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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11
Several Killed in a Collision.

Providence, R. l., June 11-By 4
collision which occurred at Warwick,
on the suburban line of the Union
railroad Sunday, four persons were
killed, about twenty-five Injured, of
whom three probably fatally hurt.
Lieut.. Governor Kimbal1 is among
those not expected to live.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

A few things seen at Mrs. Malboeufs 3
besides her big display of the latest
millinery, may be mentioned dainty
shirt waists, latest styles, all prices:
childrens' dresses; ladies' wrappers,
well made; celebrated Cluse gloves;
sofa pillows; fancy silks; stamped ma
terial-in fact, everything seen at a
big store. 1871
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

The early bird gets the worm. So
does the early apple. We have some
fine late winter apples entirely free
from worms, rotten spots and wrinkles.
Fine for cooking and eating. We
will have them this week and next.
Long & Perry. 1t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

The governor appointed the follow
ing delegates to the international min
ing congress which will meet at Mil.
waukee this month: C. ]. Gavin, Of
Ration; vice T. A. Schomberg, Ration
resigned; Harry Whigham, of Ration
vice Chris Wiegand, Las Vegas, re
signed.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

Judge H. L. Warren, of Albuquer--
que, is slowly but surely convalescing
from his recent severe attack of in
flammatory rheumatism, which for a
time it was feared would terminate
his life.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

ever, insisted and carried their point
Americans generally deplore the small
ness OF the United States forces here.
At the same time they are ready to
defer to whatever may be considered
best at Washington.
London. June 1.-THE associated
press Is officially informed that Great
Britain is no party to any understand.
ing. nor has she been consulted as
to the advisability OF landing a large
number OF Russian troops. +
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11
Baseball Yesterday.

American league: Kansas City 6
Cleveland 8; Chicago 8. Detroit s;
Minneapolis S, Buffalo 8; Milwaukee
8. indianapolis 4. Western league:
Omaha 9. Denver 4; Des Moines Ii
Pueblo 10; Sioux City 4. St Joseph 3
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11
Would Not Suffer So Again for Fifty
Times It's Price.

awoke last night with severe pains
in my stomach. l never felt so badly
in all my life. When | came down to
work this morning felt 50 weak /
could hardly work. l went to Miller
& McCurdy's drug store and they rec
commended Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era ond Diarrhoea Remedy. It worked
like magic and one dose fixed me all
right. It certainly is the finest thing
I ever used for stomach trouble.
shall not be without it in my home
hereafter, for | should not care to en-
dure the sufferings of last night again
for fifty times it's price.-G. H. Will
SON, Liveryman, Burgettstown, Wash
ington Co., Pa This remedy is for
sale by X. D. Goodall.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11

The optic ONCE Is the only
place in the city or Territory where
you can get embossed work done. We
are prepared to do that class Of work
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11
B The Want Column

Brings business. II you want
to buy anything, rent any
thing. sell anything, the best
and quickest results are 10 be
had through The Optic wants.
Soc'o0oos0see00 000o0o0o00e
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-11
The Laisst Iyls Facss

are used ia The Optic S job
Department, so you can depend
on i that your work will be
TUNED ont with an up. p.to-dale-
ness not to be excelled.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

A tall object suddenly held my eyes,
says Maurice Thompson, in the Allan
tic, great blue heron, stock-still on
one foot, his neck partly folded. OF
course it was in full plumage; l could
see the long Streamers at the back of
it's head. Il should like those"
thought, or rather felt, while swiftly
considering plan OF approach. Then,
as If by premeditated action the songs
ters began for the mornings melic
battle; and what tune they marched
me to! l stopped and crept from cover
to cover, light of foot as any cat; but
the shot would be long one for my
heavy arrows with their wide feath-
ers, is the strip of shore marsh on
which the heron stood prevented close
approach. Fifty yards l call long
range when using heavy-headed bird
bolts. From cover of the last bush
carefully estimated the distance to be
forty-ive PAGES, and then drew up.
Beyond the bird line of silvery light
began 10 twinkle on little choppy
waves. This was hard to overcome,
for it shook my vision and interfered
with fixing point of aim, which
felt had to be above my target. Then,
too, allowance for the drifting force
of the breeze was n nice point to set
tie. \ heavy arrow with broad vaue
does not resist a side wind very well.
Not to exceed two seconds elapsed,
however, before my bow added its an
cient note to the woodland medley,
and "whish-sh!' whispered the arrow,
going with tremendous force. l say
tremendous, and hearing it hit you
would not erase the adjective. Al
though its trajectory was high for so
short a flight, the arrow went like a
fash, and, as true as it was swift.
struck solidly with a successful sound.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

