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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23
No Excuse For
A Man in Love

Several bachelors have entered pro
test against the statement that many
men remain single through purely sci
Ash motives.
They declare they all would have
been happy benedicts by this time
were in not for the fact that moth
ers and sisters depended upon them.
II this be true they should be term
ed martyrs instead Of bachelors, for,
though In the struggle twixt love and
duty, duty may triumph, II sometimes
leaves the victor worn and bruised BY
the contest. and with but little heart
or interest in life.
Fortunately the bachelors who
come under the heading are few ana
far between, and some OF their cases
might be remedied did they but go
the right way about it.
Snpposing a man situated as these
are falls in love with a girl and has
reason to feel that his love is recipro-
Gated.
Why should he not tell her OF his
love and his circumstances, and see II
between them they cannot find some
way Of solving the problem?
Nine times out Of ten the girl would
be willing to sacrifice much for the
sake Of becoming his wife.
OF course mixed households are NOT
desirable. and it is much better that
married people should live by them
selves IL possible.
But II it comes to the point OF Civ.
ing each other up entirely Or living
with the mans people, most young
folks would decide in favor Of the LAT.
te~ course.
Naturally the question Of expense Is
the most important item to be con.
sidered.
The man feels that he annot afford
to add one more to the number OF
those he has to provide for, and there
Is the possibility o q growing fam
lily to be thought Of.
But even allowing for all this, he
should run the risk; that Is. always
providing that he is thoroughly In
love.
He will have TO take his family
into his confidence, and al he Is do.
ing everything for them. It is only fair
that they should be willing TO econo'
mixe and help him to happiness IN
every way they car.
The circumstances may be straight
ened and there twill be many times
when life seems hard. but after all
there will be love to sweeten every
thing, and that Is the best, the mos.
important thing in life.
And there is another side Of the
question. and that Is that the fact
that he canot AFFORD TO marry does
not, as a rule, keep a man from pay
ing attention TO a girl and winDinc
her love. !
He may mention in q casual ma
ner that he cannot afford to marry
hut girls are not always thinking oil
matrimony lin spite Of the many sol
emn assertions 70 the contrary, and
ofttnes do MOI dream Of marrying
man until they md thems elves head
over heelss In love with him.
Then 1t IL rather late IN the day
for him to come forward with hts re
nuncjatiOns.
Again, men 40 often have the ides
that they cannot marry until they
are comparatively well ~.
Thst IL rtsht. ~ poverty ss not the
most desirable state on earth, but
shere II = broad line between poverty
and aAluence. and m young people
have ever vet heen the worse on fo'
having 70 deprive themselves Of a few
1uvnrleG.
ualf the bachelcrs who think theS
csnNOt AFFORD 70 marry ran do so u
they form . committee Of two OF
wsvs snd meaps
Lent he dr., ct: aged because yo'
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Eastern star, Regular communities
ton second and fourth Thursday even.
ings OF each month. All visiting broth
ers and sisters are cordially invited.
Mrs. J. b. Reed, worthy ma&rou:
9. r. Dearth. w. p; Mrs. Emma
Benedict. aec.; Mn. A. N. Howell.
Treas.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23
Professional Directory
soc,gvIEs.

!. o. o. y, Lac Vegas LooVs. No. 4,
meets every Monday evening at their
hall. Sixth street, All visiting breth-
rem cordially invited &c attend. y. LII
Due, N. o.; G. w. g. Ward
v. G.; T. NJ, Elwood, secretary; w.
u. Critics. treasurer; c. v. Hedgcock,
cemetery trustee.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Chapman Lodge, No. 2. A. =. Z a. N.
Regular communications ist and Srd
Thursdays In each month. Visiting
brothers cordially invited. G. d.
Boucher. w. NJ; Charles H. Spor.
leder, Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

D. ?. o. z. Meets iirst and third
Monday evenings. each month, at
Knights Of Pythias Hall. Visiting
brothers r cordially invited.
B. d. BLACK. Exalted Ruler.
7. q. BLAUvELT. Sec.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Redmsn meet In Fraternal Brother.
hood Hall. every second and fourth
Thursday sleep at the eighth run
Visiting brothers always welcome to
the wigwam. B. l.. Corey, sacher'
F. r. Barnes, chief Of records; F. D,
Fries, collector OF wampum.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Rsbekah Lodge, I. o. o. r. meets
second and fourth Thursday evenings
Of each month at the l. o. o. +. hall.
Mrs. Matte 9. Garlick. noble grand;
Mrs. Ida Hedgcock. vice-grand; Mrs.
Clara Bell. secretary; Mrs. Sarah
Roberts, treasurer.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23
evi, h chin, sheo.

