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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-04

Tuesday In assembly We had the
pleasure ot hearing Mr.. Grant. on
Success" This Is the second
ot a series.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-04

The candy sale nj the basket ball
game Monday last was a success.
Tae High school girls cleared over
fifteen dollars.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-04

SEE BAtLY'S WINDOW FOR
NEW POST CARDS, VALENTINES
AND NECK lAcEs. PIT
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-04

The High school postal service Is
In fine shape. Miss Shaefer or Miss
Cohn may dispatch their notes TO
Mr.. Irish without any Inconvenience
whatever. MIR. Young has the chief
carrier position.
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L0ST-The High school girls have
lost their Hearts and PAD Gil
more Don't you feel sorry for Mr.,
Gilmore:
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-04

q, Why was Ernest Blood down
tO~n Thursday night:
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Mr. Blood went 10 Santa Re.
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extended study to national issues, but
asserted that his instincts were right,
and promised that soon as he got to
Washington and had more leisure he
would go into the subject extensively,
decide without bias and give his constit-
uents the benefit of an honest vote on
every proposition submitted.
A Naval Hero.
An echo of the Spanish-American war
is found in the entrance into Congress
applause and limitless OSCILLATION for his
gallant feat of sinking the Merrimac in
Santiago harbor, with the idea of bot
Ting Cervera's fleet.
The intrepid naval hero has had a some
what checkered career since that IA
nous incident, now ten years in the back
ground.
He created sensation by resigning
from the navy, despite his promotion in
on the rostrum and made some reputation
as Il lecturer.
His desires turned to politics. He as
PRED to the seat of Representative Bank
head. In the first contest he lost. but
to the fray he won. Bank
head had 3o .cause. 70 feel badly, how
ever. for the deaf hsisof Senators Morgan
'a1d :Pettus opened the way for him to
obtain seat in the upper body
Hobsonss main object in coming to Con-
gress is to advocate d program of naval
liberality which will give Uncle Sam
the greatest fleet in the world. not even
excluding that of Great Britain.
Another oddly of this session is the
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visited an odd street in Omdurman yes
terday. devoted to selling the native
product.
The chief cotton market of this region
consists of many little sheds covered
with mats facing a dirt road. 1t is sit
uated not far from the center of the
city of Omdurman, and there are several
thousand acres of mud huts reaching out
on all sides of it. Both the sheds and the
streets are filled with cotton. The cot
ton is brought in in bags of mating
and is sold just as it is when picked
from the plants. The samples are dis
played in fiat, round baskets, each of
which holds perhaps a bushel; and when
carried away it is put up in bags and
not in bales. A great part of it goes to
the native weavers who turn it into
cloth. using the smallest factories one
can imagine.
Not far from the street where the cot
ton is sold I found a little factory, which
put the raw material through all the
processes and turned it into native CLOTH
The establishment consisted of a half
dozen mud huts, shut off from the street
by a mud wall, which. with the huts
formed a court. In the court a dozen
black-skinned women were sitting on
mats on the ground. ginning and spin.
ming, while the weaving went on in the
huts at the back. The gin was some
what like a clothes wringer, save that
the rolls were about as big around as
the ordinary candle, and that the whole
machine was SO small that it could have
fitted into a peck measure. One woman
turned the machine, while another put
in the cotton and picked out the seeds
as they failed to go through Near the
gin sat two women who were swapping
the lint with bowstrings to separate
the fibers and further over there were
a half dozen others, sitting cross-legged,
and spinning the lint into yarn by hand.
I went to the mud huts at the back
and looked in at the weavers. They
were black boys and men, who sat be-
fore rude looms on the edge of holes in
the ground The looms were made
that they could be worked with the
feet, the shuttles being thrown back and
forth by hand. The latter. moved
through the cloth with a whistling noise,
and this was about the only sound to
be heard. The cloth turned out is very
good. 1t is well woven, soft and brings
good prices. It's wearing qualities are
better than those of the Manchester and
American cottons. I asked what wages
the boy weaverS received, and was told
10 cents a day.
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Fifty-ninth Congress, having received
the appellation direct from John Sharp
Williams because on the opening day
of the last session he provoked the ire
of the democratic leader by getting prom
inent long before the interval of silence
imposed on young member had passed
McDermott. who went after Wharton's
scalp, got his training as messenger
boy. He has some of, the traits yet
He is small of stature, bright of eye
quick of thought and never lacking in a
reply.
While delivering messages in the Pack
ingtown district he came to know every
voter, and when the democrats gave him
their nomination he knew just where
to go to look for aid.
The most effective argument used in
his favor was the fact that he was quietly
given credit for having furnished Sinclair
the points that were Incorporated with
such effect in 1.-The Jungle that new
laws were passed in order to correct the
abuses called to public attention by the
author
The prestige of this act lifted McDer-
mott into Congress.
He Sold Papers.
Although not yet thirty, McDermott is
far from being the youngest member.
This honor is held by Harry B. Wolf,
representative from the third Maryland
district, and it is claimed for him that
he is the youngest man ever elected to
Congress. Wolf is twenty-six years old
and in appearance looks like young
college student. One could more readily
picture him on a college campus giving
the yell of his alma mater before some
foot ball game than wrestling with prob
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lens of statecraft. Yet young Wolf is
said to pe very alert and able. He be-
gan life as a newsbOy, selling papers in
the streets of Baltimore. He forced
himself to the fore by waging a cam
paign against Representative Frank c.
Wachter, and was rewarded with the
nomination against nm.
Old and Young.
AS contrast to Representative Wolf
Senator Whyte of Maryland suggests him
self. Whytes eighty-four years make
Rim old enough to be the great grand
state The contrast afforded by the
two members shows that Maryland is
equally just in recognizing the claims of
both youth and old age.
If McDermott gets lonely he can find
excellent company in Stanley II. Kunz,
from his own state. The two men pro-
coed from allied callngs. McDermott
graph instrument to go to the capital
may have delivered the messages that
came over kunZs wire.
1t has not been permitted to many men
to pass from a job at the telegraph key,
with an $50 a month salary, to place in
Congress with remuneration fixed at
81 800 per year.
The ambitions of Kunz were laughed
at during the campaign, but the tele-
graph operator. while admittedly lacking
something in school education, had the
right kind of shrewdness and made a
skllful campaign, announcing himself as
a Roosevelt democrat He admitted
that he had been too busy to give any
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COTToN P1CKING SUDAN

