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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Some New Mexico appointments
will be ~annfupced next week. but the
4ppoinsmept ofa district attorney OF
lbe United States will not be among
them. That will come later and all in
due time. So say the latest Washing
dispatches and this time they are
believed to be correct.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Don't T0BaecO sfit aA1 ssloat ioag s.ife Aways
10 quit tobacco easily and forever, be raf
ietic. full of life, nerve and vlsor, take NOT,
8ac, the wonder-workef, that makes weak mcr
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure gua.an
tied Booklet and sample freq Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

II the emperor Of Austria gets his
nerve up he can dissolve the reichsrath.
That's one advantages he has over q
p ssident OF theaU United States. who has
ID take his medicine.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

A. III. j mes, q well known ems
ploye I the Santa Fe Pacific shops at
Albuquerque, has been suffering with
rheumatism for several weeks. Acg
cbmpanIed tyshisI WHY he expects to
leave for sou hern California.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

80 ,.sts - yaaf4 .eftft, z $1,000 n
Notwithstanding the large loss In
membership, through the removal of
the railroad ficps 10 Los Angeles, the
Commercial club at Albuquerque, now
has alarger membership than ever be-
fore, numbering It's names. ere-
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

THE oficiI vote tor supreme Judge
10 ,Coiorado, is as fellows Gabter'.
,6S. 1888 Hayt, 64g94z; Grtest. 49,,
5Gapbsrl's plurality 3,947
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Az vpaas DAILx OprIo-Delivered by mail
post Iaid, $40. 90 per annum $o'0V ior siA
months; $3.50 for three mohohs' ns oa'
LA VEGAS WEEKLY OprIo-SlT columns, De
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aample copies OF both daily and weekly
mailed free when desired. Give postomc'
address, in full, Including state.
MISUNDERSTANDING NEWs' s0ncis
fsd from ali parts oil the country. OOm-
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The OPTIC, to insure attention, should Q.
accompanied by the writer's fuil nam.
and address, not for publication puD as =
guaranty OF good faith.
4 1MITTANoEs-- May be made by draft,mone
order, postal note, express or reSistereo
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&c Warren ST. New "

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Rev. John Red, Jr.. Of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me-. 4
can emphasize his statement, ut is a posi-
tive cure for catarrif if used rs directed. u
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor CentralPr
Church, Helene. Mont. III
Ely's Cream Balm Is the acknowledged
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

In order to avoid delays on account o.
uerscnal absence, letters TO a UPrIo
should not be addressed to any Individual
connected with the office, but simply 90
THE Optic, or to the edit9rtal ~ the pryhs
ness department, according TO the tenor or
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

The nsxttnc nlpm %, q h- Grand
Army OF tn. Rsuublic. department OF
Nav Mexico, Will be held at Albuqner
que. \
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

News-dealers should report TO tne count
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an the part OF car iers in the delivery OF
THE OPTIo. News-dealers can have THE
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complaints can be made by telephone,
noatai. or in persOu.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03
The Best Advice

We can give yon when you have I'm
pure blood and are afflicted with
scrofula, rheumatism, neuralgia, ca
tarrh or any blood disease, is to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier. This medicine cures
whcn,all others fail to do any good.
Hoods Pills are the best after
dinner pills, aid digestion 25c.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Cards arc out announcing the wed.
'ding'of u w. Long to Miss Beatrice
Lesiin, Of La Luz.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Educat Ton r5pweis with CAsesrets.
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100 -. " md money
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Mr. and Mrs. r. ] Curran shipp
their household goods. from Santa
to Albuquerque, where they will no
heir homs IN the future.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

No-To-nac ior-Ffffy Gents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cufe. makes
aen stron&s.bjo0d pure. tst0e. kI.- Affurugf5
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

To secure proper classification, adver-
tisement. should be handed In mot later
than III O'Clock a. m.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03
rhis Il Your Opportunity.

