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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-10

S~zU,Uuo.UUO cdpllal. Inc
length is 1000 miles. The proposed
line is to be constructed from Enid,
Ok, to New Orleans, Galveston and
Winnipeg, Manitoba. The incorpora.
tors are: ]. A. Koontz of Hutchinson,
Kans.. D. D. Thomas and F. C. Spald-
ing of Kansas City, Mo, j. H. Leger-
wood, A. H. Mcmahon and w. O.
Jones, local capitalists.
The Pennsylvania railroad has un-
der course Of construction here the
first of the new allsteel passenger
coaches to be used In its tunnel sys-
tenn in New York. 1t is so feet long,
has not a particle of wood about 1t,
is vestibuled, furnished with Westing-
house brakes, electric light. steam
heat and has no step. it being intend
ell for use on depressed tracks. The
/ seats are rattan and are the only
things about the car that will burn.
C. A. Morse, chief engineer for the
Santa Fee. has returned to Topeka
from Havana, Kan, where he has
been looking over the work that is
being done on the Caney cutoff.
| This is the line which early this
spring MI. Nudge announced would
be built. The grading of the line has
already been completed and the track.
laying will be commenced shortly.
| This line runs from Havana to Caney
and will dispense with the Santa Fe's
| use OF the Missouri Pacific tracks be-
| tween Niotaze and Caney to connect
with their Bartlesville branch.
The estate Of the late p. M. Arthur
is probably worth from 100000 to
$3.50, 900. His wealth was in Cleve-
land real estate and q limited amount
Of gilt-edged securities. Although q
liberal man in his expenditures he
never s~peculated and his wealth repre-
scented . steady increase from year
Ito year. He gave much money to his
sons during his life. His Euclid ave-
nue. residence cost him $4,000 and Its
title is clear. His estate was almost
entirely accumulated from his salary
wisely invested. Mrs. Caroline Ar
thur is made sole legatee In her late
husbands will. 4
Meaning Of Bond lssue.-The enor
NOUS bond issues announced BY the
Rock Island and Frisco companies DC
not, according to . prominent railroea
inancier and director, necessarily In
dictate IN intention on the part Of thu
Rock Island to obtain possession %
any important connecting system
This authority says there is no truth
IN the report that . merger Of tn
Rock Island and the Erie is contem
plated.
The reimbursement Of the com
pany's treasury for expenditures made
for improvements and extensions vii
absorb q much larger part Of the new
bond issue that has generally beef
supposed. The mileage Of the nev
road constructed and paid for out o
the treasury now reaches q total o
800 miles, on which the company ha'
expended about SIC ,000. 900.
Additional construction is still TN
der way, notably between st. Loni
and Kansas City. The roads half IN
terest in the new passenger station Il
! Chicago, 81, 800, 900, was paid out Q
the treasury, as the cost OF the neS
shops at Moline, which will amount t
81, 100000 is now being met.
That New York nan who lives Wit
a bullet In his brain should be abb
to do some heavy thinking.
A lawyer may be good-natured evel
fu c~ocr wovnfuotfou
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-10
Curtains af
= Special Value

4Oc a pair for a new style Nottingham
Curtains. s-r-u
Zoe a pair for 54-in., 3 yards long Not
tingbam Curtains.
800 a pair for . yards long Noting
ham Curtains.
$500 a pair for coin Nottingham
Curtains. u -
$1.25 a pair for Dotted. Swiss Cur
tains.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-10

That New York man who lives with
a bullet in his brain should be able
to do some heavy thinking.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-10

The man who tells his troubles to
his friends soon has no friends left
to tell them to.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-10

Some of these western tornadoes
are almost as deadly as automobile
races.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
A Sweet Voice.

