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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

trials, and difficulties and dangers
After two thousand years OF wander
ing II makes the Jew a sharer In the
glory Of the prophets, the lawgiyers'
the warriors and poets who lived IN
the morning Of time. How does II
tougher every fibre of an Englishman's
frame. and Undue the spirit OF the
Frenchman with Napoleonic enthu-
siasm. How does the German carry
with him ever the "old house furni-
ture" Of the Rhine. surround himself
with the sweet and tender associations
Of "Fatherland," and wheresoever ne
may be the great names Of German MS
tory shine like stars In the heaven
above him. And the Irishman, though
the political existence OF his country
Is merged in a kingdom whose rule he
may abhor, yet still do the chords OF
his heart vibrate responsive to the
tones Of the harp of Erin, and the
lowly shamrock is dearer to his soul
than the fame-crowning laurel, the
lo~ve-breathing myrtle, or storm-dar-
ing pine. What is u country? Not
alone the land and the sea, the lakes
and rivers. and valleys and mountains
mot alone the people, their customs
and laws-nos alone the memories
of the past, the hopes OF the
future; 1t is something more thar
all these combined. It is a di'
vine abstraction. You cannot tel
what it is, but let its flag rustic abov
your head-you feel its living presence
in your hearts. They tell us that oul
country must die; that the sun and TN
stars will look down upon the grea
Republic no more; that already tn
black eagles of despotism are gather
ing in our political sky. That evei
now, kings and emperors are CASTING
lots for the garments OF u nationa
glory. 1t shall not be. Not yet, no
vet shall the nations lay the bleeding
corpses of our country in the tomb
If they could, angels could roll tn
stone from the mouth Of the sepulchrt
II would burst the cerements OF Tn
grave, and come forth a living pres
ence, redeemed, regenerated, Olsen
thralled." Not yet. not yet shall tn
Republic die. The heavens are nc
darkened. the stones are not rent. J
shall live-it shall live the incarna
ton of freedom, it shall live the en-
bodiment of the power and majesty {
the people. Baptized anew. 1t sha
stand a thousand years to come u
Colossus of the nations-its feet upo
the continents, it's sceptre over II
seas. its forehead among the stars!
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

The Hon. Joel r. Poinsett, a native
~ South Carolina, and n of her most
.gifted son during the latter part OF
the administration of John Quincy
Adams. it will be remembered, repre.
sented the United States at the capitai
of Mexico, which was then much dis
tracted by internal dissensions. While
Mr.. Poinsett resided there, the city was
cautured by one of the ~contending rae
ions. and he and his family incurred
no small degree of personal danger
from the violence of the soldiers, by
whom they were suspected of afford
;ng concealment to certain obnoxious
individuals. In the height OF the null.
HAcation controversy after his return
IN an address delivered to the people
Of Charleston, the following eloquen
passage occurs:
wherever / have been, ! have beel
proud OF being a citizen of his grea
republic, and, in the remotest corner
of the earth, have walked erect and Sc
cure under that banner which GU
onponents would tear down and tram
ME under foot. / was in Mexico whel
that city was taken by assault. In
house of the American ambassador wa
then. as it ought to be, the refuge
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
MIR. clemens. Present to His wife.

ii q
1t must have been because the au-
thor of the Personal Recollections of
Joan Of Arc" was on his travels in the
uttermost parts of the earth when the
narrative was published in book form
that n of his intentions about it was
not at hat time carried out. 1t was
his purpose, when he began work on
the story in Florence in 1893, that it
should be a silver wedding present to
his wife. He says that she never
knew of his design, and when the
book was published there was nothing
in it to apprise her of it. Let us
rectify," writes Mr.. Clemens from
London, under date of April 9. and.
agreeable to his wish, a leaf will be
inserted into future issues of the
"Recollections of JOAN" bearing this
inscription:
1870 TO MY WIFE 1895
OLIVIA LANGDON CLEMENS
THIS BOOK
Is rendered on our wedding ami
versary in grateful recognition Of
her twenty-five years of valued
service as my literary adviser and
editor.
THE AUTHOR.
-Harper's Weekly.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

