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The Labor enquirer., 1885-05-16

The Rocky. Mountain Liar tells
anxious Inquirer" that neither
Buchanan, Driscoll, Lennon nor Lewis
have struck. For further information 1
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enough should be sent to cover postage.
ALL classes of people are highly indig-
nant over the attempted enforcement OF
the gag law. I have met large unmber
of men not connected with our organi-
zation, and the sentiment is freely and
universally expressed that it is an out
rage. This bulldozing scheme is helping
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Rocky Mountain Liar.

ROCKY NOUN Jaln LIAR.
don't say butthat at times you may squeeze
juice out of a stone,
Or make the corpse of Guiteau, by prod
give out groan;
Pixies Peak perhapsyou'd swallow, perhaps
you'd set the Platte on fire,
But you CAN'T get the truth out of the Rocky
Mountain Liar.
The Rocky Mountain Liar essays the strikers
. cause to down,
By reckless black kguardism, by swearing white
fsbrown-
Byinvention, by suppression, as malice may
inspire 'N'-s-S---a---r7tt- --~-1-----'-''--'--
His heart Of dung -unclean of tongue-th'
Rocky Mountain Liar.
This Rocky Mountain Liar has dared you tt
the fight.
Straight from the shoulder strike you back
Strike! Your cause is right!
Trample it under foot, boys, boycott, ban
and fire
This rotten rag, voice of vag, the Rocky
Mountain Liar
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ait

q A n o-Platte Valley Assembly, No. 3403,
04u Oof Sterling, Colorado. meets the sec
ond and fourth Saturdays Of each month at
tho School House in Kniphts of PYthia las Hall
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Euclid Hall, on Fourte

opposite City Hall, Denver. All brother and
sister Knights welcomed.
0cHO-Foody Assembly No. 364S meets
OO4O every Friday evening and third
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' AoASoA -

OHH7-GOIden Assembly, No. 3F4l, meeIs
O44 every Monday evening at 7:3O, in
K of P. Hail. on Washington avenue, Golden,
Colorado. Members of other Locals always
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Union. This will suffice.
THE Rocky Mount tain Liar nresumas
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fight the Rocky Mountain News, when
the office was rated" in 1880, and was
very active in forcino IL hooL into fbo
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J AN4 AesJ AoAo
NO cfrnnf hnf"nnr

Blake, Denver. Members of the order in
vited to visit.
Eno-Sumner Assembly, No. 35OS, meets
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atom Wonderfully, To

organization wonderfully. Look out for
several new assemblies among the
farmers, who are awaking to- the fact
that during their Gulliyerian sleep they
have been hound tight by the hairs of
enactment and precedent. Wake up,
giants, and show your strength!
The Labor enquirer., 1885-05-16