dirt Is shoveled on top of it. Then
the undertaker's men carry the coffin
away, sometimes on the run if another
customer awaits its Use.
For the coffins used the rate is 23
cents and upward, according to style.
y grave fee must be paid, which COW
ers occupancy for one year. If the
fee is not then renewed the bones are
eXhumed and tossed into q heap of
other dispossessed bones in one cor
ner of the graveyard. \ family hold
ing Joint tenancy in n grave appar-
emily never concerns itself over the
identity of the elected bones. The
remnants of a body for which rent
may be paid may get into the bone
heap If the gravedigger makes q mis-
take and lifts out a middle skeleton
in 4 grave of three, for instance,
thinking that I've has landed the bot
tom one. Mistakes are less common
than might be supposed, however, for
families who lay their dead in the
rented section seldom pay more than
the fee of 81 to cover one years inter-
ment. All bones look alike to them
after that lapse of time.
The American designation of the
native is Spiggoty, accented on the
first syllable. Its origin is indefinite,
but 1t may have come from the native
ambition to speak English and to in
form all comers of that desire. The
native tongue, accustomed 10 soft let
ters, struggles hard with the in
''speak," and makes it sound like g
cut off short. English Is Ingles. When
speak English encounters n Porto
Ricon, the result may not be unliK2
"spiggely," which some Anglo-Saxon
mind roughened into "spiggoty."
Whatever the origin, one hears every
where of spigsoty people, spiggoty
money, and all else spiggoty. Every
body uses the term, the natives having
almost accepted it as a proper deslg-
nation If into some official document
sent to Washington it should slip, the
public may know that it has come to
stay, and that fresh coin has en-.
riched the language.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
Paper Made $50 Years Ago,

From investigation made by Dr. =.
Campbell, paper making appears to be
a very old industry in India. In the
year 1873 the attention of the English
Government was called to the remark
able quality of the paper made in the
State of Nepal. The fibre of this paper
was so tough that sheet doubled
on itself could scarcely be torn with
the fingers. I be paper was so pliab.e
and durable that it did not wear at the
folds during twenty years. Whereas
English paper, especially when eight
or ten sheets were folded up in one
packet, could not stand keeping in
the state uninjured more than four
or five years. a cory of Il Sanskrit
work, though 80 years old, was in
perfect preservation, having all that
time withstood the ravages of insects
and the wear and tear OF use.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
What .rrundraD Is,

-Dne of the words that the people
OF the United States will hear good
many times this summer" said a
member of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce., sis tundra 1t is in the
tundra or where 1t joins the beach
that the easiest gold digging IN the
world is found at Cape Nome. The
tundra as every one knows vino has
visited Alaskan coasts, is the low
ground lying between the mountains
and the beach. 1t is marshy and cpv-
cred with grass and moss during the
summer and it never thaws more than
couple of feet below the surface.
While everybody talks about the -t1n-
dra' and knows what It ts by sight, not
one i'll q thousand or more knows
where or what the word is from.
am free to confess didn't know my
self until an Eastern friend wrote out
to Seattle making inquiries, and be-
gan to make inquiries in Seattle. Not
man of all the miners and others
asked could answer any simple ques-
ton until found Il Russian. He told
me the word was Russian and meant
low and marshy land. Tundra dif-
fers from 'steppes' in this that tub
dra is used to describe the low, fiat
and ordinarily valueless Land between
two streams and is common along the
coasts of Siberia and on the American
side of the Bering Strnits, all of
which is tundra 'Steppes' originally
meant sandy desert, but, by long
custom, it has come to mean grassy
plains as well. / don't know whether
the word is in American dictionaries
or not, for l haven't had time to hook
it up, but l know l hadn't beard 1t
dozen times in my life till the later
gold discoveries in Alaska"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

Tired Wires.

