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, 1889-01-11

The outbreak in Portland shows that
in other places besides San Francisco
there exists between gangs of ruffians
a never ending contest for supremacy
over the Chinese population. The
power of the highlander is the only
one which the average Chinaman
understands and fears, and his conduct
is regulated by it to a greater extent
than by the laws of the country in
which he lives. In whatever city there
is found q considerable number of
Cinnamon, there the Chinese high
binder will find material for his call
ing, and there he will exist, exercising
an influence which extends ever to the
white employers of Chinese labor.
In San Francisco the number of
these lawless Cinnamon is very large,
and they are the virtual rulers of Chi
natown. Were the Monaghan popu-
lation larger the gangs of murderers
would be greater, and the subsection
of the coolie would be more complete.
The well being of the Chinaman now
in this country, as well as of the white
people among whom he lives, has been
subserved by the exclusion act. Those
Cinnamon are most prosperous and
happy who have fewest Of their own
race surrounding them. They are
benefited by isolation from their Mon
golian brothers. The greater the num-
Der of Chinese that congregate to-
gether the lower their condition, the
more degraded their habits, the more
abject their slavery and the greater
the danger to which they expose the
country. The total cessation of Chi
nese immigration will prevent the
formation in other cities OF colonies
of aliens governed by thieves and cut
Threats, whose battles for supremacy
endanger the lives of law abiding citi-
zens as well as of Mongolians. San
Francisco Bulletin.
, 1889-01-11
agIIRINe From BUSINESS.
A Custom Observed Forty Years Ago Not
Practiced Now.

1oAty AS~A5 ~ Nos
Practiced Now.
The old world custom of retiring
FROM business after a competency had
been secured, and which is yet OBJ
served abroad, was still honored in
the observance here by our own bust
ness men not very long ago. When
a merchant had accumulated 800, 900,
more or less, he was rich, and fire.
quently sought relief from the cares
and labors of active trade in retire
ment Generally the most trusted and
respected employees of the concern
became, upon easy terms, the succe
sors of the retiring members.
But men of active business seldom
retire now, and chiefly, it may be as
sumed, because it is no longer possible
for any n TO acquire a competency.
In h bic and, it seems TO many, the
better times, the habits of living were
simpler, and a competency was a de-
terminable thing, which at present it
appears not to be. Fifty, forty, thirty
years ago the man was accounted rich
who had amassed a clear 500, O00. He
could retire upon that at any time and
be ;ssurcd of an income, represented
10y absolutely safe at q per cent secur-
lies. or So, OGO u year, which enabled
him To live in generous comfort and
even luxury. ASSOC, 600 now yieldsa
perfectly safe income of not more than
$1,000 or 81, 900 a year. Besides that,
II is the almost universal ambition of
the man who has made a hundred
thousand to make a million and of that
one who has made n million to make
live, ten or a hundred millions.
There is practically no limit to in
divldual fortunes in these times, and
until the man of business who has the
least has made the effort TO acquire as
much as he who has the most the
question of retirement is not con-
sidered. The custom of retiring
from active pursuits with the ac-
quIrement of a competency was
good not only for the merchant, it
was good for his shrewd, faithful, fru-
gal, ambitious employees, who sue
ceeded to his business and thus Sc
cured a chance of winning fortune,
which chance is now denied them.
The trouble is that in these days no
one knows when he has enough, and
consequently no one feels hat he can
step aside and give opportunity of
fortune 10 the young men about him
who are struggling for place. Not
over work, but over anxiety. over
ambition to secure great fortunes, is
breaking down the health and killing
a great many people in these days.
Enjoyment, rest and health are freely
paid by the shrewdest of men for a
foremost place among the winners of
great wealth. Money, even a great
deal of it, is a good thing, but it is as
possible to pay too much for it as for
any other thing in the market. -Phila-
delphia Ledger.
, 1889-01-11
rhinr. That Unset Rom.po...

