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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-03
N- 49,
THE TRUE

Its nearly done, " said Old Apple John.
All have now to do Is to find the true
thread of q quarter.inch screw, aad my
work Is completed, and the world will be
turned upside down" 80
Then the old man retired to his cellar,
and did not return to his apple-stand. The
neighbors went to look for him. The cellar
was still, but q dim lamp burned ut midday
in the inner room. The doors were forced.
and the old man was found dead upon q
pallet Of straw. The machine that was to
go without power stood on the table but
it lacked the e. true thread" alrh
For years the old man had worked upon
the machine, spending upon it all his spare
time and slender income, bearing patiently
poverty, contumely, discouragements, dis
appointments returning to the counsel Of
friends and the jeers Of acquaintances, the
single reply that when one more obstacle
was overcome his perpetual motion would
be a fact then he would be at the top Of
the heap, and have his laugh at those below.
Or the principle he was sure ; but the sstrue
thread" or its many equivalents, forever
eluded his grasp.
Strange what's hold that old idea has upon
the human mind The shadowy yet ~tantaliz-
ing belief that somehow something may be
got from nothing-that by some trickery Of
- u AAhI NC
cheated into yielding power without an
equivalent return-seems to be an inheri-
lance of the race. to be eliminated from the
mental constitutions Of individuals only by
early instruction-or by death. So long as
men are sure of the principle and those
who are sure are numberless-no disap-
pointment, no accumulation of contrary
experience, can convince them that the
search for the true thread " is hopeless.
The impossible is to them q hope; It is al
ways possible, and always lies lust one re.
move beyond their reach.
These are the honest Apple Johns-the
genuine seekers for the "true thread"
OF q very different order is the man who
has found the I" true thread" He il In
variably a rascal, and is after unearned
money. So he deludes his victims with
the promise of a grand prize sure to
follow the investment Of just enough
money to make a larger and stronger model
Just enough to start the Grand Turn the
World Over Association on q solid basis.
He shrewdly counts on the abundance Of
men OF more cash than sterling sense ; men
who still harbor the delusive conviction that
the true thread by which something will
come from nothing, is discoverable, and
that the first to find it will make no end of
money by it and he Is not disappointed.
There are men always ready to bet agains
the inevitable. provided some one conf
IDENTIFY assures them that he has O trick to
circumvent it and until that race dies out
the harvest of the swindler is sure. With
the gamblers spirit they reap the gamblers
ultimate reward.
1t is amazing what protean shapes the
true thread assumes, and how near it
always hovers to the limit of the pursuer's
reach 1t is even more amazing that so
many are in one way or another in hot pur-
suit Of it, sure Of the principle, but always
baf1ed in its material realization .-Scien.
tic american.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-03

There is said to be q terrestrial globe in
the esuitic Library Of the Lyons Lyceum,
which is 40 years old, containing. in great
detail, the curious system Of African lakes
and rivers. which the English and Ameri.
can travellers have lately re-discovered,
1t Is two metres in diameter, and an in
scripton,, near the north pole, states that it
was made in the year 1901, by F. F. Bona.
venture and Gregoire, Brothers Of the
Third Order Of st. Francis. The globe has
created a great sensation among geograph-
ical savants and amateurs. Les Aondes.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-03

Discovered tair,y-lye ye4i. 40 j i1oi. Lyon. OF
Yale, u the ilost perfect preparation ia Vie world
for pre-e,Sfhe aud beautifying the lair.
Besides being tis best hair dressing
aver produced, Lyons I<athairon Will
positively revei Grayaess, and VIII re-
store new hair to bald h-ad., 4 The roots
and follicieS ara no. destroyed.
which the following is
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

