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Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
THE STORY OF FAILURE.

Tho following story is Interesting be-
cause 1t is written by young man
who has recently lost his position,
and who has the courage to acknow-
ledge the real reason of his failure:
The successful business man can
give valuable advice. but If You are
"a young man and unsuccessful per.
haps one of your own fellows can help
you most.
The writer is himself young man,
born as are the majority. He has been
given the advantage of a college edu
cation, yet at the end of five years
of business experience. with unlimited
opportubitiss. he looks the, past
squarely in the face and discovers he
Is q failure. -
He has no apologies to offer He
had opportunity. He did not grasp
It, He had acquaintance with the
head of the corporation. He did not
carry himself In q manner to merit
the friendly interest of that person.
The writer started ont with the am
ition of youth. He rose from one po-
sition to another. but In the year just
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
OKLAHOMAS Big PASTURE 1UDAY
thrown Open To GENERAL PUBLIC

changes bEOnghs ah0ut In u few years
I'm other pogti0ns 0f the new saaas~
The man II iaagmenE and neTve ~Ao
pins his faith In the future q the lie
pastures" xtIl almost eeTsalals wtn
bis reward.
Al the present time the past afe has
no railroads. save for the line of af*
Frisno system which barely a0Acnes
the north central boundary line. Hg:a
the Frisco and the Rock Islan4 ~tls
s00n construct lines through tie re-
ssrvatinns and n Ia likely that befos"
many yeaFs the new eOantTy viii 1T
tEayeF&ed by many lines of steel rails
Five t0wnkltea have been set asa38
/ I'm the big pasture" and one somth
vest 0f Hobart I'm the smaller aesar*s
tiun. The laas viii b. mola NJ public
aucsi0n, instead of by the sealed asiI
system obtaining I'm the disposal oG
the farming tracts. A Catholic pFaest.
"A former Indian agent and four great
Indian chiefs are honoEed I'm tile se-
lection of names by the t0wnsis4 CON
lmissiOn. IEadore In 10 be a peEtRan
len. memorial 10 the memory "t Fa;h'
Ter ImaAore, u the Catholic missIErn ~
lApaGiarko. For many years this patesi
has faithfully worked among the IN
ldians and has succeeded In winning
their confidence TO an extent seldom
Ibefore eanalIed. Randiett ID named
latter Colonel ]. H. Randlett. Tor many
lyears the Indian agent al AnadaTko-
lOuanah Ii named IN honor Of Chief
louanah Parker Of the comanches. a
personal friend of President Roose'
Iyelt and one Of the most advanced
headers Of the red men of Oklahoma
Ihaye ever had. Eshiti is named AZ
tier the Indian Of that name Who II the
second chief Of the comanches. Al
lpeaione, in whose honor another bud
ldIng metropolis has been named. II
} 1.-The heap big chief of the Kiowas. In
1.-The oplnion Of the officials this will be
. 1.-THE leading city Of the pasture and
900 acres have been set aside for the
site, instead Of 800. an for the Other
L. ltowns. The capital Of the small pas
, ture southwest Of Hobart Ia some
what handicapped by being named at
. Tier Chief Ko0nkazachey Of the Apach
| les, better known TO the public a'
IApache John. No white person ha'
: lyet been found who ~ able TO pro
, lnounce the name and the officials IL
! lcharge Of the townsite opening have
mot as yet shed any light ON the mat
: tier.
All of the lots In these t0wns'tei
lwill be disposed of by the government
) under the hammer and lively biddin'
! lis expected.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