house there which has cost something
like $4,000, and ! understand that he
has spent something like million dollars
in the development of his property.
His lands lie near the junction of the
Cape to Cairo road which runs from
Alexandria south to khartum, and the
Nile and Red Sea railway, which con-
meets that road with Port Sudan on the
Red sea. This will give him two outlets
for his cotton. He can either send ii to
the Red sea across the Nubian desert by
a short railway haul of about 300 miles
or down to the Mediterranean over the
Cape to Cairo route, a distance of con-
siderably more than 1000 biles. The
probability is that it will all go to the
Red sea and thence by steamship to Eu-
rope or the United States.
AS yet the eXpe riment is not far enough
advanced to be pronounced an unqualified
success. Mr.. Hunt has had trouble with
his labor. with his machinery and with
insect pests, and especially the locusts,
which have eaten up a large part of his
crops. These difficulties can be overcome
and the land promises to be worth a
great fortune. l understand that it was
given him by the government at low
rate in consideration of his developing it.
1t will cost. with its improvements, only
a few dollars per acre, and when the
water is put upon it, it should be worth
more than 500 per- acre, and it will then
rent for enough to pay good interest on
that sum. Thirty thousand acres at 5000
per acre means $4,000 900. and this. I am
assured, is not an overestimate of its
probable value. if it can be brought under
cultivation.
l met Mr. Hunt in New York shortly
before l left for Africa. He then hoped
to be in Egypt at the time of my visit.
and asked me to call upon him at his
plantation. He met with an accident.
however. which kept him in the United
States longer than he had intended. l
asked him some questions about his plan
tations then, but he had little to say. He
Is modest in talking about himself, and
the information I have given here is
not from him. / find that he has the
respect and esteem of every one here, and
the general opinion is that he will sue
ceed I am told he is a large owner of
lands in the suburbs of Khartum. About
three or four years ago he bought sixty
acres Just outside the town. paying 800
or $50 per acre for it. The total cost
was under $4,000. That land is rapidly
increasing in value. and is said to be
now worth anywhere from one-quarter to
one-half million dollars. Angelo Capato
tells me that he is authorized to offer Mr.
Hunt 100000 TO- it as a whole, but, he
adds. Mr.. Hunt will probably keep it and
develop it upon his own lines as a new
addition to the city of Khartum.
Selling Cotton in omdurman.
Speaking of the cotton of the Sudan I
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TOPREVENT GRAY
: INVOLVEMENT THROUGH
TREATMENT NOTED IN TIME.

