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Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-10

An appalling thought crossed Bent
ley's mind. What if the savages were
to keep on rolling down boulders till
they carried away the rocks below,
tree and all
The sweat rolled down his face, and
he felt faint and sick at heart as the
probability Of this event dawned upon
him. For how then could he ever es-
cape from his hole in the steep, bare,
lofty wall of the canonP
In great suspense he waited for some
time, hearing occasional noises above
him.
Not daring to show himself, Bently
remained i'll his close prison all that
night, and next day, until late in the
afternoon, when, having heard nothing
of his enemies for fully twenty four
hours, he ventured to peep forth and
then to climb back upon the pine, to
the top of the cliff, which ne regalned
after a good deal of effort No Indians
were there awaiting him-much to his
relief; and he at once set off to find
his way back to French Greek, which
he reached at about ten o'clock that
evening.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-10
THE NIGHT-WlND.

Once, when the night-wind clapped Its
wings,
And shook the window bars and roof,
| heard the souls OF battle-kings
Drive by in cashing proof!
Sometimes, runic strife 1t kept,
OF winter nights, in sleeted trees;
Or underneath the caves IL crept--
A swarm Of murmuIing bees.
Or, now, wild huntsmen Of the air
In hollow chase their bugles blew.
While swift DER wood and hilltop bare
The shrill-voiced quarry fiew.
Sometimes | heard Of lovers flown,
Safe, under ward Of storm and night,
To where, in sylvan lodge, there shOne
A taper kind and bright
These things the nighi-wihd used to tell,
And still would tell. if might hear;
But sorrow sleeps too sound and well
To lend a drcamful ear.
Edith NJ. Thomas, IN the MtdOCtntcI
CCntuTlt.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-10
a Murder Trial in 1900.

Brooklyn Eagle.
The 999th witness in the great spin
it-out-as- s-long-as- -we-can case took the
stand, and the lawyers proceeded to
torture him with the assistance of the
prisoner at the bar.
lawyer believe you are from
Southern China, sir?
Witpess-Yes, sir. and l wish to get
back as soon as possible
Prisoner What's the matter with
you, you-goggled-eyed, cadaverous
reptile? Haven't you been paid $4,000
travelling expenses? Shut up Mr. Law
yes, I'm running this case, and l mean
to put this long geared ass where he be-
longs at the start. If you don't like
our style, you-big-boned son of the
East, you can take your soap and tod
die home just as quick as y0u--
please.
Ju1ge-If the prisoner will allow
the court TO-
Prisoner-Shut up. Judge. | know
what I'm about. Who's running this
case, you or l?
Judge-Well, if the prisoner please,
should ike 10
Prisoner Now, Judge, how many
times during this trial have L got to
remind you that we can get along
without your advice2
Lawyer-If the prisoner is through,
we will now proceed to examine the
witness.
Prisoner Yes, for the present. 1
will deliver my daily Grafton later.
Lawyer am about TO put the first
hypothetical question to the witness.
Those wishing to remain throughout
the delivery Of the question will find
excellent board and lodging at. the ho-
tel opposite. The question will be de-
livered in sections, and j think l can
manage to get through with il in the
course of the month.
Eighteen days after. Witness still
on the stand:
Lawyer-And now having heard the
first hypothetical question, what is
your opinion.
Prisoner-Oh, never nina his opin-
ion He is nothing but a-pimple-
headed liar, and he might as well go
home and soak his feet. Judge think
it is about time to adjourn. Suppose
we smut up shop for the day.
Judge-But | beg to remind the
prisoner that it is only 2 o'clock, and
Prisoner-Oh, what's the diff. ? I've
had enough of this racket for to-day,
and | don't want to see that-blasted
ass on the witness stand tomorrow,
either. We must have up a fresh man.
He's too ancient.
Lawyer-But, begging the prisoners
pardon, ! must yet remind him that
the witness has yet to answer our
question.
Prisoner-lt dosen't make bit of
difference. He's an old fool, and I'm
tired of him. Judge, are you or are
you not going to adjourn?
Judge-The court is adjourned until
what time shall say, prisoner?
Prisoner-Oh, well, make it IL.
Judge-Eleven o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-10
A PERILOUS SITUATION.

