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, 1890-01-23

When Villiers, James rs and
Charles rs favorite, went on his mis-
sion to Paris in 1925 he had no fewer
than seven and-twenty suits of clothes
made, the richest that embroidery,
lace, silk, velvet, gold and gems could
contribute, one of which was a white
uncut velvet, "set all over, both suit
and cloak, with diamonds valued at
four o thousand pounds, besides a
great feather, stuck all over with dia-
monds. 1T was common with him."
says a contemporary, lat an ordinary
dancing to have his clothes trimmed
with great diamond button, and to
have diamond hat bands, cockades
and earrings; to be yoked with great
and manifold ropes and knots of pearl;
in short, to be manacled, fettered and
imprisoned in jewels"
To the prevailing extravaganza in
dress the satirists again allude in the
severest terms. Il have much won
dered," says Henry Peacham, why
should so much dote upon new fash
ions, but more l wonder at our want
of wit hat we cannot invent them
ourselves, but, when one is grown
sale, send presently over into France
to seek a new, making that noble and
hourishing kingdom the magazine of
our fooleries, and for this purpose many
of our tailors lie leger ii. e. reside)
there, and ladies jest their gen
tlemen ushers, to accouter them and
themselves a S you see. Hence came
your slashed doublets Gas if the wear
ers were cut out to be carbonadoed
upon the coals) and your half shirts,
plccadlllies NOW out of request), your
long breeches, narrow toward the
knees like a pair Of smiths bellows,
the spangled carriers pendant to the
shoe, your perfumed perukes or peri
wigs, to show us that lost hair may be
had again for money with a thousand
such fooleries unknown to our manly
forefathers."
The reader may find it a pleasant
change to turn to the rhyming moral
lists. Here to the fore comes John
Taylor, the so called water poet,
launching his shafts-not too sharply
pointed-at, the excess of those who
wear:
A farm In sh~---iuSs "'~S-, cid,
And spangh .th a copyhold;
A hose and a.. blet with a lordship cost,
a gaudy cloak (three manor's price almost,)
A beaver band and feather for the head,
Priced at the church's 1.-THE, the poor mans
bread.
-Gentleman's Magazine.
, 1890-01-23

Talking o people eating" said a
robust looking oma and the report
or of an exchange at the same time,
did you know that a great many peo-
pie take the most of their food through
their noseln
What do you mean by that2" in
quired her friend.
Just this. l can satisfy my hunger
at any time by merely inhaling the
odor of good cooking. The aroma of
coffee, for instance, sustlins and ex-
h~ilarates me. A beefsteak flavor is as
satisfying as n full meal. Any cook
will tell you that"
Then why should people eatln
They don't eat when they can geta
full meal of cooking odors. This is
why tramps hang around the open
doors of kitchens and restaurants. Did
you never feast on the smell of warm
Gingerbread | am very fond of can
dy, but l never eat it, as the substance
does not agree with me. But l buy a
box of 1t every week, and when l feel
candy hungry | take the cover off and
inhale the delicious flavors. The cam
dy itself | give away to those who are
not yet educated up to feeding through
the o~lfactories."
The friend looked at her in amaze
ment, but she only remarked, sadly:
What an awful thing it is to be 8
crank"
, 1890-01-23

In constrast with the demonstrative
philanthropy of the day consider the
example of the cat. The cat has
retenue. He has his hours of
sp%ortiveness, as Montague observed;
thus freely speaketh Montague
about CATS" says Izaak Walton.
He will not disturb himself at any
other moments for anybody. The
Establishments of strangers he neither
shuns nor seeks-he endures them.
He is never bored with his own com
pany. Ofall animals he alone attains
to the contemplative life. There is no
pretense of sympathy about the cat.
He lives alone, aloft, sublime" in a
wise passiveness. If you tread on a
dogs tail by accident, he utters 1.-THE
lyric cry" and then dissolves in the
elegies of apology. The cat suffers
and is silent, or firmly applies his
claws with remark. He is excessively
proud, and, when he is made the sub
ject of conversation, will cast one
glance of scorn and leave the room in
which personalities are banded. He
disdains accomplishments, and it is a
fact that cats are losing the art Of purr-
ing. All expressions of emotion he
scouts as frivolous and insincere, ex-
cept, indeed, in the ambrosial night,
when, free from the society of man
kind, he pours forth his soul in strains
of unprecedented art. = Toronto
Globe
, 1890-01-23
SCHOOL OVER A GROCERY.
Amusing Episodes Told by a Pioneer School
Teacher of LeadyiIle.