= F women would take proper care OF
their scaIps by massasing and rub
- tbing oil into the roots pretty hair
would not be unusual and srayness would
not be so common, for dryness. the con-
dition that causes the tresses to become
lusterless and to fade into grayness, could
not exist.
AS 10 preventive treatment for this
trouh}e. remember that scalp massage
is M difficult. 1t merely takes time
To do il one rests the tips OF the fingers
on the scalp. the thumbs being firmly
placed The fingers are then pressed III
and the scalp itself is moved, the nhser
tips remaining quite rig:d. Chless t.is!
hair. tangIing 1t, and will give no mas
sage. Each part of the scalp shouid De
rubbed in this way, changing the position
OF the fingers every three or four minutes
until the entire head has been worked on.
'Tbe operation should take fifteen or
twenty minutes. If any part or the
scalp is given extra attention II should De
that upon the temples, where the halr Is
apt TO turn gray nrst.
AS oils are the nourishment required
by dry scalp and only fats Will Improve
this condition, they should be used ire
quentiS The objection to them, that
they make the hair greasy, Will not exist
81 they are properly put on-that Is 10
sav IL the hair is parted, while the tonic
Is rubbed in the bare line with the nnger
tips or a tiny sponge. The scalp should
ne fed in this manner before massaging,
and unless carelessly done the long hair
will show no trace of grease.
Animal fats are undoubtedly best for
the SCALP VaseIIne. too. is good. Co.
Goa butter or anything containing wax
Is apt to be injurious because the wax
is not absorbed by the glands, but clogs
them.
Reef marrow pomade is one of the
hest simple scalp foods that can be used.
II is made by melting and straining d
gill of beef marrow and adding a tea
spoonful of best sweet olive oil. Tween
ty-five drops of tincture of benzoin will
help to keep it sweet, but 1t should be
made always in small quantities
More stimulating is preparation of
equal quantities OF oil OF ergot and mer-
curry oleate. This may be perfumed with
lavender.
Another that has been highly beneficial
in many cases is made of one and one
half ounces of cocoanut oil. two and one
quarter drains o. tincture of nuX vomica.
one ounce of Jamaica rum and twenty
drops of oil of bergamot.
Still another is made of one and one
half ounces of white vaseline, three-quar-
ters of an ounce of cold drawn castor oil,
seven-eighths of a dram of gallic acid
and fifteen drops of OIL of lavender.
Any one OF these should be assaged
into the scalp every night until the glands
have taken all the grease they can hold.
every other night, simple massage con-
t:nuing. Meme of the formulas given will
work with lightning rapidlty. and il will
be a couple OF months before any i'm
provement in the condition of the hair
can be Loted
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return of Gen. Isaac r. Sherwood after
an absence of thirty-four years.
In the Forty-third Congress Sherwood
represented the Toledo Ohio district.
seventy-one to represent the same dis
trict, having been elected last year to
take the place-.of his strong republican
opponent, Representative Southland. The
former Speakers Grow and Keifer, who
returned to Congress after having been
out for many years.
Tom Gale and Frank Waskey were
Alaska miners until few months ago.
and would still be contentedly digging In
the gold mines If the politicians OF the
territory had not sought to send to Wash
.ngton a couple of delegates of dubious
political morals. AS soon as the miners
got wind of the scheme they turned loose
to break 1t up. and as a result their
honest fellow workmen. Gale and Was
key, have the places and will discharge
their trust in the interest of their COM
rades.
notable new member. He was formerly
a judge. and one day after the election in
which he had beaten S. NJ. Robertson he
learned that Dr. r. II. Aldrich had been
making dlsparaging remarks about his
WIFE, To a southerner there was only
one remedy. an Favrot promptly sought
out his man and shot him dead.
For Southern Honor.
Public sentiment was so thoroughly
with Favrot that it was foreshadowed in
advance that he would escape punish
ment. After several months in Jail he
was tried and freed on a technicality.
Favrot was formerly the judge in his
home district. This fact helped keep
him in jail longer than he otherwise would
have stayed, for there was no judge to
release him.
On the opening day of Congress the
Senate saw the pathetic sight of the
chaplain of the body leading around the
newly elected senator from Oklahoma
Thomas P. Gore. Mr.. Gore is stone
blind. 1t was at first suggested that
he have an attendant, but Mr.. Gore de-
cided that once the building was ex-
planned to him he would be able to get
around all right without aid.
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TREATMENT OF NAILS
HOW TO MAKE BROAD FINGER
TIPS LESS HoMELY.