Heine made an idol of Napoleon, and pic
tured him as he would have pictured Greek
god. "NeVer," he says, speaking of the time
be saw the Emperor, in 1912, "will this image
disappear out of my memory. L see him
even yet, aloft upon his steed, with his eter-
nal eyes in his marble, imperator face, looking
down quiet as fate upon the guards defiling
by. He sent them to Russia, and the old
grenaders looked up to him with such awful
devotion, so consciously earnest, SO death
proud, Te Cesar, morituri salutant."
Heine's own devotion was scarcely less ex-
travagant than that of the guards, if we may
judge by this: ''It is not generally known
why our sovereigns live to SO old an age.
They are afraid to die lesS they meet Napo-
leon in the next world"
The hearts of the great emperor and the
grand aym6e are embalmed In that story of
LIE Grand. To-day after Sedan, it might set
Frenchmen to dreaming of the glories of the
First Empire. The retreat from Russia even,
as interpreted by the drummer, has an awful
fascination difficult to resist. 1t is the last
time Heine hears him. The translation gives
us taste of the quality of the author who
writes in the Western:
Sitting on the old bench, in the paace-gar-
den, lat dusseldorf heard behind me con-
fused voices. As looked up 1 beheld those
orphan children of glory, [fugitives from the
Russian campaign.] Through the holes of
their ragged uniforms looked naked misery;
in their weather-beaten faces Law deep.
lamenting eyes; and although mutilated,
weary, for the most part limping, they still
maintained kind of military tread; and
strangely enough. drummer with his drum
tottered before them. Verify, the poor
French drummer seemed to have arisen from
MS grave, half mouldered away; it was only
a little shadow in dirty, ragged, gray copote
"a livid face, with great moustache, which
hung over ashy lips. The eyes were like
burned-out tinder, wherein glimmered still
few sparks; and yet in one of these glances.
recognized Monsieur LIE Grand. He recog-
nized me, too, and drew me down upon the
grass. He drummed now as of old, but
without speaking. But if his lips were
plnched together wierdly, his eyes spoke all
the more-gleaming VIGOROUSLY as he drum
med the old marches. The poplars near us
trembled as he thundered again the red march
OF the guillotine. Litter, he gave the old
struggles for freedom, and the deeds of the
Kaiser; and IL seemed as if the drum was
itself living being, which took pleas ure in
uttering its inner joy. heard again the
roar OF cannon, the whistle of balls, the tu-
multi of battle; l saw again the courage unto
death of the guards, the futtering colors,
the Kaiser on his steed. But gradually a
mournful tune crept into the exultng roll;
from the drum pressed sounds in which were
wildly commingled the widest jubil alton and
the deepest lamenting. 1t seemed a m arch
OF victory aud, at the same time of de ath.
The eyes of LIE Grand opened wide, like
those of spectre, and 1 saw in them moth
ing. but Wide, white field of ice covered
with corpses--it was the battle of the Mosk
wa.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

A SPECIAL despatch to the Boston Herald
says: An important case under the election
law came up Thursday in the United States
Court at Cincinnati. 1t will be remembered
that United States Supervisors of Election
were appointed there on the Congressional
elections. One of these, on attempting to
handle the ballots and assist in the count,
was ordered to desist by Lieutenant Brady of
the police force, and on refusing to do so
was arrested. Brady was tried on a charge
of interfering with the Supervisor and
Thursday found guilty. 1t is proposed to
appeal the case to the United States Circuit
Court, the judges in which, in order to send
this case to the Supreme Court have agreed
to disagree, when it will be sent to the Su-
preme Court for decision upon the law
providing for the appointment of Supervis ors
and their relation to the elections.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
Thursday, the 2s day Of November. 1878,
The GOYernOrship.