A new territory infested by Indians,
and filling up rapidly with adventures
in quest of gold, will always be the
theater of thrilling events. Such re-
gion was the Black Hills in 1875--6-7.
Many night has the writer sat in
the light of a campfire in those days,
and listened to tales related, with all
the hard, graphic earnestness of truth,
Ivy men who needed not to embellish
their narratives to render them stran'
ger than the most sensational of fic-
tions.
These rough naIrators, indeed, would
have scorned to embellish. The most
of their adventures were not romantic.
Commonly they were stern realities
difficulties to be met and overcome,
perils often from which men are only
too glad to escape with their lives.
Such one was the following incident
which occurred in the experience of a
friend of the writer during the season
of rs.
Along with many others, James Bent
ly went to the Black Hills as soon af-
ter the Custer expedition as possible
hoping to gather goodly portion OF
the coveted "yellow dust" reported to
be lying loose at the bottom of all the
streams there.
With five or six other gold-hunters
Bently succeeded in avoiding the Gov
ernment troops-then vainly trying tO
guard the territOry-and arrived on
French Creek, near the present site of
Custer City, early in the spring of the
year above mentioned.
Provided with mining "pans," he
and his companions at once tested the
soil aloIg the stream. There seemed
TO be gold everywhere. In every pan
OF dirt they washed few bright par
ticles were found, yet not enough in
quantity to make it profitable to spend
time in getting il.
They next tried the "rocker." but
could not make more than day wages.
"Sluicing' was next attempted, but the
water supply proved inadequate.
They were satisfied, however, that
the claims, which they had ''located''
along the stream, were valuable, and
that reservoir, or dam, might be built
which would give sufficient amount
Of water.
Concluding, therefore, to hold their
claims till the resources of the country
were better developed, they built cab
in and determined to seek for gold
elsewhere in the Hills, leaving one of
their party to take care of the cabin
and the claims.
James was the first to whose lot it
fell to guard the caDin. There were a
few miners left above and below him,
but most of those who had gathered
there had left; so that the position of
the solitary guardian was not only a
lonely, but dangerous one. The In
dians at that time were feeling exceed
ingly aggrieved, not without reason
since the invasion OF their territory
was plainly contrary to the treaty
which our government had made with
them.
Rumors had been rife all the spring
that war parties were prowling about
the hills watching for chance to pick
of stray miners. That these reports
were tue was pretty we'll demonstrat-
ed by the fact that numbers of miners
who had ventured out prospecting
alone, had never returned Several
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10
LIGHT TOUCHES.
With some men the penny's mightier
.an the sword, sure enough.

With some men the penny's mightieI
than the sword, sure enough.
"What makes it 50 coldP" SAID
Brown, 81 can't see" ICY" replied
Fogg.
A young woman writes to the Chi
cago Times: What is the star routeP
Give q brief sketch of the investigation.
1 do not understand how the route was
established"
Doctor-"Well, Pat, have you taken
the box of pills l sent you?" Pat
"Yes, soir; be jabbers, | navel but l
don't feel any better, maybe the lid has
not come ee yeti"
Don't you think L have a good face
for the stage?" asked a young lady
with hlstrionic aspirations. II don't
know about the stage" replied her gal
liant companion, ''but you have II lovely
face for a 'busl"
An utterly too young married lady
with a still tooer husband, living in one
of the fashionable homes of the day,
worked u motto with the inscription:
God Bless Our Flat" And a neigh
Dor to whom it was shown had this
hardihood to ask her whether she re-
ferred to her residence or her husband.
CaranIels and Aloes. -They were
counting, "What makes the stars 30
dim tonight" she said, softly. "Your
eyes are SO much Brighter" he whis-
pered, pressing her hand. They are
married now. 81 wonder how many
telegraph poles it would take to reach
the stars from herepn she said, musing-
ly. Zone, if it was long enough" he
growled. "Why don't you talk COM
non sense?n
81 often cross the street to avoid
meeting a man." says Mr.. Beecher,
mot because l have anything against
him, but simply because l do not feel
like speaking to him. | suppose all
men are this way" Yes, nearly all
men are that way, Mr.. Beecher, and
we are glad that you have mentioned
the subject, for it gives us a chance to
agree with u great man. We some
times cross the street and climb a fence
to avoid meeting a man, not that we
have anything against him, but be-
aus he has something against us; a
bill, Mr.. Beecher Arkansas Traveller.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

