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L YES EVER TURNED
L. TOWARD HOME

MANILA Jan ij.-We are not yet the
colonizers that our English cousins are.
They seem 10 settle down anywhere. and
sticl; in placid happiness
Here in Manila are many of them married
TO mesjizas In China they have mated
with Chinese. In Japan they have sue
CEmbed to the dainty Indies Of that land
of MERRY blossoms.
They do not run away afterward. as some
Of our susceptible army officers have done
They settle down and stay. and bring up
broods of little foreign citizens. half John
Bull and half otherwise. and when they
die they are buried where they lived
Our people are different They want
Gods country They miss the ele-
waited and the red and white COWS. and the
news extrie5 and the snow. and the other
things that 20 to make up the composite
photograph that pictures home to a citizen
Of the United States.
II they settle here they explain that it
is only temporary. They came to mako
their pile, and 90 back-to live.
Christmas accumulated this feeling From
the highest TO the lowest each exile insisted
on sticking close to the traditions OF home.
The stockings and the turkey and the Gran
berries and the trees were vigorously
necessary.
Yet nothing quite compensated on
Christmas eve az a brilliant table, flashing
with colors and gay with holly. the eyes OF
two civilian officials met. peering through
the fragrant mint that crowned their juleps.
Pretty fine, by Jove,- said one enthu-
siastically.
Yes muttered the other bat it isn't
New York -
That is the spirit II must be New York.
or Oshkosh, or Philadelphia, or Dead Dog.
or anywhere in Gods country" But il
must be there.
One OF the things most wondered at NV
some foreigner is the fact that our soldier.
who die here are sent back for burial They
say that We and the Chinese are unique
in this, and they marvel at our mourning
the unnecessary expense
But u i not unnecessary. II j. a good
and beautiful thing, not only for the mothers
and wives a. home who find some comfort
IN the flowers they place upon he grave,
bu' FOR the men who die - well
woman who spent muri OF her tine
among he sick soldiers during the insiIrrec-
ton told me that often men who were
very vi whispered 10 her happily that aIy-
how they would be buried al home Their.
seems considerable use in Il when YOU think
OF that.
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STGN.tTI RES.
4 Plea for Plainness Even II Made With n
Rubber stamp

Among a lot OF letters / received in
answer to an advertisement. -aid bust
ness man. there was one that inclined me
toward it, writer. except that | couldn't
read the signature Every word in the
body Of the letter was clear but the sig
nature was illegible. | don't know how
many people there ara who write plainly
enough until they come 70 write their own
name, and then write that blin,lly suppose
il j. more from force of habit than any
thing else. for they may be otherwise the
most careful people in the world.
Every man should write his signature
with perfect distinctness, 80 that it can he
read easly and without mistake by those
unfamiliar with il. and also as mark Of
his own care and exactnees
One letter that | received. il. body
written. had its signature put on with a
hand stamp | didn't know Just what 70
think Of this. but il had at least the merit II
peri nCt plainnss7.
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painful slowness; but everything passes,
from the first conscious step you took TO
the very last detail Of your life. You shall
SEQ all that during life you were wont TO
conceal even from yourself all the lies and
all the meanness Of your life come up be-
fore you; all your thoughts you shall think
anew
You shall realize the falseuess Of every
false step, Your entire lire-all, up TO a
second -passes before your vision. And. 20
intensity your agony, you know that upon
the Same narrow and mistaken path that
you have trodden others walk walk and
shove one another and hurry and lie And
you understand-you see everything clearly
that all this they clio only TO discover some
day how disgraoeful it is to live such base.
sollless lives
Yet, seeing them Fastening 10 their ruin
you cannot in any way warn them Not
sound, not a move can you make. and the
desire to help them uselessy rends your
heart
Your whole life passes before you. and
again returns: and once more you see u
from the beginning and there Is
no end to the work of your conscience, nor
ever shall he And there never
shall come an end to your dreadful woes
never
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IUDAS'S THIRTY
y PIECES OF SILVER