His tao popular songs. Everybody
Works But Father" and Uncle Quit
Work Too" have made the name Of
Jean Hayez familiar 20 everybody.
Jean had an innate fOndness for the
Russian bath until the Baltimore fire
a couple Of years ago. One afternoon
found him as usual al the Equitable
bath house In Baltimore. prepared "a
enjoy his chief luxury. II so happen
cd that when he entered the hot
room he discovered he was alone.
and after reclining for while. he
suddenly became aware that the tenn.
perature was too high. and upon ex
animation Of the thermometer found
II registered nj 900 degrees. A few
seconds later found Jean fighting his
way through clouds Of steam. shout,
Ing loudly for the attendant. but, re-
ceiving no response. he managed TO
grope his way back TO the thermo
meter. which To his horror had now
mounted to the 270 mark
/ BY this time he was ready 10 fight
and between his shouts for help. he
declared 1t was the worst managed
affair Of It's kind ON earth After an
additional volume OF shouts for help
and no response thereto, he again
i found his way TO the thermometer,
which had now climbed TO 800 DE,
grees. Al this instant he detected
the odor OF burning wood, and fol,
lowing up its source. ii did not take
him long TO discover the building TO
be on fire. II was with that inex.
plicabIe dexterity. which Is only ac.
complished In a state Of great fright,
that Havez succeeded In finding his
way out. and TO his dressing room
To don HIS trousers. shoes and shirt
was the work OF a few seconds. and
with a mad rush he descended the
stairs to the street below.
Here the putting of fire engines
on all sides, and the showers of burn
ing embers, told him that not only
the bath house was on fire. but that
the entire city was doomed.
or course he found his way tn
safety. but say II you ever want TO
see Jean Havez break the record for
a 100 yards dash. just call his atten'
tion to Russian bath sign.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

a@a*@a=u~eHa4a ~Ar&A ~Aaxs~ fpEg1Ga@% aa'
maem H.
YommK marxaea peogAe ghoaAa avoid
aeang tase aemaaSaEA&ise. nat 0nly lin
pmhaAe. hm1 II private. In Che first
sesss easseeaaaag They sh0aaA e0a
samAfiy remember thai shey enter che
stale af Haaaramony Etsh u certain eaP.
aaal of ao.e. TheF Hausa not sqnAndeE
thai e@pasai bal live "a the tateEesf
If II onay. khoaia eEen suggest
shas three per cent shOaid BE- their
limit.
There ate yoang people whO too
afaea feel that the want u manifest
lng their love by exaggerated proofs
n tenderness. such ~ the adminissFa'
skna 10 each other Of names of biFds
and pea qaaaTupeds. Of showers 0i
kisses. a little pats on the face. The
exaggerated frequency Of such acts
produces q reaction. and often q
| tfghs sensation Og eneTvati0n thai
should never he born of eaFesses. And
mm these outward shows of love run
the risk of diminishing In number and
fervor. theEe In danger of their thus
becoming a sign. or a proof. Of de-
3efIne I'm tenderness
| I'm pahlie these demonstrations are
ridiculous and vulgar: they put 0the'
people tll al ease who smile and sneei
aud even remark They will s0oF
get over h"
The loving woman Who. in a rail
way car. keeps ON asking her hus
band To tell her that be loves her ma!
hear some grumpy. cantankerOus old
gentleman mutter In bis berth: oh
do tell her shat YOU love her. tina
we may have peace and go 10 sleep.
Max O'Reil.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

lawssn. ukla. Dae- 3-The og'snang
sf the 80 80 acres II pasture GOA
rxssamg he fnssneT ksosa. C0manehe
ana Apache Indian reservations IN
southwest Oklahoma began today wiih
= reeevalan of ssaiea lids a the local
land office Thaasab6s af p%aople from
The northern and eastern states are
heme and II is estimated that 'he
number af lids wili aggregate not
asss THAI ae!aaA Faas Stil be Feceis'
aa IN 10 I D. N. Saturday, and the
ouemInw Of The lids viii begin ne1t
Monday morning. A detail os officials
md clerks from tn general land Of
fEes and the Indian hmrssa al Wash
lrgton are here Ia supervise ihe '"1'sn'
tnx. The lands are opened under the
homestead Laws and any person eiig'
lite IN acquire pthiie aands u; ft'
sfese laws may hid on she tFActs- TIL"
minimum prae. MT by 90 govesTnaens
ts 81 per acre.
The big pasture" comprises 1851
tracts snhiect 10 sale. of this mum
hsr II. tracts are leased for agrleui
tural purposes. the leases expiring ID
1903 and 1910. The rules goseTnins
the sale cf these lands provide that
the purchaser of a leased tract 0thel
than the lessee himself. must wait un
I'll the expiration Of the tenure o
the lease before making settlement
upon the land. but that the purchase
instead Of the indian shall receive
the rental Of the land.
The rules Of the sale, which denl
the right Of reslnqnishing dear q
the heart Of the land specuiator. In
sure the purchase Of the land by bon'
fide settlers. Those In a position d
know declare that while few favore'
tracts may bring a. high as $50 or 81
an acre. the average price win b
about SO. A few months ago II wa
generally believed that the averag
price would be- from si5 TO go al
acre. but the bare and bleak appear
anee of the pasture and the recen
SHOWS and cold weather have drive
away many OF tho prospective pun
chasers. II II certain that no NOR
desoiate place could be imagined tha
tho big pastures" a. II now In. th
cold winds sweeping unrestraine
across an apparent desert, wholly d.
void of vegetation, save for a fe'
stunted trees and bushes that cring
In q apologetic manner on the bank
Of the ravines. with no signs Of haE
tation except for the tents and pra'f,
schooners OF the homeseekers. Tha
q miracle Of transformation will 500
commence, however. no one doubt
who has Witnessed the wonderfI
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
MORE LAND FOR
FOREST RESERVES