r NSHAPELY nails cannot be made
beautiful in a night. but weeks Of
~ constant care will bring into
prominence the half moons always seen
on pretty nails. and will make broad
finger tips less homely.
Getting the nails flexible is the first
process in improving their shape. and this
work is accomplished largely by the use
sweet almond OIL is excellent, for both
are SO penetrating.
AS with all toilet work. the best results
will be obtained by taking the treatment
at night before going to bed. so the cure
will go on while one rests.
If the object of this is to improve the
shape of the nails or only to better the
general condition these rules should be
followed. Prepare a bath of warm
soapy water. Into this the finger tips
should be thrust and kept in for about
five minutes. At the end of that time
each finger should be wiped separately,
pushing the skin from the top to the base
to help loosen the old flesh. A drop of oil
Is then put around the bottom Of each
nail. that the cuticle may not harden.
This done. gently push back the cuticle
about the base.
The object Of this is to loosen any skin
adhering to the NAIL so that the whole
flesh may be moved, but unless this is
most carefully done the skin will be
bruised, II not broken, and the nail enam-
ell will be scratched.
Both these injuries are avoided by hav-
ing the skin soft when working on II,
and stopping at the slightest feeling of
soreness. 1t Is not to be expected that
enough flesh will be pushed back at
time to make any noticeable difference
in the shape of the nail. All that one
can do is to loosen the skin.
As each finger is fixed in this way an
other drop of oil should be put on 1t.
When both hands have been treated
ten short bandages should be dipped into
the oil and bound around each finger,
cushion of the tip so that the flesh will
be brought up around the side of the nail
as the bandage goes over. The wrap
ping should be snug. but not so tight as
to stop circulation.
II this is done nightly for months a
condition of the nails. but 1t will be many
weeks before the alteration will be WISH
BILE.
When taking this cure" never use scis-
sors or a knife for trimming the nails,
for nothing will so quickly make them
thick. coarse and hard.
A file will shorten them without in
jury, and its continued use will give a
more graceful shape, and even improve
the color and texture.
small stick, with Nat end, used to
push down the flesh. is another imple-
ment, besides a file, that is required.
There are manicure sticks made specially
Tor this purpose, but one may use a wood
en- skewer that comes from the butchers,
by whiting the end round to make It
smaller and then cutting fiat. The edges
should be rounded.
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Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
" XTREMES meet in the present
Congress as never before.
In point of age, in wealth, in
IL education. in ideas, there are
more startling contrasts than
have been noted in half dozen previous
sessions.
Almost every variation of political
thought and training can be found in
the two bodies that assembled recently.
Nominally the members are classed as
republicans and democrats. the populist
name having passed out of existence, but
the titles of the two principal parties
have been found elastic enough to cover
principles which have never been in
Guided in either platform.
For instance there is nothing about
peek boo waists in the declaration of
principles formulated by either republic
cans or democrats, but a member from
Tennessee owes his election TO the fact
that he promised to oppose them on the
floor of Congress. Packingtown, Chi
cago, is not an issue. but one OF the newly
elected members from that city comes to
Washington because he Is given the credit
for most of the facts that Upton SIN
clair turned into his novel, THE Jungle"
Nathan Hale is the hero of the anti
peek-a-boo" waist campaign. When he
aspired to go to Washington he found
he had no special issue of value so he at
once invented one. To the mountaineers
of his district he announced that If elected
he would introduce a law that would
prevent women from making the liberal
displays possible to the open-work waist.
The idea made an immense hit with So
ber-minded mountaineers, and the man
with the historic name was tr.umphantly
chosen over his opponent who bothered
with such trivial issues as the currency,
tariff and our foreign relations.
Began as a Messenger.
kid" McDermott is not the name of
boxer. 1t is the title of the newly elected
member who takes the place of w. II.
Wharton of the fourth Illinois district
located in the city of Chicago.
Wharton was known as the kid of the
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SUDAN .CcTTON GIN

