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, 1890-04-19

There was "A rather popular. cNtrnvagant
youus fellow, well known and well liked in
all ,et,, whose popularity led him frequently
into financial crises. lie WIS the nephew OF
Mr.. M.rtlock. the great Cambridge banker,
and ais, 81 the Bishop Of Ely The relatives
did all they could-paid and paid until they
woull pay no more, and al last desired him
20 take hts name OH the boards This he re
fused 10 io. but adopted an unusual eNpedient
TO have his debts paid.
He hired AN apple stall and a small tent,
placed them cNurtly opposite Mr., Mortlock's
bank, with the inscription in large letters on
Tia" stall: Fruit stall kept 10y Mr.. MortlDck,
nephew u Mcssrs. Mprtlock, bankers, and Of
tho right reverend tho Lord Bishop of Ely.
40 change given" lie passed the day seated
In tho tent IN a magnificent velvet lined
cloak, hooks ou the table, beside him there
was a plate 10 receive donations, which
poured iu-spvercigus and half sovercigus
abnuudrl, A. there was room for two in
the tent. friends took it by turns to sit with
him. Mr. MurtlocE, the banker, could not
move out or even appear Mt the windows
without seeing "A crowd, whose sympathic,
we're all with the StalikD'pcr and who enjoyed
the joke immensely. The result was iuryitn.
bile lie bad 10 be bought OH. However, he
did not remain a. college, tho authorize,
found an early excuse 10 get rid Of him. -
BlnckWurd's.
, 1890-04-19
INCREASE THEIR PAY.

The LEADER heartily endorses the fol-
lowing article from the Denver Net1s:
The hardest worked and poorest paid
EMPLOYEES of the United States are the
railway mail clerks. Their positions in
yolye danger, long hours, rapid and cor
rect work and a knowleige Of postofic0s
and post routes beyond the comprehension
of the ordinary citizen. Toe facility with
which the mails are now handled and the
rapidity with which letters and papers
are transmitted are due to the clerSs oil
the railway mail service, who on the
average travel $4,000 miles a year and
handle 1900, 900 pieces each of mail
matter. A bill is now pending ID
congress to grade the service and IN
crease their pay. Present salaries
paid are not in ratio to either the quality
of attainmeuts or amount Of labor de
manded. They range from 5000 to ST.
800 per annuu, out of which sums clerks
must pay expenses while away from home
on duty, leaving net proceeds Tor the
support OF IntlE LIABILITIES h'' "
$500. The bill which this very worthy
class of public servants desires to see pass
the present congress grades salaries for
six grades of clerks, as follows: First
grade. $500; second grade, $1,000; third
grade, 81, 200; fourth grade. 1880:
fifth grade, 81. 500; sixth grade, $1,000;
with 50 per day while travelling added for
expenses of chief clerks.
The bill should become a law. The
justice OF the measure is evident to any
one who will for a single moment con
slider the amount of service rendered by
these CLERKS and the circumstance sur
rounding their employment. There are
hundreds if not thousands OF government
officers and employees who get : 1000 and
So. 900 a year who do not give n fourth
as much time IN return. who live com
fortably at home. who are not compelled
to work IN a narrow car running at a high
rate OF speed. who are exposed to no
dangers. and who have neither the
capacity to work nor the ply steal en-
durance nor the moral character necessary
for the clerk who handles the letter
of the people. and who must have
an amount of intelligence and energy
not found in the average government
official"
, 1890-04-19

The Laramie Boomerang say Az
cording to reports from Rawlins the
principal speech delivered at the Demo
cratic jubilee in that city was by Hon
W. W. Corlett. That gentleman an
nounced that be had soured on the Re-
publican party and would nenceIorth be
found in the ranks OF the unterrifed.
Mr.. Corlett's speech was of an hours
duration and in 1t he mentioned the fact
that his last previous political speech
had been one in favor Of Grover Cleve
land for the presidency 1884 In other
words he was Mugwump her and Is a
Mugwump now.
1t strikes Us hat those Republican pa.
pers at Cheyenne that are trying then
best, which is feeble enough. to read the
boomerang out of the Republican party
had better look to home. Nearly every
day there are trades in these Cheyenne
papers because certain Laramie politi-
clans caunot be controlled from Chcy-
enue. yet here is a Cheyenne man who
comes out openly IN favor OF the Demo
cratic party, even before there Is a cam
pairn on hand.
The Sun will evidently have all it
can do to attend to Cheyenne without
presuming to dictate to Laramie 10 the
future.
, 1890-04-19