At the Tennessee Centennial EXPOSE
ton are exhibited the old cabin birth
place Of two famous American citizens
Those cabins are genuine, as certified
by afidavits in the possession OF the
owner and exhibitor.
Rev. w. G. Bigham, a Methodist
minister, while travelling a circuit
which embraced parts Of Todd and
Hardin counties, Kentucky, bought the
two log cabins and the land on which
they stood.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

One of the w~ell-known school his
tories of the United States, published in
Columbia, S. c.. is supposed to have
been the work of Alexander H. Ste
phens of Georgia, author of THE War
Between the States" a member OF con-
gress for many years and known in his
state as "The Great Commoner," after
Gladstone. The real author is a man
of the name of Chapman, who V to
Mr.. Stephens an interest in the royalty
for the use Of his name MI. Stephens
looked over the manuscript, but made
practically no changes.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

The Laborsru Are Extremely Poor but
Happy and contented.

n WT
Happy and contented.
These profitable haeiendas, where SUI
gar, coffee and cereals are grown, both
the old and the new, are really ieudal
municipalities in extent and In author-
ity, says Harper's Magazine. In the
center of the tract Of tens OF thousands
OF acres, only a small proportion OF
which Is cultivated, is the owners resi-
dence. II he is a Mexican (and compar-
atively few as yet are owned by Tor
eigners), there is a church with a tan
spire or tower near the house-a ianu-
mark for every dusty yisitor-a store,
and grouped around, the mud NOVELS Oh
the peons, vino are the iou1ai ccrS
ents. The hacienda residence may De
surrounded by a high adobe wall, ana
within are the various offices, courts
with tropical trees. plants n mowers
and fountains.
The large and poor population Oh THIS
domain are absolutely dependent upon
the proprietor. Their dwellings are
wretched, even for this climate; their
WARDROBE would make a rag market In
any ghetto, and they are apt 10 be IN
debt to the proprietor, who gives them
their wages In store pay, at a handsome
profit. And yet, as far as ! can see,
1t is a contented and cheerful popuia-
ton. both in country and city. There
is an air of leisure everywhere; church
festivals and holidays are frequent; ev-
cry one has HIS siesta In the middle OF
the day; in small cities the shops close
from IL to 8; the tramways lake a rest
then also, and there is no appearance
that laborers are driven in their tasks
You cannot hurry anything or anybody
For Tomorrow" is always coming. II
will thus be seen that 1t Is a good coun-
try for the laboring man. who can wear
anything that will hold together, cal
anything that a cent will buy, sleeT
on a mat on the ground wrapped In hii
; serape, and who has not been taught
J that If he has a piece of silver worth 81
cents it is his right to take 1t to tn
mint and have it coined into a dollar.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
SIZES.

A span is 8 inches.
A hand is 4 inches.
The royal 80 mo. is 5 by 8.
The nail is 2h inches long.
A size in collars is n inch.
A nautical knot is 6,100 feet.
A size in cuffs is half an inch.
One hundred quarts make a cask.
A quarter Of cloth is half an inch
A royal quarto page is 12h by 10.
A square 16 mo. page is AZ by 3h-
The royal "a mo. page is 81 by 81.
A royal octave volume is 1oh by 6h.
The As mo. page volume is 3% by IA
The ordinary pin is about l incl
long.
A newspaper column is "a inches
wide.
The medium octave is sh by 6
inches.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

For quite an hour ! listened 81
And then, alarmed. I stole rf*l
Up to the lonely chamber re
My conscience to console. ,.,
And, well. would you believe itF
! found her reading low
Love-letters that ] wrote her
Some fourteen years agol
Her face was wreathed in biushes'
Her dreamy eyes half closed;
Her heart was beating wildly
You'd thought I'd just proposed.
Strewn round her we're those tokens
That spoke from heart to heart;
Good saints! what founts OF passion
A faded sheet will start
Well. then I turned and left her
Dreaming In ecstacy
On what a mad young lover
Her husband used to be.
But soon she came and kissed me
To which I'm scarce averse;
'Dear, you're the same old rascal
She whispered. "-only worse!'
&C. E. Barns.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

The Commanders Frank Answer TO
Complaining Doctor.

