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Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Engineer McGrath has gone TO To
peka to attend a meeting Of the joint
protective board of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive FHremen and Engineers
for the Santa Fe.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

We cell the famous Cooper medicines.
CENTER eLocK.pEPoT DRUG CO.
. Corner LINCOLN AND GRAND.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23
@@||| Excursions.

Imperial Council Arabic Order Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine Los
3d. For the above occasions tickets will
be daily April May 49, 1907 the reduced rate Of one
fare the Los Angeles S San Francisco "a 10 Final
return limit July 81, 1907.
National Electric Medical Association Los Angeles Cal June ls a. e
Tickets sale daily from June June h Fare for
the round trip Angeles $3.50 San Francisco s4io Final return
limit August 81, 1907
Endesyo Convention Seattle
Wash July Convention Baptis: Young Peoples Union
Spokane WASH July At 1907 Grand Lodge Independent Order OF
Good Tempa Seattle WASH July 1922 1907 For the above
sons tickets will be sale daily from June q to July A 1907 Final
EkoursfoDs Assy Sepfsmsr, LSossvs. 1907.
Commencing Saturday trip tickets will be sale
Saturday. during July August
and September, 1907, to the following points:
San Francisco rate for the round trip $50
San Diego I" $3.50
Santa Monica, " " "
Redondo,
Pedro
Beach,
Coronado.
80 1907 Stopovers be
made either direction Williams and Flagstaff for side trip TO the
Hobrook for side the Petri6ed
Barstow Round trip
williams to Grand Canyon, $3.50 - *L.-< aes j
particulars etc. call at ticket ocs
phone .,~ :. .>stt,~">
DAN [. RAToAElOR, Agent.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Robert r. De Mott has passed the
mechanical examination at la Junta
ana Is now In the city taking the time
card examination and will soon be
riding on the right side Of the cab, In
stead of shoveling In the black dia
monds.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23
viii Have Train Auditors

BY June every passenger train on
the entire Mexican Central system
will be supplied with train auditors.
their experimental employment hay-
Ing resulted satisfactorily. This has
not. however. been the experience of
other railroads. which sought TO intro
duce such a change.
At present there are forty-six audi
tors on Mexican Central trains and
when be system Is extended TO In.
clude the entire line the number will
be increased to seventy or eighty.
The Santa Fe will close Raymond
station. near Pasadena. for the sum.
mer about May 1. The station has
been kept open during the tourist sea.
son for the accommodation OF the
guests at the Raymond hotel and a
good business has been handled there
during the past winter. w. r. Flynn.
who has had charge OF the station.
will be assigned to special duty dur,
Ing the summer
The shops Of the III paso and South
western railroad. located at Carrizozo
which were destroyed by fire a short
time ago are 70 be rebuilt at thu
same location. according to reports
1t is stated that work will commenc,
at once and be rushed TO compile
, ton as soon as possible. The Or,
, caused a damage of $4,000 and wal
fully covered by insurance.
The concrete foundations and foot
ings for the new Atchison. Topeka
. and Santa Fe depot at Willard ar,
completed. and the frame work Il
support the molds for the concret'
:, work of the superstructure are II
u place. The Atchison, Topeka AM
Santa Fe yards there are congeste'
with railroad material of all kinds
I including round-house equipment
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23
COMING EVENTS.
Duncan opera House.

COMING EVENTS.
Duncan Opera House.
April 26-Raiph Griggs In The Col.
lege Boy.
May 2i-Mary Mannering In "Glor.
ious Betsey."
May 22-Class play by High School.
May 24-High School graduating ex.
ercises.
May 2s-Mrs. Harrison Grey Fsske
in "A New York idea"
Read The Optic.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Last year the Rock Island sold lOO,'
900 decks of playing cards which
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

W. b. Fritz Of La Junta has arrived
In the city and will assume charge
of the local yards as yardmaster In
a few days.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Fireman Chance has been regular
ly assigned to engine 1905. with Engi
neer George Norman.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Brakeman L. B. Ragin has returned
from Kennedy. where he has been
enjoying a weeks lay-on.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Fireman Al Harvey laid on for a
trip yesterday.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

p. Sacoman Is a new employe on
the rip track.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

