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, 1890-05-01

Dickens, when he intended to write
a Christmas story, shut himself up for
six weeks, living like a hermit, and
came out looking as haggard as a
murderer.
Balzac, after he had thought out
thoroughly one of his philosophical
and amassed his materials
i'll "A most laborious manner, retired to
his study, and from that time until his
book went to press society saw him no
more. When he appeared again
among his friends he looked, said his
publisher, in the popular phrase, like
his own ghost. The manuscript was
afterward altered and copied, when it
passed into the hands of the printer,
from whose slips the book was rewrit-
ten for the third time. Again it went
into the hands of the printer-two,
three and sometimes four separate
proofs being required before the au-
thor's leave could be got to send the
perpetually rewritten book to the press,
and to have done with it. He was lit
orally the terror TO all printers and
editors.
Tennyson is reported to have writ
ten Come Into the Garden, Maud"
more than fifty times over before it
pleased him and 'Locksley Hall, " the
first draft of which was written in two
days, he spent the better part of six
weeks, for eight hours a day, in alter
ing and polishing .-Public Opinion.
, 1890-05-01

was on the street the other day
with a friend when we met his wife.
1t was a stormy day. She wanted a
pair of rubbers; said the price was a
dollar. He ran his hand in his pocket
and said something about ''u~nfortun-
ate" l saw the pickle. LET me lend
you a dollar" / said, and he replied
that he would. That morning 1 had
put IS in one pocket for the necessa-
ries of life. In the other pocket l had
placed 81 for luxuries with the boys.
/ handed him out the money, and he
led his wife away to appease her grow
ing expectations. 1 soon discovered
that l had given my friend the IS note.
However, | knew he was honest and
didn't worry. / met him several hours
after. He was excited and fatigued.
He said in bated breath:
You gave me five dollars instead of
one"
l said l had made that discovery,
but knew it was all right.
But it isn't all right he exclaim-
ed, growing more excited. See here"
he continued, Il went with her into
the shoe store, sect l says to the man,
Give me a pair of dollar rubbers,
women's size He did so, and she put
them on. l laid down the bill you had
loaned me. The clerk says: / will
hand you the change That was the
first intimation | had that the bill was
more than 81 in denomination. The
clerk came back and laid down 81.
My wife picked it up and said that was
just the amoun she wanted and walk
ed out. l owe you So which | didn't
mean to borrow, and | haven't it to
pay"
1t put me in a corner, because it was
the only So | had and l had promised
that change to my wife. Chicago
Tribune.
, 1890-05-01
MUM yrMs FISHING BAIL.
A Sportsman who Could Catch Trout with
Anything He Made Use or


For a number of years from my
earliest recollection there lived for
much of the time at my home in W,
in northeastern Connecticut, an old
Indian named Jim Wamsley, or Jim
Injun, as the folks at home and the
people in that neighborhood called
him. He was one of the very best Of
the Narragansett tribe. He was to me
as much and sometimes even more of
a companion than was any of the boys
of my own age. He was quite a lover
Of nature and a tiptop woodsman; |
have yet to see an Indian that was not.
Besides, he was no mean herbalist,
knowing the properties and uses of the
banks, roots and leaves of about every
medicinal plant growing in that sec
ton. II some good old lady or an in.
valid had use for any herb Jim was
sure TO know exactly where to get it.
WhetherShe got his knowledge of the
plants from others of the tribe, or from
white persons with whom he came in
contact, | never knew.
But by all odds fishing was his
forte, either for trout or pickerel. He
seemed to know of every place in all
the ponds and streams where a fish
would be likely TO hide. and almost
always brought home a good sized
string of them. AS | grew older /
often accompanied him in his fishing
excursions, sometimes with and often
without the consent of the folks at
home. He would very frequently go
on Sundays, especially if pleasant; and
sometimes when | was sent alone TO
church or to Sabbath school l would
skulk off behind walls or hills to meet
him at some place agreed on then we
would have a jolly good day of it. l
was not setting a very good example
surely. Once in awhile on Sunday
evening, after coming home, | would
catch something else beside fish that
was not quite so agreeable. Well,
through life we all have to take the
bitter with the sweet.
In fishing for trout Jim never ap-
peared TO have any particular system,
but would follow it in a kind of hap
hazard style, with a common pole cut
in the woods, peeled, and of consider
able length. For bait he would use
worms, grasshoppefs, flies, millers, or
any insect hat he could readily find
but whatever he made use of was, in
his hands, effective.
Sometimes when hungry he would
clean a goodly number of the fish, and
having built n fire on the bank of
the stream or in the forest, he would
lay them on the live Goals and broil
them to a nice brown color or fry
them on nice fiat stones; then what a
splendid feast we would havel Is ones
appetite better or the sense of taste
o acute than in later years1 1t
seems to be so. Since then, scores of
times, when on fishing trips, 1 have
eaten trout cooked in all styles, broiled,
Drowned nicely in a frying pan, or
made into IA chowder, but somehow
they never seemed TO have that double
extra good taste of those prepared near
the brookside by old Injun Jim.-Cor.
Forest and Stream.
, 1890-05-01