Ira dition aud legend supply long his
tory Of the thirty pieces OF silver paid to
Judas for the betrayal 81 Christ. OF one Of
which Mark Fisher Of this city thinks he
was robbed recently. series Of tradi-
tion@ would carry il back TO the time OF
Terah, father of Abraham; for his hands.
we are told. fashioned and made tine thirty
pieces Of silver which were kept intact
from that time until they were used as the
purchase money for the potters field, or
field OF blood.
Terah having made them, Abraham took
them with him when he left Chaldea. and
used them as part OF the purchase money
for the cave of Machpelah. They appear
next in the hands of the Ishmaelites who
paid them to Josephs brethren when they
sold him into bondage.
As the Biblical version Of the story says
that only twenty pieces Of silver was the
price paid for Joseph. We must conclude.
in order to keep the thirty pieces intact.
either that the other ten were paid with
them for Some other purchase. or accept
the statement made by writer in the
fourteenth century that FOR thrift pens
they sold that chide.'
However this may be, tradition says
that these same pieces Of silver came into
the possession Of Joseph himself when his
br; thren went down into Egypt 10 buy corn.
On the death Of Jacob they found their
way into the royal treasury Of Sheba where
Joseph sent them TO pay for spices TO en-
balm his father.
Here they rema ined. undis turbed. for a
long period Of years. in fact until the Queen
OF Sheba made her wonderful visit to King
Solomon, when they figured among the
gifts presented by the Queen to the ruler
whose fame ha reused her curiosity
From Jerusalem they found their way
back TO Arabia. This was IN the reign Of
Rehoboam. when the King OF Egypt. having
dcspoled the temple, gave them TO the
King OF Arabia, his ally, as part OF lis share
Of the plumber.
Again they rest. this time until the birth
of Christ, when Melchior, one Of the wise
men, brought them from Arabia and placed
them at the feet Of the infant Saviour a.
part OF his Offering During the hurried
flight into Egypt. they were in the keeping
of the Virgin Mary but when closely ptr-
sued by the soldiers Of Herod she stopped
TO inquire her way Of a man who was sowing
corn. and ia her haste and confusion she
dropped them.
Scarcely were the Holy Family ont oil sight
when the corn the man had been sowing
miraculously sprang up and grew. Al
most Immediately Herod's soldiers APP
peared and inquired Of the sower il he
had seen the infant Saviour and his parents.
The man replied that no one had passed
that way since his corn vas sown. and the
soldiers. considering further pursuit in that
direction useless, turned back and gave sp
the search.
The money was found by a shepherd
who kept IL intact for years. Then, being
afflicted by a disease that was pronounced
incirshle no applied 10 the Saviour for help
and Was beAled Out OF gratitude he rr,a-
sented the money a. an offering at the
high altar. and soon afterward it was used
To pay Judas for bis act Of tre0chery.
Various reasons have been given 10
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-weIl. do you nc an this2' be- asked.

