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CHAPTER XVIII.

The president Is the most accessible citizen
in the great Republic of tho New World.
Three times n week he descends to the
ground floor drawing room and passes an
hour shaking hands with all who wish to
make his acquaintance. There cannot be a
man in the world who does so much hand
shaking as this president of the United States.
You enter the White House at the hour of
the public reception as you enter n church at
service time l saw there negroes, market
women who Ind left their baskets in the ante
chamber, NIL sorts and conditions of men 1t
Is the most democratic sight Imaginable
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, already respected
and looked up to, three yeors ago, for his
talents, his zeal and his integrity, has seen his
popularity grow greater every day since he
united his destiny with that of the most
charming of Americas daughters.
Mrs. Cleveland Is a lady of scarcely five
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unefns1iVts at nome everywhere, but move
all in places where they pay. Nothing Is so
r~epugnnnt to them as those thousand and
ono little tyrannies that go by tho names of
regulations, restrictions, rules, by laws, etc.
hyou would be u~nhampered by such, II you
would enjoy perfect freedom, live in England.
No one doubts that England is the freest
country on earth, not even our stanchest
French republicans
A few months before his election to tho
presidency Of the French Republic, NJ Jules
Grevy was present one evening at a political
dinner in the beautiful mansion Of the Vicom-
tesse dc Rainneville At this epoch, things
scarcely seemed TO point to the future eleva-
ton of NJ Grovy, and IL the Orleans princes
had displayed a little more resolution, NJ
Grevy would probably never have known
any other palace than the ono In which his
pleadings failed to keep tho magistrates
awake.
After dinner, In tho elegant smoking room,
ono Of the guests drew M. Grevy aside and
said to him:
well, sir, seeing the turn things are TAX
ing, have you not enough OF the republicT'
"On the contrary, l AVE just returned
from a country where I ave learned to APP
preciate 1t more"
where is it you nave beeni to Switzer-
landr'
''No, a little further"
mot American
'Oh, NOR
I'm what country can you have strength
eped so much your republican ideasT'
81 nave just returned from England" re-
piled NJ Grevy.
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CHAPTER Xxx

Nothing is ordinary in America.
The ordinary American himself is extra
ordinarily ordinary.
He takes liberties with his fellow creatures
and with tho English grammar. He murders
your ears and the mother tongue OF Shake
spcare
He chews, hawks and spits; but he has u
certain good humored brag and liveliness
which invite further acquaintance.
His fingers, cravat and shirt front sparkle
with diamonds.
In conversation no attacks all subjects i'm
aginable with complete assurance. He talks
tall and through the nose. He does not raise
his voice much. He buzzes rather thar
speaks; ut a certain distance you think you
hear the droning of bagpipes.
This man, whom you began by taking for
some ignorant babbler, presently gives to
his conversation a turn that astonishes you.
He speaks to you Of France in n way which
shows you hat he Is conversant with all that
Is going on there. The sayings and doings of
Cen "Bolangere" arc familiar to him. He
knows tho names of tho chief members of tho
French ministry. He is Interested in NJ.
Pasteur's researches; he has read a review
N %" "N~Ouhs VI IL Erhest fsenhh lnst
book and Of NJ. Victorien Sardou's latest
play. Hc has judicious remarks to make
upon literature. He knows his Shakespeare,
as not one Frenchman of his class knows Cor
nellie, Racine, Moliere, or Victor Hugo. You
discover that he is well read, this man who
says come for | came, you was, you didn't
ought, l don't know as l do, etc. Ho can
give you Information about his country, as
useful as 1t is exact.
This same American talks theology. He
discusses the Bible. He reads the writings of
Col. Ingersoll, r%efuting that gentlemnn's ideas
or accepting his conclusions.
In a word, you thought you were In tho
company of an ignorant bore of a bagman,
and you have had ono or two hours talk with
an intelligent and interesting man.
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CHAPTER XXI


