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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

How and Where the Deed Was Com
mitted-ThOrn to BE Placed on the
Stand-AnOther Sensation Promised.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11
SEVERAL. DRAMATIC SCENES

MRS. Mack FORCED TO ADMIT THE
CRIME WAS PREMEDITATED.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

Woodside house and Thorn paid him SIS in
cash for one months rent of the Woodside
Braun when he hired the house Thorn took
the receipt and told the landlord he did
not know when he would move in. Then
Thorn told me that he would kill Gulden>
suppe in the Ninth-avenue house. put his
body in blanket and send it away 1 said
No, don't do this Thorn then told me
to bring Guldensuppe to the Woodslde
to do all Martin told me to do"
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

lookin' in SallY's an Liza's bright
eyes we'd lose our courage Tor our
heads) an come away as much in
doubt as ever.
At last, though, while seem Liza
home from singin'-school one rainy
night, an while / waz holdin' her close
to me to keep her under my umbrel'
/ screwed my pluck up to the top
notch, an sed somethin'-I never
knowed jest what 1t waz-but Liza n
deFstco1 -hat / meant. an whG. she
sed TO me made me the happiest an
proudest man you ever saw in all yer
born days. 81 seemed almost as glad
as I waz, when I told him about it
next Cay, an / was sure he'd take
courage by my success am ask Sally
the very next time he went to spark
her, but he didn't. He kept putin it
of, jest as he'd been dom all along,
an worryin' an frettin' about his on
decided fate till he actually got pale an
holler-eyed over it. / kinder think
that If l hadn't loved him SO ALTERED
much, I'd got vexed at 81 for his dilly-
dallyin'; but one day somethin' hap
pened that took all them thorts out O.
my he'd.
/ can never forget that day, or,
rather that night; for it waz late in the
evenin' when he came to the house an
called me out. The mint I saw him
| know'd somethin' had gone amiss. 1
had lever seen him lookin like that
afore. His face waz as white as a
sheet, an it jest made my heart ache
ter see that look o. sufferin' an agony
in his deep-sunken eyes. / started to
say somethin'-to inquire what had.
happened-but he raised his hand with
a sort of despairin' motion an sed. In
a hoarse, choked voice:
Don't Josh-don't speak yet fer
awhilei"
We walked slowly down the lane,
neither of us speakin', an neither of
us seemin' to know WHARF we waz go-
in. Bimeby we got as far as the
barnyard gate an stopped an leaned
on the bars in a sort o. unspoken
misery-fer Sis misery made me mis-
cradle. too.
oval, JOSH sed he after awhile,
without lookin' up. an speakin' in a
onnat'ral sort q, voice, ''it's all overi'
"What?" seq ! guessip, what he
meant: has Sally REFUSED 8shg
"Wuss!" SEE he ~trFin.4to force back
a groan. @ Esstisas rA q
eWhat could be Nusse1sns that, Si?'
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03
RETIRED STATESMAN owns UP
In All Trades Are Many Tricks, an,
Sometimes In Politics.

In All Trades Are Many Tricks, and
Sometimes In Politics.
"Im what you might call a retired
statesman" said the old lawyer, whose
practice is chiefly that of a counsellor.
But before the war | was into politics
up to my eyes, and his face grew
younger with the memory, says the
Detroit Free Press. 81 was in Ken
lucky, and the first time | ran for con-
gress l beat one of the best cam
paigners in that state, and no state
has better. He was a veteran who had
been over the course several times and
sneered at the thought of my being a
serious opponent. He had the old sys-
ten of being a hail fellow well met,
gossiped by the hour with the women,
kissed the babies while he was filling
them up with candy and jollied along
with the men as though each one was
his especial friend. / knew 1t was no
use to fight him at his w game, so
l invented some new tactics. Without
the fact attracting any particular at
t%ention, it was made public that there
were to he from three to five shoot
ing matches and all-around tourna-
ments in each county of the district.
Nothing is dearer to the heart of the
real Kentuckian. l was an athlete and
good shot, and l was at every on
Of those contests. | knew just who to
beat and who not to beat. When the
county had a champion it was proud
of he always got the best of me, and
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

