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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
WHOLE NO. 2l22.

as | could leave the field / went ovet
to look after my wounded. | found
the English officers lying on the first
floor and our own on the floor above.
| saw in the lower room the young
lady whom | had met in the morning
at the breakfast table, her white dress
all sprinkled with blood. She had
been attending to the British wound
ed. On the second floor, just as | was
turning into the room where officers
were, met my hostess. One glance
at her was quite sufficient to answer
the question which | had been asking
myself all day. She had intended tC
betray me, and nothing but the acci.
dent of my aid rising for his handker,
chief saycl US from capture.
"Y ears afterward, in rejecting upon
this incident, | was led to doubt wheth-
Vi lu'l llOJ nllSCUlloIl tltu llcl oIdl Jlc'
manner as | suddenly encounted her.
That unexpected meeting would have
occasioned embarrassment in either
contingency, and it is 50 difficult to be,
lieve a lady of cultivation and refine
ment capable Of such an act, that | am
now, nearly half century after the
event, disposed to give my hostess the
benefit of that doubt. And now, sir
added the general, "this is the third
time in my life | have told this story.
| do not remember to have been spoken
to before on that subject Or many
years
He looked at me and seemed to be
considering with himself u few mo-
ments, and then said: Remembering
your intimacy with General Worth, !
need not inquire how you came to q
knowledge of our secret"
"Wcll, general" l replied, 81 have
kept the secret faithfully for more than
forty years, always hoping to obtain
your own version of what struck me
as a most remarkable incident in YOU
military life"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
Among the MOngOls.


The Mongol of to-day is in many re-
spects separate man, timid. yet given
to long, lonely journeys over pathless
deserts; habitually abstemious, yet a
drunkard; a cOntr0verSialist, yet super
stitious; a thief by instinct, yet law
abiding; rough, brutal, and cruel -
yet in one respect gentler than any
European. Nothing can induce him
to hurt an animal, however low in the
scale of creation. "Nowhere," says a
recent traveller, "will you find less
cruelty than in Mongolia. Not only
do their cattle and ilocks receive eX-
pressions of sympathy in suffering, and
such alleviation of pain as their owner
knows how to give, but even the
meanest creatures (insects and reptiles
included) are treated with consider
Grafton. Crows perch themselves on
the top of loaded camels, and deliberate
ly steal before the very eyes of the
vociferating owners; hawks scoop
down in the market,place at Urga, and
snatch eatables from the hands of the
unwary, who simply accuse the thief
of patricide, and pass on. My bald
headed camel driver was nearly driven
to distraction one evening by cloud
of mosquitoes which kept lowering
over and alighting on his shining pate
During the night there came touch
of frost, and when we rose in the
morning not an insect was on the wing.
Looking at them as they clung be-
numbed to the sides of the tent. he re-
marked, THE mosquitoes are frozen :
and then added, in a tone of sincere
sympathy, the Mongol phrase express
sive of pity, Hoarhe hoarhev = There
was no sarcasm or hypocrisy about it.
This tenderness is the more strange be-
cause the Mongols in their few cities or
standing camps let beggars die of cold
and exposure, though they never dis
play the complete callousness of
Chinese. The Chinese government in
Lama Mao, the great entrepot, pun
ishes highway robbery with violence
by sentence of death from starvation;
and our traveller saw this sentence
carried out, the man being placed in a
cage in the street, with his head out
side, so that he might see the eating
shops, and die slowly of hunger and
thirst. He was four days dying there
in public. The Chinese citizens found
this interesting, and strolled up every
evening, laughing and jesting, to see
the unhappy wretch suffer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
Whistling SuperstitiOns.

