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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

~ I'm HN\ r zeina. NY race was
covered, my eyebrows came out, and
then 1t got in my eye. then went to
another doctor. He asked me what
] was taking for it, and ! told him
Cuticura. He said that was a very
good thing, but that he thought that
my face would be marked for life. But
Cuticura did its work and my face Is
now Just as clear as it eve was.
MY brother-in-law told me about
the wonderful Cuticura remedies.
! took his advice and got the Ointment,
Soap, and Resolvent. / washed with
the Cuticura Soap and then applied
the Ointment, ard took Cuticura
Resolvent as directed. In a short
time my face began to get better, and
when / had taken one bottle of
Resolvent j could brush the scales
of my face like a powder. When l
had taken four bottles my face was as
clear as ever.
81 told all my friends about my
remarkable cure. ! feel SC thankful
/ want everybody far and wide to
know what Cuticura can do. 1t is o
sure cure for eczema (signed) Mrs.
Emma White, GAL Cherrier Place,
Camden, N. j., April Is, 1905"
Complete External and Internal Treatment for every
Humor, from pimples 70 Scroiula, from Infancy to Age,
consisting Of Cuticura Soap, DC, Ointment, &c.. Resell:
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

Rebekah Lodge. I. o. o. F., Meett
second and fourth Thursday evenings
~ each month ri the l. O. O. F. bal
Mrs. Nyron 1. Werts. N. g.: Mrs.
Augusta O'Malley. V. G.: Mrs. Clara
Bell. secretary; Nrs. sofie Anderson.
treasurer.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01
UNIFORM INSURANCE TAX
ADVOCATED BY FlREMEN,

Kansas City, Aug. 31.-The Nation
al Firemen's association In annual
convention here. adopted a report
providing for the appointment by Pres
ident Mcneil Of a committee. COM.
posed of representative firemen from
each state. to work for state and ma
,ional legislation in favor Of a uniform
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

Redmen meet in Fraternal Brother.
hood hall. every second and fourth
Monday Of each moon at the eighth
run. Visiting chiefs always welcome
to the wigwam. William P. Mills,
sachem: Charles P. Jamerson, chief
Of records.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

Chapman Lodge, No. 2, A.. r. 4 Az
Regular communications 1st and 2rt
Thursdays In each month. VISITING
brothers cordially invited. M. Y
Williams. W. NJ; Charles H. Spor
leder. Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

W. G. T. U. meets on first Friday
Of each month at $3.50 p. N. The place
Of meeting will be announced through
the columns Of this paper. Mrs. Lucy
Shank. secretary: Mrs. 8. G. LONG.
President.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

Eastern star. Regular communics
ton second and fort" Thursday even
ings Of each month. All visiting broth
ers and sisters are cordially invited
Mrs. E. l.. Browne. worthy matron:
s. R. Dearth. W. p; Mrs, Emms
Benedict, Sec.: Mrs. M. A. Howell
Treas.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01
Diamond Dashes.

The base ball inquisitor of The On
tbs has been unable to find out wheth-
er The Albuquerque fair management
lis going to insist ON the original con-
ditiOn that every team that enters the
tournament must have had its players
On the spot by August 18th or wfleth.
er II has raised the date to September
1st. Both Trinidad and Deming have
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

E~raternal Union Of America. Meet.
first and third Tuesday evenings o
each month IN the Fraternal Brother
hood hall, west Of Fountain Square,
s o'clock N. p. Sund, F. NJ; w
G. Koogler, Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

3. p. O.. &, Meets first and third
Monday evenings. each meath. q
knights Of Pythias Hall. Visiting
brothers are cordially invited.
b. d. bLALA, STATED Ruler.
T. q. BLAU EFT, Sec
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

The F%raternai Brotherhood, 10
1o2, Meets every Friday night at thei,
hall in the Schmidt building, ives
Of Fountain square, a. s o'clock. Vie
iting members are always welcome
JAMES N. COOK,
President
. Miss Katie Burchell, Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01
socleries.