The Times of Tuesday contained an
article which stated that weLl-knoWn
lady in this city was being boycotted by
the Knights of Labor because OF alleged
cruelty to a Uonad1s servant and, as the
article is intended to Hcass reflection
upon the order, and charge it with un-
reasonable spite and virdictiveness, l
desire to say word on she subject of
boycothng in general, taking this case as
a text. The circumstance, as related by
the Times, is as follows:
= One Monday morning few weeks ago
a wowan servant in the employ ofawell-
known Denver lady was in the back
yard putting up a clothes line upon
which to hang the weeks washing.
While standing upon bCx to fasten the
line she lost her balance and fell. The
lady, who was watching the girl, but who
did not dream that the fall was serious,
laughed heartily, turned and went into
the house. 1t subsequently developed
that the girl had fallen irto a hole in
the ground into which she had a short
time before Dumped some red lot ashes,
and that when she succeeded in extri-
eating herself her feet we're quite Sc
yerely burn.
The lady says that at first she thought
she would pay the girls doctor bill, but
the case proving more serious and pre-
longed than she had anticipated, she
concluded she would not be justified In
doing so. The girl was taken in hand by
the Knights of Labor and the lady was
at once boycotted. The result is that
she cannot now get even 8 washer
woman to work one day in the week.
She is now puzzlIng over the problem of
whether she was boycotted for her heart
lessness in laughing when the girl fell,
or for refusing to turn herself into a
charitable and benevolent society and
pay the expenses resulting from the
girls carelessness.
In the first place, it is rot true that the
Knights of Labor of this city have any
such case in boycotting on hand but it
is more than likely if the poor woman
met with the accident that the order
"took the case in hand" so far as caring
for the sufferer is concerned. The order
of the Knights of Labor always cares for
its needy and suffering members, and in
doing 80 makes no claims for praise as a
Charitable institution"
Apr ooD-ho 10 b l-oo. =
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Hall, 125 East Sixth street.
IAn Montgomery Benevolent Assembly
at ). 5. breyfuss ssfa Hall. No. s7s Larimer
street Denyer at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial well
come extended to visiting members
nc co-Louisville Assembly, No. l46s,
I4O Omeets every Thursday evening at
1880 o'clock, atSchool Hall. -
n 0o7-Union (benevolent) Assembly, No
Z0Z 2327, meets every Tuesday evening
at 1880 O'Clock, at hall over 375 Larimer street.
Strangers in the city and other brothers and
sisters are cordially invited to attend.
Z00UButte City, Montana, meets every
Saturday evening at 5 O'Clock, in Miners
Union Hall, corner Quartz and wyoming
streets Travelling brothers always welcome.
oAo7-Rocky Mountain Assembly, No,
Z40 24S7, meets every Monday evening at
1880, in the Locomotive Engineers Hall, Idel-
man Block, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Members OF
other Locals are always welcome.
o0I7-Internation Assembly, No. 82l7,
SZ 4 meets every Thursday evening at
7:30 O clock, in Goodey Hall, Santa Fe avenue.
n n o-Fidelity Assembly, No. 32lS, meets
GZ IOevery Wednesday evening at 73O
and fourth Sunday afternoon at 2 O'Clock, in
Grand Army Hail. on Curtis street, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth, Denver. Mem
'bers Of other Locals always welcome.
n n E-Progressiye Assembly, No. 1856, of
81 OPueblo, meets every alternate We'd
nesday evening, in Engineers Hall.
Advance Assembly, No. 1921, meets
0ZO every Saturday evening in Masonic
Hall, corner Fourth and Cedar streets, Raw
Inns, Wyoming. Visiting members always
welcome.
a IH-Hope Assembly, No. 1914, (female,)
1880, in Dreyfuss Hall, 379 Larimer street,
Denver. Visiting brothers and sisters always
| welcome.
n n 0-North Platte Assembly, No. 3343'
evenings of each month at 7:30 o'clock, in
Odd Fellows Hall, corner Spruce and Third
streets, North Platte, Nebraska. Members OF
| other Locals always welcome.
q 0Nno-Eureka Assembly, No. S402, Den
34UZver, meets every Saturday night at
| 73O O'Clock in T. s. Dreyfuss' Eall No. 379
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- - ~ slliO ~ enlB cince. price, 10
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About Widows.

San Francisco Chronicle.
have vague idea that widow to be nat
ural, should always be plump. can't give my
reason for it. have long had a convection that
grief over departed husband is fattening |
know that stage widows are always wan and
pale and faint at the sight of any relic of the
deceased. But that is dramatic license, and
only in comedies where true love and devotion
are made funny, not to say ridiculous, do they
make widows plump Come to think of it, l
don't see why a widow shouldn't be plump. She
has nothing to worry about. She is heroine Of
one great battle, with weakened world before
her to conquer like widows. 1t always seems
to me that widow is a woman who has got the
best of a man. He may have been a good deal
of man or very little of man, but she's got
the best Of him. It seems to be awfully hard
wish to ask whether matrimony is, after all, a
disease that is fatal to woman. don't say that
woman should never marry at all She should
always marry some other man.
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An Ostrich with a Wooden Leg.
Anaheim (Cal.) Gazette.


Some time ago the rare and ludicrous sight of
an ostrich with a wooden leg might have been
seen at the ostrich farm. The ostriches first
Matched were deficient in bone structure, fact
which is attributed to the deficiency of certain
element in the food of the parent birds
"a deficiency which has now been supplied.
The bones of the legs in these young chicks were
very soft and breakable, and much of the
mortality among them was due to broken legs
AS an experiment., Superintendent Sketchley-
who is an M. D.-amputated the leg of one of
the birds which had broken it accidentally below
the knee, and strapped on a wooden leg, upon
which the bird strutted around for some time
Those who have seen the ungainly and mincng
gait of the ostrich when equipped with natural
them would have with an artificial limb. I'm
fortunately the bird thus singularly equipped
broke his leg above the knee and died.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Banks's Mustache.

