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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-10

The GreutcSt Medical Discovery Sfncc he Great
tim ~ Mun, ar since The Commence
menf Of he Christian Era.
There never has been.a time when the
healing OF so many different diseases has
been caused by outward application as the
half of the entire population OF the globe re-
sort to the use of ordinary plasters.
are acknowledged by all who have used
them, to act quicker than any other plaster
they ever before tried, and thai one Of these
p%lasters VIII do more real service than II hun
tiers are slow of action, and require TO be
worn continually to effect "a cure; but with
is applied the patient will feel its effect.
Physicians in all ages have thoroughly
tested and well know the effect of Capsicum;
and IL has always been more or less used as a
medical agent for an outward application;
but II Is only OF q very recent date that its adj
HantaScs In a porous plaster have been dis
covered. Being, however. convinced of the
wonderful cures effected by DIR. MEIVIS's
CAPsICUM Porous PLAsTERs and their supe-
riority oyer all other plasters, they now
actually prescribe them, In their practice, for
such diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side
and back, and all such cases MS have required
the use of plasters or liniment. AMER you
have tried other plasterS and Ininents. ana
they have failed, and you want a certain
cnre, ask your druggist for DIR. MELvINs
CAPsIcuM POROUS PLASTER. ioucan hardly
believe your convictions of its wonder
ful effects. Although powerful and quick IN
It's action, you can rely on its safety for inc
most delicate person 10 wear, as II IS Tree
rom lead and other poisonous material com
monty used in the manufacture of ordinary
p%lnsters. one trial Is n sufficient guarantee
OF Its merits, and one plaster Will sell nun
Ask your druggist for. DIR. MARvIN's car
sICUM Porous PLASTER and take no other;
9r, on receipt Of 2, cents for one, 81 for I'VE, q
to my address In the United States or 'aih-
das.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-10

ARCHl1 EC1S.
II. w. JORDAN. 357 Seventeenth
BANKS. r
FIRST NATIONAL, sixteenth
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-10
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TOW prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
How the Weasel Hunts its Prey.

There are other enemies of game-life
beside human poachers, whose mum bers
must be kept within bounds to insure
successful sport. The thirst of the
weasel for blood is Unsuitable, and it is
curious to watch the persistency with
which he will hunt down the particular
rabbit he has singled out for destruc-
ton. Through the winding subterra-
mean galleries of the "buries," with
their cross-passages, "blind" holes and
''pop" holes (that is, those which end
in undisturbed soil, and those which
are simply bored from one side of the
bank to the other, being only used for
temporary concealment) never once in
the dark, close caverns losing sight or
scent of his victim, he pursues it with a
species of eager patience. 1t is gener-
ally a long chase. The rabbit makes
dash ahead, and double or two, and
then halts, usually at the mouth of a
hole, perhaps to breathe. By-and-by
the weasel, baffied for a few minutes,
comes up behind. Instantly the rabbit
slips over the bank outside and down
the ditch for dozen yards, and there
enters the ''bury" again. The weasel
follows, gliding up the bank with a mo-
oiOh uOt vi lOT Ills
body and neck are long and slender,
and his legs short. He seems in no
haste, but rather fingers over the scent.
This is repeated five or six times, till
the whole length of the hedgerow has
been traversed, sometimes up aud down
again. The chase may be easily OBJ
served by any one who will keep lit
tie in the background. Although the
bank be tenanted by fifty other rabbits,
past whose Kidding place the weasel
must go, yet they scarcely take any no
tice. One or two, whom he has ap-
preached too closely, bolt out and in
again but as a mass the furry popula-
tion remain quiet, as if perfectly aware
that they are not yet marked out for
slaughter. At last, having exhausted
the resources of the bank, the rabbit
rushes across the field to hedgerow,
perhaps hundred yards away. Here
the wretched creature seems to find a
difficulty in obtaining admittance.
Hardly has he disappeared in hole be-
fore he comes out again, as if the in
habitants of the place refused to give
him shelter.-PaU Mall Budget.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Coal Ashes.

