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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-14
sOUIErlEs.

MONTEzUMA LODGE NO. 22s.
SExhNNiAL LEAGUE-Regelar mvetipa
al. o. o. y. hall. -
r. J. HAMILTON, Pres.
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NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Lewiston Sun hears of a man
who has made $4,000 from the liquor
business in Maine during the last
twelve years.
The horses which are used on the
Kennebeck ice field are so accustomed
to dropping through the ice that they
don't seem TO mind il.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose
eightieth birthday was publicly cele-
brated few months ago, has decided
70 take music lessons.
A woman in South Kingston. r. l.
who is just 20 years old, is the mother
of six children. Two pairs Of twins
were born TO her before she was 16.
Portugal will celebrate next year the
four hundredth anniversary of Vasco de
Gama's setting out on his voyage
around the Cape OF Good Hope to India.
The mammoth steamship on the
stocks in Harland & VOLTS yard at
Belfast is to be called the Pennsylvania.
In point OF size 1t will eclipse any
thing now afloat.
Italians believe that to avert the evil
eye IL is sufficient to hang anything red
colored over the bed or to wear a red
coral. but white colors do not exercise
a similar spell.
From the time OF the death OF the late
Irish Protestant primate and archbish-
op Of Armagh till his burial the bells of
of the Roman Catholic cathedral at
Armagh were tolled.
The otter is becoming more rare each
year. Anthony Dokey caught one In a
trap a few days ago in Black river. at
Lee. Mich. II weighed twenty-five
pounds. and the pelt Is valued at SIS
France has furnished fewer immi-
grants to the United States than any
other nation in Europe. During the
ten years preceding 1890 only about
10000 persons left France for America.
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PAPER.