Fireman Louis Brown has been lay.
ing off and is suffering with a severe
attack OF grip
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

A. Romero. who was employed on
the rip track. has resigned and ex-
poets to 60 to Springer where he will
work un q ranch.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

The steam wrecking crane is receiv
ing a coat OF paint, which greatl!
helps Its appearance.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

FOR RENT-Two or three furnished
rooms for light housekeeping. Ap.
ply go Gailinas street alt
Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-23

FOR SALE-House Of seven r3cms
. corner lots. bath and all modern
conveniences. barn. ETC.: $3.50
also horse and buggy: eau at
725 Seventh street. t%1
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
Value of Fi.hskIn,.

"Ffshskins are popularity regarded.
as about the most useless thing on
earth, not good to eat and only yalua-
BILE to hold together the good fish meat
inside them," said man who had
caught fish or worked In fish packing
houses all his life. "But Just wait un-
til We begin to pay more for our glue,
and then well sit up and think about
the fishskins. The market value OF
this commodity has advanced rapidly
the past few years, and In another year
II Is going to take a decided leap up
ward.
ut was only few years ago that
hshskins We're thrown away as worth
less. and the fish packing, companies
were seriously concerned as to how to
get rid OF them. In one place where Il
worked there was q hole In the fish
skinning loft which was connscted
with runway into the water beneath
the wharf. Even then we would Ill up
the hole quicker than the skins could
be carried away. Some firms used to
go to the expense of having the skins
earted away to some dumping ground.
But one day some one woke up to
the fact that the skins had certain ad-
hesive qualities,- and fish glue began
to be manufactured. Then fshskins
took on commercial value Since then
the price has advanced steadily The
demand now is; SO large that II Is prob
able the price will be doubled within
q year."-New York Press
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
GETS WIFE BY ADVERTISING.

News comes from Hamilton, Ohio,
that William Duke, affectionately
known as "Uncle Billy" has just
been married to Mrs. Mark ham, who
was Lee, of Virginia, and cousin
of General Robert Z. Lee. "Uncle
Billie" is seventy-five years old and
his wife is forty-eight.
How did Uncle Billy, who was a
bachelor, secure a wife? We are told
that be did it by advertising, and
that he had persevered in this course
for fifty-two years. 1t is said that
he spent thousands of dollars in
advertising and in paying the ex-
pensies of wsmen who came to see
him. but all former applicants were
unsuitable or refused to marry him.
Did Uncle Billy get discouraged?
Not a bit of it. He knew the sue
cessful advertiser is he who stays,
and his staying power was equal to
the demand. He is at last rewarded
by seeing his AIM accomplished.
Let other advertisers profit by his ex-
ample.-Louisyille Courier Journal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.

A Petersburg judge fined one Wright
to 500 and six months in Jail for run
ming "speakeasy."
Local option In Vermont, which has
taken the place of State prohibition, is
working most satisfactorily. Under the
new law the number of license towns
has steadily decreased.
The Young Mems Bible Class of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church, of which
John d. Rockefeller, jr., is the leader,
held its tenth annual banquet at which
ice-water flowed freely, and Mr.. Rookie
ellertold why he was total abstainer.
He said: ''To drink glass of beer is
not in itself more harmful than to eat
some kind OF indigestible food. The
single action is not sin, but it is the
abuse that the first glass leads to that
is the sin. 1 believe not only in tenn
perance, but in total abstinence, and
this for two reasons. First, because
both my father and his father, as well
as my mothers father, were strictly
temperate; second, my mature judg-
ment is that while there may be no
harm in one glass, that one glass may
lead on to more. Therefore, say that
one glass is one too many
The anarchist proclaims that he is
free; that he acknowledges no ruler,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
If | SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.
(EVELYN NJ. LANDE.l