A paragraph which appeared in the PRESS
on the morning of the September election,
deprec&ting the choice of legislature gov
erned by a coalition, has been copied of late
and commented upon by number of our
Democratic exchanges. In that paragraph
the PRESS expressed the fear that in the con-
tingency mentioned the choice of Governor
would be the result of a trade. The Demo-
cratic papers that copy the paragraph are ac-
cusing the Republicans of attempting to make
a trade. The assertion is false. The only
trading going on is between Democrats and
Greenbackers. Have our contemporaries SO
soon forgotten the Gardiner conference at
which an equitable" division of the spoils
was discussed? Do they presume to ignore
the attempts of the Progressive Age to de-
liver the Greenback party to the Democracy,
to lead it into an organization that defends
ballot-box stuffing in South Carolina, and ne
gro.killing in Louisiana? 1t is perhaps un-
just to accuse the Age of trading, for it makes
q complete surrender. 1t is willing even to
accept for its followers the name which the
Democrats have always claimed for them
selves, National Democratic But surely the
participants in the Gardiner conference were
men who came to trade, though it may be
they remained to quarrel.
1t cannot be too emphatically repeated that
the Republican party in this State will not
trade for the Governorship nor for any other
Office. 1t stands upon the ground it took
during the campaign, and refuses to enter
into intrigues or make combinations. 1t
fought the campaign on the hard-money
issue, and until that is settled and taken out
Of politics 1t will continue the fight. The
scene of conflict is but changed
from The polls to the legislature,
The next Governor oil Maine must be hard
money man, if among the constitutional
candidates a hard. money man can be found.
And this man will not be supported because
he can bestow patronage, but because he
entertains views on the currency question
more nearly approaching our views than do
those of his opponents. The Republicans
will vote for Governor Connor as long as he
is possible candidate, and if there is hard
IHouey maJority III luo houSo ~ VIII SuCW It's
consistency by sending his name to the
Senate and he will be chosen. But if his
name is not sent up the Republicans will
have to make the next best choice. That
choice will not be the result of trade, and
the Republicans will have no favors to ask.
They have no mind to share in the
responsibility of an administration they can
not direct.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

ELSEWHERE will be found complaints
and Regrets of the Poets," from the pen of
the editress of the CarnirGl Reporter, the
little journal that gave so much pleasure to
those who attended the Carnival of Authors
at City Hall, this week. The grace and fidel-
ity of the limitations do not need to be point
ed out. They are at once apparent.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

The prairie cracked in hot red flame.
And the pant theirs leap and the mono's scream
and the serpent's hiss as he fire cane
All these now seem like an old bad dream;
But was there oa "A long past day,
MY brown BRIDE behind me on my horse;
Ihe IL ines came ne rer-ani tlen, OF course,
pushed her off was L wrong? my plead,
Wi the panther that ate her she disagreed
So killei the two with one tour de IOrce,
This is not he thing that meant to say.
Why should recount all my family jars?)
Her soul went up 10 the white Cold star,
Borne on the swift sharp wings Of the flame,
She was high-I was low-but was game.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
TIE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 2s

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The anne and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

GOVERNOR CoLQUITT Of Georgia is
charged by Senator Hill With receiving
bribe of $1,000 for endorsing disputed railroad
bonds. Other leading Democrats are involved
proved since Bullock's time.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

HEZEKIAH B. SMITH, Democratic Con-
gressman.e elect from the second New Jersey
District, is accused of bigamy. Perhaps we
shall hear Jess from the Democratic papers
now of the wicked men New Jersey Republi-
cans send to Congress.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

THE financial storm in England has blown
over and the Bank of England has reduced
the rate of discount to five per cent. The
terrible consequences that, according to the
prophets of Lombard street, were to follow
the Glasgow Bank failure have happily not
put in an appearance. Clear weather is an
nounced. May it long continue.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

ACTIVE proceedings will soon begin against
the Louisiana bulldozers, and the citizens
conservative association of New Orleans are
taking measures to bring to Justice the regu-
lar Democrats who swinded them at the city
election.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

FATHER MARTIN, Benedictine missiona-
ry, is trying to civilize Sitting Bull. The
chances are that he is better fitted for the
task than were our peace commissioners.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
BY THE GOVERNOR,