Paper is made out OF almost every
thing which can be pounded into a pulp.
II is said that at present over fifty kinds
Of bark are used.
Among the incongruous substances
which have been used for pulp NAV be
mentioned banana skins. bean stalks.
pea vines, clover, timothy hay. straw.
weeds, hair. fur, wool asbestos and
husks of every kind Of grain.
Leaves make strong paper and nearly
every kind of moss can be utilized.
There are patents for making paper
from shavings and sawdust, from this
ties and tan bark.
Nothing comes amiss TO the paper
maker. although vegetable fiber is the
nearest ideal material. BY way of ex-
pertinent the proprietors of a news
paper recently undertook to find the
length of time necessary TO make the
paper and put IL TO use. A poplar tree
was selected and to chop, strip and load
on boat took three hours; manufactur-
ing the pulp, twelve hours; making the
pulp into paper, FIVE hours; taking the
paper TO the newspaper office, eighty
minutes. and to print 10000 copies OF
the paper ten minutes, making a total
II twenty-five hours.
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they lived up TO that cold. egotistical
theory?
All this seems very irrelevant. but |
merely state It to explain the great in
teres: taken In my mail the days pre-
ceding the theatricals. My mail on
those days. consisted OF polite letters of
acceptance OF my kind invitation, ETC.,
ETC., or regrets. ! said not a word OF
my projected plan of entertainment In
the clearinghouse. was testing
clearinghouse fortitude. They re-
pressed their feelings and did not ask
me what all my pile OF mail was about.
One young lady remarked that my mail
was increasing, but the rest merely
cooked.
Most OF my letters were from people
who stated on violet. pink and mono
grained paper that they would be
very pleased to come.
Conscious that should have a large
distinguished and critical crowd TO
view my Irivate theatricals. ] awoke
that morning too much excited to eat
or follow the ordinary commonplace
routine of work-a-day life. Fancy
writing articles when | was to be a star
that night! Impossible!
The final rehearsal that afternoon
In my den was on an entirely new and
original order. The company ran In
when they could find time. and said
their lines to whomever they could find
to listen and hurried out again TO get
their costumes ready for the evening.
One young woman reporter had a lee
ture to report at 6 o'clock that evening
when we ought TO have been at the hail
where we were to acD. and as she had
TO buy slippers In which to act her part
she wrote out her newspaper report at
the shoe shop while the salesman fitted
on her slippers. Such are the straits
that the workingwoman who strives
after pleasure is reduced to!
The coupe that had been hired TO take
us to the scene of action was about hair
an hour late. and when Il came was
found to be about large enough 10
comfortably hold the performers bats
However. ,he costumes were slowed IN
the boxes OF makeup" wedged be.
tween them. and good deal OF stage
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the accused would be protected IN "A.
charge TO the Jury covering the AM,
break made by the woman. which w.,
afterwards done by Judge Dunbar
The trial ended June 2s, when IN N.
presence OF q vast throng OF spectator
Attorney General Knowlton made A.
OF the most mastery arguments rr
heard in a murder case. II was grand
effort and several jurors wers yIsIblr
affected. The jury was out one hon,
and fifteen minutes and returned A YER.
dict OF guilty OF murder In the first a.
gree, which carried with II but one ps,.
atty, hanging. Exceptions were taken
and in November they were overrulsd
by the supreme court. On December /.
Gilbert Was brought before Judges Dun.
bar and Sheldon, and tbe'former, viii
broken voice and frame shaking from
emotion, sentenced him to to be HANGED
Not q muscle moved, not a sIadov
crossed his countenance, as, with hs
eyes fixed on the judge, Gilbert heard
the sentence OF the law, which sent bin
to a murderer's doom and consigned hs
body to a felon's grave. When The
judge had concluded the stoical prisoner
bowed his head to the court with The
grace OF a Chesterfield, smiled and re
sumed his seat In the box. momsr.
later he was hustled from the cour.
room to the jail and a death watch
placed over him.
The execution OF Gilbert recalls he
fact that the last hanging In the city n
Boston was that OF Thomas W. PinO'
May 2s, 1876, for the murder Of Mabel
Young. a little girl he had entlced into
the belfry OF a church Of which be wa
the janitor. She made an outcry, when
Pinor killed her with baseball bat and
cast her body into a corner OF the BEL
fry, where IL was discovered through
the fiocking of birds about the spirs,
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have been discovered for he admitted
that 1t was his intention TO have con-
signed IT to a watery grave either in the
Charles river or in the water of Dor
chester bay, not far distant from the
barn.
Gilberts arrest was followed by his
arraignment in the district court In
Dorchester the following Monday.
There he waved examination and was
remanded TO jail. District Attorney
Stevens lost no time I'm presenting the
case to the grand jury, which was called
together in special session April Is. and
the same day Gilbert was indicted in
three counts. charging him with the
murder of the child. To this indict-
men: he pleaded mot guilty" and a
few weeks later the justices of the SUI
perior court assigned az his counsel
Colonel w. w. Doherty and J. Z. Leach.
They went TO work upon the case I'm
behalf CT the unfortunate man, but their
task was one that gave them but little
To them Gilbert set ND
the plea that what took place that fatal
Wednesday afternoon between 3 md
o'clock was all blank TO him. He
had no recollections OF seeing Alice
during that hour. and the government
was made fully aware that insanity
would be the plea raised by Gilbert.
The government did not propose TO be
caught mapping by this man. whose
recollection as to everything else that
had taken place that day was clear.
and the services OF three of the best
medical experts on insanity to be found
we're employed to examine into his con-
dition. Drs. Jelly. Cowles and Jordan
watched Gilbert closely for a week and
after a thorough examination pro-
nounced him perfectly sane.
His trial in the superior court before
Judges Dunbar and Sheldon began
Monday. June "a. In three hours. out
OF 155 jurors, twelve were selected NOT
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We began to dress for our parts
Comparing notes with the rest OF the
cast, / found that every ones cheeks
burned and that every ones feet were
cold. every one had totally forgotten
his or her lines. all our threats felt dry
and our voices had grown surprisingly
weak. We all realized that We were
more modest than We had ever imag-
ined possible. as we looked at the lin BIS
which In our short gowns we were 10
display to the gaze OF cold. hard world.
AT intervals. while dressing, we peeped
through the cracks OF the scenery to
see how the guests we're getting on.
Some were talking. some were spoon
ing, some were asking each other when
this thing was going TO begin. anyhow.
Dressing for amateur theatricals is a
tremendous long performance, and the
patience OF our guests was certainly
wonderful. The amateur actor always
thinks that upon the adjustment of his
wig. the buttoning of his glove. or the
amount OF rouge depends the success
OF the whole thing. AS for the lines
the amateur doesn't worry about a little
thing like that. Meanwhile the mother
OF the ballet got in every ones way, and
gave us a synopsis OF her life. The ac-
companls. said she wished she hadn't
come and the stage manager was found
TO be so much too big for the space al
lowed that he made the scenery bulge.
The two young men who hated idling
went out and got another drink.
AT last we began.
l have seldom experienced keener
suffering than did that eventful night,
standing with my right eye to a crack
In the scenery watching my company
tumble over each other, and listening
while they left out large slices OF my
play.
or course. when we emerged from
the h'strlonic precincts, and mingled
with our guests. We received compli-
ments and congratulations. But later
on In the frankness and horrible candor
OF work-a-day life, the following criti-
cisms were offered:
why didn't you make a collection
for your serio-comic singers? I'm sure
after the first few notes. every one
would have given generously. on condl-
ton that you didn't allow them to sing
any more"
i say. what an interesting discussion
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sRAy's GOLDEN HOLE.
shares Sold for Song That Are Wort
Thousands To- Day.

