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The Occidental.
a hotel where o can get solid and
substantial value for the money expended
is the Occidental. Good table board %
cents per meal. or "a per week.
Board and room 81 per day.
The Occidental has good rooms and is
well and comfortably furnished through
out. Visitors to the city will find the
Occidental a good stopping place. 1909
Thomes street.
, 1890-10-18

SsUeet Cider. The only
place yON can get IL Is at
JOh7sstO on q Co.'s, SeDen-
feenth Street.
, 1890-10-18

Beef. veal, mutton, lamb or pig at the
G. g. q.
, 1890-10-18

For the latest mOrefsfes fn
JeaueISy go TO Zehner,
BMechNer n Co., sUh0 sCiU
be pleased TO sh0iU them.
, 1890-10-18

Nice suit of clothes IS, pair OF blankets
$l.25. good overcoat SC, excellent gloves
40 cents. ~overalls so cents. socks 81 per
dozen pairs. All goods new and good.
Baxter's Beehive store, Seventeenth
street, next to Cheyenne National bank.
, 1890-10-18
CONVENTION ENDED.
Final Session Of the R. N. Baptist
Association.
Big Day Meetings and a Grand Iu-
biIee at Night.
Wyoming Churches Have Separated
From Colorado.

H CONVENTION OVER.
The convention of the Rocky Noun
tain Baptist Associationrended last even
ing with a song service and jubilee meet
ing in the pretty little chapel at Eigh-
tenth and Ferguson. The attendance
was a jam, the final session a big success.
Following are the officers of the a~ssocia-
ton; Moderator, Rev. Robt. Cameron,
Denver; secretary, Rev. ]. Il. Thompson,
Denver; treasurer, Robt. Hale, Greeley.
Forty-fve delegates were in attendance.
The association territory is Northern
Colorado and the state of Wyoming.
There are twenty-five churches with a
membership Of 2,400 and a successful
system OF missionary and charitable
work.
Among the speakers of last evening
were Rev. A. Turnbull. Rey. L. @.
Knapp, A. NJ. Wilkinson, general Sun
day school missionary for the American
Baptist Publication society, @. NJ. Jones.
Rev. W. E. Orion, Rev. L. D. Lsmkin.
The music. was excellent, the addresses
brief and pithy and the general feeling
joyous.
THE A SESSION.
Sunday school work was the study yes
terdaY forenoon and much benefit was de-
rived from the talks and papers. Fresh
ideas were presented aud valuable sugges-
tons thrown ont. Mrs. G. M. Jones, of
Loveland. read a paper that was almost
IN education IN this field. Mr. j. G..
Chamberlain, of Denver. delivered an ad-
dress on The Bible in Sunday School"
BE has given much thought to this sub
ject and has had wide experience, hence
his conclusions were accepted las being
pretty nearly correct
Rev. A. Turnbull spoke for thirty min
utes on Home Missions and gave some
practical hints. Mr.. Chamberlain pre-
scented a carefully prepared paper on
Foreign Missions"
A meeting of ladies interested in mis-
sionary work was conducted by Mrs. NJ
d. Yuill, of Chicago. She came up here
from Denver, where she has been giving
instructions in home mission work, in
which field she has made herself famous.
Mrs. Yuill will soon make a sojourn in
Cheyenne and will doubtless leave the i'm
press of a strong personality consecrated
TO q great work.
INDEPENDENT WYOMING.
The Baptists Of the new state have De.
cided to set up Housekeeping for them
selves and havelformsllY cut loose from
the Rocky Mountain Association.
A committee has been appointed to or
ganize the Wyoming Baptist Association
and the first annual convention will be
held at Cheyenne in about a year. There
are seven Baptist churches in the state
and the denomination is prosperous and
growing.
GOING HOME.
Some of the delegates lett yesterday
afternoon and by this evening they will
all be home or on the road. The visitors
were delighted with their Entertainment
by the Cheyenne brethren and we'll
rloo.-l III IL.
, 1890-10-18
AZ Colombo Conf Mines.

Marshall johnson returned home from
the Louisville, Coloo coal mines yestsr-
day. He said he was promised enough
coal soon to last the town q month, but
has doubts about immediate delivery.
The trouble is the inability of the railway
to furnish cars. At the mines they tell
kickers that they expect empties every
minute. =
, 1890-10-18
NE" GOODS.