A p r 0 G l. A MI A t I 0 N.
The people of this state have received signal reve-
lations of the goodness of God in the blessings He
has bestowed upon them throughout the year.
Health and prosperity have been given them in full
measure. Peace, good will and well being have pre-
vailed. The seasons have been propitious and Ma
lure has continued the glories OF the summer be-
yond its usual limit through long succession of
beautiful days, gaddenng the earth and uplifting all
hearts in joy and thankfuness.
In order that the people may with one accord offer
their reverent thanks, do hereby, in conformity to
the usage which santions and endears this annual
holiday and by and with the advice and censent Of
the Council, appoint
Thursday, the 2S day Of November, 1873,
as day of Thanksgiving and Praise to God for the
rich gifts and constant OF the past year, and for
the promises and hopes that attend the coming of
the new year.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
sixth day OF November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight,
and OF the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and third
By the Governor SELDEN CONN OR,
s. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

LINDERMAN's term as Director of the
Mint expires next month. Now is the time
for the Greenbackers to bring forward proofs
OF the msdoings with which they have been
charging him.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS ls furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent our
ournal
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

ANOTHER steal has been resolved upon by
the Democrats. The seat of Orth of Indiana
is to be contested. At this rate there will be
a solid Democratic delegation from the North.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

IT is said that Secretary Sherman will re-
ceive greenbacks for duties as soon as the re-
sumption act goes into effect.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

What deed of niue is punished
In such unwoI ted way,
That this demand of me is made
To which | say ye nay!
Yea indeed am gotten at
OF judgment for some sin,
But to the worth OF one poor pin
No good of it ye gat.
Ye are bold t, ask me that sing
To help your Carnival;
And thai do for ye this thing
Me suiteth not at all.
Yea rather than give this gift
Ye would gladly see.
High on some neighboring tree,
Upon rope upliit.
Mine hands would weave an hempen sting
To hale ye up withal;
More soon than mouth of mine should sing
May evil ye b fail,
AS in the round green earth
No man did ever see,
No grief its peer might be
In all the worlds great girth.
What gain had In sooth
Did L for strangers sake,
With breath 'twixt tooth aud tooth,
A song unwilling make?
Or if for ye twaDged,
OF courtesy, my yre?-
i say than Haman higher
l first Will see ye hanged.
D. R.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
[Ffom the Carnival Rsporterl
Compliments and Regrets Of the I

The Carnival Reporter, although exceedingly
fortunate in its contrlbators, has also its dissp
pointments In that department. 1t may see o.
improbable that application 60 such literary
artists as Messys. Tennysoo, Rossetti, Swim.
burne, Walt Whitman, William Morris, Bret
Hsrte aud Joaquin Miller for contribution
from their pens To oar columns-should have
been answered as the poems printed below
would indicate. Apy lack of faith as to the
entire authenticity Of the aft air, upon the par
OF our readers, will, however, De considered BY
the Carnival Reporter as an affrout ca ual t(
the withdrawal of their names from our sub
srip1ion list
What's that you say, stranger?
You want me 20 write?
That's cool enough, quite;
You don't know the danger
or setting mans pen agoing.
Perhaps you don't know
About Sagebrush Flat joe
It's curious story, tn knowing:
Well, Joe was man from the East,
AMI printed our Weekly Revolver
He came here to cure his bronchitis
That was how ne would put it, at least
All about oim's kind of mystery,
But the way that solve her
Is-Weu, you know what deal beat is.
Joe wanted sub. on his Weekly,
And gave me the place-Dot to write,
But TO stand round the door sort OF meekly,
In case the boys wanted to tight
But Pm not getting on with my history:
Last summer pacty of folks
Came up the canon
70 rather prospect round the rocks;
And stood a-leaning longside
OF Joe's uoor, and h casually eyed
The strangers; aud one Was a lady
With her husband, an elderly man;
When Joseph saw her he began
To look sort OF curious and wnite,
And he walked rather weak and unsteady:
Can you play this aOne?''
Says Joe unto me. L replied
was able and will ing;
And Joseph appeared gratfed
And setoff at pace that was killing.
Joe didn't come back all the while
The tourists sojourped in our place,
CHATS the language used in my 'local0
And the venerable pilgrim would poke all
The rocks with his gold-headed cane,
And allow he had struck a new vein;
Ard his wife had the han'somest face
But she didn't once smile.
All the time they staid round, you'll believe
handled the language with care;
wrote out all the long words knew,
And used them judicious; desired
The boys to agree not to swear
(Which they Usually did till the air
Around them was blIe)
Well, after the visitors went
The whole of us rather unbent
From the style we had took,
Aud was havin' socable game
Till one of us mentioned Joe's name,
And says L: 1--WE must look.
For am somewhat concerned for the same"
The rest Of the story's soon said
We found Joe stiff an dead
With shot through the side of his head;
And the boys SAID his feelln's was tried
By my style of writin', and so
He was led to commit suicide
But can't quite believe that of Joe.
St I'd rather not take any part
In runnin' paper.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

