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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

First Methodist Episcopal Church:
The Methodist congregation will be
pleased to listen to one OF the visit
ing clergymen Of the Baptist conven-
ton at II O'Clock tomorrow morning.
The Rev. o. r. Taylor has been chos-
en- for this service. In the evening
the M~ethodists will attend the union
service at the Baptist church. Sunday
school and Epworth League at the
usual hours. Cordial invitation to
the public. A. C. Geyer. pastor.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

Christian Science Service: Corner
Seventh and Douglas streets. Subject
Tor Sunday. November goth, Ancient
and Modern Necromancy or Mesmer.
ism and Hypnotism," service begin.
ming at IL O'Clock; Wednesday even
ing service begins at 1880. 9ll are
welcome. Sunday school at GAS a.
m.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

The graduate nurses are requested
to meet at DR.. Blacks office, Monday,
4 p. m. 1884
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

The Chaffin & Duncan livery stable
is being re-shingled.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

st. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rev.
Charles j. French. Rector: Holy
communion, 8 a. m: Sunday school,
10 a. m; morning prayer at II, with
sermon. "The Christian Woman -
evening prayer and sermon at 4 p. m.
All are cordially welcome.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

First Presbyterian Church, Rev.
Norman Skinner, pastor: Regular
morning worship at II o'clock, SER
mon by the Rev. J. w. T. Mcneil;
no evening church service; Sunday
school at 9:45 a. M; Society of Chris.
tian Endeavor at $50 p. m. A very
hearty invitation to all people.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19

For Rent-Modern room with bath
inquire 1904 Eighth street.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19
HAPPY WOMEN.

Wouldn't any woman he happy.
After years of backache suffering,
Days OF misery, nights OF unrest,
The distress of urinary troubles,
To find relief and curcy
No reason why any reader
Should suffer in the face Of evidence
like this:
Mrs. Almira A, Jackson. Of East Front
ST., Traverse City, Mich. says: "For
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27

FIG 4
ZIG
INSIDE ARRANGEMENT

between the two stables, is for hay. The
feedway in front of the horses takes off
four feet, which leaves a space IL feet
wide by % feet long land the height
reaches to the roof, for hay. On the
east end of this middle space is a feed
bin 12x16x10, over the. top of which hay
is put; the hay'i is also extended, over the
horses and cows. Altogether, the barn
holds 20 tons of hay, eight horses, one
bull and six lows, six to ten calves and
about 1000 bushels of grain. 1t takes
16 posts 16 feet long. ten posts six feet
six inches long, ii 4x6x16 pieces, and
four 4x6X1b pieces, all for stills, which
I think are sufficiently heavy 20 support
the weight of the barn, as most of the
hay weight ONE on the ground. 1t
takes $4,000 shingles to cover this barn.
The amount of siding it takes | can't say,
as | used the siding of an old barn. The
total amount of new lumber bought is
$125. did the work myself, with a hired
hand. The above plan gives a fair idea
how the barn is arranged on the inside,
only l believe | would omit the feed
rack and substitute st~anchions and feed
way in front of the cows, as all grain
now has to be carried in from behind
the cows. / think you will readily I'M
derstand the plan.-Henry L. Selle, in
Prairie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
r WAS NOT APPRECIATED.
Minister'S Wife Had a Flower Hat
and Put It in the Wrong
Place.

A story is told by the Chicago Inter
Ocean of a woman in that town, the wife
of a young minister, who has always had
a liking for hats of the tiower-bed variety
although she condemned others for vast
ing money that should 60 to the heather.
At present she own a dream" of a
"sky piece" that is covered with ~violets.
The young wife wore this hat to a funeral
recently, at which her husband oticiated
Going INTO the room which contained the
coffin she removed the hat and placed it
on a stand.
The sad-faced, sleek haired undertaken
came in a few minutes later to arrange
the floral tokens on the coffin. After
putting the bouquets, wreaths, pillows,
broken wheels, anchors and the usual run
of flowers in place, he picked up the vio-
let-coyered hat and tenderly placed it on
top of all the rest.
Several of the "mourners" giggled, and
the minister's wife wanted to grab her hat
and run. She had to let it alone. however,
until the close of the
When she marched past the bier she
lunged for the hat and successfully made
her escape.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
WASH FOR FRUIT TREES.
It Is Quite a Simple Mixture, But
Very Satisfactory Results Have
Come from It's Use.