The following story, from the Young
Peoples Paper, is an excellent iIlustra-
tion OF the power of truth in the mo-
ment of death:
Mr.. Birch, an English evangelist.t tells
OF a dying infidel whom he visited by
request. The man had long been i'll
and in great need. MI. Birch. with
Christian liberality, had supplied his
wants, and now the dying man told him
he had sent for him, not to speak about
religion, for he didn't believe in II. but
to thank Mr.. Birch for his great kind
ness to him and his. Mr.. Birch then
said:
will you answer me one ques-
tion?" W
YES" said the dying man, "pro-
vided it is not about religion
Lifting his heart in prayer to God.
Mr.. Birch said: you know I have 10
preach tonight; many will be gathered
to hear-mostly poor people, who will
Don have, like you, to face death. I
ask you, what shall | preach about?"
Silence for awhile; then, with tear
dimmed eye and trembling voice. the
unexpected answer was given: Mr..
Birch, preach Christ to them; preach
Christ" And then, utterly broken
down, the dying sinner sought mercy
from God for his own soul.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

seems to Undergo TRANSPORTATION. 1t
gathers up In balls and masses. Then
II becomes, as 1t were, a part OF the
elements. 1t bounds along In advance
of the oncoming gale. and fairly leaps
across the plains. II spreads along in
most reckless fashion, a huge veget-
able cannonball. Onward 1t goes in its
mad career. now whlrling along
through clouds of dust, now vaulting
high into the air, sweeping along in
riotous inebriation, with its ragged
ends swishing the storm in perfect
fury.
At the approach of these wild, up
roarious fellows. the beasts Of the
field become terror-stricken. They
flee in all directions for safety. and,
with a mad despair born OF impend-
ing disaster, seek any shelter that Of
fers refuge from the whirling advance
guards of the dreaded cyclone.
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tunate. In gratifying her zeal she was
laying up treasure against the day when
ambition and necessity to earn a live
lihood might be one and the same
thing. This was before women denied
that their single place in life was be-
side the cradle. Mrs. Hirtzel reasoned
with herself. She concluded that had
she been born a man rather than a
woman she would nave been a lawyer.
She reasoned more. There was no
reason why the woman who wanted to
be a lawyer should be debarred from
being a lawyer simply because men
thought she ought not to be one. She
couldn't see any reason why men
should pick out the future for women,
anyhow, and she gradually allowed 1t
to become known that she was going
to be a lawyer and possibly sit on the
bench. 1t made a good many OF the
young men she knew laugh, but she
has not heard of any Of the scoffers
becoming assistant corporation coun-
sells. Judge Gary, up in Oshkosh, was
her first tutor. She read in his office.
Her parents came from Germany.
They don't like to have women do
much in the professions in Germany.
Miss Hirtzel did not inherit any preju-
dice along this line, and it did not par
ticularly matter that she did moi get
much encouragement among the men
and women she knew. She learned to
think for herself early in life, and b
is still doing it. The more she dug
into the books of the judges library
the more she became welded to her res
olution. The more she read the more
she saw there was to be read, but work,
and not play. was to be her lot. The
preparatory course brought her to Chi
a ten years ago. She entered the
Chicago law college. It was not pleas
ure at times for her to sit the single
woman in the class Of seventy-five
men who finished in 1890. She felt
conspicuous. The men looked upon
her as out of place. There were other
days when Miss Emma Bowerman was
with her, and side by side the two sat
as the men smiled. and the smile was
a plain sign Of pity for womanly fol-
ly.
Miss Hirtzels views are worth con-
sidering. She knows what it means
for a woman to take hold of her shoe
tops and left herself into professional
distinction in a big city. There are
only eight or ten others who have gone
through the mill. There is none other
who has been honored as she has. and
the struggle has left no mark. There
are no wrinkles in her face. and her
keen eye is a true sign of a shrewdness
which lawyers have learned to value.
She is short in stature. without man
nerisms, plain in speech, convincing.
businesslike. She carries her cards
with her. but they are not the ommon
cards that women use.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