There is no power of love so hard
to get and keep as a kind voice. A
kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may
be rough in flesh and blood, yet do
the work of a soft heart, and do it
with a touch. But there is one
thing that love so much needs as a
sweet voice to tell what it means and
feels, and it is hard to get it and keep
it in the right tone. One must start
in youth and be on the watch night
and day, at work, at play, to get and
keep a voice that shall speak at all
times the thought of a kind heart.
But this is the time when a sharp
voice is most apt to be cultivated.
You often hear girls say words at
play with a quick, sharp tone, as if
it were the snap of a whip. When
of them gets vexed you will hear
a voice that sounds as if it were made
up of a snarl, a whine and a bark.
Such a voice often speaks worse than
the heart feels. It shows more i'll
will in tone than in the words. It
is often in mirth that one gets a
voice or a tone that is sharp, and
sticks to him through life and stirs
up i'll will and grief. and falls like
a drop of gall on the sweet joys at
home. Such as these get a sharp
home voice for use, and keep their
best voice for those they meet else
where. "Use your guest voice at
home" Watch it by day as a pearl
of great price, for it will be worth to
you in the days to come more than
the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind
voice is a lark's song to a hearth and
and home. It is to the heart what
lights is to the eye.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
The School in Which Mother Has
"Passed."

"Mother didn't have any advant-
ages when she was a girl" apologized
s daughter who takes music lessons
and talks very stumbling French.
This girl seems to forget that
while her mother had few early adj
vantages, she had many later ones.
She really thinks, this poor, mis-
guided girl, that her little knowl-
edge of books, and smattering of his
tory and languages and mathematics,
far outweighs the training her moth
er has had all these years, as she has
studied life in all it's forms, master
ing with the wisdom that is the fruit
of experience things hidden save
from those who walk with God. This
girls father could tell of the year
when he was i'll and there was no
money to pay the interest on the
mortgage when it was due, and how
the mother worked, and smiled as
she worked, and kept brave of heart,
so that he would not lose courage.
A diploma from the best college in
the land does not stand for as much
as the training of that one year.
But there are many girls who think
they know more than mother, be-
cause their grammar is a tri1e more
correct and they have some knowl-
edge of a few subjects mother is not
familiar with. If our girls could
once see a list of the studies in
which mother has passed" they
might be wiser.-Young Peoples
Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
Didn't Dare to Risk It.

Among other things found in an
old scrap book which has recently
come to light is an amusing anecdote
of Wendell Phillips, taken from a
copy of the Richmond Dispatch at
the close of the Civil War
The distinguished Abolitionist went
to Charleston, South Carolina once
before he was very well known, and
put up at a hotel. He had breakfast
served in his ROOM, and was waited
upon by a slave.
Mr.. Phillips seized the opportunity
to represent to the negro in a pathet-
ic way that he regarded him as a
man and brother, and more than
that, that he himself was an Abo-
litionist.
The negro, however, seemed more
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
The Requirement of Correct Speech.

Correct speech is largely a matter
of imitation. If the persons with
whom a child constantly associates
speak indignantly the child will GER
tainly do likewise. No amount of
instruction in grammar, the theory
of language, will avail to counterfeit
the debasing effect of practical tut
ton in the wrong direction. There
is no such word in the English Ian
guage as "ain't." We MAY say "Tm
not" because we merely eliminate
the a in am, but Saint" has no legit-
innate progenitor. The home is the
true school of speech, and the moth
er the teacher whose influence will
be the most distinguishes Home
Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
Smart Child.
ware

Congressman Brownlow, of Ten.
nessee, has a smart granddaughter,
whose clever sayings are the delight
of her parents. The other day she
came to her grandfather with her
face all smiles.
"Grandpa," she said, Il saw some
thing this morning running across
the kitchen floor without any legs.
What do you think it was"
Mr.. Brownlow studied for a while,
but finally gave up. "What wa itp
he asked.
"Water," said the youngster,
triumphantly.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
For Happiness in Marriage.

