canyon he is
marching. or over whatever crags In
politics he is climbing, he koaps his
eye on the Constitution. II is to him
the ark of the covenant. Wherever
there Is the slightest doubt as TO the
constitutionality OF n Measure he vigor-
ously attacks II, For instance, he does
not believe that congress has a consti-
tutional right to charter corporations,
and he has in1exibly set his face
against such measures. Glass legisla-
ton Is his abomination. He has intro
duced resolutions abolishing the re-
tired list in the navy, and he probably
regards the retired list of the army
with the anne disfavor. If he had II
In his power there is no doubt but
what he would wipe out both lists.
"A keen and discerning politician, he
has won the confidence of his young
or associates. Indeed, they regard him
with enthusiasm. They will support
him heartily and without reserve. The
veterans. however, will be harder to
manage. They may try to wrest the
leadership from him when important
measures are being considered. 1t will
be difficult, however. for them to do
this while Thomas B. Reed is speak
er OF the house. Mr.. Reeds recogni-
ton OF Bailey as the leader of the NIL
nor1ty will have great weight in max
ing him the real leader. Mr.. Reed has
treated the young Texan with marked
favor. When he announced his COM
mittees last year, Mr.. Bailey appeared
as a member of the judiciary and cleo
lions committees and also of the COM
mittee on revision of the laws. Speak
err Reed made him one of the six Dem
ocratic members of the committee on
judiciary. This gave Texas two places
on that committee, David B. Culber-
son, of that state, being the leader of
the minority, having served as chair
man for many years.
A marked evidence OF the speakers
favor was shown on the death of ex-
Speaker Crisp. His death left a va
cancy in the committee on rules. To
the establishment of the house Mr.. Reed
placed Mr.. Bailey in the vacancy. This
was of itself either a distinctive mark
Of the personal confidence of Thomas
B. Reed or a recognition on the part
of the speaker of young Bailey as a
Democratic leader. Bailed had served
only two terms in the house. His Sc
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08
Character from Hans Clasps.

The latest fad of fashitnable people
is telling the character by clasped
hands. A clasped hands character spe-
cialist says that this meals of reading
character is easier and more correct
than all other ways.
"a woman he says, who is friv-
olous will clasp her hanls together
with the first finger Of thu right hand
between the thumb and first finger
of the left, but the first tnger of the
right hand lies between thu second and
third on the left when coistancy pre-
walls. Those people who place two
fingers of one hand betwee the thumb
and fingers Of the other ae deceitful,
and not to be trusted"
1t is said that in a married couple
the one who in clasping hands and in
~terlacing fingers brings the right
thumb nearest the body, with the right
fingers correspondingly PLACED in rela-
ton to the left fingers, vii be the
dominant member of that couple
Odds.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

frock coat and a low-cut vest, showing
an expansive shirt front with a silk
watch guard across the bosom. His
shoes are always neatly polished. and
his trousers of the finest broadcloth.
Winter and summer he appears In the
dress OF a statesman.
The new leader Is sure to attract at
tention in more ways than one before
the adjournment of the Fifty-fifth ION
gress. An army OF young Democrats
have their eyes upon him as the rep
r~esentatiye of the younger element OF
the party. He voices their aspirations
and their desires. He has aspired to
the leadership OF this element in the
house and has won II fairly and square
". II his judgment keeps pace with
his ambition and the hopes of his
friends he is destined TO far greater DO
litical rreferment.
The people. however, will keep their
ewes upon the born leader OF the minor
ity of the house. He is a veteran OF
experience in the field OF legislation.
and NO novice. He will WELD the meat
axe Of political philosophy, and not the
crochet needle OF constitutional soph-
istry. He is no lawyer, but has been
a miner in the gulches, and is now an
honest farmer. And his name. It is
Richard p. Bland. He is the Occur de
Lion of the Democratic party in both
the house and senate.
AMOS ]. CUMMINGS.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

