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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-12

Mr.. Hartman has promised % re.
tire In another year, The small rail-.
roads are lytng low until the time Is
up.
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POSTAL TREATY WITH CANADA TO EMO.

The post Office department viii be guided By
congressional legislation In dealing with the issue
raised by the Canadian government In abrogating
the provisions of the postal convention between
the two countries relating to secondclass matter
which. according TO Canada's notice. win expire
May Z. 1907.
This provision permits the transmission through
the mails Of periodical publications. including
newspapers. at the rate of one cent a pound. A
joint commission OF the senate and house, Of
which Senator penrose Is chairman. has been
engaged since October / In taking testimony GOV.
erIng the whole subject OF second class mail mat.
ter. and as an outcome Of the inquiry the general
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-12

Remember that the hack for El
Porvenir leaves the city every Tues,
day and Saturday afternoon at n
o'clock, coming In from Ell Porvenir
every Monday and Friday morning
at eight o'clock PIT
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-12

Municipal ownership Is an expert.
ment not lightly to be ventured upon
at the alarm call of politicians who
want to be elected to Office. New York
Sun.
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THE MARKET REPORTS
NEW YORK STOCKS

The following quotations received
from y. ]. Graf 4 Co. Albuquerque.
New Mexico. correspondents for 10
san A. Bryan. by Postal telegraph.
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D|SF|GUR|NG .
SKIN HUMOR
Impossible to Get Employment, as
face and Body Mere Covered With
Itching Sores Scratched TIL
Flesh Was Raw Spent Hun
dreds Of Dollars on Doctors and
Hospitals and Grew Worse
CURED BY CUTlcURA
IN FIVE WEEKS

"sinee the year 1894 | have been
troubled with a very lad eas~ Of
exxeGna which ] have sg@tt hundreds
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-12

Washington. March 1.-THE dm.
provement In the condition of Ar.
chic Roosevelt continues.
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A TIMELY INQUIRY.

The social evil is not pleasant one
to contemplate and for that reason
probably it is regarded as an improper
subject of conversation. 1t is we'll on
the whole that 1t is, but an incident In
the police court Of Hartford Monday
shows that the officers of the law need
to keep in close touch with it.
The police of that city the Saturday
previous raided a number of disrepu-
table resorts and arrested a lot Of in
mates and frequenters. There was no
question of the law having been violat-
ed before the court. That did not both
err Judge Garvin, but what did justi-
ffably bother him was the motive Of
the raids. The chief of police stated
that he had obeyed the directions Of
the prosecuting attorney. The prosecut-
| ing attorney in answer to the questions
put him by the judge declared that it
was his purpose to clean up that Sec
ton of the city of Hartford and keep
it free from vice. The Judge declared
that IL that was the motive and pur-
pose of the raid the court was willing
to aid, but the court was not willing to
fine the guilty persons and then send
them back to their evil business.
1t is a very difficult question for So
clety to determine what should be
done with resorts Of this character. Ii
is manifestly impossible to keep them
closed and experience shows that re-
moval from one-quarter means their
establishment in another. Society de-
clines to try segregation and supervls-
ion and there the problem rests for So
luton. Whatever the solution the prac-
tice Of prosecuting attorneys arresting
these unfortunate women and weak
men and then making them pay fines
only to return them TO their habits and
ways is reprehenslble. Reduced to clear
terms in English it is striking hands
with vice for what there Is in it for tn,
municipality. 1t will be instructive Il
watch the effect Of the Hartford raids
upon the life. Of that city.
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way control the municipal gas works
and they control the franchises and
contracts of the private companies. The
City Hall ring is Just as much ring
of the political tools OF the private cor
porations as 1t is the ring of municipal
politicians. To pick out the politics of
the gas works and not to see that it
is bound up with the politics of the
private corporations would be per-
verse and one-sided method of invests
cation"
Without going farther into this report
it has been made clear by it that the
same old human problem has vet to be
solved before a solution of the evils
complained of will come. A man is a
man for all that. and the chances are
he will continue to play the role for
some time to come, even though he
insists upon leaving the frying pan for
the fire.
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sAME OLD PROBLEM.