In Holland bills are often paid
through the medium of the postoffice.
This department is still unknown in
this country. 1t enables n man living,
say, in London, to get a small bill col
lected in any provincial town without
the often expensive and tedious inter
ference of "A banker or agent. For
that purpose he hands his bill to the
nearest postoilice. 1t is sent to the
place where the money is 10 be col
lected. After the collection a draft is
forwarded to the payee by the office
where he deposited his bill, and where
he gets his cash- and the bill duly re
ceipted on payment OF a small com
mission, which is payable in advance.
In some large towns the money and
the bill are even brought to the payee's
house. London Tid-Bits.
, 1890-05-01

Emperor William has developed a
mania for new uniforms and costumes
which is worthy Of George ". He
has established IA new body guard for
the empress, which is to do sentry duty
before her apartments at the palace,
and is to serve ms her escort at reviews
and state functions. For palace duty
the uniform consists of a white Bran
deuburg coat with cherry colored fac.
ings and huge shoulder knots in black,
white and silver; n white waistcoat
coming down low, white trousers and
jack boots. There is also "a black
velvet three cornered hat, with cock
AIDE and feather in the Prussian colors.
The escort uniform is much the same,
except that the hat is replaced by a
helmet of polished steel, crested with
a golden agle.-London Truth.
, 1890-05-01

Of its existence by dull pain or sharp
twiDges in the right side, or beneath the
dexter shoulder blade, accept the re
minder as a warning, and regulate the
organ without loss Of time, by the use of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The above
symptoms are usually accompanied by
yellowness of the skin. constipation,
furred tongue, disorder of the stomach.
sick-headache and morning nausea. But
a reform is promptly instituted by the
Bitters, the best possible substitute for
c%alotnel, blue pill and other super potent
and hurtiul drugs enormously designated
as remedies for billiousnes.. Appetite
and digestion are restored, and the bowels
resume activity. when an impetus is given
TO the functions Of health by this sterling
ant-bilious medicine. which also has the
effect Of enriching aud purifying the
circulation and terrifying the system
n,s also highly beneficial for rheumatism
kidney and bladder troubles.
, 1890-05-01

l have heard a great many things
said in my time against poverty, but
never till the other day, when a clever
woman made the suggestion, did it &C
cur to me that poverty tends to make
a man conceited. Her argument was
as follows: A poor man has to earn
his living, and the mere fact that he
does so leads him to think highly of
himself, whereas the rich man, who
lives on the interest of money acquired
originally by an ancestor near or re-
mote, makes no living, isnot even GER
tain that he could make one, and con
sequently remains in a humble, or at
least in a modest, state of mind. -Bos-
--- ppu.
, 1890-05-01
The coweateher Not Patented.