1 tell you, there would be a great
many more a If they did not
end in such a matter of fact way.
Fate is with peoples lives, like the
young woman who begins 10 write a
story. 1t seems to go a certain way
with them and then it drops them, or
else it suddenly becomes practical and
makes everything prosaic. Romance
docs not last. You go to a picnic and
you meet alovely girl, and you have
Just the sweetest time in the world
under the tree and by the brookside.
And you are in n kind Of a poetic
dream until it ome time to go home,
and when you get TO tho ferry you
make a break for your dinner. You're
too hungry to be poetic. The human
stomach, come to think Of ii, is a sad
destroyer Of your Its pro-
sale call is so recurrent and so impera-
tive. don't like TO think of the shep-
herds and shepherdesses of Acadia
sitting down to a meal of coarse bread
and buttermilk; there may be poetry
compatible with eating grapes, but
even pears and apples and oranges are
only poetical when they are part Of
the landscape.
Few people a eat oranges and feel
comfortable without a finger bowl.
When you come TO think of il, every
thing in life seems TO c~onspire against
poetry. It's all very well TO fancy
your sweetheart laid on her snow
white couch dreaming of you, or
standing in n gauzy costume by the
window looking at the moon and apos-
trophizing you as Romeo. But then
you know That she has TO take her
boots off and take the hairpins out of
her hair, and when her dainty little
feet touch the floor you know that she
screams, 'Ouchl how cold il isr' and
in that single instant poetry is dashed
to pieces. And you'll Well, you have
lots of poetry internally, l don't doubt,
but you are not poetic in a robe de
mutt; you know you're not. l know
a fellow who reduced everything to
prosaic. We walked up Market street
one afternoon, A pretty girl was
canning down. There are plenty of
them.
What a pretty girl" I said.
Eyes"
That is as pretty a foot as 1 have
seen in n long time"
Eyes. What n pity such n lovely
angel ms that has to cut her corns. -
San Francisco Chronicle.
, 1889-01-11
His Example,

Among the anecdotes relating to the
revolutionary campaigns within the
limits of New Jersey which arc
sacredly preserved in that state one of
the ~pleasantest is O little story which
illustrates the kindness and courtesy
of Gen. Washington.
After the battle of Monmouth the
American army was encamped on the
farm of a certain John Vance. Wash
ington, with his staff, was quartered
IN the farm house. A daughter of the
farmer was seriously i'll in an ppe
room. AS soon as Washington heard
this he gave orders that no guns
should be fired or drums beat near the
house.
During supper he set the example
of caution TO his officers by %conversing
in an undertone, retiring as soon as the
meal was finished, to his own cham
Der, which adjoined the dining room.
After he had gone, however, the
spirits of the young men rose, and
forgetting their orders, they began TO
sing and laugh uproariously. In the
midst of the fun the generals door
opened softly, and Washington en-
tered the Don and walked noiselessly,
on tiptoe.
He crossed to the fireplace, took a
book from the mantel shelf, and as
silently returned without a word, nod
ding a smiling good night as he closed
the door behind him.
The officers stood ashamed and re-
buked, not only by his consideration
for the sick girl, but by his gentle
courtesy OF silence toward them
selves.
1t was the age of fine and stately
manners, and the bearing of this, the
noblest of gentlemen in that age, is
worthy of study now, when careful
and fine courtesy of manner is no
longer so striking u characteristic of
the time.-Youth's Communion.
, 1889-01-11

A train from Pittsburg was APP
preaching Chicago. On board was a
quiet, well dressed, copper colored
young Indian, who seemed to have all
he could do to attend to his W bust
ness, which he did without molesta-
ton, until a young man, whose brains
had evidently been devoted to his
clothing, came from the sleeper into
the smoking al and saw him.
IAN Indian, l guess, said the young
man, as he lighted a cigarette. And
then, approaching the son of the
plains, he attracted general attention
by shouting, with strange gestures:
ugh, heap big Injunl Omahal
Sioux Pawneel See Great Fatherl
Have a drink fire water2 Warm In
jun's blood"
The Indian gazed at the young man
a moment with an i'll concealed ex-
preston of contempt on his face, and
then he said, with good pronuncia-
ton:
''You must have been reading dime
novels, sir. | am going back to my
people in Montana, after spending
three years in the east at school. /
advise you to do the same thing.
Where | live, gentlemen do not carry
whisky TASKS in their pockets"
Tho young fire water drinker did
not wait to finish his smoke. There
was TOOL much mirth and music in the
air just then--Youth's Companion.
, 1889-01-11
Efficient.