by laws. A man who studies these lave Of
nature carefully and reduces them to a sci
-ence, can count or exact results every time.
A doctor knows that certain remedies
affect certain diseases.
When a disease seems TO have no remedy,
the doctors pronounce it incurable. All the
time Nature may have the remedy right at
hand. but it will only be discovered by the
doctor who has studied longer and deeper
than others into this particular disease.
Consumption seemed for a long time with
out a remedy, until DR.. Pierce made his
wonderful "Golden Medical Discovery" 90
years ago. 1t has proved to be a marvellous
and almost unfailing specific for consunp-
ton and all forms of lung, bronchial and
throat difficulties.
Its effects seem almost magical but its op-
Grafton IS based upon simple natural laws.
IT has the peculiar property of enabling
the blood-making glands to manufacture
healthy, red blood and pour it abundantly
into the circulation. This nourishing, vital
izing effect is rapidly manifested in the
lungs and bronchial tubes where it stops the
wasting process and builds up healthy tissue.
tits readily assimilated bystomachs which
are too weak to digest cod liver oil, and it
is far superior to malt-extracts as a perma-
nent and scientific flesh builder in all
wasting diseases.
twenty-five years ago eight different doctors
told me that would live but a short time, that /
had consumption and must die, " writes Geo. X.
'ccope, ESQ. Of Myers Valley Pottawatomie Co,
Kans. II finally commented taking DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and am still on the
land and among the living. ! have faith TO be
iieve that It has heightened my life for the last
twenty-five years. and have so much faith in all
of your medicines that ! want one Of Jour Com
mon Sense Medical Advisers"
DR.. Pierce's medicines are recognized as
standard remedies throughout the world
His Pleasant Pellets y cure constipation
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

Where does Cieopatra's bdy rest?
Scarcely a layman who wouh not an
swer, ''Why, in Egypt" ABR her ca
ioleries, her wiles, her life intense,
if not very exalted loves, Cleptra was
laid in n of the loveliest limbs that
have ever been fashioned blythe hand
of man. But what a change 200 years
has brought about! Today IN ugly
mummy, with an emblematic punch of
decayed wheat and a oarse omb tied
to its head-a mere roll of tightly
swathed dust-lies crumbledin the
hideous glass case at the Birth mus
cum. 1t is Cleopatra, the one great
queen, a Venus in charm. beatty and
love.-Golden Days.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

New York is to have a new Acade-
my of Design, to be erected on the
boulevard near the tomb of General
Grant, the Cathedral of st. John the
Divine and the new University of Co
lumbia. and will add another to the
magnificent group of buildings that is
now rising on the west side of the city
between Central park and the Hudson
river. The committee in charge has
SEN invitations to several prominent
architects in different parts of the
country, inviting them to submit plans
for a building 200X170 feet in size, ar
ranged to accommodate with the most
modern c%onveniences three exhibition
rooms of different sizes, a lecture hall,
class rooms. studios. etc. The Fine
Arts Federation will select a jury to
be composed Of four artists and three
architects. All the designs submitted
will be paid for, and the successful
architect will be employed to superin-
tend the construction.
San electrical piano has been invented"
-"Goodl Some of them may be struck by
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

William j. Bryan, SO years OLD, rs
its candidate for the presidency
The nomination fired the hearts OF the
young Democracy Of the Sout and
West. They went into the campaign
with zest and zeal born of a power al
most religious. 1t was the reflex OF
the wave In the United States senate,
where young men had come to the front
to stay. They are there to-day, and
their number there Is increasing. An
tiqucs in politics are being sent to the
back seats. The young element has
also discovered its power in the house,
and has asserted it without regard to
precedent. 1t takes a genuine delight
in burying precedent. II Is the same ell
ement that has astounded the grave and
reverend seigniors of the senate for the
last four years. 1t is now showing its
strength in the house of representa-
tives. This it is that makes the selec-
ton of MI. Bailey significant. The in
dependent course taken by Dubois.
Hansbrough. Allen. Kyle, Mantle,
Pritchard, Wilson and others with un-
silvered hair in the senate is finding
its echo in the other wing of the cap
itol. The Democratic members are the
first to respond by choosing Joseph w.
Bailey as their candidate for speaker.
The selection carried with it the lead
ership Of the minority on the floor.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