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q generous sample will be mailed Of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Tlyisr Cream Balm sufficient to demon
stfnto the great merits Of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03
HOME MANUFACTURE.
Labor. sc Cigar
"Jockvy Club" sc Cigar
"Bic, Gle Club" Ioc Cigar
fla Cima," I5c Cigar
Sold by every dealer In Las v Kas
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Wholesale dealers;-
j.. B. MACKEL,
Od ma n w Gown.

Nothing has yet Desn heard II The
orphan girl who so mys'eriUusly DIS;
appeared from Albuquerque
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03

Entered at the East Las vegas, n. ~,
postoff1ce for transmission through tne
malls as second class n litter. Rs.-
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-03
OPTIC TELEPHONE NO.. :

Tnr OpTIc will not. under any circum-
~stsnc.s III Responsible for the return o.
the safe keep,ug Of any rejected manu-.
peripT. No exc. ption will be made 10 this
role, with re. ard 10 either letters or in-
ei,,surss. Nor will the editor enter into
correspondence concerning rejected MAD
uscript.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

America, by adopting the existing
system of the postal savings bank of
European countries, could hold out a
strong hand of security to her work
ing people, of whom there are at least
1900, 900 awaiting eagerly some such
chance as this.
Bread-coiners do not and will not
trust their hard-earned money to our
present bankers, because of sense of
insecurity, which they would not feel
were their country their banker, and
because this is not so, they hoard their
wages at home, to be either stolen or
spent extravagantly.
If all this were deposited in postal
savings banks it is estimated that
there would in a short time be at least
$500, O00, 900 brought together, which
would greatly benefit the government,
and for which use the country could
afford to pay at least two per cent. in
terest.
The fact that the money could be
deposited in any amount and at any
post-ofice would create in many de-
sire to save, which in time would af-
feet posterity, and the rising genera
ton would be one with deeply-rooted
sense of economy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
WOMAN'S COLUMN.


An old Washington lady used to tell
with delight of an occasion on which
she went, with kinswoman, to dine
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Quincy
Adams. The table was beautifully
set in the fashion of the times, and at
Mr.. Adams's place lay four-tined
silver fork. The other persons at the
table had merely the two-pronged fork
then in use. Mrs. Adams apoiogized
for her husbands little eccentricity,
saying that in his long sojourn in
France he had acquired the habit of
eating with his fork-a habit of which
he had been unable to break himself.
"And, my DEAR" the old lady used to
say, with twinkle in her eye, "the
elegant Mrs. Adams and the rest of us
ate with knife"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

The victory of Hon. Webb McNa11
over the contemplate assumption of
the Travellers Insurance Company is
clearly victory for the people, and,
if you will remember, is directly in
line with promises and pledges made
from the inception of populism. While
1t is not the policy of this paper to
praise individual political action, yet
1t is clearly its province to give credit
where credit is due, and we desire to
express the hope that all honest and
patriotic men and women of Kansas
are today congratulating themselves
that they are represented in their state
government by men with sufficient in
tegrity and proverbia1 Kansas back
bone to Withstand the insidious on
slaughts of an aggregation, which, by
its tacit admission, is willing to pay
any price and resort to almost any
crime for the privilege of fostering it's
nefarious practices upon the people
of this state. And particularly are
they to be commended when it is re-
membered that this company has new
er in its history failed to make SINH
lar bluff work. Such methods have
become its common law, until it has
delegated to itself the right to utilize
such degree of arrogance and crime as
will enable it to enter a sovereign
state, over that states protest and OBJ
lection, and to plumber and rob its
citizens.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
The seIfishness of LAWYERS.