A bull entered = ~china-shop at Ash.
by-de-la-zouch, Eng, the other day,
took a walk around. surveyed the dis
play with apparent interest and de.
parted without having done more than
rs cents worth of damage.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

knights Of Columbus meet every
second and fourth Tuesday Of ths
month at the Fraternal Brotherhood
hall. Visitors welcomed. J. r. Nc
Mahan, G. X; Frank Strass, F. 8.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

with that old enemy Of the race Con
stipation. often ends In Appendicitis
10 avoid all serious trouble with
Stomach, Liver and Bowels. take DR..
Kings New Life Pills. They perfect
ly regulate these organs, without pain
or discomfort. CSC at all druggists
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Fraternal Union o. America, Meets
first and third Tuesday evenings Of
each month in the Woodman hall On
Sixth street, at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Emma
Berringer. r. NJ; w. G. Koosler. ssc'
rotary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

Las Vegas Art Souvenir on sale
the Optic Office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
Anti-Pass Idea Grows.

Ohio now has two-cent fare law,
passed by the legislature with practical
1y no opposition, and signed by Govern
or Patterson. The law is a natural con-
sequence Of the action of the eastern
railroads in cutting off passes, and to
some extent, no doubt, it is provoked
by pique, but the two propositions go
together. It is against public morals
for officials to carry railroad passes,
but when it comes to shutting off all
free transportation, the public expects
to get the benefit Of lower rate. The
first antipass agitation in the country
was in Wisconsin, where it was confined
to officials, and Senator La Toilette has
carried the Wisconsin idea with him to
Washington. He introduced federal
antipass bill just the other day. The
senate will never let his bill see the
light at this session, but the antipass
idea is growing.
Minnesota is likely to have an anti
pass law. in another year. The defeat
Of the Peterson measure last winter was
only skirmish. Public opinion has
progressed in year, and a demand fol
an antipass law may be expected from
sooth political parties in their next con
yentions. Candidates for the legisla
surs will be asked how they stand OF
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
Minneapolis Schools.

The Journal prints today an APP
probation of the Minneapolis public
schools from the pen Of the editor OF
the Journal Of Education, a school pa
per Of the highest Importance in Amer
lea. It's praise Of DR.. Jordan and MS
system Of school development is warm,
but it indicates personal knowledge OF
the subject. He places Minneapolis IN
q class by herself and gives the credit
for the common-school achievements On 7.
here to- the business-like devotion to
his work Of DR.. Jordan, who shines, not
by reason Of any striking public utter
ances, nor by scholastic pretense, but oy
knowing and doing the things when
organize and make schools efticlent'
The Minneapolis school system IS en- !,
titled to great praise and gets great
nraise from educators. We owe II : :
The school board and to the untram !.
,neled superintendency that 1t mas nel
Their been ruined by politics nor ie
tarded by false methods. ;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
Literary Notes.

Owen Wister, who wrote that delight
full book, 1.-The Virginian," has preferred
to leave his old field for an entirely new
one. Instead of following up his great
success with another story in the same
field. he has chosen for his scene a his
toric city, and the life portrayed 1s Ihat
of the most refined and cultivated socl-
ety. Lady Baltimore" his new novel, IS
announced by The Macmillan company
for issue in April.
General Horace Porter has prepared an
account of the search for and final dis
coyery of the body of Paul Jones. and this
will be included in a new edition OF A.
C. Buell's paul Jones: Founder OF the
American Navy (Charles Scribner's
Sons). This new edition will probably
be published early this spring.
The first book that gives popular ao-
count of what progress is being made in
the education of the Fiipinos by Amert-
can methods will be brought out this
spring. 1t is called 1.-THE Philippine Ex-
perience of an American Teacher; a mar
rative of work and travel in connection
with the organiza ton and development
of the public schools in the Philippine
Islands," and is written by William b.
Freer, who spent three years In the
Philippines as teacher and division super
| intendent of schools in various parts OF
| the island of Luzon. Scribners will pub
lish the book.
It is nearly four years since Frederick
| Upham Adams began work on THE Bot
tom of the Well" which will appear In
| May from the press of the G. W. Dilling-
| ham company. His successful golf novel.
/ eJohn Henry Smith, was written In six
weeks Nothing could better illustrate the
range of effort required by authors who
perform consistent work. The publishers
were satisfied with 1.-THE Bottom Of the
Well' two years ago. But Mr.. Adams
would not release 1t until recently. The
Escenes of action are Jamaica, England
and New York city. and the time is the
approximate present.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
THE MAGAZINES.