1t is said that the common cow
catcher attachment to locomotives is
about the only article of universal use
that has never been patented. Its in
ventor was d. B. Davies, of Columbus,
who found his model in the plow.
Red lights on the rear of trains, it is
further said, were adopted at the sug
gestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm,
after a railway accident in which she
had a narrow escape. Parker Kan.)
Pilot.
, 1890-05-01

A rate of one unlimited fare Tor
the round trip is authorized from
all points in Colorado. (including
Cheyenne), to Fort Worth on the follow.
ing dates:
May s, IL. Is. 20, %, and %.
Tickets be limited to continuous
train passage, both on going and return,
ing trip, and bear a final limit to June 8.
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. The
palace is constructed, ornamented and
decorated entirely with the products of
Texas. G. w. SWEET. Agent.
, 1890-05-01

Mrs. r. A. Weston of Alamenda,
Cal, had a narrow escape from suffo-
cation. She was playing with a pet
canary and pushed the birds head into
her mouth. Just then she grew hys-
terical and shut her teeth together, so
as to strangle the bird. Her daughter
pulled the canary and severed its head,
which got into Mrs. Wec.on's gullet.
She was black in the face when the
obstruction was removed. Toronto
Globe.
, 1890-05-01

Nashville's Crenn.) curiosity is
aroused as to what becomes of the pen
MES that are sent there. They are not
used in trade to any considerable ex-
tent, and it is surmised in some quar-
tiers that most of them fall into the
hands of supcrstitious people who toss
them over houses or cover them with
stones i" for luck
, 1890-05-01

All France is laughing at the fol
lowing announcement that appeared
in one of the journals: M. Ernst
lola, inventor of the spring hand
cuffs, notifies his customers that he
has nothing in common with his
namesake, Emil Zola, writer"
, 1890-05-01

perkins told me the whole story as
l have repeated it to you, and he eau
toned me not to lisp a word of it to
anybody"
but you have told me-
Eyes, but 1 don't lisp."-Judge.
, 1890-05-01

Professor Thomson says that the dy-
namo of the future will develop from
z, 900 to 900 horse power, and as there
is practically no limit to its increase,
he sees no reason why it should not
go far beyond those figures.
, 1890-05-01

Garland & Co. have a few nice close in
residences; very small cash payment re
quired, balance in monthly payments.
, 1890-05-01


state.
But, alas, n change has come over the
-pi,i. Of the Republican dream. They
are not 81 sure now whether statehood is
desirable. The Republican press has
weakened; many of the party leaders are
harassci with doubt. Daily the word
comes from Washington that the Repub-
lean senators are deluged with letters
from Wyoming all siRhirg in the same
strain-that Wyoming is likely to become
a Democratic safe. The further infor-
nation is that the Democratic senator's
are favorable 10 the admission of Wyo-
ming. These two facts, therefore, seem
to persuade the Republican senators that
there is some doubt whether they should
admit Wyoming. Just as the Philadel-
phi, Pres, asks, why should Wyoming be
admitted if it is to be a Democratic statc2
The H,g is a lending party organ. and
the personal mouth piece of Senator
Qnay, the boss Of the Republican party.
Now. all this means that the Wyoming
admission bill is in danger. Judge Carey
has time and again promised admission
On May day. But no favorable sound
comes from the senate, which is even now
tinkering away on comparatively unim-
portant legislation.
The LEADER views the situation with
alarm. In the Interests OF our old resi-
deuts and of the people who have already
come here and are preparing to come on
the strength of statehood, The LEADER
appeals to the Republicans OF the terri
tory TO throw of partisan bias and sop
writing doleful letters to Republican sena
tors and Republican uewspapers-doleful
only in the sense of deplOring the doubt
OF Republican supremacy 10 the event OF
admission. Let our Republican neigh
bUrs become as patriotic now as the Demo
Gratis have been all along. The Democrats
have preferred statehood To territorial
vassalage even at the price of Republican
party domination. Can not our oppo-
nents be as generous, or must it be that
the Republicans are favorable to state
hood only in so far as it promises party
SUGGEST
Lay aside your narrow parry prejudices,
gentlemen, stand Tor statehood first, last
and all the time. Let merely party ques-
tons be settled by tie people at the polls
after admission. Show the virtues of the
patriotism you have professed these many
months past. Practice what you have
preached, and urge admission on its mer.
lis
The Republican senators must get a
moYe on them. The question before
them as they themselves and their party
friends have oitimes reiterated is not a
political one. 1t is simply a matter of
Justice. Then why should the grave and
reverend sanators so long hesitate in this
NATTER
, 1890-05-01