The Commandors Frank Answer 70
Complaining Doctor.
Gen. Meade was a most accomplished
officer. He had been thoroughly odu-
Gated In his profession, and had a COM
plete knowledge of both the science and
art o. war in all its branches, says The
Century. He was we'll read, POSSESSED
of a vast amount Of interesting infor-
nation, had cultivated mis- mind as q
linguist and spoke French with fiuency-
When foreign officers visited the front
they were invariably charmed by their
interviews with the commander OF the
Army Of the Potomac. He was a dis
ciplinarian to the point OF severity, was
entirely subordinate to his superiors,
and no one was more prompt than he
to obey orders to the letter. In his In
with his officers the bluntness
of the soldier was always conspicuous,
and he never tool pains to smooth any
ones rufied feelings.
There was an officer serving In the
Army Of the Potomac who had former
ly been a urgeon One day he APP
peared at Meade's headquarters In a.
high state of indignation and saidtI
General, as l was riding over here
some OF the men in the adjoining
camps shouted after me and called me
old Pills and l would like to have 1t
stopped" Meade just at that moment
was not In the best possible frame OF
mind to be approached with such a
complaint. He seized hold Of the eye
glasses, conspicuously large In size,
which he always wore, clapped them
astride of his nose with both hands,
glared through them at the officer and
exclaimed: well, what of 1t? How
a l prevent 1t? Why. l hear that
when l rode out the other day some Of
the men called me a id old goggle-
eyed snapping-turtle,' and 1 can't even
stop that" The officer had to content
himself with this explosive expression
of a sympathetic fellow feeling and to
take his chances thereafter as to OBJ
noxious epithets.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

They we're out driving and had
struck a fine stretch Of shady country
read.
"Do you believe in palmistry," he
asked. ssthe realing OF ones fortune by
the lires in ones hand?"
II believe she said that II | could
see the lines in only q e Of your hands
could foretel that we would have q
very pleasant drive"
He Immediately caught on and
srasped the situation with the other.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
JUST AS
Macon, Ca, March 6, l

Macon, Ca, March 3, 1881.
/ would be glad to know that my
future purchases of machinery ana IN
Elements for my farms would prove as
satisfactory as the two q" hay
Presses / bought of you last summer.
/ am well pleased with then In every
particular and find them just as you
guaranteed them in your catalogue.
They are far superior to the a
makes | have seer and used In speed
and draft. the two great desideratums
making yours. as far as ! know, h
most economical press on the market
~ n. T. LAMAR. JR.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

Gadzooks-"T bought a magazine on
the train today which numbered 200
pages" Zounds-"That is an extra
large size for a magazine. You u
have found at least twenty or thirty
pages Of reading matter in it."-New
York Tribune.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
A Blessed Hope.

First Auditor TAT the drama)-
"Neyer saw such miserable acting in
my life. Let's CO." Second Auditor
Lets wait till the next act. There's a
food scene with real water in that and
maybe some of 'em will get drowned"
New York Weekly. 3
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

Mrs. McLuberty-"How did ye git
along wild tn dintist, Murty?" Nc
I,uberty-"sure he moighty neal kilt
me. 20 he did; but, bedad. Of hov tn
laugh or him, all tn same" Mrs, Nc
I nberty-~Is thot so?" McLubertyA
~Yis. Begorrahl he pulled TIL wrong
toot'."-Judge.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

Esther-What do you think OF my
engagement ring, dear2 Eunice Sweet
WITS a beauty-and It fits Just as
though it we're made for you, love-
Brooklyn Eagle.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

Meantime, where is all the finance
legislation which Mr.. Mckinley talked
about SO pe~rsuasively and earnestly
some months ago?
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

walnuts and butternuts are being
successfully cultivated in Whatcom
county. Washington. They are not ma
tive to the region.
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Literary Earmarks.