Schurz, the Observation-Disclosures churz'
"Reminiscences of a Long Life" In Nc.
CIure's, gathers Importance with each
issue. Pending the installments that deal
with his active career in our own coun-
try. there is interest and excitement IN
plenty in the series of adventures Whach
led him here. In the February number
Mr.. Schurz tells of his experiences at the
commencement of the revolution OF AS
and of his fight after the failure of the
attempt on the armory at Siegburg.
Awaited Death OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Atherton, in recently published open
letter, has told William Sharps American
readers of the fact that Sharp lived ana
worked always in the expectation that
death would come to him suddenly before
he finished his fiftieth year, as 1t ola. Act
he was always q cheerful ana tTeiess
worker Among his last writings was the
svmpathetic account of Sicily and the de-
,iehts Of travel there. which will be pub
1ished in The Century, beginning in the
| March issue. under the title, THE Gar
den of the Sun"
| Review Clear Thru.-current Litera.
ture is pure review and of the highest
quality. One finds between its covers
each month in condensed but comprehen-
siye form a digest of the life of the time.
All the great fields are covered-currenf
affairs, literature and art, religion and
ethics, science and discovery. music and
drama, important persons of the hour,
recent poetry and recent fiction In the
hands of the critics. In the February
number the magazine has reached as
they say on change. "a new high point.
An interesting item in this number Is
from Brush and Pencil. discussion o.
the Greek spirit in art by William Ora.
way Partridge, sculptor, in which MT
Partridge says that the dominant nots
in Greek art was the recognition Oh .hs
near presence of death-a recogniuor
that was never absent in any OF tnen
moments Of pagan joy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
"TARBELL's TEAcHER's

"TARBELL'S TEACH e RS
GUIDE" is intended to be helper to
Sunday school teachers for the current
year 1906. It is study of the Inter
national Sunday School Lessons for
the year. 1t has well arranged table
of contents, also table OF lesson
thoughts and illustrations. The plan
of the writer is to give the teacher
"the geography of the lessons an ex-
PLANTATION of unusual or difficult words
and phrases, suggestive thoughts from
helpful writers, light from oriental life,
the approach to the lesson, the lesson
thoughts, making the Bible its OVID IN
terpreter, the personal thought OF the
lesson and summary of each lesson.
IT is an ambitious undertaking, and has
been successfully carried out. AS Tar
as our reading goes. we are ready TO
indorse it as good piece of work which
will profit anyone who may use It; ana
if there be some things in it which all
will not accept. still 1t is bright and
earnest and will enforce attention and
thought and will be a real help to every
| intelligent reader, whether teacher or
| not. The author is Martha Iarpeii,
| Phi. D. ~
The Bobbs-M Merrill Co., Indianapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
Februar %, 1906.
AGNITICENT ILLUSTRAT-
ED RECORD OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE FOR READ

LII LIMA = ~ 1GGA . Wv 1sAAxa~@
ERS OF GENERAL CULTURE.-The
superior literary finish Of the work 2 q
OGRE originality and force, is occasion
for frequent. comment and inquiry.
explanation is. They see American
writer's with more invention and vim
than Britons Of like general rank fail
ing to reach higher levels because they
lack literary style Or polish, and and R snny
ons take more pains, and let that go as
sufficient explanation of the larger
portion Of the difference. But they
have in reality not answered the CUES
tion at all; they have simply raised the
question in different form, namely:
Why does the Briton take more pains :
1t is perhaps not far from the truth
to answer: Because of Britain IS liter
airy traditions. These traditions the
average Briton cannot escape; they. con
front him at every turn; even if his
own immediate vicinage holds none
some adjoining village or countryside j.
| certain to do so, and the spirit OF Il
| easily reaches him and creates a cir
cult thru which not only do the tradi.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
JUST HIS JOB
Boston Herald.