New York Letter.
Miss Banks's father is General N. P. Banks,
who in his early life was an actor. She has been
for years Hartford's leading amateur, and there
have been periodical hints that she wished to go
on the stage in earnest. Once her debut was an
nounced but she revoked it on finding that she
was being placarded in bar rooms She turns
out to be tall, slender brunette, with peculiar
eyebrows. joining their blackness over her nose,
and the suggestion of a mustache.
why on earth doesn't she remove the hair
from her upper lipp said one feminine critic who
sat near to me.
''She'd be fool to do that" was the equally
positive reply; "a brunette of her type, with
heavy eyebrows, ought to have a percoptible
mustacne-it's in harmony with her style Of
beauty, and she looks better with than without
it"
Without clumsily attempting to settle so fine
a point as that, / merely add that General
Banks's daughter was distinctiyely pretty, that
her manner was graceful and easy for an anna
teur. and that there is possibility of her be-
coming good actress
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English Conjugal Life.

Perhaps it could scarcely be conceived posi-
imbruted as to seize his wife by the hair of the
head, knock her down repeatedly, and each time
lift her up by the hair, punch her about the
face, kick her in the chest and ribs till she be-
came insensible and then, when she recovered
consciousness bite her nose off, Yet this is
precisely what Thomas Chambers, of Shad-
well, did last week, and all because his wife
fetched him out of public house And, after
being thus ill-used, the woman wished to with
draw the charge and let the ruffian go scot-free.
Happily, Mr. Washington would not allow this.
He sentenced the fellow to six months hard
labor, and granted separation, and ordered
that the wife should receive twelve sshillings a
week Who from2
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Mrs. Childs,s China.

Philadelphia Times.
1t is doubtful if there is a city in the country
where there is SO much luxury of the table as In
Philadelphia, or where SO much attention is
given to dinner tai bile decoration. Of late there
has been a rage for what may be termed dinner
table bric-a brac. It is probable that Mrs.
George w. Childs has the finest table decorations
in Philadelphia. She has great many very choice
things, such as large platteaux, carved vases.
candelabra and gold ornaments for the center OF
the table that are as fine as can be procured IN
Europe. She is said to have one of the finest
collections of dinner plates in the country
Sevres, Worcester Derby, Dresden, Minton and
Copelands- great variety, no two as rule
are alike, and each gem. Many of her plates
have cost several hundred dollars a dozen. She
gives orders to people of experience to be on the
lookout for very rare specimens: 1t is said that
for a dinner of twenty persons Mrs Childs can,
without any difficulty, set table the decora-
tons of which alone will represent expenditure
Of 500, 900 or $40 O00
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kissing the Blarney Stone.

Philadelphia Record.
The Press publishes sweetly sweet poem on
the ''Blarney Stone" in which occurs the follow
ing verse:
How blissful Not word was said
We two were standing there alone;
She slowly bowed her graceful head
And kissed-the Barney Stone.
Inasmuch as the Barney Stone is some feet
beneath the battlements, and is reached by the
process of lowering the daring osculator head
foremost, held by the ankles, we are compelled
to the conclusion that the heroine of the Press
poem had neck like giraffe, or else that-but,
no! the idea is too horrible
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Lunatic Quilts.
Troy Times.

TOY I1MleS.
A very remarkable crazy quilt is on exhibition
in Boston The number of spieces used in max
ing it is not known; but it is wonderful piece
of work, the silk thread used for the embroidery
having. cost $117 1t has border of deep cardi-
nal plush, and is lined with old-gold satin. 1t
took three years to make it. Another object of
special interest is an autograph quilt. 1t is
made principally of white, pink and blue squares,
containing 225 squares or 2,275 pieces, 221 of
the squares having autographs upon them.
Among the names of distinguished persons are
u. S. Grant, r. B. Hayes Lucy w. Hayes,
George F. Edmunds, j. g. Carlisle, Roscoe
Conkling, A. P. Martin, J. g.. Bennett, and
MANY others.
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No Dress Is Full Dress.