Seventy years ago, more or less, a
well known citizen of Richmond. N.
H, named Nahum Grout, was reputed
to be a F~ederalist, perhaps the only
n in town. Political feeling ran
high in those days, as it has often done
since, and naturally the minority of
one" was looked upon with small
favor.
The majority, in order to show their
disrespect for the man or their detesta-
ton Of his political principles, elected
him hog reeve, an officer whose duty
1t was to ring all swine found running
at large in the highway, or else to put
them into the town pound.
Circuit assumed the office with much
complacency and great dignity withal,
and shortly began operations in earn
est, as was SOC found out by many of
his opponents, who had been accus-
toned TO turn their hogs into the pub
lie way.
Securing efficient help he gathered
quito q respectable drove-respectable
in point Of numbers, at all events
belonging mostly to such of his neigh
bors and townsmen as had been fore
most in promoting him to Office. He
lodged the animals in the pound, and
waited for his fees; but, as luck would
have it, the Enclosure was not strong
enough TO hold this kind of cattle, and
the pigs all got out, and, with a few
exceptions, made their way home
again.
Grout vas equal to the emergency;
he sued the town for damages. By the
towns neglect he had lost his lawful
fees. The court decided in his favor,
and the town was mulcted in the sum
of nearly 81 1000.
After this the solitary Federalist of
the village was allowed TO remain a
private citizen .-Youth's Companion.
, 1889-01-11
Boon nonaday,. 1tchInr Noso.

The San Francisco Alta recalls a
comical incident, which once fell to
the fortune, or, rather, misfortune of
Ben Holiday. 1t was in the early
days, long before railroads, and when
staging across the plains was in its
prime. Holiday had occasion to
make the trip overland, and was ac-
companied by his wife. He was not
anxious TO have it known that he was
making the trip, because the road
agents, aware of the fact that Holla-
day was a rich man, might take it
into their heads to capture him and
hold him for a ransom.
The journey continued for several
days without incident, but, one night,
the stage stopped, and Holiday was
startled by the curtains being pushed
aside and an ugly carbine thrust into
his face, with the command, Put up
them handsl" As the situation did
not admit of argument, ''them hands"
went up with alacrity. Mrs. Holla-
day was sound asleep, b~lissfully I'M
conscious OF the fact that q band of
road agents had possession of the
stage.
Suddenly it occurred to Ben that
Mrs. Holiday might wake up and ac-
Cost nm by name, and SO make the
robbers aware of his identity. He be-
gan TO get nervous at the thought, and
TO still further increase his discomfort,
a stray hair of his mustache gradually
curled backward and began to tickle
his nose. Then he wanted to sneeze
tho worst kind, but did not dare to,
lest he should awake his wife. That
depraved hair continued to tickle,
until in desperation Holiday thus ac-
costed the holder of the carbine:
Il say, mister, q hair of my mus
tache is tickling my nose, and I want
to scratch it; please may 1 put my
hand down to do so2'
"Oh, don't mention it" replied the
polite road agent, 81 will scratch it for
you, and SO saying, to the horror of
Holiday, he deliberately rubbed the
muzzle of hat carbine back and forth
on the end of Holidays nose until
the tickling hair was utterly forgotten
in the terror of the consequence
should the carbine, loaded with a
double handful of buckshot, explode
before the scratching process was com
Dleted.
, 1889-01-11

A very pretty foliage decoration for
rooms or Conservatives can be made
of a white sponge. Fill the sponge
full of rice, canary, hemp, grass or
other seeds. Then place it in a shall
low fancy dish. The prettier the dish
is, of course, the prettier the decora-
tion will be. Pour water in the dish;
the sponge will absorb this. Keep
enough water to always have the
sponge moist In a short time the
look very pretty. The dish can then
be placed on a table, or the sponge can
be suspended without the dish in some
position where it is exposed to the sun
light. 1t must be well watered, SO
that the sponge is always moist, and it
will then exhibit a mass of delicate
green foliage. New York Mail and
Express.
, 1889-01-11