A few days ago some five stage
coaches, belonging to Frank Claggage
which had been used on a stage line in
Esmeralda county before the compile
ton of the Carson & Colorado railroad
through that section, were shipped east
to Wyoming. At Wadsworth it &C.
Cured to some of the railroad men to
look into n of the wagons. and he
found it filed with tramps. A general
search vas then instituted, and about
thirty tramps, who were comfortably
fixed in the coaches, were dislodged
ana compelled to wait for an oppor-
tunity, under cover of night, to leave
town on brake beams.-Silver State.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10
SUNDAYS ~CHIT-CHAT.

A Sunday school boy was asked if his
father wa a Christian. eyes, sir"
he replied, "but he is not working at it
much"
The christian Intelligencer'' says
that the two principal outcomes of the
Free Thinkers convention were the in
dorsement of Walt Whitman and the
proposal to establish a Free Thinking
University. The Evangelist" alludes
to the convention as a ''strange anti
religious variety show"
There is q head man of a kraal in
Natal, South Africa, who does not oh
ject to his people becoming Christians,
but this is the way he puts it: IF you
become better men and women by be-
ing Christians, you may remain so; IL
not, l won't let you become Christians
at ALL"
There is q church war in Cleveland,
Ohio, over the Communion wine ques-
ton, and every member of All Saints
Episcopal church is excited. The Sun
day-school Superintendent leads the
party opposed to fermented wine, while
the rector and his adherents want to
use the old kind of wine which they be-
lioye Jesus used at the first supper.
After Mr.. Emerson had on one oc-
casion delivered a literary address from
a pulpit, a clergyman was asked to
make a prayer, and in the prayer came
these words: 1--WE beseech Thee, o
Lord, to deliver us from ever hearing
any more such Transcendental nom
sense as we have just listened to from
this sacred desk.'' And Mr.. Emerson
simply remarked, upon learning his
name, that ''he seemed a very con-
scientious, plain-spoken nan"
Sporting item: sIt's too bad" NUT
tered a Presbyterian elder from the
good city of Cincinnati, as he sat down
with his wife to a private luncheon in a
Paris restaurant. What's too bad?r'
she asked. "Why, that Brother Ben
son should attend the horse-races Oh the
Longchamps last Sunday" How
shocking" exclaimed his partner.
Dreadful" added the elder. II
would not have believed it if 1 hadn't
seen him myself" and he folded his
hands meekly and closed his eyes pre-
paratory to saying grace.-Brooklyn
Eapln
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

The railroad can be completed to the
Park by next summer, and the Yellow
stone country will without doubt be
the great summer rage for some years
to come, and the whole mountain coun-
try will share in this fashion, which,
while giving benefit to the development
of the mountain regions, will give ten
fold returns in added health and yigor
to the people of the land, as well as
give them enlarged and just views
of the and attractions of their
own great country.-Salt Lake Tri-
bune
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

A large clock at the English House
of Parliament is the largest n in the
world. The four dials in this clock are
twenty-five feet in diameter. Every
half-minute the minute hand moves
nearly seven inches. The clock will go
eight days and a half, and will only
strike for seven and a half, thus indi-
eating any neglect in winding it up.
The winding up OF the striking appa-
ratus takes two hours. The pendulum
is fifteen feet long; the wheels are cast
iron; the hour-bell is eight feet high
aud nine feet in diameter, weighing
nearly fifteen tons, and the hammer
alone weighs more than 400 pounds.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

Washington gossips state that there
is good authority for stating that the
White House will have a mistress next
winter, that President Arthur is un-
doubtedly engaged, and that the mar
riage will take place early in the Fall.
The name Of the lady is at present a
state secret The engagement was
made last Spring, and the lady has this
Summer at different watering places
been the recipient of the choicest
flowers from the White House on
s%erYatory.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

How few there are who are aware
That soon the gums and teeth decay,
Unless they are brushed with greatest
care
With SOZODONT from day to day;
For this great dentifrlce, we know,
Win keep them pure and white as snow.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10
BREAKFAST TABLE TALK.