Atlanta VOnstitntiOn
Anything can be worn this season. is the
statement of a leading fashion writer. There is
nothing improbable in this. Since the fact was
published that Miss Ada Sweet, the Chicago pen
sion agent, wore a scornful smile" when she
received the request for her resignation, people
have been preparing to believe anything. Here.
tofore the scornful SMILE as article of full
dress, has not been generally worn north of the
Central American States, but if it suits the Chi
cago climate during the month OF April nothing
more remains to be said. Delicate persons, how
ever, will hold fast to the lingering hope that
more substantial fabrics will not be entirely
ruled out
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The Best Gift of All.

One-and-twenty. oneand-twenty,
Youth and beauty, lovers plenty;
Health and riches. ease and leisure,
Work to give zest to pleasure;
What can maid so lucky lackl
What can / wish that fate holds backs
Youth will fade and beauty wanesS
Lovers, fouted, break their chains.
Health may fail and wealth may fly you,
Pleasures cease to satisfy you;
Almost everything that brings
Happiness is born with wings.
This wish you; this is best:
Love that can endure the test,
Love surviving youth and beauty.
Love that blends with horaely duty;
Love that's gentle, love that's true,
Love that's constant wish you.
Still unsatisfed she lives
Who for gold mere silver gives.
One more JOY wish you yet,
To give as much love as you get.
Grant you, heaven, this to do,
TO love him best who best loves you.
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Charlotte Cushman's Feet.

Every Other Saturday.
Charlotte Cushman ''had foot of her own
in size, and generally tours, but could
crowd into a three and half on "a tight
squeeze" One night, soon after recovering from
severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism,
she was wearing pair of slippers much too
small for her. Darling behind the wings be-
tween the scenes, she snatched them off and
threw them as far as she could, exclaiming: sYe
gods! Somebody lend me pair of slippers. or
I'll go in my stockingsp What number do you
wearl" asked young actor, ready to help her in
the emergency. "Oh, never mind the number;
anything from five to twentyr" she replied
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A Palpable Mistake.j

Beloved brethren" remarked a country min
lister at the close of his sermon, ''among the
pennies and two-cent pieces of last Sabbaths
collection | was surprised to find gold coin of
considerable value AS there were no strangers
in the congregation, it was evidently put there
by mistake. BY applying to the treasurer and
proving property the owner can recover his
money. Let us unite inEprayer.n
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The Richest Cabinet Lady.

Washington Letter in Boston Courier.
The richest lady in Washington now probably
is Mrs Whitney, whose husband is Secretary of
the Navy, and whose father is the millionaire
Senator Payne, of Ohio. It is said one of her
brothers gave her cool million within year
her $l00 900 ornament of rubies. The dia-
monds she wore at her first Wednesday recep-
ton in Washington were very largo and bril-
liant Her earrings of solitaire diamonds and
the three solitares which were set in her breast-
pin are unusually large and pure.
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Sold.


The bliss of loves garden forgetting,
Through the lies the serpent has told,
They stand in the shadow, full setting
Their teeth against fruitage of gold,
Where jewels their mock light are shedding,
Ice-gleams over passions pretense-
Where never comes message of wedding
Soulsped over ibers of sense,
They lie each response, without falter,
And the priest hands over the rail
To the two who stand there at the altar
Their papers Of bargain and sale.
The sibilant sound of caressing--
An echo of serpentine hiss
Is heard, as their lips are confessing
Their frost, in passionless kiss.
And they who have sworn to their shaming,
May forge pleasant smiles at their fate;
But never sword, with its flaming,
Shall fash over memory's gate;
For barriers, built love to smother,
Are less than walling of wax,
And bands to hold hearts from each other
Than fibers of fre-eaten fax.
Though they follow society's teaching,
And naught of its ritual miss,
No babble of prayer or of preaching
Can sanctify selling like this;
And the light that over them streaming
AS hell of the skald's is as cold;
For the glow of the lamp is but cleaning
Where, soulless, the body is sold.
Where never billowing bosom
Throbs warm on the islands of love,
There never of white should be blossom
At bridal cold heart above;
For the farce of such form is too idle
To weaken the primitive curse;
And ever the robes of such bridal
Are black as the pail of hearse.
= icy who would we'd without winning,
Still further from Eden are led,
Than they who knew loves sweet beginning
And simply through loving were wed.
All, neer can the heart-market's college
Find pardon for curse of the race
But fruit of the true tree of knowledge
May sweeten the sweat of the face.
Ben D. House.
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Away with dreams
The round moon beams,
And the white pond lilies greet its CLEANS;
While the Gypsy frets with her castanets,
And laughs at her lovers passionate threats.
List! hush. be still!
Yon moss.fringed rill
Does with an elin boat-song thrill.
The Gypsy sways and her little hand plays,
While her star-lit glances the lover craze.
A whisper soft
Sweeps grove and croft,
And the night winds wave a kiss aloft.
AS in dancing wiles the gypsy smiles,
And the lovers frown her sweet voice beguiles.
William Struthers.
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AS She Sings 1t.