The report OF the commission APP
pointed by the National Civic Fedora
ton to investigate the question Of pub
lie ownership and operation Of public
service utilities is worth reading II for
no other purpose for the one that the
commissioners while they do not agree
as to its soundness as a principle they
do agree that either point Of view In
PRODUCES the human element Those
who lean towards the municipalization
of these utilities are forced to admit
that 1t will not sweep away ell of the po-
lftical abuses complained Of, while those
who lean towards private ownership see
no practical way of eliminating politics
from their. control.
The report Of Professor Commons Of
the University of Wisconsin, which The
Journal and Courier printed in its issue
Monday morning, Is especially interest
ing and suggestive. Advocates OF civil
service reform will be surprised to
| learn that where the heads Of depart
ments are independent of political con-
siderations that panaeea Is not requir-
| ed and that better results are secured
without it. Where the departments are
! headed by men who owe their appoint
ment to political superiors a way
around the civil service law 10 easy 10
find and hence It Is deprived of Its the
oretical power. Eliminate politics and
it is of very little consequence what the
theoretical protection Is. Personally
Professor Commons is convert to the
theory that If local governments win
deal with the labor unions directly in
providing themselves with workers all
trouble would disappear. "Thls fol-
lows ne says, from the nature Of
labor organization, which cannot sur
vive If individuals are given preference
on political, religious, personal or any
other grounds than the character Of the
work they do" He gives two or three
illustrations Of the value Of organized
labor in cities where public utilities are
owned and controlled by municipalities,
Professor Commons found that the
secretary of the Wheeling (Va,l Gas
Trustees while testifying to the rotten
ness of the municipal gas works also
testified TO the rottenness of the private
gas, electric and street car companies
of that locality. Upon further investi-
cation he found that both the govern
ment gas works and the private cor
porations are In politics, He says; "The
gas employees take part in the prim-
aries Of the Republican party and the
motormen and conductors of the street
car companies are given leave of alb
sence on pay to work in the primaries
of both the Republican and Democratic
parties. Even the officers of the street
railway employees union take part in
this kind of traction politics on behalf
Of their employees. The councilmen and
aldermen nominated and elected in thi;
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.TMPOETJNT IF TRUE.

admiral Sakamoto Of Japan isn't as
popular in this country as General Ku-
rokl was. He says that bur naval Of
ficers are more ornamental than useful
His criticism doesn't set well, but how
shall the criticism Of the truly patrl-
otic Minneapolis Tribune be allowed TO
set? The Tribune says; Heaven pre-
serve us from war with Japan till we
learn the elementary rules of the game.
We are twice as populous and several
times as rich as Japan We have no
army, but We can turn out an armed
mob twice as big as hers. We have
twice as many battleships, half man.
ned, which we can fill with seasick
landlubbers in case of need. We can
raise or borrow ten dollars to her one
and can probably make ten dollars go
about as far as one of hers. We are
superior to the Japanese in everything
but efficiency, and what patriotic Amer
lean ever bothers his head about mill
tary or naval efficiency in time Of
peace? We should beat them in one
year or ten, but Il would be bloody
and costly job.
This is important If true. Almost ex-
actly the same kind Of criticism is being
made of England's military outfit by
patriotic Engllshmen, Frenchmen are
similarly scoldlng, and even Germans
are saying that the German military
heads don't know all there is to be
known about war. 1t seems to be gen
orally admitted that Japan does know
Fortunately there Is yet time to learn
some things before war between Japan
and this country breaks out. When it
does, perhaps it will be found that the
United States has profi'ted by the criti-
clsm of Admiral Sakamoto and the
Minneapolis Tribune.
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This will involve. as he says, putting
away the notion that any man is fit to
make our laws provided he has friends
enough to elect him to Office, but that
will be a good thing not bad thing.
Suppose, for example, the general as
Isembly had been differed and manned
this winter with men who understood
the science of government as those
men understand it who have for a
generation been members of congress,
does anyone doubt that the session
would have been over weeks ago and
that the folly of sacrificing public in
terests for private interests would
have been exposed? Mr.. Luther is the
kind Of man temperamentally the pub
| lie would like to see in political sta
ton, but, as he practically confesses, If
he is the kind wanted and needed he
must be trained to the task, not ac-
cepted and put to work because he is
honest and enjoys the confidence of his
neighhors. We infer that this winter
experience will end with his retirement
to private life, but we hope that one
result of what he had to say to the
people of Springfield will be to encour-
age several of his political colleagues
to stay in until they have mastered the
game.
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IRA HFEERs.