The Philadelphia News says: A
convict says he was sent to prison for
being dishonest, and yet he is COM
PEELED every day to cut out pieces of
p~asteboard which are put between the
of the cheap shoes made there,
and nalmed off on the innocent public
as leather.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

"YOu do not tell me that your hus-
band Is up and entirely cured by so sim
pie a medicine as Parker's Ginger
TonicP" Eyes, indeed, l do" said
Mrs. Benjamin to her neighbor, land
after we had lost eighty-6ve dollars in
doctors bills and prescriptions. Now
my husband feels as well as ever"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

How do you manage" said a lady
to her friend, ''to appear so happy and
good natured all the timer, 81 al
ways have Parker's Ginger Tonic
handy" was the reply, 'and thus east
ly keep myself and family in good
health. When I am well I always feel
good natured."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-10

Deserving articles are always ap-
preciated. The exceptional cleanliness
of Parker's Hair Balsam makes it pop
ular. Gray hairs are impossible with
its occasional use.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-02
PLANTS WITHOUT EARTH.

To cultivate plants without earth hid long
been the dream of chemists; after years OF
patient study the gardener of vasceuil has
discovered means of giving continued life
nourishment to plants without their ever
being brought in contact with the soil. All
he does is to wrap the roots up in some moss
to which he has impaired this lfe-giving
power This 'fertilizing moss is not only
capable of affording nourishment to all veget-
able life but viii dc it indefinitely.
Since November, 1880, the date at which
his researches proved successful, he has con.
stantly been testing his process, and has
never found the least interruption in the
vegetative functions of the plants subjected
to rs influence; on the contrary, winter and
spring plants have blossomed with vigor he
has never seen in his garden. With the
shelter of glass, helleberes taken up at the
end of November and the middle of Deem
Der have remained two and half to three
monthsin blossom. 0therplants, primroses,
daisies, violets, auriculas, have not only been
in bloom for three months, but have thrown
out new buds.
At Yasc@uil We saw plants loaded with
blossoms which had been in the fertilizing
moss for weeks. The public in Rouen and
Paris has during the past year had frequent
opportunities of beholding again and again
the process in its operation in the exhibitions
of flowers and vegetables which M. Dumesnil
has given. The exhibitions have been ar
ranged SO as to give some idea of the useful
and beautiful results of the new discovery,
and also to afford an opportunity of follow
ing every stage of the vegetation of plants
reared without earth.
1t is manifest that this discovery will in
defnately increase the facilities for the floral
decoration of interiors There is scarcely
any kind of vessel in which the plants can
not be arranged, and the arrangement must
inevitably be far more graceful, convenient,
and healthful than without of earth.
During the two winters since NJ Dumesnil
effected his discovery he has had all kinds Of
ordinary flowers blooming in baskets contain
ing the fertilizing moss. On the occasion of
the fete, as for instance Christmas, his tables
have been covered with profusion of spring
flowers and he has been able to decorate his
rooms with freedom impossible with plants
growing in earth. Thus, while nature out
side lay frozen and dead, the interior of his
house has been a blooming parterre. - Good
Words
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-02
walnut Leaf hair Restorer.

walnut Lear HAIR hestofef.
1t is entirely different from all others.
1t is as clear as water, and, as its name
indicates, is a perfect Vegetable Hair
Restorer. 1t will immediately free the
head from all dandruf, restore gray hair
to its natural color, and produce new
growth where it has fallen off. It does
not in any manner affect the health,
which Sulphur, Sugar of Lead, and Nj
trate of Silver preparations have done. 1t
will change light or faded hair in few
days to beautiful glossy brown. Ask
your druggist for it. Each bottle is war
ranted. SMITH, KLINE 81 Co., Wholesal
Agents, Philadelphia, and c. N. CRIT
TENToN, New York.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-02
AMERICAN PIRATES.