Thousands To-Day.
Some fifteen Natalians formed a syn.
dictate TO exploit" this country on theii
own account, says Chambers Journal
Some were storekeepers in the colony
some wagon traders and some merely
walters on fortune. Only eleven OF
them had any money and they supplied
the wherewirhal for the other four, who
were sent up TO prospect and dig. After
six months Of fruitless toll the money
was all gone and word was sent TO the
four that no more aid could be sent
TO them. They were down on their
luck" when, as they returned TO camp
on what was intended TO be their last
evening there, one Edwin Bray saw
agely dug his pick into the rock as
they walked gloomily along. But with
the one swing he made came a turn in
In the fortunes OF the band and of the
land. for he Knocked off bit OF quartz
so richly veined with gold as TO betoken
the existence OF something superexcel-
lent in the way of reef" All now
turned on the rock with passionate
eagerness and in a very short time
pegged out what was destined TO be
known as "Bray's golden hole"
But the syndicate was by this time
pretty well cleaned out, and capital
was needed 10 work the reef and pro-
vide machinery, etc. So small com
pany was formed in Natal under the
name OF the Sheba Reef Gold Mining
company. divided into $4,000 shares of
pound each. the capital of $4,000
pounds being eQuitably allotted among
the fifteen members of the syndicate.
Upon these shares they raised money
enough money on loan 10 pay for the
crushing of 200 tons of quartz, which
yielded eight ounces OF gold 10 the
tor and at once provided them with
working capital. Within a very few
months the mine yielded 10000 ounces
OF gold and the original shares Of l
pound each ran up by leaps and bounds
until they were eagerly competed for at
100 pounds each. Within a year the
small share-capital $4,000 pounds) Of
the original syndicate was worth in the
market a million and a half sterling.
This wonderful success led to the float
ing OF number of hopeless or bogus
enterprises and worthless properties
were landed on the shoulders OF the
British public at fabulous prices. Yet.
surrounded as IL was by a crowd of
imitators. the great Sheba
mine has continued as one OF the most
wonderfully productive mines in South
Africa. Millions have been lost in
swindling and impossible undertak-
ngs in De Kaap. but the Sheba noun
iain. in which was "Bray's golden hole"
has really proved a mountain of gold.
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"A Hole In the Ground" in which he
and In "Gloriana." He Joined Africa"
Oh Juno IL. 1898, opening at the Califor-
mia theater. San Francisco. He was
sub-starred In this production. bu:,
having finally disagreed with the man
agement, he left the company and
joined Thomas @. Seabrooke, in TIA
basca," with which he remained four
teen weeks. He then joined "A Black
Sheep" opening at the Academy OF
Music, Buffalo, n. Y. on Sept. 10. 1894,
and has since remained with that at
traction, which is now playing at Hoyts
theater, New York. Mr.. Harlan is re-
markably unctious comedian. whose
acting is exceedingly droll and whose
humor is contagious. He has met with
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property coupled remaining spnees. In
cidentslly. the star and the soubrette
were added. II was then discovered
that there was no room left for the
walking lady" She looked 'into the
coupe dubiousiy. remarked that our
gowns wou,- be rather smashed. and
then. being a woman OF great daring
and OF country habits. she mounted the
box aud rode down Broadway by the
side OF the driver. Theater-goers and
Broadway lonngers looked. gasped and
CALCULATED. hut We Needed not.
Before our stage was arranged or our
scenery WAS ready. the guests began to
arrive To receive your guests With
cordlality aud composure. while your
company is quarrellng al the back or
the stage and the mother OF the ballet
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william Ia ms Fatally shot.