That which strikes the European most in
his first walk through New York streets is
tho absence of stupid faces. All are not
handsome, but oil are intelligent looking and
full of life. The next thing that strikes him
is the well grown look of the people Few or
no deformities. He docs not see one halt or
hunchbacked person out of tho ten thousand
he may meet. With the exception Of the old
people, few have defective sight. Apart
from the complexion, which is pale, every
thing seems to indicate an active, strong,
healthy people. TIL constant crossing of
races must daily tend to the improving of
tho Americans, physically and intellectually.
You SEQ so many thin men and so many
stout women that you almost Immediately
conclude that the former live In a furnace of
activity, and the latter in cotton wool. This
impression grows upon you, and soon takes
the form of n conviction.
Tho Americans do not walk much. 1t is
not that they are INDECENT Far from it. 1t
is because their legs will not carry them fast
enough.
The faces of tho men you meet look all
sorbed In thought. Their hats are well down
on thor heads. This again is n sign of intel
lgence. Do not smile. Tho fool perches his
hat on his head, the man with n well filed
brain puts his head into its covering.
These same faces are pale, and you see
many p~rematurely gray heads. The want of
open air exercise, the dryness of the atmos-
phere, the ~suffocating heat of the rooms, the
vitiated air in the houses, which seem to have
windows only for tho purpose of letting in q
little light, easily explain this double phe-
nomenon.
The women of every country are unani-
nous in ~pronouncing the American men
handsome, and as there are few men who do
not think the American women lovely, there
can be but one opinion on the subject, the
American race Is a good looking race. But
that which makes tho charm of the mems
faces is not regularity of feature; 1t is, as
have already said, the intelligence written on
them, the wonderful activity which animates
them.
This activity you find in all stations of life,
in the financial world, the literary world, the
world of politics, everywhere. 1t Is a fever
with which the whole nation Is smitten.
In the eyes Of the worthy, peaceful French
man who has not Travelled, ON American is a
l~unatic, who does nothing like other people.
After all, eceentricity is but an exaggerated
form of activity, but for certain people with
narrow ideas, eccentricity and madness are
but one and the same thing.
Let US take a little look at Americans at
home, and see If l was wrong in calling
American life pure phantasmagoria-
We will begin by the private houses.
In a well appointed house you viii find in a
little room on the ground floor a brass plato
lifted with several buttons You touch the
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ITO be Continued


Probably no one thing has caused such
a general revival of trade at DIR. w. N.
Hunts drug store as their giving away to
their customers of so many trial bottles
of DR.. Kings New Discovery tor Con.
sumption. Their trade is simply enor-
nous in this very valuable article, from
the fast that it always cures and never
disappoints. Coughs, colds, asthma,
bronchitis, Group, and all throat and lung
diseases quickly cured. You can test it
before buying by getting a trial bottle
free, large size 81. Every bottle war.
ranted.
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TERRITORY OF WYOMING,
COUNTY OF LARAMIE, sS
Hubert II. Teschemacher


Hubert Il. T~eschemacher
VS..
Edward P. Roberts, Jessie B. Roberts
and John Hess.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of
an order of sale issued out of the district
court of the first judicial district in the
above entitled case on the 8th day OF
January, 1889, and to me directed as
sheriff Of Laramie county, l have levied
Upon and will on Tuesday, the 9Th day
of March, 1889, at the hour of l
o'clock p. m. of said day. at the front
door Of the court house in Cheyenne,
Laramie county, Wyoming Territory,
offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder
for cash the following real estate in Lara
mie county, in the territory of Wyoming,
to-wit: Lot No. I, in block 800, as said
lot and block is laid down in the plat OF
the city of Cheyenne on file in the office
Of the county clerk and ex-oficio register
of deeds for Laramie county.
Dated Cheyenne, Feb. l, 1889.
JOHN A. MARTIN,
Sheriff of Laramie county.
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The following from the pen of Mr.. L.