IeAcher OF Ieadyille-
taught one of the first schools ever
taught in the great mining camp of
Leadville, Colo, and naturally enough
l had many unusual and amusing ex-
periences. The schoolroom was the sec
ond floor of a two story log building,
the lower floor being usedfor a gro
Gerry store.
Everything in the schoolroom was
of the most primitive kind. The seats
were long pine benches. There were
no desks, no blackboards and not an
inch Of plastering in the whole build
ing. There was nothing between the
grocery store and the schoolroom but
a loosely laid floor of uuseasoned pine
that became looser as it seasoned. 1t
was, unfortunately, full of knot holes,
and whenever a customer came into
the store for a bar of soap or a pound
of sugar the school heard the entire
transaction, and as the merchant was
a very ~loquacious man we often heard
some funny things.
The schoolroom water pail was kept
on "A pine box at one end of the room
and it was accidentally overturned a
good many times that winter. and,
strangely enough, the boys sitting
lei it could never tell just how these
accidents happened, but they always
occurred when there were more than
the usual number of customers in the
store below, and they never failed to
throw the school into paroxysms of
Joy. The effect was different on the
-groceryman.
Here you, Mister TeacberI' no
would o a up to me.
well, what is itf'I would ask in
as calm and dignified a as |
could assume when talking through
knot holes at my feet.
Them boys is pourin' water down
here agin and victim my goods and
my customers, and | amt goin' to
stand it2'
Boys" I would say sternly, did
any of you upset that pail2"
No, sir" would come from a dozen
Of the innocent ones.
"And they did" the groceryman
would shrek out, you Just come
down here and seel If you can't make
'em behave | kin now and I'll do it
tool"
One day he carried his threat into ex-
ecution. There were several customers
in the store and | was busy with aclass
in geography when an ominous splash
and the giggling of two boys told me
that the newly filled water pail had
gone over again. There were little
feminine shrieks below, and the next
minute the grocer, sugar scoop in
hand, appeared in the school room.
Without deigning to notice me he
RAJ back TO where the overturned pail
was and began laying about him with
the sugar scoop. and before Icould re-
cover from any amazement nearly
every pupil had gone s~hrieking and
laughing down tho stairs, with tho
irate grocer in mad pursuit, hammer
ing away with the scoop on the heads
and backs of the guilty and the inno-
cent alike.
A few minutes later he roared up the
through the knot holes:
Now, if you can't make them
youngsters behave themselves and
have some manners, | kini'
This singular lesson in courtesy had
such a salutary effect on the school
that the pail was not overturned again
for two whole days. The next week
we moved into a new and better room
on the ground floor, greatly to the de-
light of the grocer.-J. l.. Harbour in
Wide Awake.
, 1890-01-23

The esteemed Sun doesn't like the
comparison made between Sundays Sun
and Sundays LEADER in which we
i showed that the latter contained IA
n hes more of good, straight, Interesting
reading matter than the former. There
has been so much preteuse about the
eight-page issue of the Sun that it &C.
CURED to US it was about time to throw a
little light upon the matter. 1t is a rather
difficult undertaking to print a genuinely
good eight-page paper with iour-page ma
~terials. This is what the esteemed Sun
is trying to do. and this is why a cursory
glance at the sheet affects one like a dose
of thin soup. If the Sun wants to print
an eight-page paper it should do so, but
it shouldn't try to gull the public into the
belief that it is printing an eight. page
paper when il merely scattering a few
gobs of type over a great surface and foist-
Ing a lot of white paper on its subscribers.
The news columns OF the Sun in the
eight-page form looks about as ludicrous
as a small boy enshroudei in an ulster
which was intended for a six iooter.
, 1890-01-23