81 can always tell a novel written py .
woman"
"HOwY -
aWell, / can always tell a novel written
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

into his pockets, in support Of the in
d~enendent indifference Of his posi-
tion. and on such a day, Of what avail
are all the boasted privileges OF the
country -,
II is now towards burning noon. All
me shops and factories have turned
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

Bank of England notes are made from new
white linen cu-ttings-never from anything
that has been worn. So carefully Is ine
paper prepared that even the number OF uiPs
into the pulp made by each workman ID
registered on a dial by machinery.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

hazv drapery of retiring day, and the
horizon glowed with the propnetic
r,orv of the coming morn. Nature
braced her sides for ten thousand sue
ress,ve conclusions Of gunpowder' n
! atmosphere cleared itself In m
-oys preparation for considerable
auoke Yesterday, 'Birnam Wood
oame to Dunsinane," or to town, and
began to stand up prim, before booths
"a beer shops. Pine, cedar, spruce,
I'll ,ook spruce, and straight, n ma
+,,ral. As though trying to make peo-
r,e believe they sprung up n grew
there in a single night, like the goura
~ Jonah. II another Macbeth may
take no alarm, Delavan and his army
NAV n prospect Of b~acchanalian COM
memorations.
At nine o'clock last night we're 2
the hrst preludes OF the great day' IN
~ sound OF fire crackers, squiDs ana
Nvine serpents-not unlike the n.y.
sne serpents sent to punish the ancient
reonIe. but without q brazen serpent %
rure the bitten. All the poles pea
mage instead, whose stripes and STATS
tnoame. IN many a youthful bosom
nat sort Of patriotism which finds es-
capement m torpedoes and hery-wing-
ed reptiles.
The booming inc at midnizn'
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.
The story of Dawson's Conquest' or
Real Glory Springs from the silent
ylctorles-The Main Thing-How Did
He Know


HE'D been UP IN inc
attic.
This little wife OF
mine,
A-rummaging a n d
tumbling.
FOR what, 1 caii .
divine.
But suddenly l mo-
ticed
A silence weird and
strange,
And wondered what
had happened
To cause this PEN
-aSuuqo GAYS
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26


But the sun is up, and the rock
ribbed hills tremble at dawn with the
boom of a hundred cannonading
| echoes. From yonder tall staff streams
the banner high and gay in the morn
ing light and breeze-a ribbon sail
strung out from the fieecy cloud on
which the angel of freedom rides in
the heavens over the nations OF earth.
Angel of Columbia, weep not! for
though millions beneath thee groan,
yet a little while longer, and the shout
that rings from Maine to Oregon shall
be the shout of a race redeemed from
the last bond. Now mellowly mingles
the sound of martial music with the
morning air. Gay troops march, with
CAV plumes and g%listening arms, along
the thoroughfare, as proud of them
selves as the boys are who march by
the;r side in anarchial file, keeping
time with fife and drum. Room, room,
now. for the land-sons of Neptune,
with coats Of many hues and Joseph
shirts. dragging their tridents behind
trimmed and trusty for the raging con-
~fagration. And then m Flora, with
her fairy band, decked in green and
blossom array, moving onward in gen.
tle and smiling procession, like a flow
erv island floating down the meadow
stream. to the music Of nymphs ane
the ripping of Eden waters. The bell
ring in joyous peal, and each stroke @
the metal thrills the tramping multi
tude with a shock of indefinable enthu
siasm. Great thoughts Of the glor.
and greatness of the country swell II
many a bosom, wholly unused to an.
extraordinary emotions. With wha
profound awe and admiration doe
that youth stand yonder in the street
now wildly gazing, with eyes an
mouth wide open, first at the crowd
and then at the banners strung fron
chimney to chimney, and steeple t
steeple! The town folks take him t
be an unripe vegetable, just becaus
he wears what he pleases-boots TO
J service. more than for s~queaking-
} coat, bob-skirted and gray, rather tina
rudely Haunting, and a bell-crowne
hat capricious enough to hold all tn
, gingerbread he can afford to purchas
: Well, if he has no right to look as
| ~pleases, nor to thrust his hands dee
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an what wayT -
ssHe makes all the women characters >"
gentle and -Obedient."
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ushers in the eventful anniversary