Nimrod-Are you fond of hunting?
Gyer-It all depends.
acknowledgements on what?
Gyer-Whether am hunting game or
q collar button--Chicago News.
Benevolent old mani am so sorry,
Johnny, to see you have a black eye"
Promising youth-"You go home and
be sorry for your own little boy; he's
got two. ILLUSTRATED Bits.
BE mine'' he cried, in a voice sur
charged with anguish. IF you refuse
me, shall diet"
But the heartless girl refused him.
That was sixty years ago. Yesterday
he dled.-Tit-Bits.
Gentleman Ito the stage manager)---
Why does Hamlet move up and down
the stage all the while he utters his
soliloquy?
He knows his public--if he was to
stand still he might perhaps be hit by
something. -Fliegende Batter.
She handed In check payable to
Susan n. Smith. The cashier, who was
German, noticed that she had in
dorsed 1t Susan Smith and gave it back
with a polite You hat forgotten the
H " Overcome with confusion, she
murmured, Excuse me-" and wrote be-
low the Endorsement, age %, "-Lppin-
colts.
''Uncle Henry" said the young man,
II want to raise enough money to pay
off my creditors, and then wash my
hands of the business have been try
ing to rum" call right, nephew" said
| the kind uncle. II will let you have a
few hundred dollars, il that will help
you" but few hundred will be mere
| ly drop in the bucket" "A drop in
the bucket? I thought you only want
ed to wash your hands-not to take a
bath. Judge.
For more than a week the teacher
had been giving lessons on the dog,
and so when the inspector came down,
and chose that very subject, there
seemed every prospect of the class dis
tlnguishing itself on brilliant essays
about our canine friend, Things were
progressing quite satisfactorily, and the
master was congratulating himself on
the trouble he had taken, when, alas!
o question was asked which made him
tremble for the reputation of his schol-
ars.
"Why does a dog hang his tongue out
of his mouth?" asked the inspector
YES my boy?' he said, to bright
looking lad who held up his hand, whilt
the light of genius was in his eye.
please, sir" cried the pupil. cts tc
balance his tail!"- philadelphia Inquirer
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GoTERNMENT BIZ RECEiVERss

We have had government by commits
sion, government by injunction, govern
ment by impulse, and now the talk is
that we are going to have government
by receivers. The Tobacco trust is to
be Investigated, and we are told that
new policy has been adopted by the
President and the officers of the De-
partment of Justice, which aims at
nothing less than the placing of every
monopolistic or lawbreaking trust in
the hands of a receiver, who as the
agent of the Federal court shall carry
on the business of the corporation. This
proceeding is, it is asserted, to have a
trying out in the prosecution Of the to-
bacco company, and if the movement
succeeds other oapitalistic combinations
which may be violating the laws may
expect to receive similar treatment.
The receivership plan is said to be re.
garded by the administration as a
method of giving to the prosecution OF
trusts a practical effect. It would GER
tainly do this, and it.might do more
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Kicking.