times | would get SO blind, 1 could not
e for several minutes.
al could not stand very long without
feeling sick and vomiting. 1 could not
breathe a long breath without scream
ing, my heart panied SO.
/ also had female weakness, infiam-
nation of ovaries, painful menstrual
ton, displacement of the womb, itch
ing of the external parts, and ulcera-
ton of the womb. Ihave had all these
complaints.
The pains / had to stand were some
thing dreadful. My husband told me
to try a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's
medicine, which l did, and after taking
it for a while, was cured. No other
kind of medicine for me as long as you
makeC Compound. 1 hope every woman
who suffers will take your Compound
and be cured.-MRs. J. s.. McGLLAs,
113 Kilburn avenue, Rockford, Ill.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08
A pocroR,s MESSENGER.
How a Meriden Physician Saves No En-
Of Time and TRAVELLING.

How a Meriden Physician Saves No End
of Time and Travelling.
The city physicians clientele, as a
rule, is compactly located, but the coun-
try physician practices over a large ex-
tent of territory. He is quite likely to
have two patients critically Ill, and
zach living a like distance from the
Doctors own home. Easily 1t will be
seen hat paying daily calls and keep
ing posted with sick persons scattered
about like that becomes almost an inn
possibility.
These conditions confronted DR..
Chas. L. Lang, OF Meriden, N. Y, for
many a long year. and he cudgeled his
brain to some purpose in finding a way
to help himself. The homing pigeon
solved the problem. He has a regular
service between his patients and him
self. The doctor has found time to
keep up on medical topics, take good
care of his patients and cultivate
pigeons, all three very successfully.
There is nothing difficult about 1t after
all. In the first place, the doctor sends
to each patient about whose condition
he wishes to be posted, one or more of
the carrier pigeons. Some member OF
the family has blanks which must be
filled in with detailed records of time.
pulse, temperature and respiration. A
blank filled, it is enclosed in an alum
mum capsule made to clasp on the
pigeons leg. This done, the bird Is
released and at once speeds away to
the ate of one mile a minute. In this
way DR.. Lang is enabled to keep thor
oughly in touch with his patients at a
distance, with about one-fifth the
amount of travel he would have to en-
dure under other circumstances. Not
only that, but he is really much better
posted, because it would often happen
that he would be unable to pay visits
at all, and SO perhaps would miss see
ing a sick person at just the time when
he most needed. Now he can go away
from home to visit patients and feel
sure that when he returns reports will
be waiting him from others. Should
LncS6 ICPOi 10 tClA I'LL bhat a tdll AIOA
him is an absolute necessity, why then
he goes and that is all there is of it.
st is the best" says DR.. Lang, when
establishing a loft Of these feathered
messengers, to begin with a few pairs
of breeders, which should be kept con-
fined to the loft, with an outside cover
ed aviary if possible, to give them &C
cess to the ground. The pigeons, If
allowed their liberty are apt to fly
away, no matter how long they have
been in prison. Do mo- try to train
the birds until they ar. four months
old. Then take them q mile or two
from home in different directions. In
crease the distance p;oportionately
from one to two hundred miles for the
birds in the first seasons work.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