If should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet
face,
Before they laid it in its resting place,
And deem that death hath left it almost
fair,
And, laying snow-white flowers against
my hair,
Would smooth it down with fearful ten
derness,
And fold my hands with lingering caress,
Poor hands, SO empty, and so cold tonight.
If should die tonight,
My friends would call to mind with
loving thought
Some gentle word the frozen lips hath
said,
Some kindly deed the icy hands had
wrought,
Errands on which my willing feet had
sped.
The memory of my selfishness and pride,
My hasty words, would all be cast aside,
And so should be loved and mourned
tonight.
If should die tonight,
Even hearts estranged would turn once
--- more to me,
Recalling the days remorsefully;
The eyes that look upon me with averted
glance
Would look upon me as of yore, per-
chance,
And often in the old familiar way
For who could war with dumb, uncon-
scious clay?
So rest forgiven of all tonight.
Oh, friends, pray tonight,
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold
brow;
The way is lonely-let me feel them
now;
Think gently of me; am travel worn,
My faltering feet are pierced with many
a thorn;
Forgive, 0 hearts estranged, forgive. l
plead;
When dreamless rest is mine l shallnot
need
The tenderness for which long to-
night.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12

feels no obligation to obey any law.
But he is, as soon as recognized, driven
from one country to another, imprisoned,
hanged, thought of everywhere as a
menace to society. The man who re-
spects the chosen rulers and obeys the
laws of his country goes about freely
and unafraid, protected by the power
that Furnishes the peace-disturber and
law-breaker, and is treated as a valued
part of his home nation. We are all
tragically familiar with men of all ages
who decline to give up their freedom to
drink when and what they please. Our
prisons and insane asylums swarm with
them. Their boasted liberty is the
direst bondage which holds them from
success. How many parents, relatives.
friends, use their freedom to bind them
selves. -Lida A. Churchill in January
Delineator.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
Tn. Rioh Pay sh. Book Fin...

The Rioh Pay the Book FinsA
Wealthy people are careless, says the
public librarian. They are slow In re-
turning the books which they have
taken to read.
Last year $1.422.79 In fines was paid
at the library. This Is the total of
sums which ranged from 2 cents to a
dollar. 1t is the penalty paid for keep
Ing books longer than the prescribed
week or two weeks. The fine Is 2
cents n day.
Poor persons and persons In mod
crate circumstances are very punctual
In returning books" Mrs. Whitney
said. Very seldom do they keep them
overtime. But the wealthy are not SO
careful. A fine OF a few cents makes
no difference, and they pay IL without
comment
mot long ago little girl came In the
library aud laid q cents down before
the cashier. Her face was smeared
with licorice, and heg hands we're
gummy and sticky. she held y half
stick OF 1t closely I'm hss hand.
Your fines IA cents che cashier
said. f .ff(.sP r.
"'Weli, 700 take rat' che Mttls one
responded, an eves' time papa dives
me nickel to buy tandy TIL save 700
two pennies. An I'll pay'it'
That's financing q deficit" Mrs.
Whitney said. eve remitted the fine. {"
Kansas City Star.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
FIRST DUTY TO COUNTRY.
alexandria Gazette.)

The Chicago papers report that Il
man summoned for jury duty frankly
declared to the court that he was a
union laborman and would give a
union man on trial The best of it.
Justice Cavanaugh said to him, EN-
phatically: "You have no other
friend who is as good friend to you
as the law" and continued:
"lt made provision for you before
you were born; it enables you to wear
that coat on your back, those shoes
on your feet, or some one stronger
than you would take them from YOU.
The law makes it possible for you to
earn wages; without it you could not
collect your wages even though you
earned them. 1t is a guard over
your house; it stands guard over you,
your property, your reputation, your
life, and if your are sick and friend
less it will take care of you and look
after you. If you are dying it will
protect your body. A man may be
friendly to labor unions-yes, hut no
labor union has ever been the friend
to you that the law has been. There
is no organization that has been the
friend to you that the law has been.
You ought to have respect for the
law above any other institution"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
THINGS NOT PERTAINING
TO THE GENTLEMAN.
No gentleman uses slang.