So far from accepting the theory
that marriage is justly to be regarded
as a business transaction, / should
claim it to be one of the best means
of securing happiness in married life
that young people should not only
love each other warmly but should
begin poor, if possible, and thus
have the discipline of mutual sacri-
fees, and the pleasure of making
their way upward in prosperity by
gradual steps. 1t is one of the merits
of human nature, or at least of Am
erican nature, that a young girl may
be brought up to every luxury, and
may still, after marrying the man she
loves, take a positive delight in sacri-
fcing, for his sake, all her previous
ways of living; and she will do the
honors of the ~log-cabin as if it were
an ancestral hall. I knew a young
girl connected with a fashionable
New York family, a person of whom
her own aunt said to me that, of all
the girls she had ever known, this
one was least fitted to be a poor
mans wife. She became the wife of
a young naval officer who was not
even a lieutenant, but only an en-
sign; and she went and lived with
him at a naval station, and managed
SO well as to save money on his first
years scanty pay. Such a begin
ming of married life seems to me
very desirable. [ am conscious of
no ~stoical aversion to wealth, but I
think it is a bad thing for young peo-
pie to begin with; hat they are bet
ter off without it, and that it always
gives them a sense of security to look
back in later life on their day of
small means.-Thomas Wentworth
HigginsOn, on Success in Mar
rage" in October Success"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

anxious about breakfast than he va,
about his position in the social scala
or the condition of his soul, and final.
ly Mr.. Phillips became discouraged
and told him to go away, saying that
he could not bear to be waited on by
a slave.
"You must 'scuse me, massa," said
the negro; II is 'bliged to stay here
cause Pm 'sponsible for de silver.
ware"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
The Serenade.*

l arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low
And the stars are shining bright
/ arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has lead me-whO knows howE
To thy chamber window, sweet!
The wandering airs, they faint
On the dark, the silent stream
The champak Odor5 fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale's complaint,
1t dies upon her heart,
As I must die ON thine,
o, beloved as thou art!
o, lift me from the grass!
I die, l faint, I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
Ny cheek is cold and white, alas,
My heart beats loud and fast:
o, press it close to thine again,
Where it will break at last!
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

Shakespeare on Love-

For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did
run smooth;
But either it was different in blood;
o cross! too high to be enthralPd so
lowl
Or else m~isgraffed, in respect of
years;
o spite! too old to be engaged to
young!
Or else it stood upon the choice of
friends;
o hell! to choose love by another's
eye!
Or if there were a sympathy in
choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege
to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any
From midsummer Knights
Dream"
Let me not to the marriage of rue
minds
Admit impediments. Love is not
not love,
Which alters when it alteration
finds,
Or bends with the emover to re-
love.
o no, it is an ever fixed mark,
That looks ON tempests, and is
never shaken;
1t is the star to every wandering
bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although
his height be taken.
Loves not Times fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks,
Within his bending sickle's COM
pass come;
Love falters not with his brief hours
and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge
of doom.
From Shakespeare's Poems"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

Mrs. Mulligan: "Do yez feel bet
ter this morning, Mrs. O'Toole 2"
Mrs. O'Toole: II do, and then again
I don't" Mrs. MuIligan: "Thot's
bad, fur it's harrud to know whether
ter say Dim sorry or glad."-Har-
per's Bazaar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

mos. 81 and % of our series of the Worlds
Best Poems, selected especially for The Pro
gressive Farmer by the Editor. In this series
selections from the fOllOwin authors nave
already appeared: Burns, Bryant, Mr.. and
Mrs. Browning, Byron, Goldsmith, Holmes
Kipling, Lanter, Longfellow, Lowell, Mark
ham, MacaulSy, Milton, Moore, Poe, Pope,
Read, Riley, Ryan, Scott, and others.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
A Youthful Judge of Human Nature.

A Youthful Judge Of Human Nature.
Father Cleft in charge)-"No, you
cannot have any nor cake" Every
seriously "Do you know what I
shall have to do if you go on making
that dreadful noise 2"
Little Girl (sobbing)-"Yes."
Father-"Well, what is that"
Little Girl-"Give me some more
cake"
And she was quite right.-Tid-
Bits.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

Through the employment of a PR
vate carrier by the white residents
of Indianola, Miss, the negroes re-
ceive no mail.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24
Approaching Our Blessings.