I. o. o. F., las Vegas Lodge. No. I
meets every Monday evening At 'he''
hall. Sixth street, All visiting breth'
rem cordially invited to attend. Clark
NJ. Moore. N. G.: Antonio Lucero,
v. G.: T. NJ. Elwood. secretary: W.
e. Critics, treasurer; c. v. Hedgcock,
cemetery trustee.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

six months ! mad
tried three doctors,
but did not get any
better. II was on
my body and on my
feet so thick that
] could hardly put
O pin on me with
out touching &C.
- NJ. .A -,nA
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01
O|SF|GURED
WITH ECZEMA
Brushed Scales from Face Like Pow.
der-under Physicians Six Months
But Grew Worse = Some Said
Face Would Be Marked for Life
Now Without a Blemish.
CUTlCURA REMEDIES
WORK WONDERS.

Gas ! was n sufferer with eczema
write to tell you what q great friend
/ found in Cuticura Remedies. In
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01
Professional Directory
ATTORNEYS.

George n. Hunksr, Attorney 81 Law
Office. veeder block. Las Vegas. n
M.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-01

N.
Frank Springer. Attorney 1t Law
Otrice 10 Crockett building. La
Vegas. n. N.
e: v. Long, Attorney at law. Office
In Wyman block. Las Vegas. n
M.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

Dad, what in the world has hap
pened to your" said 1, as l rushed up
to him.
THAT woman has happened to me,
that is ALL said dad, as he took
swallow of water cut of a canteen one
of the dagoes had.
Tell me about it, dad" said I, try
ing to keep from laughing, when | saw
that he was not hurt.
Say, let this be a lesson to you,"
said dad, "and don't you steer another
woman to me on this trip. Do you
know you hadn't more than got around
| that big rock when she said she was
tired and was going to faint, for the
altitude was too high for her, and
tried to soothe her, and she did look
pale, and, by gosh, I thought she was go
| ing to die on my hands, and would have
to carry her corpse down the mountain.
l heard scuffiing on the rocks, and
she looked up and saw a man not ten
feet away, and she said: Me hus-
band!' and then she tainted and
grabbed me around the neck, and
couldn't get her loose. She Just froze
to me like person drowning, and that
husband of hers, who had come up on
the last car, hunting for his wife, who
had elopeu, pulled a long blue gun and
told me he would give me five min
utes to pray, and then he would kill
me and throw my body down in the
crater, to sizzle.
Il told him I could pay up enough
ahead in three minutes, and he could
take all had if he would loosen up
his wife, and bring her to, and take
her away, and let me die all alone, and
let the buzzards eat me, uncooked. He
took the bet, pulled her arms away
from my throat, took my money and
coat, brought her to, and said he was
going to throw her into The crater, but
1 told him she had certainly been good
to me, and if he would spare her life
and take her away in the cars, he
could have my watch and scarfpin, and
he took them, and they went to the
cars.
s'She looked back at me with the sad
dest face I ever saw, and said: o
sir, it is all terrible dream, and
will see you in Naples, and explain
ALL and now, by Christmas, I want tt
go back to town and find her. and res
cue her from that jealous husband, >
and dad got up and we started for tn,
car.
The man and his wife went down OF
, the car ahead of us, and dad wouldn'
believe they were regular bunko people
, who play that game every day on som,
, old sucker, but the man that runs tn,
, car told me So
! l can be responsible for dad in every
/ thing except the women he meets
When it comes to women, your littl
/ Hennery don't know the game at all
, Yours,
HENNERY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12
URGED RUSSIANS TO YIELD
Japanese Fired Letters as Well as
Shells Into Forts at Port
Arthur.