That the English language is much
more copious than it was in the days
of Johnson. is evident from the fact
that the compilers Of the new and mon
umental Oxford dictionary have gath
cred 1881 words, beginning with the
first five words in the alphabet, of
which G,254 are main and 1881 sub
ordinate words, with 1876 special
combinations explained under main
words. Of the main words 47,7S6 are
in current use, 1872 obsolete and ISIS
alien. But with all these words writ
ers have not improved greatly upon
Shakespeare, Milton or even Johnson,
and many others Of an earlier era.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

trio school, an on the same
hard bench. In fac we had
kinder grown up under, the same In
fuences an waz more like brothers
than some real brothers are.
In most ways 81 want like other
boys. He waz SO quiet an old-fash-
Toned like that he never seemed Ike
a boy at all, an no girl could er bin
more gentle an lovin' than he waz'
He waz Jest n o. them chaps that
other boy are always pokin' fun at
an then go to fer advice an sympathy
when they get in trubble. an one
they'd fight far quicker'n their own
kin.
Wal, me an 81 growed up to man
hood Jest as we'd bin in our child
hood-the c~onfdin'est o. friends; an
our mothers used ter laugh at us IN
that pleased sort o. way good mothers
hev an tell us we'd better get
the dominic to arr US, so as
to make our partnership a 1T
tie more bindin'. We waz al
ways together, when we want az
work about our fathers farms, an II
there waz a huskin' bee, or a spellin'
school, or a singin' class in the dees-
trio you'd never find one Of us thare
IL the other want.
OF course, bein' young men. an pur-
ty scrumptio1s lookin' ones at that, we
waz mighty poplar with the girls
thareabouts. an used ter see 'em home
from pray'r meetin's. an SIGH like; but
nothin' serious came of II till we got
to courtin' Liza Hawkins, which waz
my sweetheart, an Sally Turner. which
waz Sis.
They wer' the incest an purtiest
girls you eve set eyes on, though to
be lure I thort Liza was the charm
in'est an 81 had the same opinyun O.
Sally, which waz nat'ral enough, o n
siderin' that a man ought ter think
more Of his own sweetheart than O.
some one else's.
/ reckon some folks would say we
waz a little too womanish, but any
how me an 81 used ter hev long talks
about our feelin's towards the girls.
an the upshot Of it waz that / owned
up to 81 that I waz heels w he'd In
love with Liza an he confessed to me
that he waz jest as deep in love with
Sally. For one whole summe an
winter we kept On sparkin' the two
girls, an every day we'd talk 1t all
over for the hundredth time betwixt
ourselves, w%onderin' II they loved us
an II we'd better ask 'em to marry us.
an all that sort of thing; but somehow
neither 81 or me had the spunk to pop
the question we were just dyin' to hev
settled. / don't know jest how 1t waz,
but though we'd be very brave an de-
termined when we waz discussin' the
matter on the woodpile or in the barn,
at his home or mine, when we'd get to
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

The time has passed when a man
can be all a poet. Poems are read now
adays, but the public will not pay for
them as they did in a golden age now
passed away. Happy, therefore, is the
poet who can find an occupation that
is c~ongenial and at tae same time akin
to the art which he himself c~ultivates.
Prominent among these happy fortu-
mates is Mr.. Harrison S. Morris Of
Philadelphia, poet by taste and habit,
managing director of the Philadelphia
Academy of Fine Arts by way of seri-
GUS occupation. Though poet to the
finger-tips, as Mr.. Morris showed in a
recent collection of his pieces, he is at
the same time an accomplished and
jealous man Of affairs. This he shows.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

roomful Of gold which had been made
to him by the Chinese government aft
er he had subdued the TAPPING rebel
lion. what did you do?" said Rhodes.
Refused it, of course" said Gordon.
What would you have done?" Il
would have taken it." said Rhodes,
land as many more roomfuls as they
would give me. It's no use for us to
have big ideas If we have not got the
money to carry them out" When Cor
don started for Khartoum he sem to
invite Mr.. Rhodes to go with him, but
the latter had just received the offer of
the treasurer-generalship under the
Seaman ministry, and prepared to re-
main at the Cape.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