F0Ncy flannel shirts ia
large cartetv and al pOpl-
tGr prices at ~. MARKS.
EDDY and SereMfeesafS
street.
, 1890-05-01

The best 25 cent b0y's
shirt UatSt ira the city is to
be found at ~. Marks,
Eddy and Seventeenth
street.
, 1890-05-01

Good price paid for white rags Al
Leader office.
, 1890-05-01

Groceries and provisions
at the fOEeSf cash prices at
ii. q. McGregOros. City
and country orders at
TO promptly.
, 1890-05-01

DAILY LEADER, all transient advertisements
O cents per line each Insertion, 6 consecutive
Insertions S cents per line; one month 5 cents
per line.
matter, Is cents per line each insertion
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily, delivered by carrier. Csc. per week,
II pei MONTH
Daily, by mail, u per month, $500 for siA
months, siO per year, In advance.
Weekly, 500 per anuum. SIS for six months,
payable In advance.
, 1890-05-01
WILT LIS TIE SENATEY

When the Wyoming admission bill
was pending in the house the Republican
press Of the territtry grew Grandiloquent
in their appeals u the Democracy of the
territory to subordinate party and stand
on patriotic grounds in favor Of admis-
son. There was no need Of such an
appeal. The Democratic pres had been
and are now unanimously for statehood.
What few letters had gone from Wyom-
ing against statehood. were written by
Republicans as well as by Democrats, and
wla' il more, their burthcn smAcked rot Of
politics Other considerations were urged.
Then when Democratic representatives
voted against the bill, the Republicans
howlel against partisanship. They
charged that Democratic opposition was
based exclusively OF the unpatriotic idea
that Wyoming would be a Republican
,tate. OF course, the very gravity of the
allegation involved the further point that
the aston Of the Republican majority was
based solely upon a decision to give our
people a chance for self government, and
not with any hopes of gain or reward
in the addition of two Republican scna-
tors aud a Republican representative. In
deed, our people were given to believe
that tie Republican parry was most
anxious to admit Wyoming, ever should
it give promise OF becoming a Democratic
state
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The Law Would Probably Take Hold of
the Bruisers.