Metals get tired as well as things
that have life Busy all week carrying
from city to city messages of sadness
and happiness, business and even nom
sense, and dealings in figures extend
ing into millions and billions, stock
and market reports, being especially
trying, the wire can be said to wait for
Sunday to come. Unusually heavy is
Saturdays work, and when the day
is at an end the wires may be classed
as worn out. The rest afforded by the
Sabbath day, when business of tele-
graphing is almost at 4 standstill ex-
cept for the newspaper work, does the
wires good, for they are far better
conductors on Monday than on Satur-
day. 1t is sometimes found necessary
to give wires rest, especially after
extended use. 1t has been found
that when left for three weeks with
out use ten per cent. is added to the
conductfvity OF a wire.-phiiaJelphi
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
Where Dressmalsers Are Angelic.

Chinese tailors are not designers;
they can copy, and If one is patient
and long-suffering, after many trials
succeed in giving q good fit. (The
usual tailor likes to give but one trial,
and that when the garment is finished.)
He find. NJ fault when told it must be
taken apart and done over; hts invar-
liable reply. when shown where the
fault lies and asked to change is, "Can
do" Even after repeated mistakes it
does not dawn upon his mind that it
would be well to baste only before
trying on. The Misunderstanding is
taken out,and he begins his work over
and over again. His unvarying pa
thence and courtesy make you feel
ashamed TO complain of your own
WEAKNESS of fitting.-Woman's Home
Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

Mean exclaimed the young man.
"Well, say! he's about the meanest
ever. What do you think he didT"
OF course they gave it up.
"Well, sir" he explained, "they have
one of the incest little secluded porches
you ever saw, and Tessie and used
to sit over in the shadowest corner Of
it nearly every evening"
And he forbade it?' they suggested
inquiringly.
"Worse than that he replied.
"How could it be worse than that?'
they asked.
He put coat of luminous paint on
it." he answered, and of course moth
ing remained but to vote him the
prize for the best hard luck story of
the sesslon.-Chicago Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
THE ANCLEWORM
An Angleworm yawned and stretched him

An Angleworm yawned and stretched him
self out,
Then sighed and drew himself in
"Although | can render myself shmt and
stout,
Then instantly quite long and thin,.
This earthly existence L always have tunnd
To be most consummate bore;
There's nothing to do but make hoks in
the ground,
And nothing, alas! to live for!a
HTut, tut" sand the Grub Worm, ph}esr
matte and slow,
''Why look you SO sad and sedabe?
Cheer up, little brother-you Certainly
know
That fishermen love you-fur brft,
Though some creatures lead tuullltoUS
life,
That may be, indeed, much more spicy,
They pay up with heanaches, dui soS-
rows and strife
Unknown to the eenus lunfbriCi.
"Jrst think" said the Grub Wuus ''bow
simply you're made
How uncompicated you grew:
The gard 'ner may cnt you in twGtn with
And instead Of one worm, you are two!
Each portion strikes out in different
way,
And soon both are hardy and fat!
Where else will you find in a crcataps of
clay
Sach wonderful structure as that"
Serenely contented the Angheworm then
Resumed his old habits OF thought,
And never-nO, never-grew weary agrtn
OF his gloomy terrestrial lot,
Though a small onion bed and q cucumber
His orbit OF action defined,
A. =. ,gI, -.
fore,
He never thereafter repined.
Erer Angleworm lived as an Aughc~orm
should
Was bound by no statutes or code.
An idealist he, and tho piOus and good,
He dreamed of no better abode,
And Death and the Grave had no eerpurs
for him
This worm beneath human ourempt,
Compared with which we ape as bright
Seraphim,
From sin and pollution exempt.
oh, Angle"orm! Anscworn! Happy thy
In Earth's tranquil breast to Hhide,,
Without a regret for the things pou baue
hnpassive, whatever betide
Neither envy nor hope, nor passion noJ
Tear,
Nor visions OF happier states,
Can light with a smile or dim with q tssr,
He scorns both the Furies and Eates.
And, bound to this poor little atom Of
Earth
That floats in the Infinite Vast,
Alan gropes about blindiy, 'twixt anguish
and mirth,
And guesses and doubts TO the last
May be, 'mongst the millions Of glorious
spheres
That roll through the regions of Cod
Are beings-of Jove and Apallo the peers,
-Punseuta2ney Spirit
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