ushers in the eventful anniversary,
and now,
mo sleep till MORN"
or thereafter! You begin to dream OF
the olden time that tried souls" when
men started from their couches at the
roar of a foreign lion; and there!-
crack!-near your window goes OH a
gun, or something worse. You console
yourself, however, with the thought
this may be the first and the last salu-
tation so near at hand; and with this
reflection you are falling into a dell
cious lapse. when, there!-another Is
heard, nearer still. And such another.
You listen. and wonder whether the in
strument burst or not, almost hoping
it did, in order to terminate this seren-
ade of thunder. Well, you about con-
clude an actual explosion took place,
and you begin to fear the juvenile Ju-
piter has been kicked over and wound
ed in the cause of his country. In
your sympathy for the fallen patriot
YOU listen anew, and are tempted tc
turn out to his relief, when-by the
shadow of Pluto and all his subterran-
can armory!-right under your win
dow. bellows such another gunpowdel
illumination as you never expect tt
hear again. No matter, however, fol
the occasion gives moment to the mos
trifing circumstances, and you fee
reconciled with thoughts on the bless
edness of liberty. Yet, with a remnan'
Of desperation, you wish all the sui
phur and ~saltpetre of the under king
dom thrust INTO some piece of artillery
like that wAich Milton ascribes to thu
inventive genius of Satan, and touched
off at once and forever.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26
[fMoLAND
E0uRTHor
IN uai 4 oARs> July.

v II memordpie
a n d glorio u $
Fourth! The sun
went down last
night beyond the
hills, like an Olym-
plan chariot, with
u~nfurled streamers.
finging up golden
clouds behind It's
wheels. Along the
west fioated the
M
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-11-27
ABirthdAy Party.

An enjoyable birthday party was
given by Mrs. Ella sutton last Friday
Nov. 10th, at her home in honor of her
daughter, Miss Carrie Sutton.
PArlor games were enjoyed until a
late hour when refreshments were
served, afterwhieh the crowd dispersed
wishing Miss Carrie many happy ami
versaries.
Those present were Misses Annie
Madison, Rosa Coleman, Leonia Wood
Fannie Booker, Viola Davis, Juha
Smith, Emma Alexander, Maria Will
liams, Caroline Jones, Jennie Black.
Matte Smith, Laura and Lixzie Es-
ters, LelialStokes and Mrs. Sadie Hob
son Messrs. Msrcellus Pelham, James
and Jefferson Smith, Benjamin Bailey,
James Cox, Coston Jackson, Robert
cambridge, Waller Robinson, Joseph
Johnson, one of Church Hills most
noted TonsoI Alists Rufus Holtx Henr
Walker, Buddie Hickman, Charles
Hulcher, Lewis Roy, christopher Hen.
ry, Henry Robinson, Walter Valentine
George Washington.
The music was nicely conducted bY
Mr.. James II. johnson.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-11-27
harths's Court. / o. O. O.

Last Wednesday evening saw an ex-
cellent gathering or Martha's curt at
Foushee Hall. Four candidates were
initiated into the mysteries OF the
court.by Deputy Counsellor Thomas
w. Mitchell, assisted by officers of the
Grand Court and visiting members OF
other courts.
Martha's Court was initiated in Oc-
tober by Grand Worthy CeunselIor
John Mitchell, yr. This Court was
gotten up under Mesdames Lucy ].
Brown and Martha johnson. Thew
meet on the 4th Wednesday in each
month at Foushes Hall. Among those
present were Grand Worthy Register
OF Deeds, Marietta L. Chiles; Grand
Worthy LecI urer, Sylvia l. Mitchell
Deputy Anna Taylor.
The officers are as fellows: Worthy
Counsellor, Mrs. Martha johnson
Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Lucy ]. Brown
Worthy lnspectrix, Mrs. Sarah Allen
Worthy Senior Directress, Mrs. Nancy
Johnson; Worthy Junior Directress
Mrs. Nancy Christian F; worthy Orator
Mrs Mary Robinson; Worthy Regis.
ter OF Deeds, Miss Maggie j. Maclin
Worthy Register of Accounts, Miss
Gertie N. Bovine, Worthy Escort, Mrs
Mary Lewis; Worthy Conductor, Mrs
Lucy Spottswood; Worthy Assistant
Conductor, Mrs. Cora Edwards; Wor-
thy Herald, Mrs Jane Winefield; Wor.
thy Protector, Mira. Lizzie Mosbv
Worthy Receiver of Deposits, Mrs, La
vinia Cooke.
Trustees. Patsie johnson, Lottie
Ellington, Margaret Scott.