Clarence Darrow, one of the most
prominent lawyers in Chicago, states
a fact, in regard to the profession,
which is universally accepted by the
Common people. In an address before
the State Bar Association at their re-
cent session in Springfield, he made
this indictment of the legal profession:
The great corporations and aggre-
cations of capital are ever jealous to
preserve the rights they have and anx-
ious to gain new privileges and great
er power. 1t follows from this that
the ablest lawyers are always em-
ployed to serve the greedy and strong.
Whatever lawyers may once have
been, they are now mere machines for
getting money, viewing life and its
duties and onsibi1ities in exactly
the same way as the pawnbroker and
the trust promoter. Their talents are
for sale to the highest bidder, and the
corporation and syndicate is the high
est bidder. For stipulated fee the
lawyer will either seek to make the
law constitutional or unconstitutional
according to which side furnishes the
fee. He often goes even beyond this,
and sells his talents as common lob
byist to promote the most iniquitous
schemes.
Whatever the old books may say
| about the honor of the lawyers pro-
fession, and however much fa1sehood
our law lectures may teach as to the
high standard which a lawyer ought
to take, and however strenuous1y our
lawyers may deny the charge, the fact
remains that nearly all the ablest law
yers place their talents in the market
to sell to the highest bidder, and the
one who does not, or who espouses an
unpopular cause without an exorbitant
fee and for any such foolish whim as
love of justice and fair play, is con-
sidered "hare-brained crank" or a
weak sentimentalist, who does no cred.
| it to the profession
This being the fact, is it not time
that the common people should use a
little common sense in selecting men
to administer our government, state
and national, to formulate and execute
our laws, who are not in the barter or
sale business?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

clean germs, which get into the blood;
then the organs break down, and di-
seases of every class are the result.
DIR. Dana, of New York, has come out
with the statement that nervous di-
seases have their origin in the a1imen-
tary canal; that paralysis of the lower
extremities and sc1erosis or hardening
of the spine are due to the poisons alb.
sorbed by the alimentary or food canal
Nerve specialists are finding out more
and more that nervous diseases, so
called, are symptoms of other and
deeper seated diseases. the headquar
tiers of which is the stomach.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

price of all the manufactured products
the brethren of Kansas should get to.
gether and, with the children, sing a
requiem to the departeds 80
Rover's bark, % ierce and loud, i Z
Scares the noisy. ,cackling crowd 8
Silly geese, how fast they run;
Gallant Rover thinks its fun:
Down the road and mp the hill
Keeps the chase up with WILL
Suddenly, with rage possessed,
One goose, holder than the rest,
Turns, and with an angry CRY
Puts to flight the enemy:
Up the hill and down the hill
Ohases Rover with a viii.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

The days of currency-reform propo-
sitions are at hand. and they are mel
ancholy days indeed for one who reads
over those which the big bankers are
submitting to the monetary commits
sion. The Secretary of the Treasury,
himself the leading banker of Chicago,
has one scheme. President Williams,
of the big Chemical National Bank of
New York, has another. John c..
Bu1litt, leading banker of Phi1adel-
phia, has a third. And Horace E.
White is still pushing the Baltimore
plan" adopted by the national bank
ers' convention held IN Baltimore two
or three years ago. These all differ
in details, but their authors have one
common object in mind and strive for
it by the same general plan. The OBJ
ject, as they are fond of putting it, is
to take the government out of the bank
ing business and permit them to issue
all the money of the people as they
please. The way by which they all
propose to do this, strangely enough,
is by replacing the greenbacks and
treasury notes issued directly by the
government, and bearing no interest,
with bank-notes issued by the banks
and based upon government bonds on
which the government is to pay inter
est. The government, in short, is to
go further into debt to furnish this
basis; is to pay interest to the holders
of the bonds, which presumably will
be the banks; is to endorse the bank
notes issued by the banks. That is,
while the banks reap a second interest
on these notes, the government is to
be security for them; they are to be a
government obligation, but the banks
are to control their volume, to issue
them on their own terms, and to reap
all the profit. This is the essence of
all the schemes offered by these noted
fnanciers in the name of reform!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

