The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-21
wAsH1NGToN WAITS.
A Sparkling Letter from a Lady correspon-
dent.
, The Editor Of The lander:


WASHINGTON, April IA, 1875.
Monday was a field day in the Cave
of the Winds. The entertainment was
called electing a d%oorkeeper, but was
in reality a sort of review or hash on
political toast, and a firing off of am
munition and flying clap-trap kites for
the next fall elections. They went
back to the flood, and finally landed on
the pension laws of the present day.
Each side told the other what they had,
and what they had not done, and seemed
to blame equally for the one as the
other. A member of Congress has such
a delightful, charming way Of saying
1.-THE gentleman is mistaken" that it
plainly says the gentleman ''lies." 1
have been practIcing it, and life will be
less a burden when l can politely tell
any ore he is a liar and he won't be able
to knock me down for il.
There was a time Monday when it
was thought the wisdom assembled had
forgotten what they had got together
for; but finally, after each side had said
to the other you're another" half a
dozen times, and one honorable chunk
said he had voted one way on a certain
bill, and another chunk told him he did
not, they concluded to commence bust
ness. Whereupon doughty old Ben.
Butler got up on his seyen-by-nine feet
apl nopn;,otaI Gan gL;alla
like Ben. he keeps his hat full of
bricks and don't stagger under them,
and every time he throws one he hits
square. As L looked ~ him the other
day l could not help thinking with the
poet
OF all glad words ia tongue or pen
The glsddest are these. We have got Ben.
Well, thanks to Generals Clark and
Banning, Gen. Shields got, through a
bit of political spite, in a few moments
what he might have asked in vain for
years on the merit of his case. Black
burn of Kentucky, is a natural orator,
and made n of his telling speeches.
Crittenden of Missouri also made his
mark. But on the Republican side old
Ben was the only one that was worth
list ening to, excepting Harry White of
Pennsylvania, who is a good-looking
ing man and 4 good speaker.
Now that the warm days are upon us
the average mind turns lightly to spring
suits. Some people-Chicagoans for
nQfanna -lnrrhf fhair cutie aorlr -,
the season, getting them cheap, as they
were some old ones left over from last
season. Chicago people are Il thrifty
set, and don't care much for the fit or
age Of a suit, if it is only cheap.
When l commenced this letter 1 ex'
pected to write a very sentimental one,
for the view from my window at the
Imperial-at which place l have pitch
ed my tent and expect to make my
home-is such that makes one forget
the dull prosaics of life, and softens the
hard wall of distrust that the deceit,
wear and tear of the everyday world
builds around our best impulses. II
the view from my window had not beer
so good, my letter would have been bet
ter, but dozens Of times, while writing,
[ have looked out on the beautiful river
in view, and with the odors of the vic
let's stealing around me from a little
boquet sent by a friend, and lost my
self dozen times while writing this
and look up half expecting to see the
handsome face OF years ago, with the
bunch of violets in his hand, and that
has softer el the worldly crust gathered
around my heart-for l meant to be
very bitter.
suppose any one who reads this has
a corner in their heart where the vic
let's or the green grass is growing owe
a grave sacred to the memory of somt
one not with us now, but which in the
turn and overturn OF life we never for
get, and the blossoms of the bush that
once was filed with flowers we clutch
onto still.
EDITH.
cnulka,, PaIo.,lo Da;I.oaI NJ.