The value of coal ashes as a fertilizer
has long been known to many, but a
majority of persons living in the coun-
try throw the ashes into heap in some
out of the way place, or use the ashes
for filling up some hole. Ashes applied
to flower or vegetable garden and
soaked in gives richness to the soil,
while it renders clayey sell friabIe and
productive. A writer in the Ohio Farm
er gives his experience of the value of
coal ashes as cure for curculio, that
pest which destroys the plum crop.
He writes:
Il have tor several years saved my
plums from the ravages of the curculio
by the use of coal ashes. They become
so completely disgusted with it that
they leave for other parts. Just so
soon as the blossoms fall commence
with my ashes. l take buckettul of
the ashes under my arm, and with the
other hand l dash the ashes all over and
through the trees, covering the plums
completely with ashes, and 90 round
every few days and give them another
dose. If the rain washes it off. renew
the dose and keep at it until my plums
are ripe, whenI am well paid for nv
trouble. L had this year eight bushels
on seven small trees, which | sold for
thlrty-twO dollars. have several trees
of the Rheine CLAUDIO variety upon
which did not use the ashes, because
the plums were so scattering / thought
1T would not pay, but there was one
llnio OF those trees that was close to
those, l put the ashes on it gotits share
OF ashes, and that limb ripened up all
ITS plums, but not plum was there left
og the other part of the tree, or on any
OF the other trees of that variety. This
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
A Close Fight with a Panther.

Last week hunter named Jacob
Farquarson, while passing through the
forest between White Fish Lake and
Black Trout Lake, near the head wa
ters of the Cadawaska River, encoun-
tered puma, or American panther.
He came across the carcass of a deer,
which he stopped to examine and found
1t to be the remains of large upland
Cariboo. While looking at it he heard
a noise at some distance off among the
tree tops. Shortly after the sounds
were repeated, aud, on looking up, he
saw large animal leaping from tree to
tree toward the spot where he stood.
He was armed with a Ballard rifle, and
as soon as the beast came near enough
he fired at it, when, to his surprise and
alarm, the brute sprang from the tree
directly at him. In the meantime the
hunter had rapidly reloaded, and hav-
ing jumped aside aud behind a large
pine, before the infuriated animal could
recover for a second spring he gave it
another bullet. Both shots had taken
effect, as was afterwards discovered.
but neither in "a vital part. After the
second shot, the puma turned and DART
ed with a roar at the hunter, who drew
long, keen7edged hunting knife, and
With his back against tree awaited his
enemy. The enIaged animal sprang
at him and fastened its long curved
claws into his shoulder, when he drove
the knife repeatedly to the biltl into it's
breast. Both came to the ground to-
gether, but the struggle did not last
long, for the huge animal, weakened
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Vermont Feeling About Hayes.
TFrom the Brattleboro Vt.) Phoenix

ltrom the Brattleboro (Vt.) Phoenix.
The Rutland Herald goes on to picture
the true inwardness of Vermont repub-
llcanlsm In language as follows: "While
they are not enthusiastic supporters of
the president, the republicans of Yer
mont are ardently devoted to their old
time party sympathies, traditions and
associations, and the Dorman c.. Eaton
babblers do not number bakers dozen
among their influential leaders of
thought and opinion. The people of
Vermont look upon the, whole business
of civil service reform as originally in
terpreted and specifically enforced by
the administration as the cant of hyper
critical idealists, since it's practical re-
suit is the worst set of public appoint
ments, both for ability and character,
that ever disgraced and degraded the
public service" Well may the Repub-
llcan inquire after reading the above.
rs this editor crazy, or is he simply a
1ool y" LIS it a fact that the republicans
OF Vermont view the efforts put forth
by the administration in the interest of
cIvll-service reform, aud their results,
IN any such light as the Herald repre-
sents Really if such is the fact, we
hadn't heard the news. Will the Her
aid please tell us where and from whom
this information was obtained ? Does
the tone of the republican press of Yer
mont indicate the prevalence of such
vlewsY On the contrary, republican
newspapers of this state, with very few
exceptions, are cordial in their support
OF the presidents policy in this regard.
Do. the people themselves express dis
satisfaction with the presidents civil
service ideas or the character of his ap-
polntments at home or abroad? We
have yet to hear a word of complaint
on these points. Has the editor of the
Herald or any of his friends 1--WE ask it
IN whisper), met with disappointments
In his efforts to become "an humble in
strument in the hands of the president
to assist in carrying out" etc, etc., or
anything which might be so construed
we know nothing in regard to the mat
ter but, really, the sweeping language
OF the Herald in this instance, and the
many petty filings and insinuations in
the same vein which have characterized
Its pages for some time past, would
seem to justify the suspicion,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
An Indignant Dutchman.

