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Weekly Optic and Stock Grower. ti -V1 Ifleenth Year, No SO. EAST LAS VEOAS. NSW MEXICO, NOVEMBER 20, 1B09. $2 00 a Tear Tun rtrl letter of the Archbishop of Havana, which ba Just been Issued, assures the Ilnmnn Catholics of Cuba that the United States will not Injure the church, and lie declares the change of sovereignty will result iu good to the country. Thr social euson In the national cap ital opened this full nearly a month earlier than usual, In order that the Cauadlaa members of the Anglo-Amcr-icnn Joint High Commission, and the ladies ef their families by whom they are accompanied, might receive social courtesies frm the society leaders of the land. Sf.natok Hanna says that 'for the first time in the history of the country our experts of manufactured goods ex ceed our imports." Then, anyone will naturally ask, Why dn we Deed a 50 per rent, tariff? If we can undersell for eigners 11 their own markets, what "protection" do our manufacturers need at homey APJt'TAJT C fcNK.lt a l, Corun n had an ambitioa to be a member of the Washington, I). C, Metropolitan Club. He doesn't have that ambition any longer, tor the reason that the fox didn't a want the grapes. He made application for membership but was aa vised to withdraw It; which be did, preferlng withdrawal to blackballing. WHKAT ÜOINO The general tendency of wheat now adays is downward, in spite of the fact that all that Is put upon the market is rt once absorbed either by the millers ot by the exporters. This "bearish" tendency Is due, says the New York Wortd, to the conviction that the favorable crop reports from all the great foreign wheat lields ore not exaggerated and that thereforo the ex port demand in sure to diminish soon. Those who are in a position to be in formed say that Europe will be able to feed Itself in thn comieg year. If this is true and our home crops are as large as they promise to be, wheat is sure to go much lower before it again rises to the "famine" prices ot Inst winter and spring. NKWIFAPEH CHA1UK The Times la reliably Informed that W. W. Iirtdgcrt and J. II. MeCutcheon, recently of the Socorro Advertiser, have purchased the afternoon Triubune-Tel-egiapb at El 1'aao and will take charge of that paper on the first of December. Mr JeHsup, of the Santa Fe New Mex ican, will be associated with the Dt w enterprise. 33.000 HEAD OP SHEEP. We hold, IS miles south of Anton Chico, which we offer for sale the fol lowing iu lots to suit purchaser: 15, OOoewea, 10,000 yearling wethers, 8.UXJ lambs and 2vk) bucks. 2l"3-tf. Si'KNCK linón. EDITORIAL PITH- Jerry Simpson say he I still alive. Of course; he was not rnonf.g In South Caroliua, says the Buffalo Express. A Cuban paper Is quoted as saying: "If it becenies nevesary, we can wipe out the American nivy Just m well as we did the Spanish ships." Just about, observes the Chicago Tunes-Herald. In the opiuien of the Chicago Kecord a modern literary critic who can't dis cover a new and orlgloal Interpretation of every poem ltudyard Kipling writes, simply can't hope to have any standing in the profession. The Rochester peinocrat and Chroni cle says et John W. Young's scheme, the tain of farming out the I'hiilp pines to a sjndicate Is too absurd to re ceive serious attention. The American people and government will not rele gate responsibilities of that character te any syndicate 01 trust. This, from the Indianapolis Journal, appears to be one on Mr. Richard Har ding Tesla. That paper says when Job was asked: "Who hath divided a wa tercourse for the overflowing waters or a way fur the lightning of thunder?'' It is not recorded that answer was made, but Is the same question were addressed to Nikola Tesla, lie would promptly re ply, "I, Lord.'1 And to the query, "Cau'st thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, 'here we are,'" be would answer: "Yea, verily, that can I." Hut Job, it must be re membered, was a modest man. THK Klttl.HA CAMP, DuncMii A. McDonald, son. of J.I). McDonald, whose grading outfit was In the city a few weeks ago but which la now divided and at work near Black well and near Klbera, in this county, was lit the cit7 tod.iy and had a talk with an Ui'TK! man. Young Mc Donald says that they have about twen ty men working at Black well and about forty working near Klbera, and that there is net a case of sickness of any kind in either. He bad just inspected both camps before coming to the city. As to the three men who came from the camp near Hibera and developed small pox after reaching the city, be stated that the first had not been iu the em ploy of his father tor some time when he left Klbera, and the ethers had called for their time and been paid oil before It was known that they were sick. All now employed have been forbidden to come to Las Vegas, but if any man sees ill to leave the employment of the elder McDonald, of course neither he nor his sous can say where they shall or shall not go, E. W. (J rant, resident civil engineer for the railroad company, at the same time assured the reporter that the railroad comp my is doing and will continue to do every thing in their power to preveut infected perilous from traveling on their ttaius, either at pae tcugeis or bums. KOTMTIO or VA CINATIOH. Itrproanrrrl rrnm Tna Optlft of All(uat 7lh, thla Yar, la Kaaponaa to Man rtoquvata. The first case of vaccination, which was made for purpose, of experiment, was on May II, 17W1. Of the protection against smallpox which vaccination affords, it may be said that from 1721 to 17'."'2, before the discovery of vaccine lymph, a period of of seventy-one years, Boston, Mats., had three severe and fatal epidemics of smallpox, one about over tweuty three years. Since the employment of vaccination, now a little over 100 years, there has been no serious epidemic of smallpox In Boston. In England from 1730 to H00, out of every I.IXX) de t lis ninety-six were Irom smallpox; from 1SO0 to 1S50, out of each 1, (XX) deaths but thirty-live were from smallpox. In thn German stales, be fore vaccination. 