You ask me for poem:
LOOK, offer you the past. the poem OF the ages
Ne0ueh addnezzar. Epaminondas and George Wash
ington were poems.
You insist upon poem:
Look, offer you the poem of the future.
The poet who is to come can write it If he has a
mind to.
You say "Give us poem:
Yea, hurry up, Walt Whitman" say We, "flr this
procession is long In passing given point"
give YOU the poem Of to-day, of All Outdoors
The song of Ne an1 of the Cosmos
shall not wIite it for you'll do not writa for tha
Boston Advertiser, the Farmers Aim anac, Punch.
The Chicago Inter-ocean in praise Of Soz1dont or
OF Rising sun Stove Polish, nor for the New York
Nation, neither will for your valuable Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

The night denieth all glory Of the iay,
Lie evermore hath death TO say her nav.
AND darkness maketh ending Of the light,
And sorrow is set shade above delight,
And silence Tor a song.
How may my mouth make any madrigal
In ruinOus rainy days when dead leaves fall?
How shall sing above the summers grave?
Dead bir1s alone and faded flowers We have
And silence for song.
Yea [. tho mine eyes see great length Of DAYS,
And tho mine ears hear all the old past SAYS,
And set astare at Overbold desire
give your begging letter to the fire,
And silence for a sons,
A.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

Your favor of 2d November's at hand,
But why should give myself away,
Ana write for your paper and have no pay,
Is thing confess do not understand
Il
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
STATE OF MAINE,

If the Union was worth fighting for it is
worth paying for.
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

Ask me no more. Ye may extort aV
Out OF the pocket of my U ster cape,
In gold or in The que stionaole shape
OF iIredeemable fiat currency,
But not POEM shall YOU have from me-
Asa me- 10 more.
ask me no mOre-I've not rhyme to give:
love not cheek, no green is in niue eve:
My cloI hes and bread tnd-b tier must buy
And poetry is my trade, whereby live
Ask me 10 more.
Ask me no more o. l really shall not Weld,
And further urging will be quite in vain,
st Carnival Reporter, Portland. Maine"-
Now for postage stamp; my letters sealed;
Ask me no more!
The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23
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The Portland daily press., 1878-11-23

What fitting song have to sing
When Autumn wears his surcoat gray,
And in the brief dim-litten day
AS in dream moves everything.
Alasl how swift the sweet days fit.
And as a painted cloth year. fade
For in few days the earth was made,
Aud few days joy we have OF it.
All! look how little of life we have,
That wander singing in the sun,
Until that our liiejays are done,
Until our feet shall fnd ths grave.
Yet ye shall have your carnival.
space to pleasure ye and play
But nathiess, | wIthouten pay
Write ior your paper not a. all,
W. NJ