but would do so even if they were
giants. Goliath or the Cyclops could
not have looked over a field of this
grass even if they had stood on tip
toe. for it grows to a height Of four
teen feet. AS tan as this Dab grass is,
it is far from being the tallest grass
in the world. What would you think
Of a grass Jour times as tall? And yet
such grass may be found in the In
dian forests. True, When this grass
grows. up. among the trees, the over
hanging boughs furnish 1t support. for
this grass has the added faculty of
climbing. Perhaps you will o be
cad to believe that this grass must
surely be the tallest grass in the.
world, but no; it is not. Prepare your
selves to hear that there is another
species still taller, and very much tall
er. for it grows to- the prodigious
height Of q hundred feet! 1T is called
the giant bamboo, and is the tallest
grass in the world.
In our own country, however, grows
a. giant which goes ahead Of them all.
It Ia not as tall as some Of the foreign
giants. to be sure, but it can do what
none of the foreign giants can do
it can travel, for every fall 1t makes
itself highly conspicuous by the
Yankee-like rapidity with which 1t
goes securing across the country. 1t
partakes of the truly American spirit
Of going ahead of any and everything.
Sailing before a good wind, 1t can
travel, too, faster than the speedfest
railroad train. This American pro-
duction grows on our western prairics,
and bears the very un-American name
OF Jericho weed. In appearance 1t Is
asgreat globular mass of tangled vege-
tation, sometimes so large that its di-
ameter is the height of a man. During
the spring and summer 1t behaves
very much as other plants do. with
the exception that 1t grows much more
rapidly than do the surrounding weeds,
but. like them, it is firmly rooted In
the ground. and also 1t does not travel
at all during that period. When the
fall comes, however, and the work of
growing is done, then the Jericho weed
is all ready to start off on its wild
wanderings, and wild wanderings they
are, too--a sort of vegetable cowboy
spree. with the first breath Of au-
tumn the great weed dries up. This
does not cause the least, shrinkage In
size. but, with the evaporation Of the
sap3i II becomes 1iahfness itself. At the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03
One cannot fail to be- struck with

~ One cannot fail to be- struck with
admiration and establishment, on look
ing at the section Of a giant Cali
fornian tree, which has recently been
placed on exhibition in the Central
Park Museum of Natural History. 1t
! gives a better idea of the enormous
size of those great trees than any
photograph or representation of them
that have ever seen. In fact l would
not be at all surprised II the effect
produced on the mind by this museum
specimen was even stronger than that
n would receive In the midst of the
forests from which 1t came, for where
nature Is all constructed on SO grand a
scale as In the California wilderness.
n completely fails to realize the
great size of individual objects. 1 re-
member that the first time | saw II
was simply amazed. If that is Just
n slice of the tree, thought I, how
grand the great monster must. have
looked with its towering height Of
three hundred and fifty-eight feet. Yet
this great section, | must tell you,
though sixty feet in circumference, was
not cut from where the trunk was Of
greatest diameter, but from a point
nfty feet above the. ground, for at its
base the big fellow measured ninety
Feet In circumference. Giant though
he was, this king of the forest prime
val, when compared with ordinary
trees, was not nearly as much of a
giant as the greatest flower in the
world is compared to ordinary flowers.
Just imagine a flower nine feet in cir
conference, and with petals so strong
that a man can stand upon them! A
very mammoth among flowers, you
may think, yet 1t is a flower that is
frequently met with in the wilds of
Africa. 1t has five large, fieshy petals
surrounding a brilliant center, and this
center, encircled as it is with a wide,
high brim, would make a bath-tub
quite large enough for a child. Now,
as wonderful as these giants are, there
are still others fully as wonderful, IL
not more so, and some of them may be
found among the grasses. When we
walk in the fields on a fine summer
day, through grass that is knee-high,
we are apt to remark that "it is a fine
crop of grass" and when we meet with
some shoulder high we consider it ex-
ceptionally tall. In India, though,
there is a species of grass, called
Dab grass, which not only reaches
above the heads of the tallest men,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

The late General Gordon at n time
saw a good deal of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes,
and had a very high opinion OF him.
The general asked Mr.. Rhodes to stay
with him at Basutoland. but Mr..
Rhodes refused. pointing out that his
work was mapped out for him at Kim
berley. On another occasion Gordon
told Rhodes the story of the offer OF a
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03
QUEEN MARouEaIrs,s POODLE
King Humbert Used His Hair Dye On
tho Little Beast.