Maps and copies of pr0clamations
setting aside two tracts Of land. one
large district As an addition to the
Jemez forest reserve and the other a
smaller tract 10 be known az the
Taos forest reserve. have been re-
ceIved at the office Of Governor Ha.
german.
The JemeE addition lies east Of the
reserve Of that name, being located
partly within the counties of Rio Ar
riba, sandoval and Santa Fe In town
ships 15 10 . north. ranges from ! to
II east. The addition. however. winds
among number Of land grants so that
IL Is almost impossible 10 estimate
the exact area. II will, however en-
large the Jemez reserve by about one
third Its present area. II covers por
tions of the JemeZ mountains and
smaller adjoining ranges
The Principal land grants within
the borders Of the JemeZ addition
are: piedra Lumbre, I4obato. Palvo
dera, Baca Location. Canon de Sar
Diego. 0jo del Espiritu sancto and a
number of smaller grants.
The Taos reserve IL located In
northeastern Taos county and has
for Its northern boundary the bis
Sangre de Cristo grant II covers
the Red River district. the town oI
Questa being just at the edge of its
western border. The Taos reserve
lies I'm townships rs. &c. 81, 2S. p
north, ranges -. ~, Is. l6 and II
east
A number Of other reserves will be
established In the near future.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

Sodium, potassium. calcium and
some other metals combine with wa
Ter with the evolution OF heat and
light, The affinity for oxygen is 81
strong that they will tear 1t out OF its
combination with hydrogen in water.
just as burning wood takes up the
oxygen In the air. But there is no
chemical compound or element that
dropped on or into water will set It
on fire. In such experiments II is
the other substances that burn. while
the water serves the same purpose
as air serves In ordinary combustion
that is. II furnishes the oxygen. We
do not commonly say that air burns In
a fire, though the air furnishes one Of
the most essential clements of com.
bustion. Similarly 1t Is the sodium or
potassium that burns. and not the wa
ter. when the metal Is thrown into
the water.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
soFTNEss or sEAIsKIN.


Seaiakin In admired the world over for
its softness and glossineSS: and yet the
human hair is equally as soft and glossy
when healthy: and the radical cause OF all
hair trouble In dandruff. which IL caused
by IA pestiferous parasite that saps the
vitality OF the hair at its root. Eewhro 4
Herpictde Is tine only preparation that is
fatal 10 the dandrufr germ without dan
drum there Is no falling hair. Sut a luz.
uriant growth OF glossy. soft hair Is GER
tain. Securing the scalp went cure dan
drufr. XIII the d1ndruff germ. Thous.
ands Of women owe their beautiful suits
OF hair to Newhro's Herpicide. SOLD by
leading druggists Send l0c. IN stamps
to The Herpicide Co.. Detroit. Mich.
z. q. MuHRneS. special Agent.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

pa&%~a D. - sas@4 ssasa evem aess
gF0aEa,
way Because D. I'D ae system
In his own Life, Imsaeaa IT le&4aag. ID
fogsowea Ea* ata o. the oF4anaFg
,man 4oes-
tie ID DIT eat or Sleep regularly
ana lowered bis pAySseaI eneggy. IL
sought pleasures thai were asgEadlng
and aulae4 hts inteaaect-
Smoking made him nersoas. pet b
smoked because other fellows smoked
drinking caused headaches. pet b
drank for e4smpang's sake
He did nothing 10 excess. and theFs
are maany 10 say he Is a likely Yoans
feli0w Bur be himself knows BE- b
failure lie has dropped hack anss
the ranks,
He has already done a. the major
ity do d Il the minority who rule
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
GUARANTEED ss C.. G. muRpaEv
MI"o"na the Only Stomach Remedy
he Sells i'm This Way.