Judge. Wilbur, who retired from the
Rhode Island bench last June, when the
new court and practice act went into eff
feet had for many years previously
handled the criminal business of the state.
He was perfectly familiar with the wiles
and excuses of men who sought to evade
jury duty, and showed them little con-
sideration.
string to get out OF grand jury service
physical disability
What is the nature of your infirmity?''
asked the judge.
Il am deaf in one ear, your honor" re-
piled the man.
You'll do" said the judge. Don't
you know you have to hear only one side
of the case in the grand jury room?''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOOK
GOOD TO THIS EXPERT
Editor Of the Journal Of Education Finds Here
One Of the Most Interesting Educational
Studies IL the Country.

The editor Of the Journal Of Educa,
tton has been travelling thru the coun-
try studying the public schools in the
larger cities. In the current number
Of his paper he prints the following |
estimate OF the public schools Of Min
ing Of the editor Of this paper should
find SO much to commend in this city
will be gratifying to our citizens and
should beget high degree of confidence
In the management under which such
excellent results have been produced:
All In all, nothing speaks more emphat-
fcally for a city, it's spirit and purpose.
than it's schools and their value cannot
be tabulated statistica1ly What will re-
veal the value Of the schools to the COM
munity? Different temperaments will
give different answers, and the same
writer will give varying estimates from
time to time. My own rule Is to seek
| that which best represents the lines OF
effort put forth for the improvement of
the schools. Minneapolis pre-
! sents one Of the most interesting seduea-
t1onal ssudies in the municipal life of the
country. She stands practically alone In
having attained educational eminence
without changing leaders, without civic-
i educational discussion. and without legis-
lattve interference. She has neighbors
in her pre- eminenoe, but they are few.
Her problems. appear to have been solved
thru her supervision.
There is no more interesting or iripor-
tant study than that presented by the
various types Of supervision, and that
of Minneapolis is distinctly class by
itself; it may be described as one that
1 centralfzes and radiates. In many cities
the supervision centralizes, in some it
radiates; here it does both, thanks to the
individuality and professional conception
of DR.. Charles M. Jordan, who was prin-
c1pal Of the Adams school for eight years
and has been superintendent for fourteen
years. He Is g. son Of Maine, a graduate
of Tufts college, Bangor teacher before
he came to Minneapolis. y
} DR.. Jordan's ideal is superior specialist
supervisors, who make superior teachers
certainly secures. Note the appreciation
Of his supervisors: Sarah Louise Arnold
made Stepping Stones to Literature
z while at work in that city. and was
, called from there to $3.50 position II
, Boston, and is now dean Of Simmons col.
lege; Mrs. Alice W. Cooley made the
Cooley-Webster language books while
4. there, and left for professorship In tn.
!, state university of North Dakota. Bon
: ME E.. Snow made drawing books while
! there, and left to- accept the position o
1 editor Of the Prang Educational com
e panys drawing series; Mrs. Louise Preec
developed a physical culture series an
|, got out some books embodying her ideal.
!, and M. Adelaide IIolton has made tn
Il much-used Holton Primer and an inf1u
n entail work on Industrial activity i
! schools. So much for the strength Of hi
supervisors. w.
/ The record of the principals is scarcel
IS less noteworthy. Mr.. Webster of tn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
NEW PLAN BY MEssRs. HOW