6'V3 in the l,(XX)dled of smallpox; after vaccination came into use the Dumber fell to 7.21. In the Prussian army of 300,lXJ men froiu to 18H3, when every soldier was vaccinated 011 enlistment, there was one death from smallpox; in the French army, of an equal number, during the same time and no more exposed than were the others, but with a lest rigid rule of vaccination, the deaths from smallpox were on an average of fifty four per year. Lest it be said that the decrease in number of deaths hat arisen from the medical fraternity's Improved method of treating those affected with the dis ease, the case of Zurich, Switzerland, comes prominently to the front. In IhH'i compulsory vaccination wa sus pended there, and hern are the official tlgures of smallpox deaths Iu 1,000: 1V4I 7; 1SS2. 0; 1HH3, 8. Then came suspen sion of compulsion with: 1HSI, lito; HH', 5; ISHd, So. Against such llgures doubt of the prote -tlve power of vacci nation cannot be entertained for a mo ment. Oilier and equally confirming statistics could be given, but these must sulllce. Hut there are other interesting statis tics in connection with vaccination and smallpox. Marson't statistics, based on 5,000 cases of smallpox In the Loudon hospital, give the following: Of the uu vaccinated the deaths were 35 per cent; those having one good vaccine cicatrix, U per cent; one indifferent cicatrix, 10.7 per cent; having two good cicatri ces, 3 7 per cent; two indifferent, 11.7 per cent; having three good clcatrlcea, 3 7 percent; three indifferent, 7 4 per cent; having four or more good, 2.7 per cent, indifferent, 4 8 per cent. These things appear from these sta tistics: Vaccination Is a wonderful preventive of smallpox; even where it does not entirely obviate the possibility Of attack, it reduces the death rate to a 1 Very small percentage; the ellicacy of I the vaccination should frequently be Oetepollieu y medical exailiiuaiion, and the vaccination renewed when nec essary, and especially during epidemics. CHAM B Mia HICTa LI PK MENTKN1 R. Tha lartnn HitM-np'a Cut I'aaatxt oa by JnMIca MrPla Thla Morning. J. I). Chambers, a Texan, convicted in the U. S. district court of complicity in the Clayton mail robbeiy, was today sentenced by Justice J It. McEle to Im prisonment for life. On September fl, Wo, Chambers and a companion en tered tha Denver & Gulf depot at Clay ton, held up Agent J. L. Wright, forced bun to carry the mail sacks out of town and got away with some MX. Robert Mansker, one of the sheriff s posie who went Iu pursuit, was shot in the heel. This is Chambers' third penitentiary setitence. When asked by the court If he bad anything to say why sentence should not b passed upon hi in Cham bers repll 'd; "Nothing-you kuowmy record." Tbil Is, TlIK Orno believes, the first Insistiré In the history of New Mexico where a life sentence has fo. lowed con viction in such cases. Here it the law on the subject from sectlen 5,472 U. S. Revised Statutes: "Any person who shall rob any carrier, agent, or other person Intrusted with the mail, of such mail, or any part there of, shall be punishable by Imprisonment at hard labor for not less than five years and not more than ten years ; and If con victed a second time of a like offense, or If, in effecting such robbery the first lime, the robber snail wound the per son having the custody of the mail, or put bit life in Jeopardy by the use or dangerous weapons, such offender shall be punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for the term of his natural life." DKLVUATKS KAMMI. About liXl citizens hare been appoint ed by Gov. M. A. Oteio delegates to the Earmer't National Congress which con venes at Fort Worth, Texas, on Decem ber 6. Among those appointed are: harles Wright, It. F. Forsythe, John Theruhlll, Terry Hogsett, Nicola Cor dova, I- A. Manzanares, It. K. Twltehell, N M. Challln, Saul Rosenthal, M. L. Cooley, Maigurito Homero, Jose Albino Baca, George Hartinan, A. Weil, J. M. Hernandez, T. It Mills, Hugh Loudon, of Lut Vegas; l'aul St. Vraln, C. A. Strong, T. J. Walton, S. Vorensburg, Juan Navarra, Joe Doherty, Macario Gallegos, Rafael Romero, Einello Ortiz, Adolfo Branch, Luciano Gallegos, of Mora. Other localities ae in the listas fol lows: Kocladii, II E. Blake and Chas. F. Ki.unlph; Walrous, R. G. Head, II. I). Heltike'i, Win. Kroenlg; La Cueva, 1) C. Deuel; lUton, Charles Springer, A. 0. Voorheea, J. W. Dwyer, J. J. Sliuler, M. D., D. W. Stevens; Maxwell City, A.J.Dawson; Springer, M. W. Mills, Henry Sturgis. Men don't put on airt when they're together, like the Women do, because they know that no matter how much 1 they may fool each other tbey have to 1 go home to their wives afterward.