Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-12

SSOQAI& Personal
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~'VoNnooThD by MISS OLIVE oPrIc.l
a funny writer Is not alwavn s,dow. :,
win the talent OF tickling the risIb,l,t,a.
p's'onai address Bill Nye's lecture,
were Failures In consequence.
! remember the efforts. OF a good friend
:. nus az q banquet rendered Nye bv The
Citizens OF Asheville, N. O.. the .I.and !,
.ne Sky" This friend startles v.,bar.
ing the next day, by a clear laugh. evil
GENTLY the recollection OF some incident
"nen questioned, he recalled the monkey
"nu parrott propensity of the assemble ee
o. the foregoing evening, in.as-much a.
NOT q smile was seen, not a lauph heara
during Bill Nye's address, untll he be.
'nougnt himself to set the ball a.roIlipy.
ana' with his handkerchief TO his month
q a sway Of the body to Indicate ann
pressed merriment, the whole gathering
awakened TO how funny Nye was, and the
Ice was thawed.
During my visit to 1.-THE land Of the
sky," Bill Nye's cottage, at Skyland
springs thirteen miles distant. doomed
up through my field glasses Ike a speck
against the horizon, and / got a good TO
Gus on "Biltmore," George w. vanderbilt,s
winter home, '.far from the maddine
crowd"
LOOK a run down to Hkyland, and in
CURED the road to the house Of this late
very funny newspaper writer, but was in
FORMED by a negro lad that he had "done
gone moved to Ashville." And as l did
not wish to intrude upon the confusion of
q removal, Ashville's chief boomerang es-
capped the punishment Of a visit from yours
truly.
Fifteen years ago, Ashville was a small
village, the surrounding mountains (the
Joy of the southern hunter) were thick
with timber, and the population Of the
Tar Heel State' were the most illiterate
in the Union. But now the village has
developed into a city, the mountains are
dotted with dwellings that peep out from
the foliage, and business and professional
men have come to stay. But the climate.
the pride OF the boomers, bears out Ashe.
vllle's reputation as a health resort-for
well folks.
Artists, go sketch a French Broad river
sunset Tourists, view that glorious
scenery! But invalids, suffering from any
disorder of the respiratory system, be not
beguiled by the HON of Bill Nye and Van.
derbilt, for the night air is laden with fogs,
and In the morning, the dew on the ground
is so heavy that It appears to lave rained
all night.
The Rocky mountain region has been the
soil of the success Of q vast multitude who
have been attracted by its enterprise and
climatic influence. Frequent re-
in railroad rates would afford op.
portunities for a large percentage of the
influx of tourists and health-seek-
ers, who are precluded from coming west
by enormous railroad rates, to get a Whit :
this dry and rarifed mountain air.
To be in constant contact with people s
who think as you do, is a drawback to the j
proper development Of individual opinion
md a check to the discernment of right s.
ind wrong. Go amongst people who help d
you correct your way Of thinking and un- Il
consciously show you where you are g
wrong; who have the courage to defend L
absent one and who will not indulge in 81
die gossip or fragrant SANDER. al
1t is a poor friendship that will not stand pl
he test of an attack upon a loved one, 7
hough the attack be made by some one v
qnally near and dear. F
1t is but a sorry humanity that is not
by a traducer to eject him from k
he midst of a fair minded and a Justice L
owing community. i
Gossip is the result Of idieness; SANDER +
he result of both idleness and malice, B
punishable eventually by Its own viru- I
ence, the victim happily ignorant or L
eyel. Z