The loss of 400 cherry trees in one year
by disease or insects by a Minnesota
fruit grower reminds me ofhow | used to
treat other trees. In the summer OF 1885
I spent three months in Florida treating
similar diseases that troubled and killed
orange and lemon trees. ] put one peck
unslaked lime into a ~50-gallon barrel. I
then put in four pounds sulphur and
slaked with warm water. l then added
two ounces crude carbolic acid, stirred
rapidly till well mixed. then added
enough water to make the quantity 25
gallons. l kept it covered while being
mixed, being careful not to breathe the
fumes.
I applied while very hot with a long
handled broom to the trunks n large
limbs, and with a spray pump to the tops.
l have taken orange trees with a sickly
yellow leaf and with one thorough APP
plication caused them to put on a dark
green foliage and start a new growth in
less than foul days. The white coating
on the foliage. when applied to northern
trees, should be washed off in a few
hours if the weather is dry, and should
be washed off the trunks in few days.
BY so doing the fertilizing material will
then go to the ground and Will all be in
available form for food for the trees, a
food that the trees need at the time,
which fact the diseased condition plain
ly indicates.
Here, early in June, with such mate
rial, l have produced in apple trees a
vigorous, healthy growth. In a week no
sign of disease or insect could be seen.
In Tennessee l applied it n year about
July Is to a large pear tree that had
blighted. 1t stopped the blight and
caused the tree to make a new growth or
2R to 3 feet of we'll ripened wood. 1t
seems to MI that when a tree blights or
is injured by other diseases it is because
certain kinds of food are lacking in the
soil or else the tree cannot assimilate the
plant food within its reach. Where only
a fertilizer is needed l would not use
the carbolic acid. | think it necessary to
apply this wash to the trunks and larger
limbs as hot as can be borne by the fin
ger. The moist heat undoubtedly causes
the bark to receive and assimilate more
food than if applied cold, thus indicating
quite distinctly the benefit of the meth
cd here outlined.-O. F. Brand, in
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
PARTIALLY DRIED PASTURE.
Valuable Sheep Feeding Test Conduct
ed at the South Dakota Ex-
pertinent Station.

At the South Dakota station, in or
der to learn something of the posi-
bility of utilizing partially dried pas
turage, with and without grains, in
the fattening of lambs for the early
winter market, six lots of ten common
grade ewes, from one to six years old
and weighing about 120 pounds each,
were pastured from September 6 to
November 2, each lot having the run
of two acres of native prairie grass
which had not that season been pas
tured or cut for hay.
All the lots except one were fed on
grain, the sheep on corn and or oats
each making an average daily gain of
"A pound per head, those on bread
wheat OBJ pound, on spelt 0.29 pound,
and on barley 0.38 pound. The grain
eaten per pound of gain ranged from
SO pounds with the corn-fed lot to IL
pounds with the sheep on spelt, and
the cost of a pound of gain from three
cents on oats to So cents on brea1
wheat. With the sheep fed with no
grain there was a total loss of So
pounds. During the last two weeks of
the trial it was noted that the losses
were about twice as great as during
the preceding two weeks, and that the
gains made by the other lot were cor
respondingly lower during the same
period. This was accounted for in part
by the fact that the grass had been
considerably injured by irost.-Prof. j.
w. Wilson, in Midland Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
WHAT THE KING EATS.
What's Fit for Him.

A Massachusetts lady who has been
through the mill with the trials of the
usual housekeeper and mother relates an
interesting incident that occurred pot
long ago. She says:
81 can with all truthfulness say that
Grape-Nuts is the most beneficial OF all
cereal foods in my family, young as well
as old. 1t is food and medicine both to
rs. A few mornings ago at breakfast
my little boy said:
..Msmma, does the king eat Grape
Nuts very morning?
81 smiled and told him l did not know,
but that Thought Grape-Nuts certainly
made a delicious dish, fit for a king"
tits a fact that the king of England and
the German emperor both eat Grape
Nuts.)
81 find that by the constant use OF
Graue-Nuts not only as a morning cereal
hut also in puddings, salads, ETC., made
after the delicious recipes found in the
little book in each package it is proving
TO be a great nerve food for me, besides
having completely cured a long standing
case of Indigestion" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There is no doubt Grape-Nuts is the
most scientific food in the world.
Ten days trial of this proper food in
Mace of improper food will show in
steady. strong nerves, sharper brain
and the power to "go" longer %andfurther
and accomplish more. There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous little
book. eThe Road to MELVILLE"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
SHORTENS AND EXPANDS ROOT.