That Bailey could walk off with the
prize, with such veterans as McMillin
and Blano in competition, may excite
surprise, but it is by no means aston
ishing. The old members failed to see
the cloud on the horizon. They relied
too much on the strength of terms OF
service. Gen. Henderson, of illinois.
made the same mistake when a candi-
date for clerk in the last house of rep
r%esentatives. Bailey's friends, with
very few exceptions, were men youth
full and brighteyed, without tufts OF
gray moss on their chins and without
rheumatic pains in their joints. They
worked night and day, while the vet
Grams were asleep. In~tuitively feeling
their power, they gathered and used it
with irresistible force.
Bailey is 33 years old. His youthful
friends pointed to his age with pride.
They regarded it as an element of
strength, and not as a weakness. They
recalled the fact that Napoleon com
man6ed the army of Italy when he was
only rs, but they seem to have forgot
ten that Vergneaud, the chief of the
Glrondists, led his party to ruin and
lost his own head when at the same
age Of Bailey. A veteran senator, on
hearing of Bailey's nomination, said.
well, the urchins are on top. There
are two roads before them. One is to
Tophet and the other to a glorious vic
tory" Which they will take time will
J1xy,1ox TIL co,ah 49,, L. -
structive as the march of the Marseil-
lais to Paris, and it may be as glorious
as the march of the battalions headed
by Carnot at Martigny.
Certain it is that Bailey has aplomb.
dignity and boldness. He is
full and tactical. An excellent speaker,
polished in manner, logical If not YER
satile, and Of a pleasing presence, he
must attract attention. The galleries
will be more than ever charmed with
him, but the veterans Of the house will
be apt TO be cynical and skeptical as to
his judgment. They will hardly follow
his leadership with alacrity. II It is
tempered with good judgment he may
win their affection, as Caesar won the
affections Of the Tenth Legion by his
in Gaul. There are danger
deiles from which ~teAaebouch and
perilous heights to climb. Ambuscades
are to be feared, and there are unford-
able rivers to cross. Some fear that
the young leader will be vain and con-
If not seif-opinionated. They
say that he Is more fitted to play the
role OF Apollo than that OF Mars. His
In the house Of representatives,
however, Is good. He inherits to d
great extent the conceptions and ideas
Of that old exemplar of Texas political
philosophy. John II. Reagan. Indeed,
/ sometimes looks as though the young
Texan had taken Reagan for his men
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

Each salmon produces about 20. o 1900 eggs.
IL h snid that the Greenland whale some
times nttnlns the age OF 400 years,
In Lnrnnd. Kansas, not only the life or an
unlicensed dog Is forfeited, but Its owner
must pay a fine.
An acre Of good fishing ground In the sea
VIII Yield more food In a week than an
acre OF the best land will do In Il year.
The horse, when browsing. IL guided en-
tirely by the ~nostrils In the choice OF proper
food, ana blind horses are never known to
make mistakes In their diet.
Thu cries OF sea birds, especially sea gulls,
are very valuable as fog signals. The birds
cluster on the cliffs and coasts, and their
land.
The most valuable fur Is that Of the sea
otter, One thousand dollars has been paid
Iipor a single skin OF this animal, not more
than two yards long by three-quarters OF a
yard wide. Baltimore American.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

GrIdley Bryant, a civil engineer, In 1926,
projected the first railroad In the United
States. 1t was built for the purpose OF car
rying granite from the q~uarries of Quincy,
Massachusetts,, to the nearest tidewater. Its
length was four miles, Including branches,
and Its first cost, $500 300. The sleepers
were OF stone and were laid across the track
eight feet apart. Upon rails Of wood, six
inches thick. wrought iron plates, three
inches wide and a quarter Of an inch thick,
were spiked. At the crossings stone rails
were used, and as the wooden rails became
unseryIceable they were replaced by others
Of stone.-May Ladies' Home Journal.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08
Physicians Wise In Their Generation

The above class OF scientists recognize and
have repeatedly borne testimony TO the eff
hcacy OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a
remedy and preventive Of fever and ague,
and some other ailments and infirm condi-
lions OF the system. Experience and obser-
walton have taught them Its value. They
but echo the verdict long since pronounced
by the public and the press. Only the be-
nighted now are ignorant OF Americas tonic
and Alternative.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

10 quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full OF life, nerve and vlgor, take No
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Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free,
Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or
New York.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-08

You can leave Denver this afternoon and
arrive In st. Louis tomorrow afternoon over
the Union Pacific. May 4th and 9Th We offer
you a o~ne-fare rate for the round trip, and
the tickets are good on the quickest and
hesitate to see us, as 1t Is no trouble to an
swer questions. Office 941 Seventeenth St,
corner Curtis.