tho Little Beast.
King dumberts gray hairs and the
dye that was to cure them are the sub
Ject OF an amusing little anecdote in
the Berliner Tageblatts The king, 1t
seems, favors the iron gray OF age and
sees nothing to object to In the years
that lead to reverence and tho silver
hair. But Queen Marguerite was very
jealous ON the other side and wished
to see what Paris and the coiffeur could
do In the work of restoration. She
therefore thought OF an imperial hair
dye, the only modern witchcraft that
science allows. The king n day
found on his dressing table the elixir.
carefully packed, with directions for
use, and guessed whence and why 1t
Now. Queen Marguerite had q
favorite poodle, white and fieecy, which
was wont to pay her a morning visit
every day. but on one OF his duty calls
shortly after the elixir arrived the
faithful toutou arrived sleek and CLOS
sy as ever, but the snow white fleece
was changed for a garment of blush
black. AS there was no reason why
court and courtier should go into
mourning. the queen was Mortified at
the change. you poor creature" she
cried. "how grotesque they have made
you look" "And your husband?" was
all the king said. and the queen asked
no more questions. The poodle Is said
to have resented the parable; the snow
white fleece eve came round. and
having once dyed he was Obliged to dye
to the end.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

The absence of the editor from this
city for the next three months will
render 1t necessary to reduce the size
Of this paper during that period to
eight pages. There will be no change
In the commercial section, but the
other sections will be cut down to
about two pages. This change is UNI
ayoidable under the circumstances.
The larger size will be resumed on the
editors return.-Rio Janeiro News.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

What a beautiful face Miss De la
~Collington, the ingenue. has. So young
reE-1ookihs. Il prcttier chan
the leading woman, don't you think?"
Yes, but then her husband was not a
particularly handsome man. l sup
pose the leading lady takes after him"
VIVA do you mean?" why, didn't
you know that the ingenue was the
leading lady's mother Cleveland
Leader.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

] sounded his praises till the male pop
ulation were fighting friends of mine.
My opponent did not shine in feats of
strength or skill and ! smoothly man
aged to create a sentiment wherever I
went that the women had better send
one OF their own number to mgr
II they were to run the elections; for
my part l believed that the men should
run the government. | won easily,
and | kept right en- winning until / left
the state"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

Mother-"Johnny How often have /
told you that you must not bolt your
food Johhny-"Guess 1t isn't no
worse to bolt my food than ii is for
you to turn the key on it when it's in
the cupboard. Boston Transcript.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03
MISS CORA HIRTzEL.
ASSISTANT CORPORATION
COUNSEL OF CHICAGO.
The First Woman Ever Appointed Co a
Like Position In the west-A sketch
Of an Ambitious woman's Busy

ssISTANT Corpor-
alton Counsel Cora
B. Hirtzel. OF Chi
cago, lately APP
pointed by Mayor
Harrison. walks,
and acts like
a woman who likes
to be a a She
doesn't care a hg
for Delsarte. Soci-
ETY. novels are phil
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

Skillet wonder why Omelette
takes that old empty box with him
whenever he travels and cares for 1t so
tenderly2" skittle -"Out Of flial love,
I suppose-it was his incubator. The
Yellow Kid.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03
FROM LOWELL, MASS.
The Home OF Hoods sarsapariiIa
Wonderful Cure.

"a swelling as big as a large marble
came under my tongue. Physicianssaid it
was a semi-transparent tumcr and must be
operated upon. I felt / could not stand It,
and as spring came began to take my
favorite spring tonic, Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The bunch gradually decreased and finally
disappeared. / have had no sign OF its re-
turn. lam glad to praise Hoods sarsapa-
rilla." MRS. II. NJ. CoBURN, 8 Union st.,
Lowell, Mass. Get HOODS.
Moods Pills cure Sick Headaohe. CSC.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

rear by year ia ais direction Of the
academy. Exhibitions of the academy
Mr.. Morris directs improve each ca
son, and II not the most notable held in
America, they are certainly not infer
ior in interest or quality to any 9TH
ers. II is, as we understand It, Mr..
Norris who has kept this eldest OF
American art societies up to the high
modern mark, and he deserves great
credit for the achievement. Among the
members Of the Browning and con-
temporary clubs OF Philadelphia Mr..
Morris is a personas6 Of distinction,
just as he would be il. Boston. New
York Of London, were he not so for
tunate as to be more at home in home
like and charming philadelphia.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

personally" remarks a London
writer, the Marquis Of Lorne has quite
lost his familiar highland laddie APP
peafance. He Is English-desperately
English"