The announcement in dispatches sent out
from New York that Sullivan had agreed
to come to Virginia and fight Joe Nc
Auiiffe for $4,000 in July and the negro, Jack
son, Tor $4,000 in August, has attracted atten-
ton among the officials in the state. 1t was
represented that Mr.. J. NJ. Baiiy, one of the
corporators OF the Virginia Sporting Associa-
ton, whose charter Of incorporation was
rushed through the legislature in its closing
hours last session, had had a conference with
sullivan, with the result mentioned. Mr..
baiiy and those interested with him in this
association claim that under their charter
they have perfect right to have on their
grounds prize fights and other sports. in
violation Of the laws of Virginia. If any
arrangement has been made with Sullivan
and other prize fighters to slug in Viz
GINA it remains to be seen whether thew
will be permitted to do SO. The unanimons
sentiment of the authorities and the peonle r.
against 1t. Some of the best LAWYERS claim
that fatal defect in the act incorporating the
company upon whose grounds it is PROPOSED
that Sullivan shall fight is the failure to cite
the law which it proposed to repeal. This is a
constitutional requirement, and will be proved
when the matter comes up before the courts
Under the present law prize fighting ia punish
able by imprisonment in the state prison for
not less than five years and Ane Of 81. 00O. n
Sullivan or any other prize fighters come for
the purpose Of pounding each other thew are
almost certain to be arrested a. soon "A thew
put foot on Virginia soil.
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thrust, and another, and then he grows
mad with rage, the blind unreasoning fury of a
savage beast as the lips still strive to cry
aloud, and the eyes still stare at him wildly,
and the clinging hands still hold him, and so
another, and yet another thrust Of the MUIR
derous knife, till one last gurgiing sound
escapes from those distorted lips the stare
grows fixed and dull, the fingers loosen and the
bleeding form falls at his feet
de unlocks the door and runs down stairs.
splashed with her blood, a sisters life blood
and creeps out by the way he came in stealing
through the empty tents, spurning the fading
flowers as he dashes out into the cold night
through the silken draperies that mark an
opening in the canvas.
He did not mean murder when he entered
the house. least of all a sisters murder. lint
be meant plumber and he has secured the
booty. At daybreak he will leave for Dunkirk. .
from Dunkirk to Holland where he will dis
pose of the gems. minus their delicate settings.
Just at the last moment he remembers that
he must hide the blood upon his clothes. The
stains are darkest and biggest upon his shirt
and waistcoat. and his victim hung about him
in the death struggle.
He creeps back INTO the house, finds some
overcoats hanging IN a vestibule, and takes an
Inverness, which is just long enough to hide his
figure to the knees
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oNa1
KISSED.
'You had better not soad me too far. :" he
Missed in her ear, as she shrank from him. with
her back against the angle Of the low marble
mantel piece and her hand stretched toward
the bell 1T 10 very small thing have ask ed
OF you Yet the consequences Of your refusal
may De more disastrous than you can foresee
may be tempted to throw up the sponge and
70 les the world know some secrets in my life
And your mothers share in them. That reyela-
ton would be a worse disgrace for Won than
the loss OF a diamond necklace"
he was gone leaving Dolores mystified nv
his parting words, but not greatly alarmed IL
seemed to her that these words were an idle
threat, and that all she had 10 do was 10 stand
frm in her duty TO her husband who was now
erful enough to protect her from her kins-
mans malice. There was nothing in her past
relations with Leon which could bring evil To
her in the future. She had loved him with a
sentimental girlish fancy, which had been fost-
cred by the monotony OF her secluded exist
ence. Now that she had begun to taste the sweets
OF life and to understand the omnipotence of
girlhood's idle fancy.
''How could have ever been blind to his
selfshness and meanness?' she wondered when
the outer door had closed upon her cousin
was O'Clock upon q winter morning. The
last faint glow had faded out Of the logs and
Dolores shivered in her splendor as she sur
vsyed her dazzling image in the vast sheet of
glass behind low jardiniere filed with hya-
sintns and narcissus. The image which met
ner gaze was radiant with gems and brilliant
soIorings' out the face beneath the jeweled
sarban was pale and weary.
~ mas been . long, long night" she thought,
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HE fALLs INTO THE ARMS OF dENsDARME.
This precaution is unlucky, for in going out
into the garden he falls into the arms Of a
sensdarme, who, riding quietly by in the
night silence, had noticed the opening of the
little door in the marquee. The gensdarme
dismounts, and waits to see who will emerge
past five in the morning.
ANA so Leon Duverdier, alias Claude Morei,
falls into the clutches of the law and is shut up
du secret in felons cell, to be taken out at in
.erVais and interrogated by the Juge GIastuc-
non, and before night all Paris knows that there
mas been daring robbery and a brutal murder
IN Perez Peru's villa, that the beautiful Madame
Perez has been struck to the ground senseIess
IN the attempt to defend her property, and lies
very Prscarious condition, and that poor
old Perez Ii half mad with grief and anxietv
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ISL for breakfast, fish
for dinner, fish for sup
perish! Such may
be the future diet Of
American people il the
United States fish COM
mission continues to ex-
tie nd it's munificeut
operations while agri-
culture proceeds to run
itself into the ground
and plug up the hole.
That old-time faith
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ALL SICKNESS Is caused by disease germs called
microbes. IL you are in poor health or suffering
from any acute or chronic disease, IL your blood h
Impure, you should read up on the germ theory.
Our pamphlets explaining the above and giving
history OF the Microbe Killer are given away or
mailed free 70 any address. For further barton
lars inquire at 1893 q street northwest
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FISH CULTURE.
The Aims and Results Of the United
States Fish Commission.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF AN INTERESTING oov-
xRNMENT BUREAU-How THE INQUIRIES ARE
CARRIED oN-CHANaK MADE IN THE METHODS
AIDED BIT YIsHKRMEN.
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