The average school girl rises only in time
to eat a hurried breakfast and reach school
at Q. The girls under Il, who are not the
ones that break down, are not too dignified
to romp at recess, and in that way they fill
their lungs with fresh air every day. Those
above II or Is rarely have a breath Of out
side air from Q till . in the afternoon. They
eat their luncheons curled up in heaps, in
comfortable corners, il they eau find them.
They take little exercise, except in a few
schools, where they dance for a few minutes.
A solitary lunch Of cold or warmed over"
food on reaching home is followed usually by
an hour or two Of study, instead OF by a
brisk walk or other exercise. There is more
study after p ambitious girls studying
late into the evening.
II there is any we'll established physiology
cal fact, it is that girls in their teens need an
abundance OF sleep, and sleep before mid
night, II possible. The teachers must give a
certain amount Of home work 10 their pupils
in order to keep them up to the grade, more
Is the pity but since that is a necessity, the
fathers and mothers at home should make
everything else bend to that and health.
There Is no one thing that is 50 necessary and
that might be 70 easily secured, il fTmness were
exercised, as a long night Of sleep for the fast
growing brain and the girlish frames that are
rapidly assuming the proportions Of maturity
Christian Register.
, 1890-04-19

1t is a prime necessity of health that
the action of the bowels should be kept
regular. But the way to overcome a
temporary fit of constipation, or to rem,
edY chronic costiyeness, is not to deluge
the stomach and drench the bowels with
purgatives of violent and painful action.
The happy medium between an inopera,
tive and violent cathartic is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. which acts Just suffi
GENTLY upon the bowels to relax them,
without pain, and which being a whole
some tonic, as well as aperient, has the
effect of Strengthening both them aud the
stomach and promoting the well being of
the whole internal economy. The re.
moval oil bile from the blood, increased
activity of the liver, usually dormant in
cases of co~stiveness. and sound digestion
follows the use of this beneficent medi-
cine. as thorough and genial in its effects
as it is safe and pure in composition.
Rheumatism, fever and ague, kidney
troubles and debility are also remedied
by it.
, 1890-04-19
TIE TWO PICTURES,

James W. Walker, the head of a
big Chicago dry goods house, writes a
a letter to a Kansas friend in which he
makes a strong argument against the ex
listing tariff laws. Among other things
be says: The farmer in France or Eng
land gets 81 a bushel for his wheat, while
the farmer west of the Missouri gets only
6ftS cents a bushel for his wheat. The
farmer in France or England buys dress
goods for thirteen cents a yard, while the
farmer west of the Missouri pays twenty
five cents a yard for the same goods. The
people who are protected by the tariff are
only 5 or 10 per cent OF the whole popu
%lation, and the people at whose cx-
pense they are protected are the
other 90 or % per cent. The farmer
hopes that, by being protected, these
manufacturers will pay their employees
better salaries, and that the employees
will then consume more Of the farmers
beef and wheat. But in point of fact the
employees Of the protected manufacturer
get smaller wages than any other class,
not excepting farm laborers. Tie Nc
Kinley bill is called a tariff reform bill
but it raises the tariff on dry goods from
100 per cent to 10 per cent. Even the
tariff on such dry goods as are not and
canno be manufactured in this country
is to be raised from As to so per cent,
, 1890-04-19

There is II married man living up town who
dearly loves to smoke. Before he married he
promised, Of course, as most men do, that the
minute he was married he would quit smok-
ing, and, Of course, as most men do, within a
month after the wedding he was INDUCING
himself on the way down town. OF course,
he had the odor Of tobacco smoke about his
clothes continually, and he tried to make his
wife believe that it came from being where
other men were smoking, but she would not
have it. SO he boldly confessed and began
to smoke in the house. This, she declared,
she would not endure, and the poor gentle
man was put TO his trumps to satisfy his crav-
ing for the weed. As it happens, there Is a
police station across the way, and he bo-
thought him hat the officers might permit
him to smoke in one Of the detention cells.
He applied TO the captain and his request was
granted. So every evening now he strolls
over to the police station, goes into a cell, and
smokes his pipe in peace.-Buffalo Courier.
, 1890-04-19
or4ER WORLDS rHAN ouRs.
Discoveries CONCERNING sirius That Point
to That Belief