III Whatever way regarded either as
a graceful accomplishment or as the
spontaneous expression of light.
heartedness, whistling has in our own
and foreign countries generally at,
tracted considerable attention. Why
it should have been invested with 50
much superstitious awe it is difficult
to say, but it is Il curious fact that the
same antipathy which it aroused
among certain classes of our country
men is found existing in the most dis
tant parts of the earth, where, as yet,
civilization has made little or no i'm
perceptible pogreSs. Thus Captain
Burton tells us how the Arabs dislike
to hear a person whistle, called by
them el sifr. Some maintain that the
whistlcr's mouth is not to be purified
for forty days; while, according to the
explanation of others, Satan touching
a mans body causes him to produce,
what they consider,an offensive sound.
The natives of the Tonga Islands, Poly
nesia, hold it to be wrong to whistle,
as this act is thought to be disrespect-
full to God. In Iceland the villagers
have the same objection to whistling'
and so far do they carry their supersti-
tious dread Of it that "if one swings
about him a stick, whip, wand, or
aught that makes whistling sound
he scares from him the Holy Ghost;
while other IcelanderS, who consider
themselves free from superstitions,
cautiously give the advice: "DO it not:
for who knoweth what is in the air."
However eccentric these phases of su-
perstitious belief may appear to us, yet
it must not be forgotten that very sim
liar notions prevail at the present day
in this country. A correspondent, of
Notes and queries for instance, re-
lates how one day, alter attempting in
vain to get his dog to obey orders to
come into the house, his wife tried to
coax it by whistling, when she was
suddenly interrupted by a servant, a
Roman Catholic, who exclaimed in the
most piteous accents, "If you please,
ma'am, don't whistle--every time a
woman whistles, the heart of the bless
ed Virgin bleeds" In some districts
of North Germany the villagers say
that if one whistles in the evening it
makes the angels weep. - Popular
Science MOnthM.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
Very Sympathetic.

A worthless sort of a fellow was re-
Gently burned out of house and home,
and came around to see a sympathetic
friend on the situation.
81 understand you have been burned
out" said the friend.
"Yes, my dwelling was burned yes
terday."
"Did you save anything2'
"Only few rt'cles. A half-dozen
chairs, two bells, carpets, a table or
two, stove, our wearing apparel. and
some other household goods. 1t is O
dreadful blow, and don't know what
to do"
Don't talk that way. Why, you've
saved twice as much as I ever had any
idea you had in your whole house. All
the neighbors think the same way, and
I don't believe there is one Of them
VINO will not be glad to hear you are in
such a fix."-Drummer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
GATARRHB BihM HLT'S sftsatHa1IH SaEAN

EL4S ChEAM
BALM {, ,e,ffectually
cleanses the nasnal
passages or Catarr-
hal virus, causing
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
The EARLY Rnln.

Down through the misty air,
Down from the gloom above,
Falling, pattering everywhere,
The rain comes quick with love.
Softly The missel.thI ush
Sings in the golden storm;
The robin under laurel bush
Waits Tor tomorrow morn.
Drip, dnp, drip from the caves,
Pit, pit, pit on the pane,
Swish, swish, swish on the drenched leaves
List! It's the song of the rain.
Grasses are bending low,
Green is the corn and thick;
You can almost see the nottles grow,
They grow SO strong and quick.
Soft is the wind from the west,
Softer the rains low sigh;
The sparrow washes his smoky breast,
And watches the gloomy sky.
Stirred are the boughs by the breeze,
Scarcely leaf is still,
Something is moving among the trees,
Like restless spirit Of ill.
Standing watching the rain,
Do you seem to hear
The voice Of God oulspeaking again
To mans ungateul ear?
Promising plenty and peace,
Garners with treasure henpcd,
That secd-ime and harvest shall not cease
Till the harvest oi earth be reaped.
Tile .4rQOSH
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06

1t is estimated that there are over
one thousand pearl divers on the coast
of Lower California.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06
A Fowl Ball.