well do you like all this2' he asked.
The writer. with some effort began;
Il had children. They2 Yes, ! know
they are living I had two children, son
and a daughter then reflected: Here
have a son; in time he, too, will be good
man.
Good men are abundant in the world;
whit it needs IL complete men said the
Devil, coldy. and whistled some bravura
march.
Il think the clerk must make poor
teacher-and my son"
The writers hollow skull shook pitifully
Just watch how he embraces herr They
live too happily the Devil spoke
"Y-e-s--- And is that clerk rich?"
He was poorer than L. but your wife is
rich
My wife? How came she by riches7'
Why, from the sales Of your books.
So said the author, slowly noddmg
his bare. hollow skull. $50 1t appears
that labored mostly in the interests Of
some clerk?'
It perhaps does come to that " the Devil
merrily agreed
Show me back 10 my grave.
1t was still dark. Rain was falling and
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Arnold Days success here in two OF
George Bernard Shuw's plays. CANDIDA
and You Never Can Tell" has brought
forth dozens OF stories about the brilliant
writer and dra matist. Some OF the stores
bear the real Shaw stamp. In others Mr.
Shaw's admirers dream. No writer for tho
ge is attra citing so much attention here
at present as Mr.. Shaw. Managers are
falling over one another to get his wares.
A few years ago they looked on his
dramatic work as frealush and would have
none Of him. In some quarters this opinion
holds in his own country to-day.
Considering Mr.. Shaw's importance in
the literary and dramatic world. little is
known about him here by the larger public.
No man or his work has been more criticised
than he but he doesn't seem to care whether
his critics are fair or not, so long as they
write and talk about him. He seems TO have
adopted the motto Of an earlier maker Of
epigrams, that there il only one thing worse
than being talked about and that ia not
being talked about at all. When no one
else is talking about him he will do it him
self
Mr. Shaw vas born in Dublin in 1856
OF his family he told nm interviewer
sThe great point about my family was
it's Responsibility. had unlimited uncles
and aunts and myriads Of cousins. With
out disiking them personally, | had
theory that they were all snobs and hum
bugs. a conception that | later extended
to the whole class to which belonged.
Besides their responsibility their chief
merit was a remarkable aptitude for play
ing all sorts of wind instruments by ear.
Thus, my father, the most unlucky, in
competent and impecunious of mortalS.
played Home, Sweet Home upon the flute
His post in the civil service was abolished
in 1850. He sold his pension and embarked
in the wholesale corn busincss-we we're
too respectable for retail trade and spent
the rest OF his life in contemplating his
warehouse and wondering why he be-
came poorer year by year.
As TO educ. ton had none or course,
| went TO scho.l, but | learned nothing
As a sohooIboy -as incorrigbly idle and
worthless. and am proud of the fact. After
al, did get an education. Nv mother
was very active musician, and we had
rehearsals Of a choral and orchestral So
ciety in our house. SO before | was Is |
knew at least one important work each Of
Handel, Mozart Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Rossni. Bellinl, Donizetti. Verdi and Gounod
from cover to cover, and whistled the
themes TO myself as a street boy whistles
music hall songs.
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SEAWISMS, REAL AND FANCIED
Amusing
With Self-made Biography Of the Dramast =
Stories Of Man Much Talked About

I he went to Mr.. Shaw and told him certarN
lines would have to be cut from the play
"Oh, no., replied Shaw. Il really can't
permit that
But in this shape" said the actor mana
ger. "the play can never be produced
Ny dear boy, you delight me, was the
Shaw response.
It Ia pretty generally known now that II
was Shaw who wrote the chapter in Cyril
Maudes Book Of the Stage, in which
Shaw is 40 sharply criticised for his inter-
ference in the rehearsals Of "Nou Never
Can Tell when Maude was trying TO pro-
duce the play. Shaw handles himself
without gloves in that chapter and tells
how the rehearsals we're finally abandoned
because Shaw turned up wearing new
suit Of clothes That was too much for
the players.
The late Oscar Wilde was asked once II
Shaw was personally popular He replied:
Hardly that. The feeling toward Ber-
nard might be called negative quantity
His enemies hate him and his friends don't
care for him"
On the recent occasion Of the presenta-
ton here of one Of Shaw's plays and its
acceptance by the public a cablegram
of congratulaton was sent to Shaw by
the star Of the play. The reply that came
was typical Of the sender.
why congratulate me?" il said Il
meant il to be a success when wrote it,
When Arnold DAILY was in London last
summer he assured Mr.. Shaw that the
present production Of You Never Can
Tell would eclipse the success Of Candida
He invited Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw TO visit New
York this winter and see his play.
Mr. Shaw replied that he would like very
much TO visit America, but that he was Il
poor traveller and always felt lost. away
from his own fresidc Mrs Shaw said
she would like nothing better than TO visit
this country. for one Of her hobbies is travel
ling With Mrs Shaws willingness to
come here, DAILY turned to Shaw again
asked him 10 reconsider his decision. and
laid stress on the fact that Mrs. Shaw was
willing 10 make the trip.
Mn. Shaw is never nearer heaven. said
MIR shaw than when she l. travelling
on the underground railroad
Personally Mr.. Shaw * picturesque.
He wears a long, scraggy reddish beard,
and he is one Of the sights of London when
be rides along on his bicycle clad in knee
brooches, n woollen or flannel shirt and
SLOUGH hat pulled down over his eyes. He
is a bicycle enthusiast and gets great
deal of enjoyment out of his wheel.
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Moreover. there ia a modest national
gallery in Dublin where boys may prowl.
prowled. Whenever | had money. which
hardly ever happened. | bought volumes
of the Bonn translation of Ngsari. and at
Is knew enough Of a considerable number
of Italian and Flemish painters to recog-
nize their work at sight. On second
thought must conclude that | was really
very highly educated boy, thanks 10 a
communism of pictures.
Il am undoubtedly both a critic and a
dramatist not 20 mention a novelist. an
economist. pamphleteer and wag.
Waggery as a medium is invaluable. My
case is really the case OF Rabelais over again.
When first began to promulgate my opin-
ions found that they appeared eXtrava-
CANT and even insane. To get hearing it
was necessary for me to obtain the footing
Of privileged lunatic, with the license of
a jester.
Fortunately. the matter was very easy.
found that | had only to say with per
feet simplicity what | seriously meant
lust AZ II struck me. TO make everybody
laugh. My method. you will have no
ticed. is TO take the utmost trouble TO find
the right thing 10 say and then say IT with
the utmost levity. And all the time the
real joke is that am in earnest"
He has had hard fight TO gain success
and recognition. When Arms and the
Man was produced in London the first
night audience was pleased but puzzled.
In answer 10 the applause Mr. Shaw stepped
before the curtain. He was tremulous
and speechless. He looked as if he ex-
pectcd 10 be pelted with vegetables and
seemed to be disappointed because he
was not SO greeted Suddenly person
in the gallery began to boot. That gave
the author his nerve He stepped forward
and said without tremor OF stage fright.
i quite agree with our friend in the gal
lery; but what are two against so many"
He once had a three months illness in
an English hoepitol The doctors ascrbed
his trouble to nor eating meat MIR Shaw
il vegetarian and ne didn't like the dag
noss of the medical men. So he made one
himself and here t il
This man has been going to London
theatres for three years. and the soul OF
him has become inane and is feeding un-
naturally on his body.
And | was right, he said later Il did
not change my diet. but had myself carried
up into a mountain where there was no
theatre and there | began to revive
When Cyril Maude was reading tho manu-
script of You Never Can Tell in London.
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Gold Coin WIN Thirteen slara.