1t might be observed that the next
thing in order for the New-York Life
Insurance Company is to have that
great organ of the people, Harper's
Weekly, give little more "smart a1ec''
advice to Kansas; then, use its free
transportation privilege to get back to
within $50 miles of New York City, as
its charter requires, and stay there.
1t is to be hoped that its experience
with a genuine, full-grown, Kansas
spinal colum, reared on prick1y-pear
and cyclones, will be wholesome les
son to it. Its arrogant assumption of
inherent right within the boundaries
of this state, and its attempt to enforce
such assumption by a resort to treach-
cry, buster and deception, against the
will Of the people, both expressed and
implied, is spectacle worthy only of
the greatest possible degree of licenti-
GUS brigandiage conceivable. A resort
to bluster and bluff, trickery and false
hood under any circumstances, in an
attempt to override the constitutional
laws of commonwealth, and to in
timidate its officers in the proper exc.
cution of such laws, can only be sus-
ceptible of one construction, viz: Ar
inordinate ambition to plumber and
rob the citizen. Its overt acts, CON
sidered charitably, can only be accept
cd as an index to its character; and il
has left the people of Kansas, and, II
fact, the entire country, with the en-
forced conviction that its sole purpos.
and intent was to rob, cheat and de
fraud, and that there are extenuatinf
circumstances surrounding the crimi
nal career of Jesse James worthy O
its emulation. But, it Is no doubt /;
victim of the inevitable law of the sur
vival of the fittest; and in this in
stance, thank God, for once in the his
tory of this company, the people car
felicitate themselves on the fact tina
the fittest has survived, and that tn,
'sPop'' insurance department at To
peka stiIl lives.
During this season of thanksgiving
for the failure of crops in other states
the famine In India; the Republican
gold standard, and the advance in the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

Experts, and in fact everyone, who
have noticed the indications, are con-
fident that there is an exhaustible
quantity of natural gas in the vicinity
of Mound City. The city now has a
sufficiency of gas, if properly collected,
to light its streets, business and dwell
ling houses. Measures are now on foot
to organize a Gas and Coal company,
and the city council at its next meet
ing will be asked to signify its wiling
ness to grant franchise to the COM
pany to light and heat the city.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

The interstate commerce commits
sion has been knocked galley-west-
whatever that may mean-by the re-
cent decision of the United States SUI
preme Court in what is known as the
Troy railroad case. The Troy in this
case is the city of that name in Ala
bama. Fifty-two miles from Troy is
Montgomery, and the two cities are
rivals. Two railroads, the Alabama
Midland and the Georgia Central, run
through Troy to Montgomery, and
whereas these roads charge 1872 ton
for phosphate rock, for instance, ship
ped from South Carolina and Florida
to Troy, they charge but s. ton for
the same rock shipped fifty-two miles
farther to Montgomery. Cotton from
Troy to the Atlantic seaboard is
charged forty-seven cents per hun
dredweight, and from Montgomery
but forty cents. The reason for this
is that Montgomery is point at which
the roads come into competition with
water routes, and Troy is not. Hence
the railroad officials say they must
cut rates on Montgomery, and Troy
and other non-competitive points must
pay for the cutting. The interstate
commerce commission was appealed
to by the Trojans, and it decided that
while some discrimination is adnissi-
BILE, there is altogether too much of it.
and the railroads were ordered TO
make the rates more nearly equal.
The railroads said no, and the case 90
ing into the courts, they have decided
for the railroads. This is called .sthe
last stroke given to the enfranchise-
ment of the railroads from the control
of the commission" and it does look
like it. The. powers of the commission
have been pared down by previous de-
cisions, but it was supposed to have
power to say when determinations
were to be allowed. This decision
takes away that power; and though
the law itself regulating the railroads
still stands, the virtue of it will large
~ depart when the body created to adj
minister it loses its functions as it has
been losing them of late.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

When Republican journals heaped
calumnies upon the railroad, the stock
yards, the school book and the insur-
ance legislation enacted by the peo-
ple's representatives, were they hon
est? What was their intent7 Has the
sequel proved that they were on the
side of the people, or the trusts7 Ask
the recent chairman of the Republican
County Central Committee of Shawnee
County-A. B. Quinton.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
MEMS & BOYS CLOTHING

Mems black cheviot suits in round cut
sack style, heavy weight, well lined, So 90,
Mems dark cashmere suits, strongly put
together, splendidly lined, suit that will
give satisfaction, $500.
A great line of fancy cassimeres, black or
blue-black cheviots, made up strong, good
Innings, in REFER style, 3 to8 years, with
large braided collar. Also in doublebreast-
ed styles, from to IA years. The best
value ever offered at;Sf.50.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
Chi1dren's Shoes.