provided with new foodstuffs, both de-
licious and nutritious. Among other
things, it has been discovered that the
quality and size of certain plants and
vegetables are improved by several
transplantingS. In this work, however.
it is difficult to take up the roots at such
a depth as not to disturb and hinder the
growth of the leaves, owing to the great
length to which the roots enter the earth.
With the aid of the device shown in the
picture this operation can nov be per-
formed to much better advantage. The
idea is to insert a metallic open-mesn
fabric in the earth beneath the seeds,
the preferred manner of working being
to lay a strip of the screen in the bottom
OF a long trench, covering it several
inches deep with earth, and then plant
ing the seed in the ordinary manner
AS the tap or main root descends from
the seed it will strive to pass through
the fine mesh of the screen, but will be
choked, causing branch roots to spread
out laterally above the screen. A plant
whose tap root has just reached the
screen, and one WHICH has been choked
off and forced to send out branch roots
are shown in the drawing.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
u. S. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommends Pe-ru-na
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
Catarrh Of the Stomach is Generally
Called Dyspepsia Something
to Produce Artificial Diges-
ton is Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsin, PdncTeatin and a Host
Of other Digestive Remedies
Have Been Invented.
These Remedies Do Not Reach the
Seat Of the Difficulty, Which
is Really Catairh.

ok. q. S. Senator M. c. Butler from
L. South Carolina, was Senate from
that state for two terms. In a re-
cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co.,
from Washington, d. c., says:
1.Ican recommend Peruna for dys-
pepsia and stomach trouble. ] have
been using your medicine for q short
period and I feel very much relieved.
1t is Indeed q wonderful medicine be-
sides a good tonic. "---M. c. Butler.
The only rational way to cure dyspep-
STA is to remove the catarrh. Peruna
cures catarrh. Perunadoes not produce
artificial digestion. 1t cures catarrh and
leaves the stomach to perform digestion
in a natural way. This is vastly better
and safer than resorting to artificial
methods or narcotics.
Peruna has cured more cases of dys-
pepsia than all other remedies COM
bined, simply because it cures catarrh
wherever located. If catarrh islocated
in the head, Peruna cures it. If catarrh
has fastened itself in the throat or
bronchial tubes, Peruna %curesit. When
catarrh becomes settled in the stomach,
Peruna cures it, as we'll in this location
as in any other.
Peruna is not simply a remedy for
dyspepsia. Peruna is catarrh remedy.
Peruna cures dyspepsia because it Is
generally dependent upon catarrh.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
DRAWING BY REFLECTION.
Something That May Seem Easy, But
Is in Fact Very Diff
hcult.

"Now here" said the lively bearder,
ais something that you may all have
seen before. but that was new to me-, and
l am sure it will interest you if you
haven't seen it.
You take a small, square mirror.
like this one that l find standing here
on the mantel, and rest it on the table, or
get somebody to hold it there for you,
standing upright and with face toward
you.
Then you put down on the table, in
front of the mirror, a piece of white pa
per, and you provide yourself with a lead
pencil with which to draw on the paper.
you are to draw with. or have some
body cover it over, with a paper that will
conceal the hand and the pencil from di-
rect view. though you can see the reflec-
tion of the pencil in the mirror before
which you are holding it.
Then, by the aid of the reflection in
the mirror of the lines you draw, you
try to draw on the paper a square with
diagonal intersecting lines across it.
You will find that with the hand
holding therpencil covered over. and only
the reflection of the pencil in the mirror
to guide you, you can draw the square
pretty accurately without any great diff
ficulty. You are likely to get it all right
at the first or at least at the second trial,
but the drawing of the diagonal lines
you will find to be a very different prop
osition.
"You can see the pencil in the mirror.
and see just what you are doing with it.
but ven with that help it is by no means
as easy to draw those two diagonal lines
as you might imagine. Oh, some people
can do it pretty well, after one or two
trials, but more cannot; and some peo-
pie that can draw the square all right
make, when they come to try to put in
the diagonals, lines going every which
way, as Zigzag and crooked as the err
ratio markings of a planchette pencil
when you press your hand upon the
board.
TT seems as though it must be very
easy, but it is really very hard. Now,
you folks try it."
And they did try it. and they found
more fun in it, they said, than in my
thing they had tried in a long time.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
CHEAP DAIRY FARM BARN.
It Affords Shelter for Horses as Well
as for a Goodly Number Of
Other Animals.