They had two methods of work. One was
to patrol the sea in the track Of vessels bound
to and from Europe and Brazil or Spanish
America, and seize them. Very often the
crews were willing or were compelled to join
the pirates but sometimes all were killed
or carried into slavery. Merchant ships,
therefore, all went heavily armed in those
waters, and many were tho bloody battles
fought.
This work, however, employed only o
portion Of the buccaneers, and was too IN.
certain q means Of wealth to suit them.
They would, therefore, equip great feet,
enlist men under certain strict rules as to
sharing the spoils, and sail away to piIlage
some coast. There was hardly an island IN
the West Indies from which, in this way,
they did not extort immense sums of money
under threat of destruction Of the people
The mainland also suffered from the maraud.
ers. Great cities, like Cartagena in Vene-
zuela, Panama on the Isthmus, Merida in
Yucatan, and Havana, Cuba, were attacked
by armies of buccaneers numbering tens Of
tuOusduub VI Iu6u. coiuotlileS tuelr IOftlLi-
cations held good and the enemy was beaten
back, but sooner or later all these cities, ant
others, smaller, were captured, burned Of
partially burned, and robbed of everything
valuable that they contained.
"why did the citizens not hide their
wealth :" They did, but the buccaneen put
to the most dreadful fortunes men, women
children, slaves everybody they
would tell where their money and jewell
were buried. 1t is sickening to read of the
crimes and suffering committed by the wick
eldest of men. For years and years they
were the terror of the whole Caribbean
region. Nor did their enormous riches do
them particle of good, for they wasted it
all the moment they got home, in wild riot
ing, so that the spoils earned by months Of
hardship and exposure, and wounds and
danger of death, would be spent in week OF
carousing. Before the end of the century,
however, the combined naval forces of all
the nations interested in the commerce of the
new world broke the lower of the bucca-
neers, and their depredations ceased. Their
story is one of the widest, most romantic,
but most terrible pictures in the history OF
the world. June Wide Ascake.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-02
WHAT A DRUMMER SAYS.

Five years ago the leading merchants OF
st. Louis took pride in having well-paid,
experienced drummers on the road, who
brought an enormous run of trade. Salaries
then averaged 1000 year and expenses,
and there had developed in this city an en-
terprising crowd of tradesmen. Many were
receiving $4,000 year, and more than
dullness the drummers' salaries were reduc-
ed and their work discouraged, so that to-
day the compensation scarcely averages
81, 800 year. Merchants argued that if a
commercial man who received 81, 200 year
could be displaced for one willing to labor
for 81 500 year, clean saving of one
half would be effected, forgetting that the
old drummers could travel for at least SO a
day less and secure 20 per cent. more trade
than the cheaper man"
sand what followed ?"
"Results the most natural and certain.
The leading drummers found better posi-
tions in Chicago, and We're sent into Missou-
ri on their old trails.
"What line of goods pays the highest sal
aries to commercial travellers ~
"The clothing houses, for their profits
are larger. Standard houses, dealing in such
necessaries as dry goods and groceries, sell
on narrow margins and must have an enor-
nous business to make anything like an
equal profit. There are some specialties that
pay better than clothing houses, such as
silver-plated ware, diamonds, and tae like.
/ travelled for number of years for the
Meriden Silverware Company, Of Connecti-
cut, with territory extending south from
the Ohio Kiver and west of the Mississippi
In that enormous territory, where obtained
q business of SEC, 1000, the profits of the
company were equal to those of the dry
goods house that obtained $40, 600 worth of
trade, Thus we had only to get one-fourth
of dry goods trade in order TO equal their
profits. "-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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