Willie, a fve-year-old youngster,
was in the habit of complaining Of
his dinner, and one day his father
said: "Willie, you should not find
fault with what is set before you.
When I was your age I was thankful
to get enough dry bread to eat"
Willie finished his dinner in silence,
but as he climbed down from his
chair he said: "Pa, amt you awful
glad you come to board with usY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

At one of Bishop Potter's vista
tions e a number of young dea'
cons, and me rather vacuous person
age remarked to the bishop: "In the
Benedicite occurs the verse, % all
ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the
Lord but there is no mention Of US
deacons." ooh, yes, there is" rejol1lI,
ed the bishop. "Here it $50 all
ye green things upon earth, bless ye
the Lord
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-24

The following is told of a druggist
who is "great" on patent medicines.
He manufactured one kind, called
doctor Pratt's Two-Grain Antibi-
lious Pills"
One day a small boy walked into
the shop, and said, "Please, sir, give
me a box of Doctor Pratt's pills"
The druggist looked at him a min
ute, and then inquired "Antibl-
ious 2"
"No," replied the youngster; Gun
cle's sick."-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
HILLSGROvE.

Mr.. Neering, boss tanner, is ser
iously i'll at this date there being
little hopes of his recovery.
Quite contest was waged here
last week between the teamsters
hauling bark to the .tannery, and
was declared draw, as Lyle Grange
and Ed. Mulnix each hauled eleven
thousand pounds at load.
Mrs. Edward Buckingham of Cam
NAL, Pa. is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Harrison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steven Harrison
spent Sunday with their daughter,
Mrs. Dewar at Proctor.
Lee Fagel came nearly being
drowned last week while on the ice
with other boys he slipped through
an air hole but was saved from going
under by Russell Biddle.
Did you hear about Wallace set
ting the alarm and not winding the
clock?
Two sled loads of merry young
people left town Saturday night; one
for Forksvslle where they were en-
tertained by DIR. Woodhead and
wife, the other load went to Hopes
town and enjoyeda a social dance at
| Ward Birdsalls.
Mrs. H. J. Sheely sold all her
household goods at public sale last
Saturday, and will make her future
home with her daughter, Mrs. Jas.
Tompkins, at Limestone, N. Y.
A. ]. Brong of Williamsport will
move back to Hillsgrove in few
days. We shall be glad to have
Adam with us again.
Mrs. Horace Green, her daughter
Nina, and son, Sidney, left last week
for Scranton where they will visit
Mrs. Green's daughter, Mrs. Elwood
LaBarr.
Mrs. G. H. Green (nee Elsie Bryan
Of Laporte, is visiting her mother at
this place.
H. III. Green was down from
Skunk Saturday and Sunday. What
is the attraction Harry?
Ray Barret, an attendant in the
Insane Asylum at Danville, visited
his parents here few days last week.
Doctor Gamble transacted business
in Williamsport last week.
Miss Edna Ludy has gone to Bing-
hamton to visit her sister, Mrs. Ur-
ban Moulthrop.
i Mrs. Ed. Mcbride who has been
seriously i'll with pneumonia, is bet
ter at this writing.
J. HI. Holman is confined to his
bed with an attack of gripp.
Mrs. Anna Saddler left on Friday
last for Canton where she will spend
the winter with her sister, Mrs. Dav
idson.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
Government Ownership Of Rail-

lway for rapid transit, and that it has
planned SO well in dong it that it
Is believed that In thirty years the
city will get back all its investments
and interest and own the Subway
free of cost to it. 1t has figured SO
wisely that already the railroad men
seem to be planning for the use of
the same tracks to enable the New
York Central r. r. and the Penna.
Il. 4. to reach all parts of the city
that way. The system has been so
well conceived that already con-
tracts have been let to extend it to
Brooklyn. 1t speaks pretty well for
municipal ownership in that case at
least. Its results will be more far
reaching than we can possibly con-
ceive now.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
SHUNk.l

A. E. Trip and daughter Ella Of
Laporte, were visitors at w. E. Por-
ter's on Saturday..
About thirty Of the little friends
of Miss Helen Williams were treat
ed to a sleigh ride and dinner party
on Saturday the II. She received
many little tokens of remembrance,
and after spending the afternoon in
dancing and playing games the mer-
ry crowd departed, wishing that the
young lady's birthday came about
three times year.
M g. A. D. Dickerson is on the
sick list.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Packard were
called to South Mountain on Friday
night by the serious illness Of Mr.
Packard's sister, Mrs. Michael Dwyr
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Tanning gave
a dancing party toa large number
of the younger set Friday night II
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
John Botsford Dead.