William 1ams. who was strung up by
his thumbs by Colonel Streator during
the Homestead riots. was shot and prob
ably fatally injured in quarrel with
Charles Arndt, at Baltimore, the other
morning. Arndt is musician, So years
old. and the shooting was done at the
boarding house OF the men during an
alteration which grew out of Iams' al
legged habit OF coming in late and max
Ing noise. The wound is in the abdo-
men, and at the Maryland hospital,
where Iams is lying. It is said his
chances OF recovery are very slender.
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KILLED HIS SWEETHEART.
A Crsmer Man Then Took His Own tif
Too.

- sFa"et wan ihsh TOOK His own LII
Too.
Near tombstone the other night Dan
iel Ressler shot Miss Ella Ressler, his
sweetheart, and then committed sui
eide. The two dead people were cous-
ins and lived at Cramer, about seven
miles from the city. Daniel had re-
peatedly asked Ella TO marry him. In
company with the young woman's
mother they started to walk to Johns
town and had gone but short distance
when Daniel abruptly said ELLA, will
you marry me?" The girl replied that
she would not, and almost Immediately
fell dead, for her cousin, expecting
again to be refused, was prepared TO
Kill hes and shot her down where she
stooi Before the Mortified mother OF
the girl fully realized what had hap
pened another pistol shot rang out and
Daniel fell beside his sweetheart, NOR
tally wounded. He died after saying
10 his aunt: ct got square with your
daughter, anyhow"
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THE TRIGGER.

DR.. r. M. Cundall outshot A. v Kim
IN the third and last contest of their
match each for 800 side, one hundred
oirds each, at Braddock. Pa, the other
day. score. SO to 81. Cundall has now
won three of the four matches In which
they have engaged.
The Prix de Consolation. a gold
medal. and one thousand francs. added
10 a sweepstakes Of 500 each, was shot
Tor at Monte Carlo recently. NJ. Poin-
Eat won first prize, Stanley Pearce Sec
ond and Mr.. Sutcliffe third.
The Collie club. OF New York. has
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President. Jenkins Van
schaick; vice-presidents. T. II. Terry
ana =. +. Morgan: treasurer, ]. ID. Shot
well; secretary. James Watson.
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The MIX In the Cocoan,,.

IL is said that President Kerr of tho
Putsburgs. is in favor OF returning IN
me old $3.50 Observation-Disclosures
Telegraph.
VI course he is; and so doubtless arc
Philadelphia, Boston and New York
ana TINS question, so discreetly kent
I'D the background, had more influence
OH the attempt to create a combine Of
the clubs named at the recent leagna
meeting than the ridiculous Sunday
piaylng question. And. furthermore
TINS is the question, and the only oues-
uon' that will cause disruption OF the
'weive-club organization, if such dis
ruption should occur before the natural
termination of the ten-year compact
But such a return TO old conditions
VIII never be made without a complete
smashup of the National League. The
FOUNDERS of the twelve-club league took
good care to make the organization
solid on this point by making the per-
centage feature the fundamental princi-
pie Of the recognized and consolidated
League and American Asso-
citation Of Professional Base Ball Cluby
Sporting Life.
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OTIS HARLAN.
A Popular Actor Who Has Forged Hts
Way TO Complete Success