A Dutchman made his appearance at
the office of the board of health short
time ago, with bone about ten inches
long, which he threw down upon the
counter, with the inquiry:
'Vat vas de matter NIT dot bone 2"
Upon examination the clerk informed
him that there seemed to be nothing the
matter with it.
"Nodings de matter NIT it, hey7 Vas
dis de office of de BOte of Helt ?n
''Yes that is what they call it."
"DOt bone vas horses bone"
''Is that so! Where dye get it ?"
"At de market. 1t vas in some
meat vat ate."
"Some people like horses meat.
They gave dinner at the Parker House
the other day, on horse meat"
sit vas no beesness of mine did dey
gife barty on horses meat. l vas gife
no barty."
"What you going to do with the
bone? 2"
"Dat is vat l want to know. De SUI
perintendents of de market told me to
come to de BOte of Helt."
''YOu must see the inspector of pro-
visions. He is away on vacation now,
but you can wait until he comes back,
then show him the bone, and he will
tell you what to do with it,"
"De inspector provisions on vaca-
tiOns, hey 2"
"Yes."
"Vat vos de goot of inspector brovis-
ions if he's on vacations ~
"YOu must ask the city council"
"Vas it de city council gife him va
cations ?"
81 believe it was"
''You yoost tOald de city council dere
will be long vacations next fall"
ButtOning up his coat he retired, re-
marking: "Mine grashus! Dis vas a
great BOte of Helt, couldn't tell horses
bone, unit der Inspector of provisions
vas gone on a vacations. No wonter
de country vOing to ter tuyvil."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Baby Carriages and Baby Killers.

The Providence Journal says 1.-THE
time has come for the inevitable baby
carriage. A generation ago these
things were little more than baskets
screwed on to axles without springs.
Then came protest, originally from
physicians, against trundling the little
ones over the pavements in vans which
would rack the bones and addle the
brains of the toughest man. Out of
this discussion the modern baby carri-
age was evolved, and, as at first con-
structed was provided with real springs,
and, if used with ordinary care, did not
endanger life. Gradually the springs
have given way to rigid strips of iron,
initiating springs, leaving the carriage
as unfit and dangerous as wheelbar-
row for the delicate mission of trans
porting an infant over rough crossings
and along the average sidewalk. The
baby's tissues will not bear much jolt
ing. Its brain is gelatinous, and even
its bones soft. Nature has made its bed
in the mothers arms and on the moth
er's breast. To change this for spring
less cart is almost murder. Let any
man or woman try riding a short dis
tance, on the smOOthest road, in wag-
on without springs. The jar will be
found tatiguing and soon become pain
full. The Intervention of a cushion or a
pillow does not ease it much. If any
parent wishes to get baby carriage
for child whose life is worth insuring,
let him or her buy none in which the
body pressed by the hand does not rise
and fall easily on its springs"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
ST JOHNSBURY, VT, FRIDAY, MAY II, 1878.