'Tis useless to kick at the wealth OF
your neighbor,
It will never fatten your purse
It's idle to kick at the state of the
weather,
1t makes it not better nor worse.
TITS empty to kick at the scheme of Gre
alton,
1t does not affect 1t bit;
And vain Is the kick at the age that
you live in,
It's march Is not halted whit.
IT'S useless to kick at the failings Of
people,
There's nothing to show for the
work;
'Tis vain to condemn the society
wrinkles,
1t never will alter quirk.
There's nothing accomplished by sit
ting aud railing,
Improvement more effort demands;
Success is the need of a different per-
son,
The fellow who kicks with his hands.
-McLandburgh Wilson, New York Sun.
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The legislature of New York has con-
vened in extraordinary session. So
has the Connecticut legislature.
MAY M ABnE 70 KrrP WARM.

We can't have everything to please
us. Just after being encouraged by the
scientific statement that the present
heat OF the sun will last for S0OO0,OO
years another scientist gets up on his
hind legs and announces that no am
thracite coal win be left In seventy five
years. This announcement is somewhat
saddening, especially for those who
have got into the habit Of buying an
thracite coal and can't see, how they
are going to be able to keep up the
habit if the price keeps going up. But
perhaps if there is no anthracite coal
left in seventy-tlve years those who are
then left will not be left Wonder work
ers may have heat to sell then at a
price that will not bankrupt any more
than the price Of coal does now. If the
worst comes to the worst the hot air
generated by heated discussions can
perhaps be collected and sold. In this
State the legislature could be kept in
session all the year and all the
years around so as to fur
nish the needed hot air. In seventy-five
years there may be even more ways of
escaping freezing to death than there
are now.
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BOYS TAINTED NOT.

In the newer States the legislatures
do something and then adjourn. For
Instance, at the last session Of the
legislature of Washington law was
made fixing the age Of messengers at
not less than eighteen years. Why this
law was made we 40 not know. Per-
haps to prevent messenger boys from
becoming too rapid. But now that It
has been made there are some objec-
tions to 1t which seem we'll based.
Telegraph managers say that former
" they got their clerks and operators
from the ranks Of the messengers, and
the training they received in this SER
vice was the best possible preparation
for Office work, Now that they must
employ men, all this Is changed. The
senger's Job is such that few will try
to be anything else but messengers,
and the training school is thus closed.
1t Is difficult to get men to act as mes
sengers. They look upon the job as
boys work, and don't care for it. Be-
sides, they are slower to learn than
boys are. Their minds are less alert.
1t Is also pointed out that a bright
messenger boy meets every business
man In the region, and whenever the
latter discovers boy that gives prom
Use of being of value to him he takes
| him into his employ. Many family
is glad enough to have a boy help out
the bread and butter question and at
the same time learn a business where
there is good chance for advance
ment.
II Is true that many messenger boy
has walked or run on to fame and for
tune, and some would be able to do it
in the State Of washington. Others
have walked or run away from fame
and fortune. Boys will be boys, but
why they shouldn't be allowed to be
messenger boys in the State. OF Wash
ington Is hard to sea
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NOT Yer BLEITED 0UE.

The national Eisteddfod Of Wales is
to be held at Swansea next month,
from the goth to the oath. Twelve of
the finest Welsh choirs will compete,
and it is expected that over 10000 peo-
pie will be present. The largest prize
is 81 900.
This IS cheering. Awhile ago we
were told that there was some fear in
Wales about the continued prosperity
of the Esteddfodds. It appeared that
at the Eisteddfods tenors had been vi
brating their voices too much hleat-
ing, ais a blunt crictic called it-and
that there was danger that the bleat-
ing would spoil the Eisteddfods. It Is
good news that the Eisteddfods are
not yet worn out or bleated out, and It
is to be hoped that the tenors who
will sing at Swansea next month will
not bleat. II they do they are likely
to hear such a roar that they will
think lions are after them. The
Eisteddfods should be preserved. 1t is
not necessary that bleating tenors
should be.
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
what WIN Brother Rockefeller do

New York World)
Possibly Mr. Rockefeller is as un-
familiar as he appears with the present
management Of the Standard Oil Is he
displeased with It now that the Stand
ard OH Is convicted Of violating the
law on q wholesale scale? II 50, how
Will his displeasure manifest itself to-
ward his subordinates? viii he give
proof OF his sincerity by remaining the
dummy president OF lawbreakinr
trust while both confident Of its law
abiding principles and unconcerned
about its big dividends?
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BaaI outclasscd.
Chicago Record Herald.)