NEW PLAN BY MESShS. HOW.
ELLIS AND ALDEN.-A new phase in
the publishing of modern fiction is to be
inaugurated by W. D. Howells and
IT. M. Alden, editor of Harper's Mag
azine. Under this distinguished edi.
torship has been planned series OF
novelties, which is to include only
the best, the most interesting and to
the Judgment of the editors, the most
lasting work of our leading American
writer's. 1t is intended to make this
series the most masterful lnterpreta-
ton of life that is being written to.
day; the live, forceful expression of
the modern point of view In all ITS
subtle differences. Each volume will
present single fundamental and IN
teresting theme, as mirrored In the
fiction of our best story-writers. The
selections are not the ordinary short
| stories, however; each is novelette,.
and the fact of its admission to the
series is a guarantee Of its vital truth.
absorbing interest and ARTISTIC
| achievement. The first volume Will
appear some time in March. Harper
e Brothers are to be the publishers.
| The title of the first volume is Their
Husbands Wives
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
sive and the reviews Of their work are
valuable essays in literary interpreta.
tion.
Bacon's Morals.

Bacon's Morals.
AS an example of personal apprecls-
ton, the following Of Beacon is excel
lent,
Upon his own plane he is omniscient,
but there Is a plane above his OF Wnich
he has no perception. Rejecting the
vexed question Of his character, we may
say at once that we find no symptom OF
moral obliquity in him; but we cannot
help being conscious of certain dead
ness towards exalted moral sentiment.
No action In his life is incapable of de-
Tense, or at least Of palliation; but when
ever two courses of action are presented
for his acceptance, he is almost sure to
select the one which, whatever other
reasons may be alleged in its favor, has
least to recommend it upon the score of
generosity.
The reader jumps from this at once
to the question: Could such man have
written the works ascribed to William
Shakspere? While the above extract is
not part of the authors discussion
of that famous controversy, it may
nevertheless be part Of Mr.. Garrett 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10

% foundations" as illegal lights" would
call it.. q -. ,t,.s5s. f.
New Word Against Bacon
In MI. Garnett's contribution to the
Bacon Shakspere debate, this, which
Mr.. Garrett believes is new, Is brought
forward:
Baconians talk as if Bacon had moth
ing to do but to write his play at his
chambers and send 1t to his factotum,
Shakspere, at the other end of the town;
but nothing can be clearer than that
points must have been continually aris-
ing requiring consultation with the au-
thor, that this author must have lived
in a dramatic atmosphere, and been in
constant communication with the theater.
That this was really the case is proved
by the directions to the players in Ham
let. No one, surely, can doubt that the
writer Of this scene had been in the con-
slant habit of giving instructions to per-
I formers. IF he were SHAKESPEARE. no ques-
| tion arises; but if he were Bacon2 Did
| he go down to the theater for the pur-
! pose, taking boat or riding over old Lon
| don bridge? or did he drill the players
at his chambers? In either case the
| actors would speedily discover that they
were being tutored by the author in per-
son, and the secret would soon be all
over the town. There is no escape from
! this unless by maintaining that, whereas
all Hamlet's other speeches are by Ba-
| con, this one is by Shakspere Unfor-
tunately, it contains five sentences that
have become household words wherever
English Is spoken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10

W. D. Marks, a practical constructor
Of railroads, has figured carefully that
the total railway capital on June 80, 1903,
was $12,599, 99O,25S Of this about $780,
100000 was actual value and the rest;
about $1,000, 100000, represents watered
stock, which is used to keep up rates and
to work speculative games. When the
square deal hits this imposition on the
public there is going to be, a sInashup
for VNllr life *, r. E..--.' f-a.a-.l ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
Recent Products Of the Literary Craft
By w r. KLRKWOOD

three years distant, Houghton, Mif1in
& Co. announce for publication about
the middle of March volume entitled
fers from any previous biography by
aiming to concentrate the reader 3 at
tention on the one element in Lincoln g
personality which continually grows in
significance as time goes by. This is
his mastery over different types of men
as well as over himself. The author,
brilliant study, with surprising fresh
ness Of interest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-10
undertakes to see that injustice is not
done either by railroad monopoly or by
reckless competition.

[ The state board Of equalization has q,
chance to make record but has made
a bad start in one particular. The new
board ought to get away from the prac-
tice Of star chamber sessions. This sub
ject Of taxation interests everybody, and
the public is entitled to know what is
going on. People want to know not only
what is being done, but who Is doing it,
and what the reasons are. There is no
good reason to give for: talking public
business behind closed doors, and The
Tour n a i hopes that the board will not
find it necessary to lock up again.