'eThat child is not mine !" roared Jo-
siah, kicking over his chair by way of
giving emphasis to his assertion.
"'Tis !r jerked the lady, between her
sobs. ta-
Josiah uttered sound midway be-
tween sniff and grunt, supercillious
and exasperating in the extreme.
''Look at it, and see, you miserable,
married fraud, and then deny it if you
can !" she screamed, beating the air with
her pulpy hands the while; "behold it,
and then gaze at your wife's unhappy
face, and dare to protest your innO-
cence.n
Dobbs did as he was hidden, walking
over to the basket, and quickly remOv-
ed the wraps from the infants small
face.
.'It's just as said, Mary Ann,n he re-
marked, coolly. "It's none of mine"
This was the point where the joke
was supposed to eliminate, and Mrs.
Dobbs threw herself into the role she
had undertaken with a happy imitation
of an indignant wife; crossing the floor
with majestic mien, and also covering
the face of the unsuspecting infant in
the market basket; one glance, and
then a scream re-echoed through the
Dobbs mansion, at once so penetrating
and full of terror, that the smiles on the
countenances of the Dobbses died out in
sheer fright, and Josiah hastily stuffed
his fingers in his ears. .
"For Heavens sake, Mary Ann, list
en- J" he entreated, when she paused for
an instant, half suffocated with her
| OF.
But his expostulations we're cut short
in the piercing shrieks she emitted with
renewed vigOr intermingled with the
cries of: "My baby, my poor baby,
my darling little Tommy, where are
yOuIn
She was now fast verging on hyster-
ics-alarmingly real-and poor DObbs
wrung his hands in mute despair.
At this juncture the door opened, and
Mrs. Brown, their next door neighbor,
entered, bearing the lost Tommy in her
arms.
His delighted maternal caught him
to her broad bosom, half smothering
him with kisses, and Mrs. Blown pro-
ceeded to abstract her own infant from
its swathings in the basket, and peace
reigaed where grief had ran riot but a
moment before.
Dobbs never told his wife that he
happened to come home little earlier
than usual the night before, and over
hearing the pretty little plan to fool
him, had quietly stolen out and pei
suaded Mrs. Brown to exchange her girl
baby for the bouncing Tommy, for the
short space of half an hour. But Mrs.
Dobbs never asked any questions,
neither has she ever attempted to play
a joke on her liege lord since that event
full evening, which was many years ago
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
The Woes of a California Emigrant.

Restless people who think by emigra-
tion to better their fortunes will do well
to read this plaint of farmer who went
to southern California to make his for
tune. He says: Don't come to Los
Angeles county. The lands are owned
mostly in large bodies by nonresident
capitalists, who obtained them when
they were comparatively worthless,
from the natives, or otherwise, for a
mere nothing, and who manage to avoid
the high taxation such as the men of
small quantities of land have to pay,
and therefore are enabled to hold them
The lands in this comfy are too high
for farmers to pay the prices and make
anything on them. l know these facts
from the saddest experience. l came
here IA few years ago from Illinois, pur-
chased 40 acres of what l thought the
finest land L ever saw, at $50 per acre.
1t was covered with the most luxuriant
growth of vegetation, just as the whole
country is now, after the winter rains.
| paid one-third cash, built me house,
improved the place for my future home,
and the deferred payments were left on
one and two years time at one and ii
half per cent. interest. l expected
from the looks of the country to pay for
my place out of my crop the first year
and have my family comfortably stu
ated at home but August came and
my corn was burnt up and | became Il
total wreck. l lost all had paid, all
my improvements, all my work, and
to-day | am here among strangers with
wife and helpless children depending
on my daily labor for support, when
there is no work to be had. But l am
not alone, there are hundreds that have
lost all they had in the same way, and
there is more real suffering to-day in
Los Angeles county than in your entire
state among the farmers. And right
here l would say to you who have little
homes upon which you can make a
scant living for your children, do not
leave them and come to Los Angeles
county. There is more dissatisfaction
in this county to-day among the disap-
pointed hOme-seeker and sufferers than
any county that l have seen and great
many would go back to where they
could support their families if they
could get back. The climate here is
fine and healthy, and that is the best
lnducement offered by this country to
the eastern people to come to it, but
there are drawbacks which largely
overbalaDce this advantage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17

Whatever petulance and fault-finding
may be exhibited by one or two of the
party newspapers, the republicans of
Vermont, as body, believe thoroughly
in President Hayes personal purity and
honesty of purpose. Some, it is true,
we're dubious in regard to the wisdom
and success of his southern policy but
since, thus far, it has been justified by
its results, they have no fault to find in
that regard. Others, doubtless, have
desired to see him exhibit more of a
spirit of independence, a bolder "taking
of the bull by the horns" in carrying out
his reform principles. But notwith
standing these qualifications, the COM
ing state campaign will demonstrate the
factor we are no prophets that the
proud satisfaction which the people of
Vermont felt in President Hayes on the
day OF his Inauguration has increased
rather than diminished since, in his ear
nest struggle with the enemies of polit-
ical reform, and in the discharge of the
various duties of his office, he has mani
tested moderation, nobility of aim,
and tenacity of purpose, which COM
mand their admiration and esteem.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17