Mona the Only Stomach Remedy
he Sells in This Way.
The guarantee given by E G. Mur.
phey un Miona stomach tablets
means something
II Is his personal promise that he
wiil refund the money In case Mi-ena
does not do all that Is claimed for II
In curing indigestion. strengthening
the whole digestive system and re-
storing the health OF those who use
10.
II the head aches. II the hack and
side are painful. 10 there Is distress
and nausea after eating. IL you are
sleepless. nervous. and out Of sorts,
you can with perfect confidence get
so cent box of Mi-o-na from Z. G.
Murphey. knowing that the remedy
will cost you absolutely nothing un.
less IL gives you freedom from NIL
Ills and pains and restores you to
/ health.
No one thing is the cause Of more
suffering and pain than indigestion
Many cases Of so-calied kidney dis
ease. heart trouble and nervousness
are only different ways In which a
weakened digestive system shows Il
self
Use Mi-ona Stomach Tablets anC
YOUR III health will soon be gone. ana
you will forget that you have ev"l
had indigestion or its resulting Ills
r q, Murphey can tell YOU Of man,
Of his customers who have been re-
stored to health by the use of thi'
remedy. but the best evidence of hi
faith In its powers to cure Is the pos
tive guarantee he gives with ever,
package. something that he does no
feel Hike giving with any of the Othel
remedies he has In his store.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

People think poor man l. not as
clever As q rich one. for why. they
ask. would he stay poor 10 be were
clever:
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03

DO you think a woman can keep
a secret?"
1T depends"
On the woman?
TN the secret"
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-03
TO TAX PAYERS.

The first half Of taxes Of 1906 Is now
due and will become delinquent and
subject TO a penalty on December l.
1906. EUGENIo ROMERO.
ii.l0s Treasurer and Collector
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22
Cream Separator on the Farm.

1t has been only few years since
the manufacturers of separators
brought out hand machines with the
definite purposes of making them pop
ular and selling them in large num-
bers, says the Farmers Wife In a
well considered editorial. From that
time to this they have gained friends,
and now it is rare to hear anyone say
anything against them, and when this
does happen one may be sure it comes
from some person who has been in
jured by their use, and this is never
the man who provides.
The hand separator has so many
advantages over the creamery sepa-
rator that the whole creamery bust
ness is being revolutionized and re-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22

men than he in the service, but be
stuck to them through thick and thin
and they appreciate It" The fire.
Quency with which men state this as
reason for success is significant.
1t shows that the man OF the hour is
the faithful man, the man who makes
his employers interests his own and
whose loyalty never wavers.
Associated more or less with all
these requisites and overshadowing
them all is hard work. For this" said
President James j. Hin of the Great
Northern Railroad Company, there is
no substitute" You may be hacking
in ability, in personality or some
other way and still succeed; but If you
have not the capacity for hard work
you are doomed TO failure.
Study the lives of great men and
you viii see in ninety-nine cases out of
a hundred, their achievements are due
to the possession of this capacity.
William r. Corey, the president of
the United States Steel Corporation.
attributes his first success to mot be.
ing afraid to do 50 worth of work for
81 When a laborer he wheeled so
much more iron than the other work
men that he was soon made foreman
over them. The words "hard work"
come nearer to holding the key to sue
cess than volumes of advice.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22
more like the old upland cotton than
s like Egyptian or Sea Island.
SEEDS OF NEW TYPES.

more like the old upland cotton than it
is like Egyptian or Sea Island.
SEEDS OF NEW TYPES.
The parent types from which it has
been evolved are listed and carded in
the departments collection, and each
year as the fresh crops come in from
the improved fields their output is
carded for comparison. These new
types have now reached a point where
the department feels justified in send
ing out the new seed to the farmers.
And IL the farmers will take a little
trouble and spend pre- atically no
money at all they will be abe to keep
up the improved strains so that in a
few years the American cotton crop
will have been doubled in value with
out necessarily expanding by a single
acre.
1t has been tedious work, and has
been carried on systematically.
"Score cards" such as are used in
Judging at stock shows are kept. The
records of the individual plants are
known, the shape and opening quali-
ties of the boil, the date of maturing,
the length and firmness of the cotton
fiber and the degree to which the
parent plant may be depended upon to
transmit its desirable qualities to it's
progeny. The work has been done in
the open field and not in the care
fully tended plots of the experiment
stations. Thousands of plants have
been destroyed each year, and only
the best types kept These have
again been weeded out the following
year, and only the best of the breed
have been kept. The farmers who
have been cooperating with the de-
partment in the work have been as a
rule careful, enthusiastic and pains.
taking under the direction of the ex-
perts sent into the field by the depart
ment, and slowly but surely the length
Of the staple and other desirable quail
ties in the new cotton have increased,
till the department now feels it has a
new and fixed type that can be de-
pended on to perpetuate its desirable
qualities.
One thing that has been carefully
observed is to keep growing the new
types on the ground where they will
be cultivated commercially. There
are several new strains adapted to
slightly different conditions of soil
and climate. 1t has been found in
the case of wheat, for example, that
4 strain may be improved in one To-
,ality, and that by moving it to new
it shows little, if any,
Improvement over the local type This |
error has been avoided with the new |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22