That the Japanese soldiers besieg-
ing Port Arthur sought from time to
time to induce the Russians to sur
possible unnecessary sacrifice of life
and to save the Russians from unnec-
essary privations, is made plain by the
following story told by a correspond
ent of the Osaka Aashi:
In the early part of October last tho
japanese occupied an outpost of a
Russian fort on the northern slope of
the East Kikwan mountain. Now that
the opposing forces were brought very
near to each other, the japanese gen.
erals in charge thought of a hundred
and one plans to induce the individual
Russian soldiers to surrender. Finally
they arrived at an ingenious device.
Miyagoshi Jusaku was a Russian
Japanese interpreter in the service Of
the Japanese army. He could write
in Russian very nicely. So he wrote
the following letter, which was fas-
tened to an arrow and was sent with
the latter by skilful archer, who ex-
erted all the strength of his arms in
bending the bow.
1.-THE Russian Soldiers.-Gentlemen
| Isn't it very cold? We are now weary and
| bored every day. We believe it is the same
with you. You must be tired Of this long
war. Your wives and children, we pre-
sumo, are worrying about you. We SYM
| pathize with you.
You must be wanting food Why
| wouldn't you surrender? If you do we will
| give you warm food. We will do you no
| h,,f =
| satisfaction.
eff you wish to communicate with your
| home, fasten your letters to stones and
throw them to us. We will forward them
for you.
"At Mukden, Kuropatkin has been de-
| feated again. There is no certainty in ref
erence to the coming of the Baltic fleet.
| Port Arthur is doomed to fall.
| Those of you who surrender soon will be
| happy, but those who hesitate will meet a
| horrible fate. We request of you to take
our words as from your God who protects
| your wives and children
'If you are willing to accept our offer, we
! will make all the necessary arrangements
| for your surrender. Steal the eye of your
superior officers, abandon your weapons
and come During the daytime, come wav-
| ing your handkerchiefs- At nights come
| saying aloud 'Anata' (Sir).
I'VE pray for your health. Good-by."
The effect of the missive was soon
seen. Three Russian fugitives came
in front of the East Kikwan mountain
While two of them were unfortunately
shot before their actions indicated
their pacific intention, the third sue
ceeded in his attempt.
He was sergeant of artillery at the
fort. Upon investigation, it was found
that he had made up his mind to sur
render after he read the arrow mis-
sive.
This method was repeated often
with various success.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

stones down in the lava, and sailing
chips down the streams of hot stuff,
just as l sailed chips on ice water at
home when the streets were flooded
by spring rains. Say, there is no more
danger on Vesuvius than there is in a
toboggan slide, or shooting the chutes
at home. l thought We would have to
hire dagoes to carry us up to the top,
and be robbed and held up, and may
be murdered, but it is just as easy as
going up in the elevator Of sky
scraper. and no more terrifying than
sitting on 50-cent seat in a baseball
park at home and witnessing the DE
struction of Pompeii" by a fireworks
display.
The crater looks sort of creepy, like
big cauldron kettle boiling soap on
a farm, only it is bigger, and down in
the earth's bowels you can we'll believe
there is trouble, and if you believe in
a hell, you can get it, illustrated
proper, but the rivulets of lava that
flow out of the wrinkles around the
mouth of the crater are no more ap-
palling than making Judges over a gas
stove. When the lava cools you would
swear it was Judges, only you can't
eat the lava and get Indigestion as you
can eating Judges.
1t was hard work to get dad to go
| up on the volcano, because he said he
knew he would fall into it, and get
his clothes burned, and he said he
couldn't climb clear to the top, on &C
count of his breath being short, but
when l told him he could ride up on
a trolley car, and have the volcano
brought right to him, he weakened, and
one morning we left Naples early and
before two hours had passed we were
on little cogwheel railroad going up
and dad was looking down on the
scenery, expecting every minute the
cogs would slip and we would cut loose
and go down all in a heap and be plas-
tered all over the vineyards and biz
trees and be killed.
1 don't know what makes dad SC
nervous, but he wanted woman from
Chicago, who was on the car with us
to hold his hand all the way up, bu
she said she was no nurse in a home
for the aged, and she said she would
cuff dad if he didn't let go of her.
told her she better not get dad mad i
she knew what was good for her for b,
was a regular Bluebeard, and wouldn'
lake no slack from no Chicago female
cause he had buried nine wives al
!, ready. So she held his hand, and
| guess she thinks she will be my stem
4 L. 1,.%
II Well, after we got almost to the to,
the car stopped, and we had to wall
the rest Of the way. several hundre,
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feet, and we had to have a pusher and
putter for dad, dago to go ahead
and pull him up, and another to put
his shoulder against dads pants and
shove. Gee, but it was picture to
see dad "go up old baldhead," with
the dagoes perspiring and swearing at
dad for being so heavy, and the Chi
cago woman laughing, and me pushing
her up.
One thing that scared dad was that
every little way there was a shrine,
where the guides left dad lying on the
ground, blocked with piece of cold
lava, so he wouldn't roll down, like you
would block a wagon wheel, and they
would go to the. shrine and kneel and
say some prayers.
Dad was afraid they were going to
charge the prayers in the bill for push
ing him up, but 1 told dad that these
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