Discoveries CONCERNING Sirius That Point
to That Belief.
By means Of the spectroscope a very won
derfuI discovery has been made respecting
Sirius. Astronomers had noticed that this
star was Ia rapid motion through space, as It
was found hat year by year It was changing
its position in the heavens, traversiHg in about
fifteen hundred years a space 81 al to the aP-
parent diameter of the moon, at a velocity II
no less than twenty miles per second. or
course, by actual observation the only motion
capable of being detected would be that which
was square to the la" Of sight, 50 that al
though Sirius appears t. Us To move across
the heavens, he may really be travelling in a
-]l1utiuy direction, either toward or from us
No one would ever have expected to he able to
tell wE.th rr astar wnsHppruachiug tourrece1
.ug from Us, vel even this seemingly unsolyable
problem has 81 late years been accomplished
by the spcctru~rop-. DR.. Higgins, our great
est authority ON this subject, having idcnti-
feel certain lines in the spectrum Of Sirius rs
Jho~c Of hydrogen, found ON comparison that
These were displaced in such a manner n to
indicate that the star was receding from Us,
10 has been estimate that this recession,
combined with the thwart motion Of twenty
miles per second, gives us the actual move,
ment OF Sirius IN space a speed Of about
thirty-three miles per second.
These, then, constitute some OF the Chisi
items Of information about Sirius at present
within our knowledge.
There seems 10 bc no reason to doubt that,
in common with other suns, he has his sys-
tenn Of planets circliug round him after the
manner OF our own suI, and what "A system
Vast as ours Appears, 1t u dwart-d into in
significance compared with n system whose
ruling orb Is 5000 times larger than that
which does duty for us. There seems, also,
no reason TO doubt that these planet, are in
tended to be- the abode Of life; 1t maybe that
at the present moment none Of them present
any signs II life, hut ] think We may SIiSly
infer without imprDhlhiiity that each ono Of
those worlds has "a destined period in its de-
yelopment during which life, similar to that
which now prevails on our planet, would be-
in rrist.nra what a world such a one would
b., in size perhaps not inferior to that Of our
sun, himself a million times larger than our
earth, aud it may be that ms this Sirinu world
u.s. N, vastly superior to ours la size, it, inhab-
itants would be ON "A scale in proportion to its
dimensions, a race Of beings Of such intellect
aud civilization compared with whom we are
but ~tynEe~-Chumbers' Journal.
, 1890-04-19

1t doesn't require a very vivid imagination
b evolve u conversation like the following.
Time, about now; place, over east.
Farmer blowing green swardD-John, go
up TO the house and NOV the lawn.
John cutting ice on an adjacent pond)-
All right. Just as soon as | shovel through
the drifts down by the orchard 50 Sal can get
home. Shes down there in the hammock.
Farmer twiping perspiration from his
brow)-Where's Lizziei
John from the depths Of his INSCRIPTIONS
10 the lake with her skates and her bathing
suit. said she did not know whica she'd
need.
Voice from the housed Here's a tramp ly-
ing here. He's been sunstruck.
Farmer-Drag HIM into the shade, can't
yout
Voice-No. His coats froze fast to the
ground. -Berkshire News.
, 1890-04-19

The woman whom | admire most, the wo-
man who is the most useful being in creation,
Is the old maid. She helps one and all in the
household, father, mother, brothers, sisters.
| know many who nave deliberately chosen
90 be old maids. They are artistic, they are
scholarly and useful. | know one Of them in
this city who is now 90 years old. She has a
lovely character. When young she might
have married into high European aristocracy,
but she would not part with her father, her
brother or her sister. She always thought it
her duty to remain an old maid and look
after them Cor. Epoch.
, 1890-04-19

A WASHINGTON special says: 10 view
oil the Issues underlying the presideuta
nomination of 1892, the question as Il
whether * President Cleveland is IN
dergoing special medical treatment for an
alarming increase of obesity as alleged in
the New York Sun of yesterday has as
sumed national proportions. An inter
view on this subject with Mr.. Cleveland
published in the New York World OF
today pointedIy denies the statements
contained 10 the New York Sun, from
which the following is extracted:
II have not" said Mr.. Cleveland,
seen the article you refer to, and if it
appears nowhere else but in the Sun
there is not the least chance OF my seeing
it OF course the entire thing is a lie
without the least pretext to excuse it. ]
Judge, from what you say, that the ven
cradle editor of the Sun supposes that be
has at last hit upon a subject that can be
used to annoy me. In this he is mis-
taken. He must be his " Judge Of
social decencies and prophecies. l am
not sure that he should at his tune of life
mo In hrs apparendy peculiar mental con
oinon be molested in his amusement"
The World states thai, the express
dents appearance did not bear out Il
statement that he is increasing in fes
that. il anything, he weighs less tn
when he left the white house, and
face had a very healthy appearance.
, 1890-04-19

pyramid builders, and until 1t Is nscertained,
It is fuolishness 10 ondemn their folly. Those
structures-which, after all, nave fulfilled
one end, having survived not only the people
which produced them, but even their ideas
may nave been royal tombs, and, therefore,
useless expenditures Of state strength; or they
may have been structures in.-.ded to record
through ages certain Astronomical facts, in
which case they were evidences OF wonderful
loftincSs Of mind; or they may have been set
on foot only as palliatives for the social prob
lem Of the day-thRt is, as u method Of find
ing work for m~ultitudcs of men who, because
the state had absorbed all the surplus wealth
OF the cultivating Glasses, could find no one to
pay them wagcs.-Spectator.
, 1890-04-19