NO gentleman uses slang.
No gentleman goes visiting or to a
banquet and talks shop.
No gentleman out of season pro-
trudes his views-especially such
views as he thinks shall further his
own interests.
No gentleman says he don't want a
thing, then does all he can to attain it.
No gentleman is all things to all
men.
No gentleman seeks to injure other
gentlemen by putting them in false
light.
No gentleman appeals to the pref
udice of the majority to injure the
minority.
No gentleman appeals for votes
that shall injure the prosperity of
the country.
No gentleman will speak in favor
OF brutality in games.
No gentleman will class the gentle
men of the world with molly-coddles.
No gentleman will fight class
against class-the rich against the
poor, or the poor against the rich.
No gentleman will use religion to
further his selfish ends.
No gentleman will play the part
of the poor mans friend to gain their
confidence for vile purpose.
No gentleman will invite gentle
men to his Office or home for the
purpose solely of advancing his own
interests and ambition.
No gentleman will disregard the
dress of the gentleman. and at times
appear in other habit-merely to gain
the appreciation of the lower or
humble classes for their votes.
No gentleman will, for votes or
self interest, do that which is unbe-
coming in gentleman.
No gentleman like Washington
ever does these things. N.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
SOME NOTES
OF Interest to Truckers, Farmers
and Stock RaiSerS.

Plant pumpkins in your corn fields.
Artichokes make an enormous crop
of most healtbful and nutritious feed
for hogs and all kinds of cattle.
They will yield, ordinarily, twice as
much as potatoes on the same land.
Should be planted, cultivated aud
harvested the same as potatoes, al
though, where desired, hogs can be
turned on them about two weeks
after the blossoms fall, and allowed
to feed on the roots throughout the
winter, except when the ground is
frozen. Artichokes are also entirely
hardy, and 1t is best not to dig them
until ready to feed. They will stay
in perfect condition in the ground
until spring. They can be planted
any time in February, March or
April; the earlier the better. Plant
in rows four feet apart, dropping the
artichokes ID to 13 inches apart in
the row. 1t requires 4 to bushels
to plant an acre. lie land is poor
apply fertilizer at the rate of 4 to 5
hundred pounds to the acre at the
last working of the artichokes. If
not harvested, and the hogs turned in
on them the next year there will be
a volunteer crop that will spread
over the field. They will continue
to multiply, even in fence corners,
and sometimes cannot be eradicated
except by continuing the hogs on the
lot.
The average yield of corn in the
United States Is about % bushels
per acre. In many States it is 20
bushels or less. Twenty bushels of
corn including the stover would re-
move from the soil 46 pounds of
nitrogen, 40 pounds of potash and Is
pounds of phosphorus. OF this
amount 26 pounds of nitrogen, 35
pounds of potash aud Z pounds of
phosphorus would be in the stoyer
and the remainder in the grain.
Observe the principal element re-
moved from the farm through the
sale of the grain would thus be nitro
gen, and if the stover were fed and
the manure returned to the land, the
larger part of the elements of plant
food removed by the crop would be
returned to the soil. There is no
reason why the yield of corn should
not be doubled and trebled on our
farms. For instance, 90 bushels of
corn would take from the soil about
SO pounds of nitrogen, 63 pounds of
potash and "a pounds of phosphorus.
Considering the supply of food which
is said to be present in an average soil,
there would be enough food, if used
even at this rate, to last for many
years. How does it come therefore,
that larger crops of corn are not
raised on the average? Apparently
the plant food is unavailable in the
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
EAGLE MATES BUT ONCE.

The married life of most birds
could be taken for a model even by
members of the human family.
There is, for instance, the staid, dig
nified and homeIy bald-headed eagle
the glorious emblem of the Ameri-
can Republic. lie mates but once
and lives with his one mate until he
or she dies. If left widower-even
a young widower-the bald.headsd
eagle never mates again. He remains
alone aud disconsolate in the nest on
the rocky crag orin the branches of
tall pine that formed his domicile
while his mate was alive. No other
female eagle can tempt him to for
sake his disconsolate life. With him,
once widower, always a widower.
The golden woodpeckers live in q
happy married state, mating but
once. If the male dies his mates
grief is lasting, and she lives a wild.
owed bird the rest of her life. So
too, the male woodpecker never seeks
another mate after the death of his
own. He taps on tree beside their
nest day and night, trying to recall
her; then at length, discouraged and
hopeless, he becomes silent and never
recovers his gayety.-Chicago Tri
bune.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12