Scene at the baseball ground. A bali
was knocked sidewise and caught on a
fly. "Foul and out !" was the cry of
the umpire. A charming high school
girl looking at the game calculates
"Ah, really How can it be a fowl
I don't see any feathers " And she
turned to her attendant with an inquir.
ing look. "Well-ohl Yes, you see,
he stammered, "the reason you don't
see the feathers is because it belongs to
the picked nine" Peoria Transcript
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-06-06

Hay Fever, &c. Unequalled for colds tn the
head. Agreeable TO use. Apply BY tho little
finger iuto the nostri's. Will deliver by mail
SOC package oostage stamps. Sold by
wholesale and retail druggists.
ELY'S CREAM BALM CO., Owego, N. Y,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13
The Misfortune of Raising False
Hopes.


Hopes.
tCor. Whitehall Times.J
The tendency Of the age is to level the bar
riers between the sexes; girls play tennis,
they row, they rink, they skate, they sit in
smoking-rooms, they dance, not only in the
evenings, but in the afternoons. The
natural tendency of such intimate ~associa-
ton would be matrimony. Blu the fact is,
that men who might had serious inten-
tions are frightened Off before liking begets
love. There is an al-prevailing fuss
p~ervading the intercourse of young
people which is altogether detrimental.
The instant a pair begin to how any par
ticular liking for each others society, the
wide world around them is instantly on the
qui vive. The mother watches, fuses, re-
ports 10 her ~cronies, and too often catechises
the girl, wounding her sense of delicacy, and
making her conscious and constrained, or
leading her to imagine herself beloved, when
the mans feeling is only that of pleasure in
the society of a young woman who does her
best to make herself agreeable.
Men are usually ignorant how girls note
and weigh the attentions they receive, and
that they irnpart the details Of such homage
to sympathetic, if not e~nvious, feminine ears,
thus giving body to vague nothings, and
brooding over triies till they gather shape
Meanwhile, the man, having said the pretty
things his idea of politeness has prompted,
goes away, forgetting them and their
recipient, while she is expecting a declaration
as the result of a few soft nothings, a squeeze
of the hand or tender glanccs. Women are
not aware, on the other hand, how sincerely
he may like and admire u girl without a
thought beyond mere goodwill. And it is
precisely the better kind of man who falls
into the misfortune of raising false hopes;
the man who believes in the simplicity and
candor of women, desires their sympathy
and values their regard.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

tCor. Detroit Free Press Household" N
One of the greatest causes of misery among
the working classes is early marriages. Thou
sands marry for what is called love without
the least comfort. The poor wife is %continu-
ally at her wits end how to make both ends
meet; the care, the misery, the suffering she
has to go through, is impossible to describe.
The family is continually living from hand
to mouth, the husband fears to be out of
work, he cannot look the future in the face,
and there is nothing left for them but a con
tinual struggle against poverty. Home to
them is not a home; it is only a name. II the
husband happens to die the wife and children
are left utterly destitute, nothing for them
but the poorhouse and the paupers' grave.
Tho very love they have for their children
makes them miserable. Will love make these
poor people happyi l say, no. Love can
never make people happy under such circum-
stances. John Bright says: cit is one mass
of misery from the cradle to the grave"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

cincinnati Enquirer.]
A patent has recently been granted to two
New York parties for a new process for orna-
menting walls, ceilings and p-aper-hangings.
The method of ornamenting surfaces con-
sists in applying a thin layer of a plastic
mass or paste on the surface and producing
relief ornaments in the mass by means of
steel combs and other suitable implements.
Second, The Improvement, in the art of orna-
menting surfaces consists in applying a thin
layer of a mixture Of white lead, whiting,
plaster of Paris, oil and a drier on the sur
face to be ornamented, and then producing
relief ornaments in the said layer, which is
plastic, by means of combs or other suitable
implements.
Perhaps the most decided novelty in paper
hanging is Lincrusta-Wal a preparation
resembling rubber, embossed in all styles OF
French scrolls and geometrical figures. After
mounting. it is to be painted first in temper,
and then bronzed. 1t is as durable as the
house itself and worth from 40 cents to sl.25
per yard. 1t is intended to be used for dados,
wall designs and panels.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