AIS.
Hearts are all the rage
fn .Jetcely.y. Zehnef-, Bnech-
ner n Co. receiDed some
Uery hne styles fn Lace
Pins, Pendants, Scarf
Pins, Rings.
, 1890-10-18

DO stand that sell all,
Q u we
If you cannot read the above, come 10.
TRUCKEY,
The Halter and Hustler.
, 1890-10-18

Ladies' aU-iUO0I bUck
seamless hose, this aceek-
SOc per par.
, 1890-10-18
INDEPENDENT wYoMINa


Some of the delegates lett yesterday
afternoon and by this evening they will
all be home or on the road. The visitors
were delighted with their entertainment
by the Cheyenne brethren and we'll
pleased with the convention.
, 1890-10-18
THE CHEYENNE

CHHxHNJNE
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-21

about two miles from tho log house in
which my unfortunate relatives lived.
At the timo that speak of my friends
were three old bachelors who lived to-
gethcr in log house in what was then
wilderness and what is now ono OF
the finest portions Of farming country
that can DO seen anywhere. The
Oldest of tho three brothers did
the cooking and the other two did the
work Of clearing and planting and har-
yesting. This Punishment did not at
all affect me. rather liked it. new
er got any punishment out there, and
that was a great thing in itself. When
say mover l ought to mako one excep-
ton. once got thrashing there that
remembered for many q day, but it
was given entirely on tho impulse OF
the moment and was more of tho nature
of surprise than any thing else.
1t happened in this way: One of the
brothers was at the barn and he wanted
some particular bolt or wrench or some
thing of that sort from the tool-chest
which was in the house. Now, hap
pened to DO in the house at that time
and was sitting on this tool-chest, which
was in a dark corner of the building. I
heard the ealing from the barn, and the
brother who did the housekeeping went
TO the door OF the Lighthouse to see what
the matter was. Then | heard him an
swer that he did not know where l was,
and finally he stood at tho door and
shouted my namo so that il could be
heard all over the fields and out to tho
woods; but l was deep in very inter-
esting book, which I had managed to
get in some way or another, and read
that lying on the tool chest while lit
tic ray of light came through the dark
ness, just enough to illuminate the page
OF tho book was too entirely COM
Portable and interested in my reading
to wish to do brands for any body, so 1
lay low and said nothing. Finally
tho man at the barn came down to the
mousse to get what he wanted himself.
do came in at the door and walked
straight to tho chest, where tho tools
were. thought for q moment that he
knew that | was fooling away my time
tnere, but | was mistaken. He reached
forward to open the chest, and then his
hands came into collision with nv
Crouching figure. He was so startled at
hnolns mo there in the darkness that
he yan6ed me out of that position in
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-21
THE YOUTHS CORNER,
A TOYS LAMENT.

Though but toy, Eve passed all joyl
Once was finely painted;
My joints are loose, and Pm no use:
With hard knocks I'm acquainted.
Once tiny hands, like loving bands.
Could hardly do without me:
Now. on shelf, all by myself.
Nobody cares about me.
No iumping-jac had such knack
OF cutting funny capers.
When merrily on the Christmas.tree
ldangled mid the tapers.
Little thought when was bought
That I'd not last the week out;
This parrot, too, Is all askew;
Some one has choked its squeak out.
Thatwoolly lamb they downward slam:
Yet once how it was petted!
Alas! the fate or soon or late
To perish unregrettcd!
Even that box-it shuts and locks
They kick about and rattle;
Its regiment is bruised and bent,
And always in a battle.
So here rust, in damp and dust,
A corner vile my bed is;
My pea-green back has many a crack
wonder where my head is!
Oh, little hands, like loving bands,
This lot nc'r expected;
My hour of fun was early DONE
How soon toys neglected.!
-Haper's Young People.
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PITH AND POINT.