German papers report that railroad
ties of leather are used on the Rus.
sian government railroads. All sorts
of material have been used for this
purpose, but chiefly tarred wood and
iron. No tie has given perfect salts
faction; the wood decays, and the iron
changes under the influence of tenn
perature. 1t is expected that leather
ties will not be perceptibly affected by
either air or heat, nor will they split
when nails are driven into them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

AND SHE WAS sTRoKING HIS HAIR.
people expected every time they went
up to the top that it would be their
last trip, as they knew that some day
the volcano would open in new place
and swallow them whole, with all the
tourists. Then he gave them dollar
apiece to pray for him, and wanted to
go back down the mountain and let
Vesuvius run its own fireworks, but the
Chicago lady told dad to brace up and
she would protect him, and SO the
guides gave few more pushes, and we
were on top of the volcano, and dad
collapsed and had to be brought to
with smelling salts and whisky that
the woman carried in her pistol pocket.
| Gee, but it was worth all the trou-
BILE to get up the mountain, to see the
| sight that opened up. The hole in the
mountain filed with boiling stuff was
worth the price of admission, and the
roaring of the boiling stuff, and the
explosions way down cellar, and the
| flying stones, the smoke going into the
air for mile, like the burning of an
oil well, the red-hot lava finding crew
ices to leak through, and flowing down
the side of the mountain in streams
like hot maple strip, made scene
that caused us to take off our hats and
thank the good Lord that the thing
hadn't overlooked enough to hurt us.
But 1 could see dad was scared, cause
when l wanted him to go around the
edge of the crater with me, and see
the hell-roaring free show from other
points of view, and see where the hot
ashes years ago rolled down and COW
cred Pompeii and Herculaneum, he
baked and said he had seen all he
wanted to, and if he could stay alive
until the next car went down the noun
tain, they could all have his interest
in Vesuvius, and be darned to them
but he said if l wanted to go around
looking for trouble, he would stay
there under a big rock, with the Chi
cago lady, and wait for me to come
back She said she knew dad was al
tired out, and needed rest, and sht
would stay with him, and keep hin
cheered up; so 1 left them and went of
with one of the dagoes, to slide dow1
hill on some flowing lava, and pick vi
specimens.
Well, sir, I wish 1 could get alons
some way without telling the rest o
this sad story, but if I am going t.
be a historian I have got to tell tn
whole blame thing.
When I left dad and the Chicago
woman she had produced a lunch from
somewhere about her person, and
small bottle, and they were eating an
drinking, and dad was laughing NOR
natural than 1 had seen him laugl
since we run over the old woman wit
, the automobile at Nice. and she wa
smiling on dad just as though she wa
his sweetheart. CAS- I went around tn
crater, couple of blocks away,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

looked back and dad had laid his head
in her lap, and she was stroking his
hair.
Well, 1 picked up specimens, burned
the soles of my shoes wading in the
lava, and took in the volcano from all
sides, and after an hour I went back
to where dad and the woman were
lunching, but the woman was gone,
and dad acted as though he had been
hit by an express train, his eyes were
wild, his collar was gone, his pocket
book was on the ground, empty, his
coat was gone, his scarfpin had dis
appeared and the Sill watch he bought
when he was robbed the other time was
missing, and dads tongue was run out,
and he was yelling for water.
thought he had been trying to drink
some lava.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

The government of Mexico now is
business administration. The army
is incidental; the main thing is indus
trial development. Apprenticeship on
bloody fields are not necessary for the
future leaders Of Mexican progress.
And President Diaz has selected-with
the rare knowledge of men which al.
ways characterizes a great executive
ministers who are fitted first Of all to
promote the actual physical welfare of
the people and the nation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

