Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-11-14
A Glimpse Of Denver.

anu miles Dy rallrOau, Ole-lnifu o. IL
over arid prairies, the sight of
the "Queen City of the Plains, ,
embowered in long lines of cotton
wood trees, is a welcome and
refreshing sight. Denver is located on
the Platte River, at an altitude of 5,
1871 feet above tide, on the western
borders of the great plains and within
fifteen miles of the Rocky Mountains,
whose range may be seen for 200
miles, forming the segment of a circle
of which Longs Peak, fifty miles to
the north, apd Pixies Peak, eighty
miles to the south, with their sky
piercing, snow-capped SUBMITS, are
the two ends
In 1860 this Eldorado Of the West
was but struggling camp, of log
cabins and tents; to-day it has popu-
lation of $4,000, is provided with
broad thorouShfares, diverging street
railways, gas mains, electric lights,
Holly water supply. and miles of irri-
eating bitches, as well as nearly fifty
active artesan wells. 1t is the con-
verging point of seven different rail-
ways, the capital of this centennial
State, the home of large mining and
corporate institutions, as well as two
of the largest ore smelters in the world
1t is also the main distributing point
for New Mexico and Arizona and the
destination annually of thousands of
health-seekers, tourists and miners.
| In educational advantages, Denver is
second to few cities in the land, and
the value of its public buildings sur
passes those Of any other city of its
size in America.
The whole city, its history and
growth, have been phenomenal, and
to young men of the crowded Eastern
cities it offers opportunities for lucra-
tive employment and investment of
money, beyond any city | have ever
known. Outside of the city, more
over, since plans of proper irrigation
have been matured and artesian wells
sunk, an energetic and active young
man with thousand dollars of capital
can buy ranch or farm and by indus
trous cultivation make enough in
two or three years to pay for all his
outlay and have profit besides. The
people are aggressive and most indus
trous in all their business pursuits
(there seems little use for idlers here),
and they are thoroughly social and
helpful toward each other.
With regard to the climate, the at
mosphere is dry and clear more days
in the year than with US East, and the
air at 80 degrees does not feel as cold
as it does with US at As degrees. AT
night one notices this particularly.
In consumption, bronchitis, asthma
and catarrh the climate is of great ser
vice, but in emphysema of the lungs,
all nervous troubles, rheumatism and
neuralgia, it is not beneficial but often
very hurtful. Especially in the case
of partial paralysis, the climate being
stimulent rather than tonic, and
producing more severe dttrition of
nerve force and consequently an in
creased want of strength and tone.
From jeremiah to Henry.
The late Judge Black, in one brief
provision of his will, has left on record
proof of his humanity and good sense
which speaks more eloquently than any
panegyric To his grandson he leaves
$4,000 to be paid him with its avails on
reaching his majority, provided he
drops the name of jeremiah Sullivan
Black and takes that of Henry Vantriess
Black.
AS to the relative merits Of Vantriess
and Sullivan, there may be some room
for difference of opinion, but the I'M
measurable superiority of Henry to
jeremiah admits of no question. The
flial spirit of the parents of the junior
Jeremiah naturally made them desire
that their own heirs should Dear the
name his honored grandfather had
rendered illustrious. But the wise old
man saw that it was mistake to
handicap a child with such a name; so,
by his will, he emancipates his grand
son by striking from his youthful
shoulders the heavy weight of jeremiah
Sullivan.
The uncouth Scripture nomenclature
of the Puritans is happily going out of
fashion. Parents of robust good sense
have discovered that there are other
and better ways of keeping green the
memory of their ancestors than by COM
pelling their children to perpetuate
names which ill-ft their youth and in a
peculiar degree invite grotesque and
ugly nicknames. The enthusiastic
Puritans who first brought these names
into vogue did so by throwing aside
the good old English names of their
fathers and going to Moses and the
prophets for substitutes. From this
beginning, successive generations of
children have been Danieled and Sam
ueled, Simoned and Petered in endless
iteration. But these are minor evils.
The verv commonness of the names
make them tolerable 1t is such names
as jeremiah, Abraham and Ebenezer
which trv boys souls, but it is not every
man W no remembers it in maturer years
and does what he can to save his own
descendants from repetition of his ex-
perience.
nDon't Nicodemus your child into
nothing" is sagacious advice, but it is
not necessary that the name should
crush him in order to be Objectionable.
Any name which is peculiar or ugly, or
which is distinctly and strongly associ-
ated with some incongruous character,
is sure to make him the target for the
small wit Of his playmates, and, unless
of callous organization, will make
him often very unhappy. twas doubt,
less some memory of his own boyhood
that induced Judge Black to release his
grandson from the lifelong thraldom
of jeremiah. 1t is bad enough that
the iuiquities of the fathers must be
visited upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation, but, as
there is no compuision in the matter o