\ feat which any one can perform
with little or no practice is that of
placing fourteen matches upon table
and lifting them ell up upon one of the
matches. This is how it is done: Pick
out one match-the one that has the
flattest surface-and then place six of
the other matches about one-fourth
each across the first one, each of the
six being parallel to each other and
the thickness of n match distant from
each other Next place six other
matches one-fourth each across the
first match, but from the other side,
all parallel and in the spaces left by
the arrangement of the first six
matches. Now take the fourteenth
match, lay it over the twelve matches
where they intersect, and by carefully
lifting match No. / and holding match
No. II in place you will accomplish
without difficulty the feat.-Adelaide
Herman, in the WomanNs Home Com
panion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
THE STRAWBERRY FsTs.
Where the oyster of late

Where the oyster OF late
Was the star OF the fete
Gotten up BY the ladies in churches,
Now the strawberries red
Der the saucers are spread,
And the spoon on the lip oftc perches~
On the side there's ice cream,
Always held in esteem
In all seasons and all sorts OF weather;
And it long has been known
Cream or berries alone
Can be eaten or mixed up together.
There the strawberry girl
Sets male hearts in a wh1rl!
By the way she accepts lnTlta.ions;
Promptly forward she goes
When she's asked to dispose
On q share OF the dainty coiatlons.
When one saucer is gon,
There's another brough. on. :,
For she saws she is 80 fond of berries;'
She may take three or four,
And perhaps o few more,
For her yearning az times shghtiv wares.
VIII she try some ice cream!
Then her eyes fairly peam 4
With delight and she's quickly consentlng.
Five more times she'll indulge,
While the chappie's eyes bulge,
And his folly he's sadly repentlng.
Then the young man so rash
Quickly hands out the -sh,
And at once for the exit he searches
That's the way money goes,
But. as everyone knows,
It is all for the good of 1he churches.
-pittsburg Chroaiclc-Telegrabh.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

And you canjt ses the
money anywhere?"
Nowhere; I've tried every pEna IN
town, even old Peddiprd. Money Is
tighter now at the banks than OF any
time since the panic started They
won't let ont dollar except % old
customers. So If you can't do this,
Raj, my home is gone, that's ALL
Hem! Just state TINT IiNuposNDn
over agatn, Mac"
Its this: I'll tra1rsfer the title of
the farm to you; you assume the mort
gage and hold the place in your nIme !;
when the panic ds over and / get
Strengthened out, I'll take 1t bIck, pay
you for what you've paid out and for
your trouble besides If 1 em Dev-
er able to redeem it, the flyfn1l
be yours for good; uDderstandT'
"Yes; but Mac, you surely know that
this is not a good business pruIpsi
tion-"
"Yes, know that we'll enough It's
q proposition l would make tD IO man
living except Ralston Blair. The land
lars an acre If times were good; DOW IT
would not sell at all, and if the mort
gage is foreclosed I'll get little or
nothing for my money and work.
Olive and i are both sick and dis
couruged, but if you can DO this for
US, we'll have one chance left to get
on our feet again"
"Well, / don't kno-- what 10 say.
1 must have time to think. Ny bur
dens are heavy enough now, as you
know. At the same time / feel as
though 1 must help you. I'll tell you,
you drop in-say Thursday morning
and I'll see what l can do for YOU
Tho above is in substance the talk
that took place between the Reverend
Ralston Blair and Philip Mcclure one
morning in February, 1895. The men
had been intimate from boyhood.
They graduated from school together,
Blair at the head of the dass, Ne
Clure near the foot. Blair was bril-
liant and popular in school; Mcclure
was dull and reserved. Blair passed
through college and entered the min
Istry; Mcclure went from school to
the farm. Blair scored a success from
the start; married girl IS ambitious
as himself, and was at this time pas
tor of the most fashionable church in
Ailsbury. Mcclure married pretty
Olive Pinkney, bought an eiShty-acre
farm two miles out from Ailsbury and
prospered until hard tines poor crops,
low prices and sickness combined to
reduce him to the extremity we have
seen.
The feeling that existed between the
young men could not be called friend
ship; it was not reciprocal. On Nc
Clure's part it was genuine hero wor-
ship. He idolized Blair; he gloried in
his successes, and, above all else, had
absolute faith in him. Blair, on the
other hand, accepted McClure's wor.
ship and encouraged it, because it sat.
isfied the demand of a selfish nature
He was one of those mortals who
while incapable of deep feelings him
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15
JlNClES AND JESTS.