Copyright. 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Naples, Italy.-Seignor re Grocerino:
guess that will make you stand with
out hitching for little while. Say,
I am getting so full Of dead languages,
and foreign palaver, that / shall have
to have an operation on my tongue
when l get home before can speel the
United States language again so you
can make head or tail of it. You see,
don't stay long enough in country
to acquire its language, but get few
words into my system, so now my
English is so mixed with French
words, Italian garlic and German
throat trouble that I cannot under
stand myself unless look in glass
and watch the motions of my lips
Dad has not picked up word OF any
foreign language, and says he should
consider himself a traitor to his coun-
try if he tried to talk anything but
English He did get SO he could order
a glass of beer by holding up his nm
ger and saying "ein," but he found
later that just holding up his finger
without saying "ein" would bring the
beer all the same so he cut out the
language entirely and works his finger
until it needs rest.
When 1 used to study my geography
at the little red schoolhouse, and looE
at the picture of the volcano Vesuvius
and read about how it would throw
up red-hot lava, and ashes, and rock!
as big as house, and wipe out cities
| it looked so terrible to me that I wa:
glad when we got through with thu
volcano lesson, and got to Greenland!
| icy mountains, where there was NJ
| danger except being frozen to death
or made sick by eating blubber SLICED
| off of whales.
Then 1 never expected to be right OF
the very top of that volcano, throwing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12
LASTING RELIEF

my nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys. [
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal secre-
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. took Doan's Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief Doan's Kidney Pills will prove
blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them fair
trial"
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price so cents per box.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

The giant strides chemistry has
achieved during the last half century
has made possible the production, at a
low cost, of bright-colored cloth, but
1t has also made adulteration easy,
too. A great deal of poisonous dye is
used in the making of smart-tinted
fabrics such as those known as fon.
dant or bonbon shades, soft pinks, deli.
cate puppies, brilliant blues and mill.
tary reds, so it is not surprising to
learn that ladies' clothes, dresses and
mantles positively reek with poison.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

One of the ablest mathematicians
that ever came out Of a commercial
college was unable to qualify as an
expert accountant because he could
not add together 5 and 3 correctly
He made it every time. II made
the mistake when a child" he ex
plains, land grew up with it. Oh
course I know that and 3 make 8
but when in hurry the sum always
goes down as Z, and my balances are
worthless"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

Benjamin, Of the Flying Rollers. the
what they call the City of David, just
outside the limits of Benton Harbor
Mich, is getting together a variety OF
animals which he says will equal the
collection made by Noah. Benjamin
says that his object is the same as
Noah's for it is prophesied that the
world will come to an end shortly
after the termination Of the Chicago
Transfers strike.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

The largest library in the country
Is that of congress. which contains a
million volumes. including pamphlets.
The Harvard university library con.
tains 100000 bound volumes and $780,.
600 bound pamphlets. The Boston
public library contains 772,OO0 books
and pamphlets. The New York public
library has half a million books and
100000 pamphlets. Even these figures
for the largest American libraries are
small when compared with the 5000,
900 books and pamphlets of the Bib
notheque Rationale of Paris.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

The people Of Colombia imagine that
they have found in their president.
Gen. Rafael Reyes, the strong man of
destiny needed to insure peace and
progress to that often-disturbed and
backward republic. Regarding him as
Of equal caliber with President Diaz of
Mexico, they have extended his term
to ten years. Gen. Reyes protested
against the recognition Of Panama's
independence by the United States,
but he desires to keep on good terms
with this country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-12

Catherine II. had Washington for her
hero, and prayed for his success.
Alexander I. used his good Offices in
trying to avert the war between the
United States and England in 1925,
and tried, after the war began. to
bring it to an end quickly. Alexander
II. placed two fleets at the disposal of
Lincoln in the event that England and
France should intervene in favor OF
the confederacy. Later on he sold
Alaska to US and removed any posi-
BILE chance for trouble between his
country and ours on account Of rival
u for tsFritorxa