Wnfcid correspondence H0Hsas Crg Journal
Bankers and Jewellers here are mixed over
the Identification Of a gold coin the size Of
$40 gold piece. which T. / Crabtree owns.
and which he claims was sent him forty
years ago from old Mexico by an uncl-
1t hss the markings Of a United states gold
coin. but Is not denominated
II was weighed to-day and tested ~ 10 -
quality. II weighed Ave and one-half PENN
weights and stood the gold test The dais
AZ tho coln q iSnn nd q has thirteen etars.
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on, one Death in Famn, In !. Year,

JanfsrWs correspondence .niiuGukoc Sentinel
This afternoon one Of the most remark
able reunions ever held IN Rock county took
place 10 the town Of Footville at the home
Of Mrs. Kate Dean. The occasion was the
celebration Of her mothers ninety-secnud
birthday. and there were present nine children
thlrty-four grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren
With the exception Of the death Of the
father. james Snyder. thirteen years ago
therr mas not been deaiA In the SNYDER
iayslr Tor HlY-s-vra vrars
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or course the reader il not satisfied He
has been overfed with literature. and even
those who write expressly TO please him
very rarely suit his taste In the present
instance the reader ia dissatisfied also be-
cause have said nothing Of hell.
"A the reader Ia convinced-and rightly
that after death he shall find Judgment
there. no desires while yet alive TO know
something about that internal region.
But. really, cannot appease the readers
curiosity, because there il no hell and no
hell fires. which one so readily imagines,
There is, however. something else some-
thing infinitely more terrible.
Immediately after the doctor has pro-
nounced you dead" to your relatives
You shall enter some boundless, brightly
Illuminated region, and this is the realm
Of self-oonsciousness of your errors
You lie in n tight grave in the ceme-
terry. and before YOU passes, rotating like n
wheel your entire poor life. 1t turns with
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still more threatening clouds were floating
overhead, The writer, his bones rafting,
was returning with determination to his
grave The Devil walked behind him,
whstling merrily.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-06
The NEW HOTEL.