Special Correspondence 10 The Leade
WENDovER, Wyo,, Jan. 2l.-The
stage driver on the line between Douglas
and Wendover reports snow between here
and Douglas to be four inches deep on an
average. No snow to speak Of at Wen
low at Douglas. The Douglas and Wen
dover stage awaited at Douglas an hour
and a quarter for the Buffalo stage,
which did not arrive; so the Wendover
stage brought no Buffalo mail except the
Saturdays. Monday morning it was lS'
below in a sheltered nlace here.
, 1890-01-23

The maxim that there is some good
in everybody is constantly receiving
fresh illustrations.
a poor little ragamuffin, stepson in
a large, thriftless and exceedingly
poor family, was an eyesore TO the
thrifty inhabitants of the d~ecorous,
prosperous old village upon which his
slatternly household had suddenly de
scended.
He was always in the streets, and al
ways ragged and dirty, and even if he
was set TO work was sure to leave his
job to follow the first hand organ.
In the course of nature he was ar
rested for vagrancy. He showed no
emotion when the indictment was
read, nor. when he was sentenced to
the reform school; but when the sher-
if roughly babe him brace up" for
they had just time enough to catch the
train, the boy looked so troubled that
his counsel asked him if he wanted
anything.
I'D like to see the baby before l go, ="
he said, wistfully, and with his pale
lips quivering.
A few questions to his mother and
his s%tepfather brought out the fact that
the waif had a domestic side to his de-.
formed little nature, and that the
baby preferred him to all the rest of the
family.
His request was granted. The sher-
iff looked up a later train; a constable
''shadowed' the boy home, and he had
an hour with his baby brother before
beginning his dismal journey.
1t is TO be hoped that those to whose
care he was committed were wise
enough to take advantage of the ''soft
spot thus unexpectedly revealed in a
heart which had seemed so wanting in
susceptibility to any good influence
Youths Companion.
, 1890-01-23

There are some good sized families
in Maine today, but probably none so
large as one mentioned in the histories
of old colonial days. 1t is told on the
authority of Cotton Mather that the
first royal governor of Boston was one
of a family of twenty-six children, and
was born in the woods of Maine near
the mouth of the Kennebec in 1861.
His mother was left a widow when he
was a child, and is said to have had all
she could do to provide for the wants
hood and a goblet valued at IS, 600 as
a reward for finding a Spanish treas
ure ship that had gone to the bottom
half a century before, he remembered
his mother and made her last days cas-
Ter than her earlier ones had BEEN
Exchange.
, 1890-01-23

South American frehies have been
called living diamonds. In the same
part of the world is also found a pale
gray or a particularly d~isagreeable
looking moth which may be called a
living lantern. Kept inclosed in a
box for twenty-four hours, it will be
found when the box is opened that the
body of the moth is giving forth suf-
hcient light to enable one to read
plainly any ordinary type. A number
of glass fronted boxes containing these
moths-Fulgaria conternaria natural
lists call them-when placed around
the roo afford nearly as much light
as so many wax candles. Chicago
Times.
, 1890-01-23
WATCH THE CONT0RTI0NS.

1t is beginning to be quite evident that
the Republicans do not want to have the
salaries and emoluments of territorial
officials tampeIed with except 1t be IN the
direction of Increasing them. When the
matter of salaries and fees received by
county officials is preached to them they
enter into the subject with some zest, but
Introduce the subject of salaries, contin-
gents and p~erquisites of territorial officials
and they become waiy and lukewarm,
and manifest some hesitation in saying
that two aud two are four.
1t is now reasonably certain that no
movement in the direction of covering all
interest on public moneys into the respec-
tive treasures will be received with cor
dial enthusiasm by the house majority.
Governor Warren already realizes that
he has nade a mistake in his overanIiety
to get a slap at Auditor Grant by bringing
In with sneering emphasis that official
recommendation that the auditors salary
aud contingent be increased. 1t occurs to
HIN now that he has got a man on the
stocks for the present auditors job; that
all work and no pay is not encouraging
for any Republican patriot who is seeking
q place. aud the %obsequlous Sun endeav-
ors 20 smooth the matter over in one Of
Those artless little paragraphs which re-
m nd one so much OF the story of the os-
trtch which, pursued by the hunters in
the desert, hides his little head in the
slnd and, unable to see himself, imagines
the rest of creation to be in the same pre-
dIcament.
Governor Warren, whose name has
been mentioned in this connection, -
mark the artlessness OF the o~bsequious
Sun having a knowledge of the work
that is required in the auditors office
and the responsibility OF the position, will
most assuredly concede that the compen
sltion is inadequate
Most assuredly he will and so likewise
will the Sun-if it gets the tip straight
enough. The governors contingent from
the territorJ alone amounts to as much as
the auditors salary, and he has besides
his salary and q contingent of 81 DOC
from the government.
The legislative antics over proposed
reductions in official salaries and r9
trenchment in expenses will be watched
with close interest by the people.
, 1890-01-23
THE "COLUMBUSn ESSAY.