A new clock, weighing two and a
hal tons, has been placed in the tower
of the Glasgow university, similar to
the great clock at Westminster. The
frame of the clock newly erected is
horizontal and of cast iron planed. 1t
is 81 feet long, 2 feet wide and II feet
in depth. 1t is supported on beams
built well into the wall of the tower,
SO as to obviate vibration. The wheels,
which are of gun metal, can be moved
separately, as the pivot holes are
screwed TO the frame. The main
wheels of the striking and quarter
trains are twenty inches in diameter,
and attached to them are cams to lift
the hammers, which are fixed in iron
frames connected with the clock by
cranks, and having a check spring to
prevent vibration. The weight of the
hammer That strikes the hour is 100
pounds, and it is lifted ten inches.
There is an automatic apparatus at
tached to the clock which stops the
quarter pears at night and starts them
in the morning. The escapement of
the going part is known as the double
three legged gravity, invented by Lord
Grimthorpe. The pendulum is of zinc
and iron, to counteract influences of
temperature. The tubes are arranged
so thatth expansion of one raises the
center of gravity, while hat of the
other lowers it. The bob of the pen
dulum is cylindrical, and weighs 300
pounds, and the beat is one and one
half seconds. The 'bolt and shutter"
appliance of the nobleman already
named maintains the motion while the
clock is being wound. J. B. Joyce &
Co., Whitechurch, Shropshire, manu-
featured the clock. New York
Gronbic
, 1889-01-11
ono Cause of Explosions.

Very frequently during the winter
months we hear of the explosion of
boilers used for heating water con-
nected to ranges in hotels, etc. and
occasionally the boiler of a hosting
engine elbows up" and always, in
these cases, it is shortly after the fires
have been started. 1t ought to be
well known by this time, that when a
boiler has been at rest for some time
in cold weather, ice is apt to form in
it; this, of itself, brings an abnormal
strain on the parts of the boiler sub
jected to its action; and, then. when
q fire is started, some parts get quickly
heated, while others remain cold,
causing unusual and severe strains,
and SO injuring the boiler that it cam
not often Withstand tho ordinary
steam pressure, and an explosion re-
suits necessarily.-Safety Valve.
, 1889-01-11
69,46l 90
TERRITORY OF WYOMING, GO
COUNTY OF LARAMIE %.
3I,62s O6

TERRITORY OF WYOMING, GO
COUNTY OF LARAMIE.
| do solemnly swear that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct statement
of the expenditures, with the items there
of for the six months ending December 81,
1888, and that the financial condition of
said county, so far as relates to floating
Indebtedness, is therein correctly shown.
JoHN X. JEFFREY,
County Clerk and Clerk OF the County
Commissioners.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
4th day Of January, 1889.
GSeal. w. J. WILKES,
Notary Public.
Audited and approved by order of the
board Of county commissioners this 4th
day of January, 1888. II. b. KELLY.
Chairman Board County Commissioners.
= Attest:
JOHN X. JEFFREY.
[Seal County Clerk and
Clerk of the Board.
, 1889-01-11

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say; "Ohl it is only a little cold" and
keep giving them oheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
so easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup? 1t has no superior. and
lew equals, For sale by w. N. Hunt,
druggist.
Job Printing at the Leader Office.
, 1889-01-11
Electric Rirters

This remedy is becoming SO well known
and SO popular as to need no SPECIAL men
ton. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praise. "A purer
medicine does not exist and it is guaran-
teed to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bitters will cure all diseases of the liy~.
and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils.
suit rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood. -WM drive malaria from
the system and prevent as well as cure all
malarial fevers For cure of headache,
constipation and indigestion try Electric
Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded. Price so cents and
81 per bottle at DIR. W. n. Hunts drug
store.
, 1889-01-11
Advice 20 Mother.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teethinv. 1t
soothes the child, %softens the gums. aliays
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Twenty FIVE cents
a bottle.
, 1889-01-11

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever
sores, letter. chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1889-01-11
$loI,O9O O2 IOl, 900 OF

. VT W ~ 90
COUNTY OF LARAMIE,
|, Isaac Bergman, treasurer Of Laramie
county, do hereby solcmnly swear that the
above statement is true and correct, and
hat the financial condition Of said county
at the close of business on the 3Ist day of
December, is as above stated.
ISAAC BERGMAN.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this
It'll day OF January, A.. ID. 1889.
JOHN X. JEFFREY.
County Clerk.
Audited and approved by order OF the
board of county commissioners this 18th
day Of January, A. ID. 1889.
II. b. KELLY,
Chairman Board County Commissioners.
Attest:
JOHN X. JEFFREY,
County Clerk and Clerk of the Board.
, 1889-01-11

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the leader Office.
, 1889-01-11
Dr.. Wagner co.
sEuCrAL1srs.