Poison IN WELLs.-Here is a fresh
Illustration of the way people are pois-
0ned all the while by foul wells. A
family living on elevated ground in
west Hartford, in region remarkably
healthy in all its natural conditions.
were for years sufferers from various
forms of fevers, headaches aud an end
less variety of ills, which kept doctor
IN pretty constant attendance. At last.
three years ago, worn out with this ex-
perlence, the owner determined to sell
out and move away, believing the To-
callty to be an unhealthy one. At this
)uncture, friend of the family asked
ana obtained permission to do what the
owner OF the place, or at least the
physician, should have done long before
make an examination of the premises.
de found privy-vault only 10 feet
rom the well 1t was evident that this
was the cause of the continuous illness
among members of the family. and he
obtained leave to remove the buck et
rom the well and promise from the
family to go to the barn for their water.
where it had been introduced in mines
rom the great main that leads info
Hartford. From that time forward there
was a cessation of the sickness.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Best.


Mother, see you with your nursery light,
Leading your babies all in white,
To their sweet rest
Christ, the Good Shepherd, carries mine tonight,
And that is best.
cannot help tears, when see them twine
Their fingers in yours and their bright curls shine
On your warm breast;
But the Savior's is purer than yours mine,
2 q 2 He can love best! ---
You tremble each hour because your arms
Are weak; your heart is wrung with alarms,
And sore opprest;
My darlings are safe out of reach of harms,
And that is best.
You know, over yours may hang even now
Pain and disease, whose fulfilling slow
Naught can arrest;
Mine in Gods gardens run to and fro,
And that is best.
You know that of yours, your feeblest one
And dearest may live long years alone,
Unloved, unblest;
Mine are cherished of saints around Gods throne,
And that is best
You must dread for yours, the crime that sears,
Dark guilt unwashed by repentmt tears,
And unconfessed;
Mine entered spotless eternal years,
o, how much best
But grief is selfish; cannot see
Always why should so stricken be,
More than the rest;
But know that, as well for them for me,
God did the best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Another Warning to Girls.

The perils of the personal Column,
which is feature of many of our city
papers, have had recent unhappy il
lustratiOn out in Ohio. Sometime ago
the 19-years- old daughter of well-to-
do fan mer near Cleveland idling over a
Cincinnati paper became interested in
the fascinating mysteries of the "per-
sOnals." There was a specie of strange
ness and romance about them that ex-
cited her Imagination. One of them in
particular, which solicited correspond
ence with some young lady, appealed
to her fancy. She hesitated, and then
in adventurous mood sat down and
briefly answered it. A reply came
promptly, dated from Chicago. 1t was
fiattering and respectful, and the chiro-
graphy was very beautiful. A cores
pOndence ensued, and the mutual
warmth of expression increased with
each succeeding letter. The vanity of
the simple country girl was tickled to
think that at last she had Il real city
beau, and when one day he appeared at
her home clad in the most fashionable
city apparel, her cup of triumph ran
over at the contrast of his appearance
with the hOmely, awkward country fell
lows upon whom hitherto her cOQuet-
ries had been bestowed. The old folks
were disposed to be dubious about this
flash young chap from the city, who
talked so plausibly, and so boldly sued
for their daughters hand, but finally
gave their consent to the marriage.
Then the united couple ioyously sped
for the city, carrying with them gen
erous purse bestowed upon the young
wife by her father. The sequel is sad
and short. Two months later the wife
sought her fathers home a tired, care
worn woman. Her precious husband
proved to be a gambler. He speedily
squandered all his wife's money, and
then she found herself the victim of
cruel want, and fortunate it was that a
good country home was open to receive
the disconsolate waif. The girls hus-
band, one Wilson, was formerly a stock
broker with promising prospects, but
gambling ruined all, and his heartless
ruse of the newspaper personal was but
the cunning venture of a desperate man
to obtain the means of indulging his
besetting vice. Doubtless it will be
repeated, however, and some other silly
girl done for in a way like this Ohio
farmers daughter.