The following from the pen of Mr.. L.
p. Bardwell, editor of the Marion (Iowa)
Pilot, will we believe be Of interest to
many of our readers. He says: at is
with pleasure that l certify to the real
merits Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
| have used it in my family for years and
have always found it most excellent, and
especially for colds. Group and sore throat.
Il is safe and effective" For sale by B.
B. David, druggist.
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How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Ohi it is only a little cold." and
keep giving them cheap 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
few. equals. For sale by w. N. Hunt,
druggist.
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sPEOIAhIsTs-

w.
W1onel oapology lor uevotlhg so much time
aha attehtion 70 tnls much neglected class of
seases,peiIeN Ing nat no conuluon OF human
ny - ooo MaeeSngu 10 merlt the sympathy and
long, as many are Innocent sufferers. and tbat
the physician who deyotes hi,nseitt
10 raIieving tho a1,c,aJ N n
them from Worse than death. is NO less =
than the surgeon or physician wholly close ap-
is daw nna lori or.9h n dor humanity ,theda
nouamnins when sne Ialse phiLahthrophy mat
the Iepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
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BuckIen's Arnica salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, ~chilblains,
eorns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by DR.. W. N. Hunt.
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What in the world is the reason you will
cough and keep coughing and still keep try
ing inferior medicines when Beggs' Cher
ry Cough Syrup will positively relieve your
cough at once? This is no advertising
scheme, but an actual fact. and we guaran-
tee it. For sale by W. N. Hunt, drug
gist.
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JONATHAN AND Els CONTINENT.
BY MAX o'RELL.
Author of " John Bull and His Island"
"John Bull, IT., Etc" and
"Iack Allyn"

Translated by Mime. Paul Blouet. Copy
righted by Casscll a Co, New York, and pub
lishcd by special arrangement through the
American Press Association.l
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Tae largest stock of fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice Rqueurs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
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Fresh oysters received daily at the
Saddle Rock.
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Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold every.
where. Price lOc. package. They have no equal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or non-fading Qualities
They do not crock or smut; 40 oolors. For sale By
GEO. W. HoYT. cheyenne.
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JOB printing at the Leader office.
, 1889-02-17

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & Historica
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-16
Kisses by Mail.

A young postmaster in Garfield
county was hard at work, says the
Independent, when a gentle tap was
heard on the door and in stepped a
gentle maiden of 16 with a money
order which she desired chashed.
She handed it with bashful smile
to the official who, after closely ex-
amining it, handed her the money
it called for. At the same time he
asked if she had read what was
written on the margin of the order.
$40, l have not" she replied,
"for I can not make it out. Will
you please read it for me?"
The young postmaster read as
follows: II send you three dollars
and dozen Kisses"
Glancing at the bashfnl girl be said,
"Now, I have paid you the money
and suppose you want the kisses. !"
eyes," she said, "if he has sent
me any kisses / want them too"
It is hardly necessary to say that
the balance Of the order was prompt
ly paid and in a scientific manner
at that, and eminently satisfactory
to the country maiden, for she went
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DEFIES USAGE,

Theodore Child, in an article in
Harper's Bazaar, on the use Of nap
kins at the dining table, says:
You may have heard travellers
scof at the practical Frenchman
who stuffs one corner of his napkin
inside his shirt-collar and spreads
it fully over the front of his person
from his chin down to his knees.
This is the practice of the French
people of the middle and lower
classes, who are thrifty and prudent,
and who wish to eat at their ease
and not spot their clothes. There
is a reason, and an excellent reason,
for SO spreading the napkin, and if
l were dining at home, or alone at
a restaurant or club, and had on
my spotless shirt and open waist
coat or clawhammer coat, all ready
to go to the opera, should certain
ly spread my napkin over my manly
and snowy bosom, just as the
Frenchman does, and so should
dine at my ease, serenely and with
out care, knowing that had thus
insured the immaculateness of my
linen. However, let it be remem-
bered that company manners in all
countries require you simply to
spread your napkin loosely over
your knees, and to eat cleanly and
decentlv.
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A WEEPING TREE.