Pupils of the public schools should not
forget that those who intend to compete
for THE LEADERS prize of IS in gold for
the best essay on Columbus" should
have their essays 10 this office not later
than Thursday, January 30.
Under the rule adopted no essay must
be over 1000 words in length, and writ
ten on one side OF the paper only. Each
essay must be placed in a scaled envelope
containing the assumed and real names of
the contestants must be deposited with
Superintendent Churchill.
A committee of well known gentlemen
to be hereafter selected by the editor of
THE LEADER will decide upon the relative
merits of the essays presented.
, 1890-01-23

The days of superstition are by no
means over. There are women, not
over conscientious in the discharge of
religious o~bservances, who would
sooner discomfort a hostess and
throw a roomful of guests into
confusions than sit down with twelve
others at the dinner table. The lover
will not give his sweetheart an opal
ring, however pretty the stone may
be; the guest at the table shudders
when he spills the salt, and furtively
tries TO propitiate fate by throwing a
few grains over his shoulder. Pen
knives and scissors are tabooed as
presents. Many a man would choose
any day in the week but Friday for
starting on a journey, or beginning
some great enterprise. Many a wo-
man dislikes (apart from sympathetic
sentimenD to meet a funeral or en-
counter a black cat.-Young Ladies'
Journal.
, 1890-01-23
READ, AND REFLECT

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csssful medical specialists of the age, felt it
their honest duty to caution the public gem
orally and those who may be suffering from
loss of manhood or any form OF neryouss dis
e a. IN partienlaI against the numerous I'M
prlnclpled pretenders in various parts of the
country who arr passing themselves OFF upon
ihe people as experienced specialists to sex
nai disorders, whereas they are generally
nauds who possess nothing but a legal d.
ploma TO keep, them out Of prison for their
fearful medical malpractices.
We have had hundreds OF patIents who
after being most shamefully robbed by these
medical pirates and their orders greatly az.
gravaied and their lives d-isendaneered have
come 20 US IN despair and TO be cured only
Remember that Ii requires op,atbtnnor
than a plausible advertisement and n bogis
stimonia TO really cure this class of dis
and adapted TO its pathology and resesrc h' S1
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Many receive a mere temnorarv rs,iag N,
the hands of these medical shams 10 and o1t
70 tnelr sorrow That they are gett ng worse
have been spending valuable time and
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been swindled they often come to us in the
most hopeless condition Imaginable.
Come at once, don't delay. Avoid these
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There are no extra charges and disappoint-
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valuable medical discoveries enable them 10
cure many hop less cases, where all Others
have utterly failed. Remember these facts.
Their charges are always very low for the ser
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Think over tbs, read and reflect, then give
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We deal honestly with all.
The best evidence in support of this fact is
ment as a duty we owe suffering humanity to
keep IL before the public, for the benefit of
men suffering from diseases we make a SPEC
ialtv.
Or. Wagner & Co., I4l4 Larimer ST
Address = o. Box 27S3. DENVER, Colo.
, 1890-01-23

The world is growing better, but it
is not due SO much to wealth or to
business enterprise as to the influence
of good mothers and gentle
The man of the world has no time to
train his children in moral ethics. He
may take time to punish them for overt
immortality, but it is the mother who
plants the seeds in the young hearts
and nourishes the growths with gentle
care.
Next to the mother ranks the sweet
heart. By demanding gentleness, de-
pertinent, moral rectitude and refine.
ment in manner, she encourages the
development of that which the mother
had tenderly watched and nourished.
1t is natural for man to endeavor to
please those he loves; and for the sake
of enjoying the smiles and favors of
the woman upon whom his affections
are centered he will endeavor to rise
to her social and moral plane.
Many men are kept out of the gut
tiers by their love and respect for pure,
good women.-Pittsburg Gazette.
, 1890-01-23
ssover the Garden WALL,