Willie Roadster-"Dere's one ting
like about tishin'-it's purity near de
same ting as doin nothn. Puck.
Bobbs-"Clothes do not make tie
man" Dobbs-"No, bat many law
yer has been made by good suit"
Little Cupid shot dart
That pierced my hard and stony heat;
Sad, indeed but, what is worse,
That same dart it pierced my purse!
HoaX-"The world is sure to hear
from that young man. Joax-"A
genius, eh?" Joax-"No; he plays the
trombone"
Blobbs-"I understand Skinnum is
prac.icing medicine. l suppose he's
doing we'll" Slobbs-"No; l believe
he's doing the sick"
AIerchant-"Do you speak German"
Needy Applicant-"I never have, but,
gracious, I'll tackle it If you give me
job."-Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs Muggins-"Does your husband
appeal to you as vocalist" Mrs.
Buggins-"No; it's quite the other
way. l appeal to him 10 stop
DolIy-'Did that famous author send
you his autograph, Polly:' Polly
NO: but he kept mine, the mean, I'M
pudent thingr'-Chicago Record,
Love makes the world 50 round,
| do not care;
It's cash, I've always found,
That makes Things square.
-Philadelphia Record.
"Knave~ said the autocrat, how
camest thou to be a fool:' Sire, re-
sponded the jester, Il began life
among the wise men. Philadelphia
North American.
Mr., Newkid-"Uncle Thomas has
lost his entire fortune in Wall street"
Mrs Newkid-"Oh, the unSrateful
wretch! Right after we had named
the baby for him."-PucE.
Il sold newspapers when . was a
boy" declared the statesman, proud
ly. "And now you are selling the
public" remarked an unsympatheue
auditor Philadelphia American.
Nell-"I believe that people should
always marry their opposites." Belle
II thought you seemed very much in
terested in the young man that lives
across the street from YOU"
Sillicus-"You say nothing is super
fiuous. OF what use is the vermi-
form appendix" Cynicus-"lt keeps
lots of doctors from starving to
ueath.''- Philadelphia Record.
For the round moon he proudly cried
\ year or two from ulrth;
Then in his naughty manhood's pride
He clamored fcr the ca h.
Chicago Record.
"D!d you see Dum.ey's latest pho
to-" "You mean the one in which he
looks rosseyedY Yes; how on earth
did it happenY' Well, the photosra-
pher was cross-eyed, you see, and just
as he made the exposure he turned to
Dumpley and said; Look this way,
please"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

1t is queer how many works are
published treating the novel hiseori-
cally. The books may be said 10 show
the general interest IN fiction, bun
here is the world running over with
novels, novels innumerable, of which
no man or woman, even If profes
sional reader, can read more than q
small part. Are novels 50 many thai
conscientious persons can only read
about them? 1t is a practice common
in many branches of knowledge, aDe
sure to commend itself to the COIN
Portable soul.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

Hypnotism has crown vastly IN
vogue in the last fifteen of twenty
years. The causes of its phenomena
and the forces which regulate and
control them are as little known rs
ever, but this does not bar its ac-
ceptance as a form of social amuse-
ment, nor it's exploration by thought
less youths and greedy charlatans,
whose only object is TO gain little
cheap notoriety, or wiring a living
from a credulous populace. 1t has
been forcibly demonstrated, however,
that men of sound judgment and ex-
perience are required to make success
full and safe operators, and it is Just
as logical for the law to license this
profession and impose rigid restric-
tons as others involving n tedious
course of study and preparation,
thinks the Atlanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

What may be termed a novelty
characteristic of the times was made
the feature of a club dinner of rail
road officials in New York City the
other day. OF this club, Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew is president, but
owing to the pressure of public du
ties in Washington he was unable to
be present and preside. There was a
time when such a circumstance would
have prevented the Senator from max
ing an address to the gathering
Times have changed, however, and
conditions have changed with them
. the aid of telephone receivers
laced at each seat the diners We're
enabled to listen 10 a speech addressed
to them by their absent president, who
was talking at distance of over 2225
miles The incident is striking one
as illustrative of the extent to which
the progress of invention has broken
down the barriers of space.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-15

Fashionable New York City has
abandoned to very great'extent new
fashioned door bells and substituted
old-fashioned knockers. The Older,
the more battered and unsfShtfy the
knoclser is, the higher price 1t COM
mands. Shrewd manufacturers are
pandering to this fad by getting UP
limitations of these antiquities. In ap
pearance they are mape antique than
the originals.