the city and has already laid out many
wide streets. 1t has taken the sixty acres
which the khalifa had for his special
| headquarters and will build dwellings of
the first class upon 1t. This tract is still
surrounded by a great wall, twelve or IF
teen feet high and four or five feet In
| thickness. 1t once contained an air
| mosque and also the chief buildings of
| the khalifa. In another part of the town
| there will be second-class dwellings; and
| in third dwellings of the third class.
The civil engineers have already laid out
a park in the center of the city, and the
| vegetation in 1t is watered by women
who bring the supply from the Nile
| in great jars on their heads. In this park
the band will play every Friday, after
| noon.
The Native Hospitals.
Omdurman has now hospitals. which
have been recently established by the
Sudan government. l was taken through
them by the governor, and the English
and Egyptian doctors in charge gave me
every opportunity to see their work /
was even offered the chance to be present
at several surgical operations. including
the cutting off of the leg of patient who
| had just come in, but / declined. The
| hospitals cover five or six acres. Their
buildings are of one story and they are
made of sun-dried brick, but they are
| cool and well lighted. The patients are
black men and women of many tribes.
There were several hundred in the various
wards, and the doctors told me that dur
ing the past year they had given treat
ment to twelve thousand sick who had
been brought to the doors of the hospital,
| and in addition to the eight or nine hum
dred patients who were kept in the hos
pital itself. The British are greatly i'm
| proving the sanitary conditions of the
| natives. They have cleaned up the city,
| and it now looks remarkably well for a
native town. 1t is rapidly growing, and
will probably be the commercial capital
of the Sudan. 1t will keep it's African
character, but will be modified by the
| new Africa; and, as such, will be one of
the most interesting cities Of the CONT
| nent
Slavery in the Sudan.
| The British are doing what they can to
break up slavery in the Sudan. This re-
| gion was once one of the chief slavee
| markets of the continent. Slaves were
| brought by the thousands from Central
Africa to Khartum and Omdurman, and
| they found their way thence down to
Egypt. During the Egyptian rule there
were military stations in different parts
of the country, and they became centers
of the slave trade, and when the naviga-
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MEANING COTTON IN The SUDAN

about the same space as then, although
its population is not more than seventy
thousand. 1t is city of mud huts.
There are not dozen two-story houses
in it, and the place still looks somewhat
like a large native camp. When l first
rode through it / asked my guide
whether the holes in the walls had not
been made by cannon balls at the time
of the battle. He replied. why. man.
those are the windows. The houses have
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no other windows than those" The huts
are all fiat rooted, with drain pipes ex-
tending out into the streets, so that the
water pours down the necks of the
passersby when it rains. The stores are
mere square rooms, facing the streets
they rent for dollar or so a month
and everything is simple and exceed
ingly cheap.
The government is improving things
gradually. 1t is making a new plan for
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Corrected.
the Yonkers Statesman.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Bacon-I see the Prince of Wales has
collection OF postage stamps that is val
ued at more than 100000. AS a collec-
ton they haven't beaten yet.
Egbert-You mean they haven't been
licked yet, don't you?