She had voice like siren, and when she
sang
enid play sure, sand pal aces, though beam Rome,
Be it averse, oh bull there, play sly comb.
II. arm from thesk eyeseam stew wallow sheer,
Witch seek through the whirl disneerm ct twithel
swear
There wasn't dry eye in the tabernacle; but if
the programme hadn't said in clear, unmistaka-
BILE print that she was going to sing s'Sweet
Home" a man might have thought his teeth
loose without ever guessing it.
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Great Expectations.
Grea1
Texas Siftings.

The widow Flapjack, recently of Austin ave-
nue., got two new gentlemen boarders.
"Are those two gentlemen marriedp she asked
of Gilhooly, who is regular boarder.
''No and they are rich. One of them owns a
goat ranch"
tripping out into the kitchen she whispered to
the cook
'Put three extra beans in the coffee-mill when
you grind the coffee this afternoon"
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The Coming Southern Actress.
Flo ida Herald on Miss Leonore Gordon Hus

Flo ida Herald on Miss Leonore Gordon Husse.
Under the softer skies and balmier air of the
young girl is growing up, tall, stately, beautiful,
with tho passionate throb of genius in her
breast, and in her radiant eyes the glow of a
promise as rich as the rosebud's hope. We ex-
pect to see hor at the head of American actresses
and it is proper that the passionate South should
give her birth.
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The Lion at tine Show.

The proprietor of menagerie relates that one
OF his lions once had a thorn taken out OF his
paw by French major in Algeria. The lion
afterwards ran over the list OF officers belonging
to the regiment of his benefactor, and. out OF
gratitude, devoured both the colonel and lieu
tenant-colonel, whose places were then filed BY
tho good major.
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In sermon, in Pittsburg, Pa. the Rev. Mr..
Moody said: "A Sunday-school teacher tried to
illustrate the free grace of salvation by offering
his watch to the members of his class They
each one refused it till he came to the smallest
boy. He took it and put it in his pocket. Thank
you, my boy he said. You have shown that
yeu have faith in me- Keep it and take care Of
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Not Particular as to Number.

New York Graphic.
Scene: Paris.-Mrs. Spriggins-"B Beautiful
clock over there. How we'll it would match my
Louis XIV furniture"
Dealer-"Ah, oui, madame, but it is a Louis
XIV"
Mrs. Sob, one more or less doesn't matter
to me-"
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Amusemcnts at the white House.

Washington SpeciaI
Afternoon riding is about all the recreation
Mr.. Cleveland can get Colonel Lamont always
takes the Herald with him. and between the
outing and the reading Of the news the Presi-
dent returns to tho mansion invigorated and
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The Telephone at Work.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The telephone continues its ravages on the hui
man temper. 1t is not the telephone itself that
annoys people. It is the annoying form Of ad
dress and conversation which it has induced.
You cannot talk to ybody through telephone
as you can talk to him in an ordinary way. Your
best friend gets mad with you and the two
spoony lovers will quarrel from natural irrita-
ton.
''Hello!"
''Hello!"
SIS that you, darling?"
''Eh, what did you sayF'
SIT is l. dearest-Henry."
ooh, is that Henry?'
Eyes darling"
''Speak a little louder, dear"
what did you sayW
'Speak louder"
ooh, yes; are you we'll DEAR"
Splendid. dearest"
What did you say~
II am quite well. Did you want me?'
''Of course sweet, who else should wantW
II don't hear what you say"
81 am yelling now They hear me all over
the club"
''Oh, you're going to stay at the club Very
we'll"
mo, no. I-am-comirg-u
'tJust as you like. I'm busy now"
''Oh, we'll, if you don't care, I'll stay here"
''Eh, what did you sayF
"Confound it all. Goodbye
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it. The other boys were surprised and, too late,
were sorry they had not taken the freely offered
gift They didn't believe him; that was the
trouble