The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-07
MN. sHAAEsFEAaE.
lBr.Hrs rRIEsD.I

Oh u1e LEADER are Interested In Tie
work OF the antiqusry. at quite an en-
pense OF time and labor, the writer has
prepared from ''notes taken on the
spot" a few paragraphs upon this most
mutilated of all quill-driyers, whose
name must be familiar if his works are
not.
William Shakespeare, poacher, play
wright and poet, came out on the stage
OF human existence about three hundred
and sixteen years ago in .'the dark,
backward and abysm of time,n that's
his), in Stratford-upon-Ayon, county
of Warwick, England. As the record
of his baptism bears the date, April &c,
1t is not 10 be supposed that he was
born during the following May. As be
lay in his cradle, a little bundle of pink
insignihcance, his mother often made
the original exclamation-sOh, so
sweet land SO did his sisters and
his cousins and his aunts;n-asort of
Sweet William, so to speak, the flower
OF the family; yet, indeed he was no
May flower. but bloomed upon the
the heerles sheath. when "London fog''
would ''freeze a dog"
Wills father was a glover by trade,
SO some authorities assert; but the mis-
chieyous boy was not a subject to han
died with gloves. Others assert that
he was q wool dealer and trader in
pelts; and this may account for Willis
wonderful faculty for drawing the
wool over the eyes" of his numerous
victims, and making miraculous escapes
from merited peitings therefor, in his
boyhood days. iaa nsi rs.un
His mother, Mary Arderne, came of
rich but honest parents-a wealthy and
influential family of Stratford. Will
was a nationalist and this wealth BROTH
cred him-to get. Indeed / have often
heard him say that the only reproach
that could be brought against the line
of his gentle blood was that his grand
father, on his mothers side had wealth,
had been member of the common coun-
Gil, deacon and chief engineer of the fire
department, while he. VIII, had neither
honor or cents. Yet, sensible to the re-
Election of such glory upon posterity he
used to say:
1t Is greatly to his cred.
For he himself has said II; so.
And he remains m Englishman.
This wonderful burst Of poetical elo-
quence has reached down along the long
line of posterity, and to-day it is a most
familiar quotation on the lips of man,
woman and child.
In early youth Viii showed excep-
tional democratic tendencies through
his fondness for plays. Leap-frog was
his delight and snap-and- catch his
favorite, jim which he became a proficient
actor. How often the incidents of
manhood may be accounted for by the
tendencies of childhood. Methinks
that William, while yet in the infant
class pondering over the multitudinous
possibilities of a properly bent pin,
might have been inspired by sharp
points for his play years after. There
is nothing SO conducive to poetical ex-
preston as a bent pin.
VIII. generally grew older as he grew
up and as time passed by, from bending
pins came to seek sport in other crooked
ways. He hunted his neighbours deer in
his neighbours park; and a dear hunt it
promised to be, too, had not his father
sold a dozen pairs of buckskin gloves
and devoted the proceeds to buying the
justice Of the peace, setting the drinks
up to the policemen and thus obtaining
an impartial dose of justice in his fa-
vor.
Later in life, after a successful sea
son at the principal London theatres as
end. man. Will. went dear hunting
again with more success, capturing
one-the shy Anne, after whom this
city was named, and upon whose name
he wrote the celebrated epigram run
ming something like this:
Anne Hathaway,
Anne hath o way |
Wholly her own, etc.
1t is not generally known what par
ticular inspiration there was for this,
but owing to the writer's intimate re-
lations with him, Win. once confided to
him the fact, that it found expression
n morning when he insisted upon
Anne's making the griddle cakes as his
mother used to do, and she wouldn't
hear to 1t. As a plain deliver after the
unvarnished truth the writer takes
great pleasure in presenting this i'm
portant fact to the public for the first
time.
Among many pieces of popular prose
and rythmic verse from Williams
pen prominent for literary merit and
lovely jingl eappear, "Why do the Sum-
mer Roses Fade-a conundrum," 81
Love My Love, ""Baby Mine, ""Whoa
Emma,'' and other illusions upon
similar..ethereal subjects. Among his
prose writings and scientific compila-
lions. ~'sInnocents Abroad" "Josh Bill
iings' Famous Almanac" and 'sGulli-
ver's Travels" are enduring monu-
ments. Hopes Fables" display his
philosphic talent.
When VIII. slipped this mortal coil,
bis bones reposed in piece(s) beneath the
pavement of the churchyard. This is
said with a deal of confidence, for that
was in a day before medical colleges