Some people have IA certain magnetism in
shaking hands, others repel us, no matter
how cordial their grasp. This is the mute
warning Of the hand. There are certain
rudimentary principles of shape, too, that
can be learned. The thumb Of the left hand
is so complete an index OF personal character
that nobody ought to trust a man who is no
satisfactory in that particular. A person
who is weak will nave u hesitating thumb,
no matter what braggadocio he may assume,
Vulgarity, ambition, principle, honesty, re-
inement, all the virtues and vices native to
US, lie exposed to the eye that can read ma,
lures indelible imprint-Ralph Edmunds,
in Kate Fields Washington.
, 1890-04-19

Not only mny a woman buy gloves with
packets In the left hand one sufficiently large
70 hold "a few coins for car fare, but IL she is
n mother she may buy six button kids for a
Gmonths'-old baby. A young woman who
had never heard Of such styles for mere babies
snw II long pair Of gloves being fitted to the
tiny fingers of a pretty girl baby In a Broad
way store and asked the clerk If they were
gloves made 20 order. The clerk said no, that
they kept six button kid gloves for children
only "A few months old, and that recently
there had been quite "A sale. Their size, ~ she
aid, lis marked OO.'n-New York Letter.
, 1890-04-19

Let there be no white rubber about your
baby. In the preparation of this material
there is a certain amount of pernicious drugs
introduced, which makes it undesirable for
the infant, Plain black rubber alone should
enter into the composition of the mouthpiece
for the nursing bottle and the teethins ring.
What is termed a 'drooling bib" Is an abomi-
nation. 1t is composed of the ordinary white
gum cloth, and is tied about the infants neck
in the same manner as is any other bib. Its
professed object is to protect the front Of the
baby's dress and keep it dry, but its real effect
Is to increase the drooling.
, 1890-04-19

A SHARP swindler made a collection Of dimes
in Flint, Mich, the other day. He procured
a bundle OF old illustrated papers out Of some
body's rag bag, and at the dinner hour, when
come Of the proprietors or clerks were sure to
be absent from each store, he made the round
Of the business houses. Dashing into a place
he would slap down a paper, yell Here's
your magazine; ten cents, please, and those
addressed, thinking some absentee had order
ed the paper, almost invariably pad the
scamp.-Philadelphih Ledger.
, 1890-04-19

The woman upon whom age, even an age
in the ~neighborhood of 80, is beginning to set
its seal is wise to wear ties on her bonnet or
hat, because they will do much to make her
look younger, and will conceal from the pub
lie that first sign that she has passed her
twenty-nfth birthday-the wrinkles that
come behind the ears and frequently extend
along the throat. Even narrow velvet rib
bons will hide these, and the woman who
doesn't take advantage of their charitable
offices announces that she has no idea of the
practical use of dress.-New York Sun.
, 1890-04-19

\ Russian scientist has during the last year
been making "A series Of observations with the
object OF ascnrtaiuing the number Of calorics
which the sun puts Mt our disposal. Tho re
suit Of these experiments is that G3i& per
cont. Of the solar heat is absorbed by the at,
mosphere, Gnl only 36l5 per cent. reaches the
soil, This figure rises in October TO IL per
cent, and sinks to ~ per cent. in January
and February. These results go to seriously
shake the belief In the industrial utilization
of the heat Of the sun in our chimes New
York Commercial Advertiser.
, 1890-04-19

When will you women understand that the
foundation OF all that is charming, kind and
charitable In you depends on n certain sound
ness Of nerve, and shall | say it-digestion.
You may have ailments aud accidents, but
this margin II decency and sanity Of nerve
will keep yun fIom being an infictiOn to
others, and a drag ON tho happiness of your
own households. With this residence of
nerve you can throw off your little troubles
which form the staples OF SO many women's
lives and conversation Shirley Dare in
Home Magazine.
, 1890-04-19
TWILIGHT.