There has never been a spring sea
son In Las Vegas, during which such
steady demand was made upon The
city for good houses, furnished and
unfurnished. for hotel end boarding.
house accommodation. The livery sta
be men tell us that there has never
been a more steady demand for rigs
the new demand coming alhlost o.
tirely from strangers o. wealth AID
leisure. The real estate sitp ON has
not been better for years.
The demand for new houses ~.
homes Is being answered. There Is
another demand that should )c consid.
cred seriously by our busincss men
at once. Now that business Of All
knnds Is improving, visitors, Temporary
and more permanent, h~ome-seekers
and tourists are coming 10 the city IN
Increasing numbers, the proposition
Tor a fine new hotel should nj be n
l,wed 10 slumber longer.
A hundred families OF means moved
on last year. This year more hun
dreds will go and every year Until The
demand for homes and hotel accommU.
da,ion is met, there viii Dc a steady
loss TO the city of desirable people
Las Vegas has been well advertised
OF late, and the advertisement L; bear
ins fruit. Already the came OF the
city as a health, rest and pleasure re
scrt Is widespread in thu nation and
has travelled over the seas. There
should he no delay in carrying out
the plans for a new hotel.
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THE WEST TO DIG THE CANAL.

It is interesting to observe that the
president has come to the west for the
two men who are to conduct the big.
gest piece Of construction work OF
modern times. Both Mr. Shonts, the
new head Of the Panama commission,
and Mr.. Wallace, the chief engineer,
are from Illinois, and have gained
their experience and proved their
capacity by work on the prairies.
The Kansas City Star observes that
the criticism is already being urged
that the president has selected for
the conduct Of work involving chiefly
hydraulic problems men who know
nothing outside of "prairie railroads.
But the country will agree with Mr..
Roosevelt that energy and ability are
the chief requisites in the canal build
ers, and that men OF the type OF
Shonts and Wallace can be trusted to
meet any problems that may arise.
The personality Of Mr.. Wallace was
widely discussed at the time OF his
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-06
puNNE ANp HARLAN.

Judge DUNES crazy ideas on mu-
nicipal ownership seem to have cap
tured the Chicago population, which
already have acquired a reputation In
these United States for being the
most un.American, unassimilated and
unasslmiilible Of the many millions OF
this country. Dunno proposes to pay
over the peoples money to acquire an
obsolete street a system. which the
owners will be very eager to unload.
He proposes. but his proposition was
merely a bait to catch easy flies Of
the kind that abound In Chicago.
Harlan on the other hand proposed
to spend money in the equipment OF
a new system, which would thus COM
pei the owners Of existing systems to
bring them up-to-date and would fur
nish the city with added and greatly
improved transit. Neither the plan OF
Harlan or OF Dunno would properly
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-06
A SERIOUS CRIME.

The Optic has several times called
attention 10 the remarkable mlsap-
prehension as to the purpose OF the
criminal law that exists In this ter.
ritory and In Arizona. II seems TO be
taken for granted very often that the
only reason for the arrest Of n crlmi.
nal Is TO compel him TO make repara-
ton for the wrong. II he has stolen,
he has done all that should be ex.
pected when he gives the money back,
and should then be set at liberty.
But the first purpose Of the law is
not TO secure the undoing OF the par.
ticular wrong. 1t is SO to punish the
criminal that he will be unlikely to
commit further wrongs against the
state, and to make his case a warning
to others. In fact, It cannot be said
that the laws for the punishment Of
crimes concern themselves In the least
with any losses that the Individual
wronged may sustain. The Individual
has his remedy In another branch Of
the law.
Our statutes are not sufficiently spe.
cific and full a. to the crime Of com
pounding q felony. sgtip0evaf. 1t Is
certain that the police officer or the
Individual wronged. whO~ is~ instru.
mental In the release OF q man
charged with a felony. before he has
been examined before a judicial Off.
Ger, Is guilty Of a crime. and should
be punished as q criminal.
The particular text for this sermon
is the ease OF the negro, Jas. McCon-
nell. who Ia charged with stealing
$500 from a passenger on a Santa Fe
train. The officer who came here