Pebble Grain button, spring heel, solar
tip, sizes 8 to 8. So cents.
Fine Kangaroo, calf button, spring heel,
patent tip, single sole, sizes tos, % cts.
Light pebble grain button, spring heel,
solar tip, sizes 81 to Il, SO s8s,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
Groceries,

20 pounds graduated sugar, S1.OO.
Choice Uucolored Japan Tea, l Id, Is cts
l 8-ounce bottle lemon extract, 10 cts.
Give US trial on the K. and p. beklne
'owder, one 25-ounce can, 15cts.
10 can Royal baking powder, 40 cts.
5 lbs, fair rice, Is cents.
10 10 green peas, % cts.
Grandpa's Wonder soap, bars, % cts.
White Russian soap, 8 bars, % cts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
Cy seems to be up against II. There
are others.who should be.

Equal rights" means that some
rich embeci1e can, by inheritance of
the fruits of years of speculation,
manipulation and trickery, live with
out work; while some poor devil with
brains cannot get work to live.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
NOW FOR CHRISTMAS!
CHRISTIANS WANTED.

To sell Touching Incidents and Remark
able Answers to Prayer, the best religious
book you ever saw,-it is full of soul food.
Scarcely any one can read this book with
ont weeping. Young and old, saved and
unsaved, all read these books with delight.
We want every Christian to help circulate
them. You can easily make $40 selling
these books to your friends.
The large edition contains $40 pages in
cloth, red edges with ornamental stamping,
price $1.00. The childrens' edition contains
12S pages and has ~ illustrations, size 6 < 8
inches, price. in heavy board covers, 35 cts,
in cloth, 60 cts. Any of these will be sent
postpaid on receipt of price.
No experience is needed to sell these
books, they viii sell themselves; all You
have to do is to show the table of contents
aud read few Of the selections to your GUS
toner. The large edition contains 145 of
similar selections as we pr1nt below. Souls
are being saved through the influence of
these books.
Read few selections from the table of
contents of the large edition:-Protected by
Angels, The Clouds Stayed in Answer 70
Prayer, The Wind Controlled in Answer TO
John Wesley's Prayer, Testimony of a
Saved Infidel, The Blind Restored to Sight.
Wonderful Answer to Prayer, A Perse-
cutor's Awful End, The Sailor and the pic
ture of Christ. 4 Prevailing Prayer of Mrs.
Van Oott. A Ships Grew Saved in Answer
to Prayer, The Would-be Murderer's Arm
Paralyzed, etc. You will find this only
beginning of the contents.
Any one who wishes to make money and
do good at the same time should write for
circulars and terms to egents.
Address. LEROY JAW, General Agent.
Hartford City, Ind, Box 7l5.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

A Sample:-''If the reform press is
honest why is it not denouncing the
scandu1ous holding up of the insurance
companies by fake examinations?''-
The Mulvane Policy Sheet.
Echo answers why?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

c. v. Ferguson has applied for a re-
ceiver to wind up the affairs of the law
firm of Bentley and Ferguson, of
Wichita. Mr.. Ferguson charges Bent
ley with having filched $500 in fees
belonging to the firm.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
santa Fe Route-Caiifornta I;m,te

Santa Fe ROute-CaIifOrnfa Limited
Leaves Topeka Sunday and Thursday at
11:33 q. m. and arrives at Los Angeles in
fifty-four hours. Its equipments consists
OF luxurious Pullman palace sleepers, buff
fet smoking library car and dining car
through. limited train in every sense of
the word. Particulars and literature may
be obtained from agent A., T. & 8. F. BY.