I submit to you my plan Of a reason
ably cheap barn, although 1t is not ex-
clusively a cow barn. There Is room
for ten head of horses and n bull.
would rather keep the bull on this side
of the barn than with the cows, as he is
not as restless. The south side is exclu-
sively for the cows and calves. have
room for six cows and six calves, but
the room is large enough for ten calves.
The COW stalls could also be made small
err to accommodate one more COW They
are now four feet eight inches wide,
which is too wide, as the cows can turn
around In them. l think four feet amply
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
MYSTERY OF BAD LANDS.
Wierd Music Heard in Arizona Caves
Is Unexplained by
Science.

zone of the most interesting pheno-
mena," said C. l.. Hughes, of Tucson,
to a Washington Star writer, lis to be
observed in the bad lands of Arizona.
Out in the midst of an alkali plain there
is a desolate formation of rock covering
only about an acre in extent, and from
these rocks, or rather from beneath
them, there issue sounds of music as
though an orchestra we're playing, and
the strains are echoed from every d.
rection. The place has never been exca-
waited or fully explored, and the theory
of scientists is that there is a peculiar
formation of stalactites in a ave there
with an opening somewhere through
which the wind plays upon these stalac-
titles, producing the music.
The Indians claim, however, that a
cathedral was at n time built upon
this place and that there was a bad
priest placed in charge of the cathedral
who abducted Indian women and chill
dren. One night the ground opened dur
ing a violent storm and the earth closed
in over the top of this cathedral. The
Indians believe that the music which
comes from the ground proceeds from
the ghosts of those who were inferred
at the time of the earthquake"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
THE OLD DACUERREOTYPE.
It's Introduction Into America Gave
Impetus to a New
Business.

AS soon as Daguerre's process be-
came well enough known in America
for practice, scientific men and, in
fact, "all sorts and conditions of men,"
attempted to produce the wonderful
pictures. Many homemade and very
primitive kinds of apparatus were en-
ployed in the experiments, including
the cigar box with a spectacle lens. If
the operator succeeded in producing
an impression that could be seen, it
was carried about and shown as a
great success, says Abraham Bogar-
dus, in THE Lost Art of the Daguer-
reotype," in Century.
There were several claimants for
making the first portrait by the
process. A Mr.. Wolcott made the
claim, and Mr.. Joseph Dixon, by let
tiers and other evidence. claimed that
the first picture was his, for which, it
was said, Mrs. Dixon sat with pow
dered face In full sunshine Is min
utes.
In March, 1910, Messrs. Walcott and
Johnson opened a gallery in New
IOlh, anu, ANNOUNCING IHCll IcdQluSSo
to execute portraits from life, solicited
patronage. This was the first
daguerreotype gallery in the world.
Other places were soon opened. The
daguerreotype, although considered de-
sirable as a curiosity, was not popular,
on account of the length of time re-
quired for a sitting, which varied &C
cording to the time of day and the
strength of the light. 1t was seldom
attempted on a cloudy day. The sit
ter must have full command of his ex-
preston and remain perfectly still for
from n to three minutes to be sue
cessful in getting a likeness distinct
enough to be recognized.
The daguerreotype was made on a
pure metallic silver surface. After be-
ing perfectly cleaned, and made sensi-
tive with a rough buff, 1t was coated
in a darkened room with the vapor of
iodine, then placed in the camera, and
exposed before the sitter through the
lens. 1t was still kept from the light,
and placed over the fumes of hot mer-
curry, where the image developed.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
Good News from Texas.

New Braunfels, Texas, May 23rd.-A
remedy has been found which cures every
form of Kidney Trouble from Bright's Dis
ease down, including Rheumatism or
Heart Trouble. Mr.. c. {. %Schumann, R.
+. d. No. 4 from Braunfels has used it in
his family and a Y of the result:
My wife had a heap of trouble with
Kidney and Heart Disease. She was very
bad and nothing seemed to help her, till
we tried Dodd's Kidney Pills, and the
first box of this medicine did her more
good than all the other pills and medicine
she had used. We are very thankful to
Dodd's Kidney Pills for what they have
done for her"
Many other cases are being reported,
in which this remedy has done wonderful
work in the relief and cure of Rheuma.
tism, Diabetes and kidney troubles of all
kinds.
This will be good news to many who
are suffering as Mrs. S%chumann was before
Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
How to Plant a Garden.