Mrs. Geo. S. Knight, and a competent
company of metropolitan artists, will ap.
pear at the opera house on Friday even.
ing, January "a, in the laughing musical
farce comedy, Orer the Garden Wall.
The Rocky Mountain Ne,es OF January II.
in speaking of the company says:
The Metropolitan theater was crowded
last evening TO see the opening perform
ance OF Ouer the Garden Wall, by Mrs.
Geo. s. Knight and her company, who
gave 1t In a that more than
pleased the house. The applause was
frequent and marked.
, 1890-01-23
w. q. SHAPcoTT,
First Sergeant.


At the African Methodist Episcopal
church this evening there will be a de-
bate on questions arising from the intro
duction of Senator Buffers bill for the
transportation ofthe colored people. The
measure has been much discussed by
those interested here.
, 1890-01-23

Language is hardly strong enough to
express my admiration for the merits of
Chambcrlain's Cough Remedy. 1t is
the best remedy for Group and whooping
cough | have ever used. During the
past eighteen years L have tried nearly all
the prominent cough remedies ON the
market but say, and with pleasure too,
that Chamberlain s. Cough Remedy is the
best of all. Thomas Rhodes, Bakers
field, Gal. For sale by B. B. DAVID,
druggist.
, 1890-01-23
HEADQUARTERS CHEYENNE GUARDS,
b Co., lsT Rect INFANTRY,
WYo. NATL GUARD.

Company Order, No. IL.
CHEYENNE. Wyo., Jan. %, 1890.
The members of the Cheyenne Guards,
b Company, First Regiment Infantry,
Wyoming National Guard, will report al
the Armory on Thursday, January %,
1890, at l:30 p. m wearing the blue uli
form, overcoats and helmets; and their
arms and accoutrements in proper order,
to attend the funeral of our late member,
w. n. Knabe. BY Order
FRANK A. STTTZER,
Captain.
W. G. SHAPcoTT,
First Sergeant.
, 1890-01-23

The young lady who gets the tariff
mixed up with the cognomeus of the
states is apt to do almost anything. A
sweet Washingtonian, who has recent
ly been doing a great railroad town of
the west, astonished a Michigander by
remarking:
II have travelled all over Michigan,
and yet have seen SO few sheep, l won
der Phy it is called the Wolverine
state. Washington Post.
, 1890-01-23

rich and the poor of the burthens of
taxation. Let there be no rich favor
ties and no poor suckers in the eyes of
the tarIng powers.
, 1890-01-23

THROUGH special dispatches received
directly from the New York World office,
The LEADER will each day keep its
readers informed of the progress of Nellie
Bly, across the continent. The tour, as it
now reaches its close. will grow daily
more Interesting
, 1890-01-23
Cattle for Sale.

Ben Hodges, OF Dodge City, Kan, will
bring kere in June 5000 one and two
year-old half-breed steers which he will
offer for sale. Parties expecting to pur-
chase may address direct for terms or
inquire at the Cheyenne National bank.
, 1890-01-23

The Union Pacific, THE Overland
Route" for the accommodation of the
Cheyenne public, has placed on its new
fast mail line running between Cheyenne
and Kansas City, via Denver, elegant
Pullman palace sleeping cars, making dI.
rect connections at Kansas City with
through sleeping car lines to New York
and Boston. Sleeper is placed at Union
Pacific depot and is open for sccommoda-
ton OF passengers at s pm.
, 1890-01-23

Bas Interest on all public moneys TO
revert into the respective treasures.
, 1890-01-23
THE LEADERS, PLATFORM.

RasNOnciaI salaries ~ommensura
with the work done and the RESPONSE
bIlity assumed--no more and no less.
, 1890-01-23

DAILY RAIDER, all transient advertisements
10 cents per line each insertion, 8 consecutive
Insertions s cents per line; one month 5 cents
per line.
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payable In advance
, 1890-01-23

For SALE-Old papers. LEADER office.
, 1890-01-23

DR.. Wagner & Co., I4I4 Larimer ST
ADDRESS p o. Box 27S3. DENVER, Colo.