Chicago Record -Herald.)
II was great and glorious day.
In Phoenicia and In Carthage where
Baal was worshipped with human
sacrifices the children who went into
his fiery embrace at least gave their
lives for an object deemed OF the great
est Importance by all the people.
Our victims give up their lives to
mere folly and license.
n Baal could come around to-day
and gaze upon the works of uncle-Sam-
uel-Fonrth -of-July he would feel his
would admit that he was a very much
antiqnated inferior, incompetent
monster by comparison.
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Thirty years ago Prophet Daboll pre-
dicted that there would be no Summer
this year. Here's generously hoping that
in spite of his failure as prophet he
himself Is not too warm.
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Three French sardine trawlers, while
engaged in fishing about sixty miles
from Belleisle, declare themselves to
have been the eyewitnesses Of a SUBJ
marine earthquake. At distance Of
about five miles from where they were
the crew saw a dense 7black smoke
rising from the water, and, satisfied
that a ship was on fire, they bore in
that direction. No ship could they
see or any trace Of one, but from the
water there continued to issue the
cloud Of smoke, and as they got near
Ter they also saw sheets Of flame rise
from time to time. In fear for their
own safety, they drew back to their
former position, whence at night they
continued to see the smoke and flame
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A man at Avilla, Missouri proposed
to a girl the other day and when she
accepted him he dropped dead. It is
believed that Joy and not grief or sur
prise killed him.
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These are interesting and important
times, and it may be that we shall soon
have government enough and Of the
right kind.
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They don't all move around in their
efforts to become moss grown. Andrew
]. Sheets, a Harrison county (Mis-
sourD farmer, who has just died, at
the time of his death occupied the
farm for which he had the patent from
the United States and upon which he
had lived ffty-two years.
One of the decorations of which the
Queen of Portugal is proudest is the
naAaaI Of TIA R1itish Humane Society,
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Five years ago the population of the
Canadian prairie provinces was 1885,
900 and the grain crop was 100000
bushels. In 1906 the population was
100000 and the grain crop was 2OO,-
100000 bushels, one-half of this being
wheat and grown on less than four per
cent. of the net area of land available
for cultivation in that section.
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It is believed that Peter West Of
Pendleton. Oregon, holds the worlds
record in the divorce business. He is
an attorney and has tried S07 divorce
cases In Umatilla county. Besides his
professional work for clients, he has
had some personal experience, having
been divorced eight times and is now
living with his tenth wife. He is
rather an interesting character in the
eastern Oregon town, and not at all
averse to discussing his speciality in le-
gal practice.
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Summer CottagerJ

WEBSTER defines a cottage as a
wv hut-but Webster's been dead
some years. The Summer cot
tage Of today is no hut and the
Summer cottager no longer lives an
amphibious existence attired in a collar
tess. though not colorless. negiigee.
There are some Nature lovers who take
so the tall timber. but the average
chore or country sojourner wants. all the
creature comforts that a pampered
utilization supplies.
We do not pose as pampered
civilization yet we can supply many
Of the things that add to the com
fort of your Summer home-such as
Hammoeks, Refrigerators, Drink
Mixers, Freezers and all kinds OF
Kitchen Utensils.
We deliver TO all
uearby towns.
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It is reported by a United States
consul in Germany that for some years
a number of women factory inspectors
have been employed in the duchies of
Baden and Saxe-Coburg -Gotha, with
results so satisfactory that the central
German states quite generally have
decided to introduce the practice.