The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-21

role of Lot. will do well to stay in
Leadville and lcok after his property.
Of such there are few. met one
woman who was middle aged, hand
some, vigorous, keen eyed. far-eeeing.
and possessed of business capacities
that would have made her a million.
aire had she been born man, or had
she found an outlet for her eagerness
to build up fortune for herself earlier
in life. She excused herself when |
first entered her house and went on
talking over the prices, qualities and
quantities of lumber required to build
two structures, the erection of which
was to begin the following morning.
Her husband came in for an instant
to say that ne could not perform some
Office she had requested from him, he
cause "thOse lots must be fenced in be
fore sundewn or our claim will be
risked. A pouncer will be upon them
in ten seconds after sunset
The wife assisted his eagerness by
hurrying him of to his claim. or per-
haps, to squatting processes. Then
she closed her arrangements to her
builder and gave her attention to me.
Partly because it was in the current
of her Interests. and partly because !
wanted to know, enquired how much
her investments in real estate return
ed to her.
1.-The lot next door, with that rough
shop upon it, cost me 81, 100. rent
it for 81 200 year. The man who
has just gone out is engaged to build
me two rough sdjVping houses-you
would call them shanties, and they
are already rented before they are in
sight. The two tenements are to cost
me 1878, and they will bring me $40
a month cash. in advance. Nobody
trusts anybody in Leadville. 1t is
just the place to make money if you
are sharp. | wish | had known As
much as do now three years ago. II
is such an amusement to woman to
manage things. Did you ever try it.
No, Then you couldn't do better
than to come out here with 5000 or
Sc, 900, and make your fortune in no
time. Don't look 50 Disguised.
Money is money. If you don't want
to bother with real estate, you can
make deal Of an income on first-class
mortgages. and it is just the place to
learn what is what about mining
stocks. Now. just let me tell you the
true inwardness of the Chrysolite.
She did inform me all about it. but, a
l am not disposed to bull or bear the
market, | restrain my pen at this
point. To me the revelation signified
villainv of the blacklist sort: but
whether the conduct of the officers is
in favor Of its stockholders or against
them is secret known to but few per-
sons at the present time.
The hotels of Leadville are kept as
well rs can be expected, when it is
known that not vegetable or fruit
can be grown at such an altitude and
amid the fumes of arsenic that escapes
from the chimneys of the smelters
night and day. From Denver to
Leadville the carrying charges are fit
teen cents per pound, and wha. can
one expect to get to eat? Certainly
nobody can say, without money
and without price," in this city.
Everything is vastly expensive. and
fortunes are necessary TO the resident.
or he will die of starvation. The
hurry Of everybody and everything is
said to be almost unbelievable but fail
ed to be impressed vita this assertion
when l looked at the streets packed
with idleness.
The death announcements are
usually made in this wise: Died YES
terday morning at Z o'clock, Daniel
Jones. His interment took place at
SPIN. His funeral was largely aud
handsomely attended" The women
whom I saw in the street, anu = ..v
did not wear the costume of tourists
were largely pervaded with that air
which. if not demi-mondeish. NAV
have been what the cunning and half
vicious Labouchere denominates the
"double monde" and then satirizes as
only truth can. They drive through
the streets unattended, and generally
holding the reins of a pair of fast and
fine horses, he keeping of which re- '
quires fabulous sum 1T money daily. /
They may be modest women, but they
do not look nor conduct themselves
like "snowdrops." Young women. /
singly or in pairs, sit as if they were
female centaurs upon their running
and single-footsd horses or bronchos, |
and their impressive costumes hold
the plying eyes of the least compass
sionate of modest women until the
clouds of dust hide them from sight.
Gold buttons in abundance. and. not
infrequently, a knife or a revolver is 4
attached to their girdles in conspicu
,us place, giving brilliancy to an al
tire which at the east cannot be con-
pleted too plainly and too >oi.erIy t"
,atisfy the fastidiOus tastes Of wonanlv (
At night silence appears 10 +,
nave been utterly divorced from dark Z
less. "Mazeppa" is being PLAYED
lext door, and there seems to I've no
ermination to this carefully and ap- |
selected drama. Last {
Ugh: one of the actresses fell from
he third story window of the opera
'ouse. She may be dead by this time {
nd buried too, and nobody would he I
ppalled or perhaps grieved for her
cry long. 1t was said that she had I
allen asleep and tumbled through the !
but this statement reused
DO many unpleasant albeit not too IN q
atural, imaginings when one consid-
re- the moral and social atmosphere of c
his town.
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