knowledge may be power, but II
takes coal to keep up steam just the
same.-Rome Sentinel.
Women might not make the sturdi.
est OF soldiers, but they have been
known to respond valiantly to the call
to arms.
The attitudes which some people
strike after doing what it is their plain
duty to do would make dancing mas
ter blush.-Puck.
1t is a settled fact that few people
can practice what they preach-and
most men don't dare preach what they
practice.-Ashland Press.
1t is hard work to be good. After
the average man has put in about day
trying at it. he feels like laying of in
definitely.-NIunsey's Weekly.
When, instead of asking how much
a man has, people get to asking how he
got it, the millennium will not be more
than forty rods away.-Terre Haute Elk.
press.
The good arc said to be happy; but
1t is probably not because they spend
their time thinking how much bette,
they are than the rest of humanity
Boston Transcript.
There probab never was an old
bachelor who did not think that some
woman somewhere in the world was
missing mighty good thing.-Atchison
Globe.
Something should be done to knock
some sense into the smart young men
who would resent the insinuation that
they were drunk, but don't in the least
mind owning that they have ''jag"
on.-Exchange.
When you make mistake don't
look back at it long. Take the reason
OF the thing into your own mind and
then look forward. Mistakes are les
sons of wisdom. The past can not be
changed. The future is yet in your
power.-May Riley Smith.
Some things we know by the direct
action of our senses; and yet the great
mass of our knowledge must be that Of
faith. We believe in vastly more things
than we can see, and more than are
matters OF Our own experience.-N. Y.
Independent.
Give not thy tongue too great lib
erty, lest it take thee prisoner. Aword
unspoken is, like the sword in the scab-
bard, thine. If vented, thy sword is in
another's hand. If thou desire to be
held wise, be so wise as to hold thy
tongue.-Quarles.
Almost all Of us live more in the
future than in the present. Those who
live mostly in the past are on the high
road to worse sorrow than they know.
To the healthy-minded the future has
always the treasure to which the pres,
ent holds the keys. Once Week.
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at sixty per cent Of its value, its real
value was about 800, Ooo,OO Subtract
half as due to Improvements and tax the
other half as land value four per cent
and the city would get about $40, 1000, 900
at against SIG, 100000 spent by the city
in 1889.
7. L. Shoemaker added that by cal
culation based upon our 700 miles of
paved streets and 600 miles of unpaved
streets he estimated land value of
800, 100000, which, at three per cent,
would give city revenue of SCI, a year.
"You must adopt this single SYSTEM -
he said, with earnestness, ''or continue
to fine men for telling the truth or fine
them for their industry"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-21

"Why not, I should like to know"
asked the woman, with a toss of her
head. ''What would my art be worth to
me, or to the world, if couldn't? You
were going to visit your grandmother at
Wildermar. Your mother will geta let
ter, or dispatch, telling you not to
come. Scarlet fever has appeared IN
the family occupying the tenant house.
and it will not be safe for you to CO."
The woman had replied with remark
able directness; she had promptly
responded to the challenge. Where did
she get the information? Was she more
than an ordinary woman? Would such
a letter or dispatch be sent? Fanny was
puzzled and little overawed. She
turned to GO.
"My pretty girl" the woman said.
''will you not allow me to present you
with talisman? 1t is but little,
worthless coin, to be sure, but it was
| blessed by the mother of Constantine and
will protect you"
81 will not accept any thing from
you," Fanny said. II do not want to
seem rude, but it is wrong even for me
to be talking with YOU" Fanny plunged
resolutely along the path through the
| clover. She did not look back. but she
heard the woman laughing heartily.
The next day Fanny's mother said to
her: II am sorry aboutit, dear, but you
must postpone your visit to grandma.
The children of the tenant farmer have
the scarlet fever"
A look of surprise and disappointment
filled Fanny's face. She recalled what
the gypsy woman had said.
''Did you get letter or a-dispatch?"
she asked.
ga letter, dear"
"How stranger" explained Fanny.
Yesterday gypsy woman told me-"
She stammered and then stopped, her
cheeks reddening. Her mother looked
at her keenly, and said: Fanny, after,
what l told you, surely you were not so
foolish as to-
mo mother" interrupted Fanny.
THE woman met me at the edge of the
wheatfield. She wanted to tell my fort
une, but I-I-ran away from her. She
would talk, though-and among other
things, she told me about my intended
visit to Wildermar, the scarlet-fever,,
and the letter that would come. How
do you account for it?'
II can not account for it," admitted
Mrs. Marsh, puzzled expression on her
face.
Fanny's aunt was standing at one Of
the windows, watering some potted
geraniums. She came toward Fanny.
and said: "My pretty girl, will you not
allow mo to present you with tails,
man? 1t was blessed by the mother of;
Constantine"
''Oh, Aunt Rachel!' cried Fanny.
you were the gypsy! 1t was just like
you to play trick on me. But, how
did you change yourself SOP"
Il stained my cheeks with berries.
and blackened my eyebrows with .
burnt Glove" replied Aunt Rachel.
But how did you know letter
would Gomez asked Fanny.
''Thc letter had come" Aunt Rachel
replied. "Your mother concluded not
to tell you about it until noon to-day"
II was sure no gypsy woman knew
had half dollar, or to what purpose I
intended to apply it, /" Fanny said. II
was a good deal mystified, must con-
fess. However, l. told you that you were
an imposter."
"And that my mother was magpie,"
added Aunt Rachel, laughing. Frank
Fl. Stauffer, in Interior.
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LULLABY.