INeW OFK SUN
"Melican man no sabe cookies lice" said a
Mott street Chinaman who was industriously
washing a big pan OF rice on the edge OF the
sidewalk. "She NO washee plenty. Hear
washee makes lice good"
The Chinaman poured on water, carefully
rubbed the wet rice between the palms of hi;
hands, bringing the grains just to the sur
face. Again and again he poured the watei
of and renewed it. When he had washed
the rice in a dozen waters, carefully remov-
ing imperfect grains, lie drained OFF the re-
naming water, leaving the rice in a snowy
mass.
How cookeeF' he said in answer to a ques
ton. put no too muchee watt r."
A Chinamau uses just so much water thai
the rice will cook dry. He never touches q
spoon to it, and when it is done every grain
is whole, soft, and thoroughly cooked.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

IMrs. Dr. Roe in Housekeeper.l

To all who are striving to make strap and
buckle meet around the bundle of their wants,
I would say: You can reduce the bundle
very greatly by discriminating between your
needs and your fancies; between what you
buy for comfort and what you buy for show.
o, the cowardice and folly Of trying to ap-
pear richer than you arel In trying to equaI
or out-do your neighbors, or in stinting your
family in order to make a feast when com
pany comes.
1t is vulgar to overload a table, besides be
ing expensive and unsatisfactory. You are
no better than a slave until you are above
minding what people say or think. Be a
brave woman, consulting your own means
and convenience rather than the opinion Of
your neighbors. Put dignity, n~eatness and
simplicity in your style of living and other
will be only too glad to follow your example
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13
luilu Esaner.

Entered at hs Posfocice, Cheyenne. Wvo-
ming, for fermentation through the mails as
second cldSs matter.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

A dvertisers By addressing GEORGE F
- RoWELL & CO, 10 Spruce St.. N. Y.
can learn he exact cost of any proposed line
OLA DvfRTlSlNG in American Newspaper
rs lOO-page Pamphlet, Csc.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13
Woman and Home.


The Rev. DR.. Newman was In the party, and
my friend quotes him as dissenting from
that theory and saying, "a woman invaria-
bly, has an ideal man in her mind for a hus-
n She doesn't often find his counter
part in reality. Now, what is it that usually
disillusionizes heri 1t is the mans talk.
He looks like a very commonplace mortal
Now a deaf mute doesn't let himself down in
that way. His methods of conversation are
50 laborious that he doesn't resort to them
unless he has something to say. He remains
a hero in the estimation OF the woman whom
be impresses favorably by his person, and
she falls in love with him for good and all"
So we had better stop dressing carefully
and hold our tongues in case this theory is
sound and reversible as to sexes.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13
New Advertisements.

nIVORCES-No publicity; residents of any
II state. Desertion. non-suppoit. AIvice
ana applications for stamp, w H LEE.
Attorney, 2e broadway, New York.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

French women OF fashion use very little
lace or linen around the neck and wrists, and
1t is said to be allowable to dispense with II
altogether, using dark velvet mex the hesh
to bring out its delicate tints.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

Jerry Greening: Tn tongues O. some mer
I know be very like clocks as run on strikin'
mot t. tell ye tn time o. day, but jest Gauss
they's something wrong inside OF EN-.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

English Proverb: There is one good wife in
the country and every man thinks that he
hath her.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

CURES
Brieht'- ris as. RU.uuH ism, d phi her a,
Load 10 son, Cnt.lfh Pi'e-l IA -
Asi ma, byS htery or mrs Cholera
Mnrhus, ID sIvP-lE, Indigestion,
Eysip L., tur : ScrUn,it,
&C. Ids, ~yphi tc - q Nercu 'inl
AtectIoi = OF Throat. an s in. IA d
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

w Invariably Cures Coughs
Odds, Hoarseness, Sore Threats
Asthma, Group, and all Aztec,
ions of the Breathing Organs.