We offer no anoIoov for devoting 81 mucb finn.
and attention 10 This much ne9iected class Of
dISaases heIJa,ing ,hot ,dJtioo ~ ~ .
ity IL 700 wretched la merit the ymnathy and
hest services of The nrnfession Ia which De hS
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less a
= ihHn the Surgeon 41s;. { Or p yo,Sa1 w aHsR Ry Is sI E, a,p
is dawning When the false pbilanthrophV thai
Condemned the victims OF folly or crime like
~ iepeis unusn umo e"ish i""'Uo uhc"teo
, 1889-01-11

JOB printing at the leader Office.
, 1889-01-11

Job Printing at the Lealer Office.
, 1889-01-11

JoHN X. JEFFREY.
County Clerk and
Clerk of the Board.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-21
THE SOUTH.

By tho explosion Of a large boiler in the
terra Gotta works at Chattanooga, Tenn,
the other day a man was burned to death
aud his son fatally injured.
The Patna rice case was decided on the
18th at New Orleans, the jury returning a
sealed verdict which, it was understood,
was in favor of the Government.
FATHER AsHFIELD, q Catholic priest,
was recently stabbed to death at Memphis,
Tenn, by q crazy friend named Reese
When found the lunatc was caressing the
dead body of the priest.
THERE will be heavy movement of
cattle from Texas to the Indian Territory
this spring. estimates being placed all the
way between 125, 600 and 15O, 600 head.
GOVERNOR BUCKNER, Of Kentucky, de-
clares that under NO circumstance would
he be . candidate for the United States
Senate against Mr.. Blackburn.
Two more fruitless ballots for United
States Senator were taken by the West
Virginia Legislature on the 18th.
THE Bank OF Bedford at Liberty, Va,
has suspended Assets and liabilities UNI
known.
TIE Investigation into the cause of fires
on cotton ships now in progress at Charles
ton. s. c.. by q committee of the Stock TX
change, 10 watched with considerable i'm
terest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-21
THE LATEST.

THE House Committee on Appropriations
has decided to report substitute for the
Covles Internal Revenue bill, proposing
the entire repeal of the tobacco tax, but
emitting the ''moonshine" sections of the
Cowles bill t
hastily to Cazenovia, N. Y, on the 10Th by
father was dying from a stroke Of paral-
ysis.
THREE buildings in Gluckman & Heller's
block. at Chippewa Falls, Wis, were de-
stroyed by fire the other morning. The
loss on the buildings and stock was about
$4,000. Partly insured.
The Bartholomay, Genesee, Rochester
and possibly the Miller breweries, the four
largest in Rochester, N Y, have, it is
said. passed into the hands of the city of
London contract corporated, limited.
great English syndicate said to have $685.
DOC. OvO capital.
THERE is some anxiety among farmers
and miners in California on account of the
absence of rain in the valleys and snow
in the mountains
THE Senate on the 18th passed number
OF bills, among them one placing General
Rosecrans on the retired list and another
giving the Fort Smith road right of way
through the Indian Territory, near Baxter
and Means Committee on the Tariff bill
was brought into the House. An objection
was raised to the4Senate substitute in that
it practically originated revenue legisla-
ton. which the Constitution vested alone
in the House.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February IA numbered
2S9. compared with 300 he previous week
and 213 the corresponding week OF last
year.
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria,
Mimi, recently for killing his rival in q
love affair in cold blood after a spree.
John Moe, his partner in crime. was
granted q communication at the last moment.
BIZ the explosion of the boiler Of q loco
motive at Norristown, Pa. recently the
engineer and fireman were killed.
FOUR ladies were severely hurt In
Chester, Pa, recently by collision be-
tween . railway train and q street car.
The Opera House block in Cape Vincent,
N Y. and the bank in which were $50
pounds OF opium recently seized have been
destroyed by fire. Loss, 0,000.
MONROE WILKINSON, Q colored MUIR
derer condemned to be hanged At Scots
villes KY, March p made q desperate at
tempt to escape the other night but was
fecaptured and chained to the Jail door.
JOHN GRAY. . prominent citizen OF Pitts
ton, Pa, was found murdered ON q by
street recently. Italian robbers were sus-
pected.
THE committee appointed at the recent
meeting Of the American Shipping and
Industrial League have presented to Gem
eral Harrison the resolutions adopted by
the league.