Tread lightly where my baby lies,
For she has closed her pretty eyes
And fail'n aslumbering.
cnc seems more tender than the flower
Whose petals fold at sunsets hour;
So still she lies and scarcely breathes,
Quiet as little bird that sheathes
Its head within its wing.
You may go search thro' glade or grove,
You'll find no daatier lady-love
In ours or fairyland.
And this is why her dreams are sweet,
Snc hears the fairies pattering feet,
And sees them circling round and round
As they her resting place have found
And by her wondering stand.
See, they have hailed her "fairest fair"
And crowned her Quccn Of revels there
Where mortals may not tread.
The great, red sun has rolled away,
But dcwdrops bright and glow worms gay
Shine glirmcring down the pearly hall
Where tho merry folk hold carnival
And the fairy feast is spread.
Now. let US make this roundelay:
"Thc cynics head is soonest gray
And simple hearts prize.
For fairies watch round every one
That lives and laughs and loves the sum-"
This song we'll sing her when she stirs,
But while she sleeps sweet dreams be her 6
Tread lightly where she lies.
Harold E. Bouiton, in Dcmorest's Magazine.
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HENRY L. BlOSSAT, Business Manager.


them. The first thing that was done byj
my eldest relative was to make a collec-'
ton of all the guns and knives and pis-
tolls that belonged to tho crowd. These
he locked away In tho tremendous tool
chest that have spoken of, and then
the house was turned over to the In
dians, who got wildly drunk and fought
and raised rows and finally laid down
on the hard plank floor and slept till
morning. Then their weapons were
given them and they departed quietly
to their encampmont. 1t often struck
me as curious since then that an armed
crowd, numbering, perhaps, from one to
two dozen, would allow an unarmed
man to peacefully gather in their
weapons. But they appeared to recog-
nize tho ACCESSIBILITY Of it when they
were sober, and, of course, when they
were drunk they could not get the
weapons.
To show what an Indian can stand,
when he has to, | may tell of an Incl
dent which happened during the winter
was there. Towards evening on
very cold winter day, when it was snow
ing just little and drifting great
deal, an Indian came to the log house
with a jug half full of whisky and with
his rife. l imagine that tho jug had
been entirely full Of whisky when he
started, and by the time he got to the
house he was in rather a jolly condi-
ton. Tho jug and the rifle were taken
| away from him, and he was ordered to
get to his wigwam as quick as he could
before darkness came on. He left, and
was supposed to have gone to the camp,
| but early next morning his squaw APP
| peared at tho house and said he had not
come homo that night, and as tho night
was very cold, she had been anxious
about him. Then the search for tho
lost Indian began. He was found
| in ono of the sheds near the
barn, under heap of drifted snow,
! and the chances are that tho snow that
was above him had helped to save his
| life. Tho searchers for tho Indian had
gone in different directions, and it was
| his own souaw who, with true Indian
instinct, had tracked him out, and she
! was alono when she found him. APP
parently the Indian was frozen corpse.
| She tumbled him out of his snow-bank
and pulled off his blankets, and dragged
him down to tho creek, where deep
| hole was cut in tho ice for the purpose
of watering the cattle. Laying tho In.
dian out on tho snow, sho took tho pan
that was beside the ice-hole and, filing
it repeatedly, dashed pailful after pail.
full of ice water over the body of tho In.
| dian. by the time the other unsuccess.
full searchers had returned she had her
old man thawed out and seated by the
fire wrapped up in blankets. There is
no question that if he had been found
by the others, and had becn taken into
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ass ume than it takes to tell it, and
thrashing, '''o
,h. nu' what gave the place the charm
t ,"a' 1t had for me was the fact of tho
equens visits of tho Indians. These
csa n VINO owned tho farm, although thew
Sc,,I. n Tue w lands of
beforo la anu mao n dian
TO know Inatt red
manayed ~ 70 u u. hey
buient 80, DIV "iolS CUr-
neishs 'rioe which was eneamped In tho
mnVv,s moo in way that commanded
Sum ~a,n'ration up to the present time.
yilIa ssimes in coming back from tho
her a !; the Indians would have a nun.
tbsn y. Jugs OF whisky with them and
tool a suere was sure to be trouble. They
ont A rp possession of the log house and set
whs,s st Y aethodioally for having spree
'' '''efs would be nobody to interrupt
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-05-21
AFRlCA'S HIGHEST POINT.
A snow-Capped Mountain Peak Under an
Equatorial Sun.