One of the marvels of this neigh
borhood is weeping tree. Rain OF
shine, drouth or wet spell, make no
difference to it. Day after day drops
of water continually fall from it's
leaves and branches, keeping the
ground underneath continually
damp and the air cool and refreshed
even in the hottest weather. Look
ing at the tree in the bright sun
light its leaves sparkle as if myriads
of diamonds were sprinkled over
them.
This wonderful tree is located on
the farm of Captain J. H. Mcmillan,
just east of the Southwestern Bap-
tist University. 1t is an early May
cherry, planted twelve years ago,
measures six inches through and
bears most delicious fruit in season.
Many people have visited the place
and examined the tree, but as yet
no one has been able to furnish
plausible explanation of the phe-
nomepon. There is we'll located
only few feet from the tree, and
it is probable that this may have
something to do with it, but the
roots of the tree do not extend into
this we'll or touch its waters, as ex-
animation has shown. The super
stitious of the neighborhood ac-
count for the weeping by the fact
that the tree stands in the midst of
what was during the war soldiers
burying ground. In 1869 the skel-
etons of a number Of soldiers were
removed from the place for final in
terment, and there are people who,
in some way Or another, cennect
this weeping tree with the disturbed
repose of the dead warriors.-Jack-
son (Tenn.) Dispatch.
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A Safe Name,

In the year 1864, on the 5th Of
December, the English ship Menal
was crossing the straits and cap
sized in gale. Of the eighty-one
passengers on board but one was
saved his name was Hugh Will
Jams. On the same day, in the year
1885, a pleasure schooner was
wrecked on the Isle of Man. There
were sixty persons on the boat,
among them one Hugh Williams
and his family. Of the threescore
none but old Hugh Williams sur
vived the shock. On the 9Th day
of August, 1920, Il picnicking party
on the Thames was run down by q
coal barge. There were twenty-five
of the picknickers, mostly children
under twelve years of age. Little
Hugh Williams, a visitor from Liv-
erpool, only five years old, was the
only one that returned to tell the
tale. Now comes the most singular
part of this singular story. On the
10th day of August, in the year of
our Lord, 1889, Leeds coal barge,
with nine men, foundered; two of
them, both Hugh Williams, an un-
Gle and nephew, were rescued by
some fishermen, and were the only
men Of the crew who lived to tell
of the calamity. These are facts
which can be substantiated, says
the Leeds, England, Mercury.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-16
The Offspring of Crime.

What but an unreasoning, almost
unconscious, abandonment to a
career of crime could possibly be
expected for the offspring of one of
our prisoners who had been sent to
jail, in the course of a not very long
life, some thirty or forty times?
She had been stepped in sin from
earliest girlhood and the sole mode
of escape from it which she was ac-
quainted was the drastic remedy y or
suicide. She knew the name of God
only as an oath; she had never said
prayer in the whole course of her
life, and absolutely refused to be
taught one, lest it would act as a
kind of charm in compelling her to
give up some of her iniquities.
This woman had a child-ap intel
ligent little girl of four years old
and she deliberately sold it for a
small sum to a companion in like
trade and position with herself in
order that it might be trained to
gain money for its purchaser in the
following manner: It was carefully
taught to swear and to lisp all the
most horrible and disgraceful ut
terances it is possible to conceive,
and then it was taken every night
to one or other of the many public
houses with which the neighbor-
hood teemed in order that it might
be set upon table and desired to
amuse the men who sat drinking
round it by pouring out from its
infant lips volleys of oaths and
blasphemies. Was no tenderness
to be shown to the criminality with
which this unfortunate child was
likely to be branded? And the ed
ucation of many of the inmates of
our prisons has been of a similar
nature.-Blackwood's Magazine.
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ENDURE MUCH PAIN.
Mutilations Which the Lower AMI
mails Will Stand.