Mr.. John Botsford Of Nordmont,
whose illness was recorded ip last
weeks issue, died at his late home
last Wednesday evening Of pneumo-
MIA in his 10Th year. The deceased
was one of the early farmers of Dav-
idson township. He was industrious
and was respected by friends and
neighbCrs. He was communicant
for more than forty years of the M.
E. church. A widow, five sons,
Milford, Arthur, Judson, Jesse and
Elmer, and one daughter, Mrs. Stan.
ley, survive him. The funeral SER
vices were held at the Cherry Grove
M. f. Church, Rev. s. B. Bidlack
officiating, on Saturday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
ESTELLA.

Very cold weather, but just the
right kind for the lumbermen who
are improving the time to its ut
most extent.
Mrs. G. Vargason has been quite
sick with pneumonia the past week
but at present writing is slightly i'm
proving. DR.. Davies is attending
her.
Rev. Bryan held very interest
ing series of meetings, but owing to
very severe cold and sore throat
could preach only twice last week.
Rev Bowen of Millview and Rev.
A. Smith of Forksville, will hold
services at the church this week.
J. M. Osler and wife went to Bry-
an Mills on Saturday to visit the
formers brother, Mr.. David Osler of
that place.
The Ladies' Sewing Circle will
have a meeting at Mrs. U.iG. Little's
the last Thursday in the month. All
are invited to be present as there is
business of Importance to transact.
w. II. More took a load of hard
wood lumber to Dushore on Tuesday.
Sidney Osler and brother John of
Bernice, came over on Sunday to
visit friends at the Falls.
The upper grade of the Estella
school has purchased an organ, they
also have a fine library which shows
the push and energy of the pupils
and instructors, past and present of
the school. They expect to have a
literary in the near future.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
COMMUNICATION.
EDITOR. NT-.vs ITEM:

! SS & vatehing the articles
- -,-"g Tie railroads and one of nv
neighbors takes the Review and we
lend each other our papers so 1 see
the things the Review man writest
l amt sure that I get it quite straigh,
but 1t seems to me that the Review
man wrote that the reason why the
government should not take the
railroads was because it couldn't
make them pay and he proved it by
the postofice not paying. Now it
really seems to me that the diff
ferent people that have been writing
for you have pretty well proved that
the postofice does pay in every way
and that everything else that the
government does seems to pay too.
Now Mr.. Newell. has give us only
one other reason why it should not
be and that is because he don't want
1T. Now we want to discuss this
thing in our debating society and we
want Mr.. Newell to give us some
other reason for the government not
taking the railroads beside the post
office don't pay and he don't want it
to.
We are all very much interested
and we expect now to get all the
reasons there is.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22

Preparations are being made for
an entertainment in the Hall, the
date has not yet been fixed.
A pleasant surprise party was CIV
en- for N. Let's at his home on We'd
nesday evening".
Miss Bertha Brown of Piatt, spent
Sunday with her sister Mrs. Jesse
Kilmer..
Courtship mid difficulty was plain
ly demonstrated the other evening
when young man of this town ac-
companied his best girl home in a
terrific rain storm, which of course
was entirely proper and very kind
of him, but here is where the fun
comes in. Having no umbrella he
borrowed one of the stage driver
and it was by no means small one
as it was intended when used on the
road to cover wagon and contents.
Thus equipped the couple set forth
on their journey which was pleasant
save the inconvenience of carrying
the large umbrella. But imagine
the poor fellows surprise when ar
irving at the gate gentleman step
ped from the rear of the huge um-
brella and kindly thanked him for
the shelter. The young man de-
,lares he will not patronize the large
again.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-22
At the Linen Counter,

Here are goods and prices that will
surely interest the "head Of the house."
Real Irish Damasks, the perfection of
fneness and finish, new spring patterns.
II you are ready for few new cloths or
dozen ofiNapkins, never better time
than now to purchase them.