| A Snow Capped Mountain Peak Under an
Equatorial Sun.
When tho scientific world laughed at
the humble missionary Nebmann, who
reported over forty years ago that he
had found a snoW-crowned mountain
under the equator, he merely replied:
81 was brought up in Switzerland, and /
ought to know snow-capped peak when
l see one." That was the first event in
the history of modern discovery in Cen
trail Africa, and it is only within tho
past few weeks that we have had the de.
tails of DR.. Hans Meyers final triumph
over Kilima-Njaro, whose snowy Kibo
dome had defeated the efforts of a num-
Der of explorers.
Rebmann would have felt repaid for all
the ridicule that was showered upon him
If he could have seen DR.. Meyers COM
panion, practiced Alpine climber, with
his ice-axe and rope and snow spectacles,
cutting steps up the steep icy slope.
Both climbers paused to rest every ten
minutes, because tho rarity of the air
made continuous effort impossible. In
these periods of rest they could dimly
sec the far-distant plains through the
openings in the clouds below them.
Then, when on their second attempt,
three days after their first effort, they
reached the highest point in Africa,
about 1860 feet above the sea, they
found themselves on the edge of great
crater over milo across and $50 feet
deep, the icy mantle sinking in terraces
from the edge of the crater to the floor,
while through great gap in the west
wall mighty glacier about milo and
half long swept down tho mountain
side.
Seen from below, the topof Kibo looks
like great snow dome, and nc one over
imagined that an abyssmal crater would
be found there until Meyer stood on it's
edge.-London Times.
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HIS FIRST SERMON.

Rev. DR.. Thomas Admits It Was Not
Success.
My introduction to the ministry was
not formal. began speaking in ''class-
meetings." and when the 'leader" came
near was greatly frightened and tried to
relate what little experience l had,
not knowing what would say nor what
l had said when done. BY degrees
more composure was gained, and l was
urged to ''exhort" at little gatherings
for worship; and then as student at
the age of eighteen was pressed to
preach at school-house one evening as
number of US were returning from a
camp-meeting. There were several
ministers in the company; all were on
horseback. rode alone all day to pre-
pare for the service, and arranged my
subject under four heads Or divisions,
as was then the custom in sermonizing.
l was in a very happy state of mind re-
ligiously; the little log house was light.
ed with candles and filled with plain
country people. The preachers sat on
bench back OF me, and / went through
the opening exercises in q devotional
spirit and without embarrassment, and
in the same state Of mind announced the
text, and had spoken perhaps not moro
than three minutes when my thoughts
left me and the dimly-lighted room be.
gan to grow darker. I thought of my
second division and tried that, but
all seemed vacant; not able to remem.
Der the third division I caught the
FOURTH" but it brought no relief, and
by great effort recovered myself suf-
ficiently to say in broken words that
had consented to try to speak but could
not, and sat down in the confusion deep.
ly mortified over the failure.
One of the preachers, ford speaker.
arose and gave a brilliant exhortation
that served to fill out the hour very
we'll, but it brought me no relief, for
the contrast made my own littleness ap.
pear still less. The next day read
alone and thought it all over;
l felt / had mistaken my calling
and had been deserted and left
to stand alone and fall; but the convic-
ton of duty returned, and urged hy my
teacher l consented to try again; and
this time, too, it was in a school-house,
but in the afternoon. Only few were
present, and had been in such fear for
hours that it could not grow worse, and
80 managed to get through, speaking
some thirty minutes.
Returning home once, perhaps year
after, spoke of having preached" at
certain place. My father, a thought.
full man, inclined to the Quaker faith
and worship, looked up from the paper
he was reading and said: "Son, say
you tried to preach" and that is what l
have been doing ever since. Long ex.
perience has given more confidence,
but it has not lightened the deep sense
of burden and responsibility, and of de-
pendence upon higher power for help.
w. II. Thomas, in Chicago Tribune.
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1T WAS SHOWING JUST A LITTLE.
tho house, frozen as he was, he would
have died.
The Indians were never troublesome
and mover stole any thing. For them
the latchstring always hung out, and
they went in and out of the house at all
times of the night and day. Sometimes
in the early morning in the cold winter
days we would find when we got up
that an Indian had been there and left
quarter of venison on the floor, or per-
haps pair of wild turkeys that he had
shot. They were very undemonstrative
people and seemed to me always angry
and sullen about something, but in real
ity they were not. They were merely
Indians.-Detroit Free Press.