Straight rows evenly spaced not
only add to the appearance OF the gar
den, field or orchard, but save much
labor in the cultivation OF the plants
Everyone should have at least a gar
den line and a wheel hoe. Stretch the
line taut and mark out the rows with
the end of a hoe handle, then drop
and cover the seeds. In gardens
a drill will be found very use1ui ana
time saving. With it n car plant
about as fast as he can walk. The
rows are spaced evenly, the seeds puf
in at a uniform depth and the earth
pressed Over them so they sprou!
quickly. The picture shows how nice
ly the drill works. It's fun to plant
and care for a garden with modern
hand tools.-Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27

wide enough for any cow. l have a rack
extending the entire length of the rack.
so as to catch all hay the lows pull
through the rack. also feed their grain
in this trough. The cows are locked in
their respective stalls by means OF a
2x6 bolted to end post of the stall, and as
long as the stall is wide, which is swung
up when the cows are taken out of the
stall. l have a gangway four feet wide
behind the COW stall through which the
calves pass in going to their stalls. as
they come in at the same door that the
cows do. The middle of the barn, or
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
Free From "Help.v

Aunt Jemima," as everybody called
her, was the oldest person in the
neighborhood. She was known to be
over one hundred years old. and IN.
sisted that she was nearly one hun
dred and twenty; but in spite of ,.er
advanced age she was still vigorous
and in the enjoyment of perfect
health.
Moved by that feeling of curiosity
which people have about anything
that is abnormal or unusual, several
nne ladies from the city went one
day to the little village where she
lived, and called on her.
Tell us, aunty," said one of them.
what is the secret of your great age
and your wonderful Vitality"
Deed, honey" responded Aunt
Jemima, with a sly twinkle in her
eye, Il 'spect hits bekase | haia't
nevah had no trouble wild hiah'd
guls."-Youth's Companion.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
Some Signs That Never Fail.

/ believe i'm some certain signs, but
not in noon signs. When l see certain
kinds of clouds gathering in a certain
portion of the sky / know it will rain
if there lis hay down." | believe that
it is time to plant corn when the oak
leaves are as large as a squirrels ears.
l believe that the garden ought to be
pushed along when the cherries are in
full bloom. When a boy starts out of
school to go to a circus or a fishing
it is close to "threshing time" This
sign never failed when l was a boy.
Cor. Iowa Homestead.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
Had Ais WIah.

The districts of Clayton, Of Ala
bama, and Griggs, of Georgia, adjoin,
says the Washington correspondent of
the Boston Advertiser. The two rep
resentatives are great friends, but
there is considerable jealousy between
their constituents.
One day last fall a Georgia mar
wandered over to a small village in
Alabama. He sat around in front of
the generl store and Dragged about
Georgia. He said everything in his
State was better than anything Ala
bama could produce.
by gravy" he finally announced,
I'D a mighty sight ruther be the
meanest man in Georgia than the best
man in all Alabama"
HUH said the Alabama manu-
guess you've got your rutner.'
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
. TRANSMITTING DEVICE.
Details of a Recent Invention Which
May Prove of Considerable
Value to Gardeners.

While some fault has been found re-
Gently with the manner in which the gov
eminent has been distributing seeds and
bulbs through its senators and repre-
sentatives, upon the ground that the
actual benefit derived from this work
departments of the bureau of agriculture
are doing good work in the actual cul-
tivation of plant growths and expert
ments with new discoveries. Through
this medium the farmers and gardeners
have been made acquainted with many
valuable additions to their source of in
come, and the general public has been
The Tupelo journal., 1904-05-27
Plant Seeds in Moist Soil.

Never plant seeds in dry soil, or in
soil that is less moist than the seeds,
as the dryer soil will extract the moist
ure from the seeds, and the germ Will
die. The failure of crop seeding in
sandy soils last spring was due to this.
Farmers put in the seed in a time Of
drought to have it there all ready
when the rain should come" Coming
late, it found the seed as if dried in an
oven and with the germs all dead.
Especially was this the case where the
seed had been soaked to hasten germi-
nation.-Midland Farmer.