How Ike come def musician, thJu, that DER
The weary day dost pass thy woudrpus spell
Til, Charmed, her bright eyes close, and sea and
shore,
Beneath thy potency, rest sweet and well,
Now, dluly seen, a silver scimitaT.
To guard our eve hung tent, some angel holds
In yOnder Occident, while star by star
The royal night from out her cloak unfolds
Feel l thy witchery; and Ger me sweeps
The calm Of closed lids and far prayer bell,
While memory's mantle, whose dear starlight
keeps
My heart enchanted, folds me sweet and well
-Rlcare Lane in New Orleans Times Democrat
, 1890-04-19

II you are full Of afrectation and pretense,
your voice proclaims it, II you ARE full Of
honesty and strength Of purpose, your voice
proclaims it. II you are cold, and calm and
firm, and consistent or tickle. and foolish and
deceptive, Your voice will be equally truth
telling. You cannot wear a mask without its
being known that you are wearing one. You
cannot change your voice from a natural to
an unnatural tone without its being known
that you are doing s~o.-Exchange.
, 1890-04-19

A citizen Of Levy county, Fla, killed an
eagle that measured something over nine feet
from tip TO tip, with talons over three inches
long. When discovered the bird had just
killed a pig and was about to eat it. On dis
covering the intruder the eagle grasped the
pig in its monster claws and moved away to
other parts. He was followed, however, and
while enjoying his prize was sho t.-Florida
Times-ITuiDu.
, 1890-04-19

ence is marvellous. The very color Of it hints
Of repentance, angels, redemption, purity,
forgiveness. Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Camille
Q-Ady Isabel, IN EAST Lynne dies in her
night gown, and very properly, tool, Adri-
enne, etc all will serve MS proofs otthe state
mcut hat actresses who have a penchant for
death scenes play them ia white robes.-Lil.
liam LOWS.
, 1890-04-19

Russia is interested in the statistics OF Tush-
kuroif, a traveller and ethnologist, who points
out the fact that there are 400, 900 heathens
and 10000 Mohammedans in the Russian
army, the latter forming rs per cent. OF the
Cossack regiments, and also declares that
Christianity is dying out in southeastern Rus
STA. Exchange.
, 1890-04-19

4 medical authority, DIR. Munde, says that
the i~mprudent act Of getting out Of h.l with.
out protecting the feet has caused mare dis.
ease to women previously healthy than could
result from any other imprudence. Tbs sud
den exposure of the feet to cold has brought
on many au attack Of cellulitis-HeraId of
Health
, 1890-04-19

If the warts are hanging" ones, tie a white
silk thread as tightly as ever you can round
each one, and leave it, In a day or two it
will probably come away. II the warts are
not hanging touch each one with nitric acid
two or three times a day, and be careful not
TO let the acid drop on any other part Of the
skin. -Toronto Mail.
, 1890-04-19
Uph0tsferiHg and mar
freSs making lCuh "a fHU
line Of HphOISferiRg goods
at .fIe.I. THrnbHH - Co.'S.


A rate of one unlimited fare Tor
the round trip is authorized from
all points in Colorado. Gncluding
Cheyenne), to Fort Worth on the follow
ing dates:
May s, IL, Is. 20, %, and 26.
Tickets must be limited to continuous
train passage, both on going and return
ing trip. and bear a final limit to June 3.
1890.
The Texas Spring Palace opens Nav
10 and closes May 81. 1t is pronounced
TO be the most unique and attractive ex-
hibit ever presented to the public. Thu
palace Is constructed, ornamental AND
decorated entirely with the products q
Texas @. w. SWEET. Agent.
So ~
, 1890-04-19

Mrs. W. b. aud Mrs. J. J. Aston, Mrs. Ger.
ard and Mrs. A.. T.. Stewart were, it is said
unqucstionably the most thorough c]onnois,
seurs OF real lace in the United States. They
made the subject "A matter Of constant, care.
5ui study, and were as devoted 70 research
aud contemplation as are collectors in other
branches Of fine nrt-as painting, music and
sculpture. New York Star.
, 1890-04-19

Arabs who have had experience with mules
in this country say that old o~bstinacy is no
comparison to a camel for general meanness.
A camel will set his own gait and a prairie
fire can't make him move faster, and IL he
takes a notion to lie down his driver can build
a fire and roast him and he won't move.-De-
troit Free Press.
, 1890-04-19

Cross-examining Counsel-Isn't your hus
band a buoglart
Witness-Y-e-s
cross-eKamining Counsel-And didn't you
know he was "A burglar when you married
hint
Witness-Yes; but | was getting a little
old, nnd | had to choose between a burglar
and II lawyer, 50 what else could | dol
Figaro.