In man and animals the skin
certainly the most sensitive tissu
of the body; we can hardly imagin
that the scales which cover th
bodies of fishes are equally sensi
tive. When we pass to the inver
tebrate kingdom, represented by
shellfsh, snails, worms, insects, etc.
we find an entire absence Of brain
the nervous system being repre-
sented by two nervous cords run.
ming the whole length of the verna
surface of the body, and having 6
pair of small masses Of nervous
tissue, known as ganglia, developed
at intervals. The extraordinary mu.
tilations these creatures will sue.
cessfully endure prove that their
nervous system is but little influ.
enced by shock, and renders it al
most certain that it is equally in
sensitive to pain. When we remem-
ber that the worm when cut in halt
does not necessarily die, but has
the power of reproducing the lower
portion of its body, and that in some
orders the lower half develops a
new mouth, and becomes a new
animal again. when we remember
that other members of the same
sub-kingdom, such as Holsters and
crabs, will frequently when fright
ened throw off a limb or two, we
must conclude that their sense of
pain is very small, and yet they
are repeatedly spoken and written
of as though they were as sensitive
as man.
The nervous system of insects is
very similar to that of worms and
snails, being represented by ven-
trail chain of ganglia, and in their
case the evidence Of insensitiveness
would appear to be overwhelming.
Wasps with their bodies crushed
out of all shape will readily attack
sugar and honey when supplied
them as though nothing was the
matter; cockchafers, in a similar
way, will 60 on feeding when their
abdomens have been partially evils
Grated by the peck of a bird, while
a beetle with pin through it's body
has been known to perambulate
the collectors case in which it has
been placed and devour all the
other specimens in the neighbor-
hood. Again, as we watch a moth
lowering round an open light, and
see it's wings and body from time
to time singed by the heat, it must
strike us that were it more sensi-
tive to pain its life would be pre-
served.-Ninteenth Century.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-16
Or. sCHWENIGeR.
He Makes Men Thin by Not Allowing
Them Liquids.

! DR.. Schweinger, the German doc.
tor who gave Prince Bismarck a
new lease of life by curing him OF
his obesity, is one of the most inf1u-
ential men in Berlin. His list OF
lady patients is as long as the Un-
ter den Linden drive, and he asks
and gets fees that turn the other
doctors green with envy. His sys-
tenn consists principally of doing
without liquids. No beer at all,
and the strain of doing without this
is very nearly sufficient to reduce a
German to a skeleton; no coffee,
except once a day a small cupful,
very hot and with no milk and one
lump of sugar; no tea and no water.
Ii the patient suffers from thirst
she may eat fruit, suck the juice of
an orange, or mix the juice of a
lemon with few tablespoonfuls of
water and drink it. When the thirst
becomes difficult to bear any longer
a cupful of boiling water, as hot as
it can be drank, is allowed. It is
surprising to find, however, with
what a very small quantity of liquid
one can accustom ones self to live.
At first Professor Schweiniger's pa
tients protest loudly their inability
to do without liquid of some sort,
but his invariable reply is, every
we'll, madam, you can do as you
like, but don't expect to get thin"
That always reduces them to terms,
and though they find it difficult at
first they soon learn to live very
comfortably on a few teaspoonfuls
OF liquid in twenty-four hours and
1ejoice to find their too, too solid
flesh beginning to decrease 'visibly.'
The German women are all prone
to flesh, and hardly are they out of
their teens before they begin to
thicken alarmingly and grow pom
derous and unwieldly. Even the
theatrical people can not conquer
the national tendency, and resort to
tight lacing to in some measure
overcome their avoirdupois. One
of the leading actresses in Berlin
lies every afternoon for an hour
with cracked ice in cloth wrapped
around her body to numb it so that
she can bear the lacing for the
night performance, which is done
by two muscular maids.
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Two Champagne Stories.

A we'll known member of the Co.
lumbia Club took young lady to
Albaugh's last week, says the Wash.
ington Post. She had just returned
from Bar Harbor and was round,
Drowned and full of life. After that
they dropped into a restaurant for
lunch.
The gentleman reshly ordered a
small bottle of champagne with the
eatables. When it came in the
young lady seized and drew it be-
side her plate, asking as she did so :
"What are you going to drink? ?
Beer?"
A certain state department clerk,
whose income by no means accords
with his social standing or his de-
sires, has been improving his sum-
mer hours by extensive horseback
riding.
One day a fair daughter of the
upper ten accompanied him by in
vitation. They broke the monoto-
ny of the ride bylunching at an ex-
elusive, suburban resort. He, too,
in spirit of ambitious bravado,
ordered a small bottle of cham
pagne.
His fair vis-a-vis inspected the
Veuve Cliequot label in silence and
looked up inquiringly as she asked
"You order it in pints so it will
not get stale, don't you?"
The room seemed to swim around
but the gentleman was blood and
came to the scratch like a hero.
II couldn't help admiring her
demnition innocence, don'tcher-
know, he remarked at the club that
evening.