Its soothing influence upon the ~irritatet
ir passages is due to the fact that its Ingredient
re the most eficacious p~ulmonics known
he basis of the article being the honey of Tho
lorehound plant, chemically united with the
Abies Balsamea, or Balm OF Gilead. Their,
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Those who have used It say that Hale'f
ioney of and Tar Is wonder
ally remedial In all cases where the organs Of
aspiration are affected, and that its action IL
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themselves of It's virtues.
children derive great benefit from its
%oothinG properties when suffering with Group
nd Whooping Cough.
~riees-5oo. and 81 per bottle; largest, cheapest
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
= N. GRlTTENT0N Snle pron'r nv
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13

& historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-05-08
Application for Patent.
NOTICE NO. l04.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise CITY IDAHO,
January &c, 1883.
Notice is hereby given that James Q. Swift. of
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, has made applica.
tion for a United States patent for the
AMERICAN EAGLE MINING CLAIM.
situate in Warm Springs Mining District. Alturas
county, Idaho Territory consisting of 500 linear
eet OF the lode with surface ground 600 feet wide,
and described in the field notes and plat of the Off
ii al survey lille in this Office, with magnetic va
ration OF Is degrees 30 minutes east. as follows.
towit: Commencing at the east corner of pest No.
of said claim. whence the section corner be-
tween sections %, ~. % and %, in township 4
north range Is east. Boise Meridian, bears east
.575 feet distant; thence from said post north 5
degrees west 600 feet to post No. 2; thence south
81 degrees west l,50O feet to post No. Z. thence
south ST. degrees cast 600 feet TO post No. 4, and
thence nor "a degrees east $50 feet to the place
OF beginning, containing Al. area of 10 4llOO acres
and surveyed as Lot No. So
Said mining claim being of record in the County
Recorders office, at Haley in said Alturas county
and the nearest known location is the Nort h Star
mine.
Any person claiming adversely any portion of
the above described premises is hereby notified to
file in this Office. during the period of sixty days
publication, lis adverse claim, or such claim Will
be barred.
direct that this notice be published in the
WOoD RIVER TIMES. the newspaper published
nearest to said mining claim. for the full period OF
sixty days. d. L. B Pride. hesister.
! Jas. II. Beatty, attorney for applicant lIailey
Idaho. 10
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-05-08
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-06
Very Romantic.

A Long Branch letter says: A member of the
official corps of the Ocean Hotel was last sea-
son the hero of quite an interesting romance.
The young fellow completely captivated a
beautiful girl from the interior of the State of
New York. Her parents were very wealthy,
and were spending the season at the Ocean.
The clerk was tolerated by the mamma and al
lowed TO escort the daughter on the avenue
and promenades, and he made himself very
agreeable in various other ways Finally,
toward the close of the season the parents
returned home, leaving the interesting
daughter to tarry a week or two longer at
the seaside, as she seemed TO enjoy it so much.
They had not been home long before they
received message stating that the
lovely maiden had left the hotel and
that the nice young clerk had suddenly
disappeared about the same time. OF
course the soicitous parents were thunder
struck at the revelation, and detectives were
Immediately employed 10 discover, IL possible,
the whereabouts OF the loving couple. After
a day or two of suspense Il letter was received
from the daughter stating that she had mar
RED the clerk, and that they were then So
Journing AT the home of his parents i'm an in
terror New Hampshire town. Then letters Of
forgiveness followed from the parents, as they
do in the novels, and the loving couple paid
the old folks wish, when final reconciliation
followed. The eX-clerk was given position
In his tather-in-aws bus ness, and soon in
gratated himself into the old gentemans
esteem and favor after lapse of few
a small fortune by the dea b of a female rela-
| tive of his family, and at last accounts the
young man and h br de were the ''-""ites OF
large circle OF friends.