soil and it behooves the farmer to
ascertain how change in this respect
can be brought about. First of all,
he need not purchase nitrogen, rs he
can obtain it through farm-yard
manure or the plowiug under of
green, leguminous crops. This will
also add humus to the soil and
change its physical relation towards
air, moisture and the development
and distribution of plant roots. The
other elements must be supplied In a
commercial form. One crop of cow
peas plowed under will more than
supply the nitrogea needed for go
bushel crop Of corn, and 40 pounds
of high grade acid phosphate and
125 pounds of muriate Of potash the
phosphorus needed. Would it not
De profitable to double aud treble our
corn crop? 1t certainly would, for
the cultivation of the land required
for 60 busheI crop of corn, is but
slightly in excess of what is required
for a 20 bushel crop. Supplying
the nitrogen from the air makes it
both practicable and advisable for
the farmer to purchase the small
amount of tie comparatively cheaper
mineral elemeuts-phosphorous and
potash-needed to supply his soil
with the available elements of plant
food in which it must evidently be
deficient or he would obtain larger
yields.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12

/, Wisconsin spitomises shessnSEatWsst
Ne sthss wsatern state 6sa SnSh 4. u
yerslty Of RACIAL elswsrA 1n1els
alone. with It's queer SSl6ny * HstSs,
guese ProtestSnts az ssckSS1s sl1lR Sas
an element whilh wisssAssA tsS SSA
None but lwiseensls eaS Bslzsssnhs
and Flemlngs. 10 has -. sndians pppn.
iation Of over 5000. stis thS srsatsss
Welsh. Cornish. Norwegian and. Ger
man state. It has 1celanders ,Hyith
Minnesota. Bohemians with Iowa and
french. Firms and Hollandsys with
Micnisan. The Oldest and snly purely
Hungarian colony in America Is on it's
soil and the largest colony OF Swiss.
1t has native white element as old
as the Knickerbockers and even Eng
lish descended families who go back
$50 years on Wisconsin soil.-Wardon
Allan Curtis In Century.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
DOING BUSINESS AGAIN.

when my friends thought was about TO
take leave OF this world, on account of indiges-
on,nervousness and general debility writes
A. A. Chisholm. Treadwell, N. ". land when
1t looked as If there was no hope left, was
persuaded TO try Electric Bitters and rejoice
to say that they are curing me. / am now
doing business again as OF old, and am still
gaining daily" Best tonic medicine on earth.
Z. c. Richardson. Kilmarnock; T. ]. Hay
don Il Son. Irvington; Ficklin & Bass, Litwal-
ton. Price 5Oc.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
TREspAssING CHlCKEN,.

The Times-Dispatch publishes this
on burning and scratching subject:
You will please answer in your Query
Column, is it lawful for one man s
chickens or fowls to destroy another's s
crop2 If not, what is the remedy?
A SUBSCRIBER.
1t is not lawful, and you can have
an injunction issued, which will
make him restrain his chickens on
his own land, or You can sue him for
the damage resulting from their
trespass on your land.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
.pNEUMoN1A.s DEADLY WORK

had so seriously affected my right lung"
writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of Rural Route !.
Georgetown. Tenn, "that coughed contin-
uously night and day and the neighbors' pre-
n-copsumption-se inevitable, un-
til my husband brought home bottle of Dr.
Kings New Discovery, which in my case
proved to be the only REAL cough cure and
restorer of weak, sore lungs" When all other
remedies utterly fail, you may still win in the
battle against lung and throat troubles with
New Discovery, the REAL cure.
Guaranteed by 4. G. Richardson, Kilmar-
mock; L. j. Hayden & Son, Irvington: Ficklin
Bass. Litwalton. Price soc and $i.OO. Trial
bottle free.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12

We may name hundred drawbacks
That man must meet in life I
We may say It's all aSbattle
And never ending strife;
Then resolve to meet it bravely-
Stand the test-to. do and dare
But the secret of true victory
Lies in one word, be square.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-12
RIrrEN RY A SPInER-

Through blood poisoning caused by a spider
bite, John Washington. of Bosqueville. Tex.
would have lost his leg, which became a mass
OF running sores, had nc not been persuaded
to try Buckleu's Arnica Salve. He writes:
"The first 0plication relieved. and four boxes
healed all the sores " Heals every SORE
&c. at f. G. Richardson, Kilmarnock; T. J.
Hayden & Son. Irvington; Ficklin s. Bass, Lit
walton.