The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-18


Awake. awake, awake. from wintry tombs;
The sun has turned the point OF Capricorn.
And gins to pluck from Winters wings the
plumes
OF darkness and To wind his silver horn
Yes, Spring may truthfully be said
to have come at last, and with it new
faces, new hopes and ambitions. 1
fancy there is a happier expression on
the faces Of the people m meets in his
daily intercourse with the world, that
the jaded expression has given place to
the freshness and new life that comes
with this season, and that hope
deferred no longer maketh the heart
sick.
Business of all descriptions is
looking up, and the merchant who all
the dreary winter throughout has been
de~scanting upon the hard times and at
tributing it to the presidential ques-
tion, ceases to grumble longer; for now
that the rivers and canals, and the bays
and lakes and estuaries of this immense
country are open once more, the cities
are filled with customers come to re-
new their quarterly stock in trade, and
coming, bringing with them money to
pay up their Indebtedness and to pur-
chase over again. Hence the merchants
are happy, and by that token so are the
people who represent the trades, and
that class among US who are the sinew
and muscle, the laboring class, from
''poor Pat who works on the railway"
to the farm hand who whistles busily to
his team as he ''speeds the plough"
For something wherewith to satiate
our craving for the new and sensation
III we have had and tired Of the
Telephone, that wonderful instrument
by which sound may be transmitted
from one city to another. We had a
concert of that kind some time since,
the performers appearing upon one stage
in the city of Philadelphia, one hundred
miles away, and the anxious and curl
GUS audience, seated in wi city, heard
with un~disguised delight, sweet music
discussed, selections from the operas,
and from the works of other birds of
song. But it isno longer new.
Mr.. Oakley Hall has been discovered
and has not been left severely alone,
for the reason that the people would
not have it o Who says We are not a
curious peoplep Just as we began to
wonder what the next sensation would
be, it comes upon us as suddenly as the
thunder clap of a cloudless summer sky,
in q horrible shape. 1 allude to the
Burling Slip horror. But the whole
affair is passe now, and the people wait
for a new one impatiently. 1t will come,
nay it must, or else we should have to
hire somebody to get one up. 1t is
quite true that we have Alexis; but he
is only a Grand Duke, and it is in the
order of things now for us to have a
real live Prince. Besides, sober, staid
folks are inclined to look askance at his
royal highness, and are apt to think
twice before inviting the friend of
Aimee to their homes and introducing
this King of Hearts and-Diamonds
to their daughters. Bat it don't seem
to wound the feelings of this Russian
sailor, who, like all sailors is fond of
his ease, his grog and his women. l
know this is positively shocking, but it
is nevertheless true. He would be per-
fectly at home in the classic shades of
Fiddler's Green, that elysium of all
true sailors; and there is no doubt in
the premises about the assertion to say
that he has thus far made his Fiddler's
Green out of the city of New York.
Don't send your children to boarding
school, city and therefore fashionable
boarding schools, especially. They are
only hot beds of vice. Many a young
girl a trace her downward course in
the social scale to these fountain heads
of corruption. Among other things
that they learn, not down in the cata-
logues that papa or mamma see, is to
smoke cigarettes and even cigars; they
learn how to smuggle correspond ence
in and out of these establishments, and
become experts in deceit and cunning.
Thought the Madame who runs the acade-
my may be hydra-headed in her vigil
lance, she cannot expect to be success
full. in preventing these things, and
when some fair girl is discovered dere-
lict in these matters. it is CLOSED over;
nothing is said on either side, for Mad
am can't afford to lose a pupil who is
as good as a thousand a year to her I'M
certain and variable income. Once in
a while there is a terrible uproar in one
of these academies; there is an elope-
ment or a mysterious disappearance.
The innocent" has skipped the school
and her teachers. Madame outwardly
is furious, for she loves a paying pupil,
but although outwardly she may rave
and fret and fume, it is only for effect,
for she knows very well that the moth
/ er of that erring and ere long ~repentant