Way 20 Complete Success
Otis Harlan. the well-known actor
was born Dec. %. 1865. IN GAINESVILLE
Ohio. After having received col
legia,e education he met Charles VI.
Hoyt. who. having heard him sing. en-
gagged him for the role Of the lover In
made his professional debut on Aug. -.
at the Providence opera house. Provi-
dencs II. l. He remained with this
attraction throughout that season, and
about May IA. 1883. was one OF the trio
sing ng "Razzle Dazzle" In "A Brass
Monkey" along with George
Richards and William +. Mack.
He ler that company 10 Join
The Texas Steer" as Major Yell,
but returned 10 resume in n short time
his former role. He next Joined Frank
Daniels company. and for four weeks
played the part of the Attorney. His
next engagement was with George
Marion. in Mr.. Macaroni." The play
was not a success. but Mr.. Harlan. as
Awful Jag. made hit He then joined
the Boys and Girls" company. and
played in enc act at Saturday matinee
in Boston. Mass. and having studied
his Fart upon the train. appeared In all
OF the three acts in Philadelphia, Pa,
upon the following Monday night.
While playing with this company his
salary was three times increased with
ont solicitation upon his part, and in
spite OF the fact that he had written
contract. Following this engagement
he successfully played in "The Isle OF
Champagne" Henderson's "Ali Bahia"
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The Tongue.

The best cure for an infamma BILE
tongue is the water bucket of absolute
silence. Hasty speech is explosive: ST.
lence is cooling. The talking tongue 10
more dangerous than the angry tongue.
A hssty word may be excused, but
tattling tongue never. The tattler is
Just like sin--its foreign substance here
is for no other purpose than TO annoy
and irritate.-Rev. Fuller Bergstresser
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Louis p. Noros. one OF the SUI IS 49,.
of the Jeanette expedition, WIN !,
trousers are said to have been iOu Mas.
Greenland, lives at Fall River, .' n,
Mr.. Noros states that he pei'e'., w, Al.
trousers are his. He had pau ~ p
skins. which he marked Lou. ~,
Noros" on the side band. he IL Nv mt
whether he added his numpe' Az.
His crew number was 4. NorO s,stt,
carded the trousers when the 'ea .s No
was abandoned in 1881, and say ~. Al.
would like to get possession o. wv
skins.
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"Hsd you ever gone through II be-
forei"
"who was the girl who kept her back
to the audience all the timer"
"Homely set Of women N the audi
ence. Guess the best-looking ones
stayed away"
Can you wonder that have given up
play-writing and retired from social
life. aud taken once again to space writ
mgr
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said He would Die ana D,a.

An old veteran and pensioner of the
name of Joseph Abbot died a day or
two ago at his home in stanton, Ind.
aged IS years. He returned from a visit
in Pennsylvania 10 days before. and
told his friends he came home to die:
that he would be dead in ten days. He
seemed in good health. but Monday, the
10th day, be died OF heart disease.
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they discuss the merits OF the trimming
on mire and the second-noor-b backs re-
spective garments. We are all excited
when the front parlor has theater tick
cts. AS matter Of boarding house ETH
Quette. We read each others post cards.
To read mans post card and learn
that his younger brother can't pay him
that IS. and then to watch his face as he
reads II afterwards, is intensely inter-
estilg. This often happens at the
breakfast table at our boarding house.
We keep careful note OF the parcels that
come c. o. d. for the third floor back.
conscious that she gives the same kind
Interest to ours. We never take refuge
in that selfish theory. ITS no business
OF NINE" What kind OF human oyster
bed would a boarding house be where
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CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR.
although there are those who forcibly
assert that no such possibility exists,
and that Mr.. Vanderbilt will simply
disinberit his son from any share in
the $10O,000,000 fortune. All this is
very pretty gossip. but IL is gossip,
purely. The solid facts in the case are
these: When Miss Wilson went TO New
York Mr.. Vanderbilt sent his son to
Paris. Then Miss Wilson and her fam
fly sailed for Paris. and were there
Joined by Cornelius. Jr. Next Mr.. Van
derbilt sent his trusted agent, Mr..
Whitehouse across the sea. and an eff
fort was made to induce the young man
10 return and resume his prosaic du-
ties as railroad clerk. But the young
man has preferred the beauties OF the
Bots to the stupidities of Broadway.
and SO remains in Paris with his lady
love. His attachment for Miss Wilson
is a romantic one. and the sympathies
of most people will be with the lovers.
II is said that Mr.. Vanderbilt's un-
bounded affection has completely won
the lady's heart. and why should IL not?
Sympathizers with them will be pleased
to learn that even IL the young lover
Is cut on without three ha'pence by
his father he will not have 10 work 10
support himself and his family. Young
Cornelius has an independent income
of his own OF $4,000 a year, and II he
marries Miss Wilson that young wom-