ing is reduced from taking the ten
cans to the creamery every day to
taking two cans of cream every other
day. or three cans twice a week.
The hand separator allows the
dairyman to feed the skim milk to
calves or pigs within a few minutes
Of the time it is drawn from the udder
and before the natural animal heat
leaves it. This saves warming the
milk and allows its use when it is per-
fectly sweet and fresh.
The hand separator saves hauling
skim milk from the creamery to the
farm, and 1t also saves the dairyman
from the risk of getting milk from dis
eased cows to feed to his young stock.
This Is not great risk, to be sure,
but 1t is worth considering. Tuber-
culous cows are frequently found In
this country, and probably there Is
hardly creamery among the patrons
Of which no cows suffering from
this disease could be found. If the
dairyman is sure of his own cows,
the hand separator saves him from
the risk of getting tuberculous milk
from the mixture in the milk vat at
the creamery, from which he gets his
oNAAu LhAAh UAC4 hC dSAAfClC Lie WnOlc
m'lk.
The saving in work is a large item.
Instead Of ten cans to care for ano
keep clean and free from germs, there
are only two. This saves labor and
the investment of money in utensils.
At the low price at which hand sepa-
rators are sold. one will pay for itself
time and again before It wears out
on the various items of economy men
toned above.
There Is another item. The hand
separator Is rapidly bringing about
the Capitalization of the creamery In
dustry. Cream gathered from hand
separaters is now transported as fai
as 200 miles to the central creamery,
and here 1t Is made into butter al
much less cost than would be possible
In the local creamery with a limited |
field in which to operate. This allows
the creamery to pay better price for
butter fat and gives the dairyman |
more money from his cows.
The man who keeps as few as five |
cows win find it to his advantage to
buy hand separator, especially II he |
makes butter on the farm, for In such |
case the saving In work Is much |
greater than where q creamery takes |
the cream.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22
DISK pLow DRAWN By TRACTION ENGINE.

every one of these projects there is an
excellent opportunity for the use of
powerful traction engines, accom-
panied by gang plows and harrows.
These engines could be purchased and
managed by number of settlers or
they could be operated by one man
who would contract to do the work.
Up in the Northwest Territories a
Michigan man is preparing to intro
duce this method of custom blowing
and cultivating. He is building pillow
which will turn nine burrows, each
fourteen inches wide, and with trac-
ton engine which he has designed
will pillow 33 acres per day. He has
already contracted for 1900 acres at
SO per acre for blowing, and expects
to close arrangements for a much
larger area.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22
UNITED STATES RECLAMATION.
Flowing by Cooperative Traction
Engines.
BY G. ]. Blanchard.

A million acres will be added to the
cultiYatable area Of the country during
the next three years, under the various
government irrigation projects. Most
of this acreage is raw land upon which
the pillow has never turned a furrow.
Thousands of new settlers will be To-
Gated there and for several years the
principal work will be clearing, level
ing, and blowing, to prepare the land
to receive the water.
Over vast stretches the sage brush
is the only vegetation. In other places
the bunch grass makes a tough sod,
unyielding and hard to break. The
subjugation to agriculture of this new
empire has attracted the attention of
the manufacturers of implements and
machinery. They see in this work a
virgin field for the products of their
factories. AS most of the settlers go
ing upon this land are not in af-
fluent circumstances, and as feed for
stock will be scarce and costly, any
proposition which will eliminate the
necessity for the purchase of horses,
plows and forage will naturally prove
1t has occurred to the writer that In