davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1890-08-31
A AT LAST.
One of the RawIins Stage Robbers
Caught in Utah.


DENVER, Aug. 3O.-Postofhce Inspec-
ter Patterson received a dispatch this
morning announcing the arrest OF Frank
Rogers, one of the men who is said TO
have committed highway robbery by hold
ing up the stage at Muddy Creek, Carbon
county, WYo., December 10. 1889, and
tampering with the United States mail.
Rogers was captured in the Blue noun
tains, Utah, by J. r. Bush, deputy
United States marshal. August 20, and
will be delivered to United States Marshal
Carr at Cheyenne, The robbers escaped
into Mexico after the erimG was COM
miited, and possibly thought. as nothing
further was heard by them of the case,
that the p~ostofice deputy had given up
the idea of their capture and lost the
scent.
The actual loss by the robbery in regis
tered letters was 1874, of which S549 was
recovered at Vernal, Utah, In checks
which we're dropped accidentally by them
and which were returned by the postofhce
deputy to the party who issued them.
The $500 reward for the other highway
man is still in force. and he may be ar
rested soon as he has been located in
Arizona. The officers consider it impos-
sible that he can escape.
, 1890-08-31

of wheat which captured the two first
premiums were grown on the Laramie
Plains at an elevation of 1000 feet and
on Crow Greek at an elevation of 6, 500
feet. The premium barley was grown at
an elevation of 5000 feet. Grapes grown
in Cheyenne, at an elevation of e, 900 feet
and apples from four counties of the ter
ritory prove that fruit culture is already
an ACCOMPLISHED fact.
, 1890-08-31

L. p. Chapline of the city market gar
den has left with the Echo two specimen
branches of trees in his apple orchard.
One is from a variety known as the
Macintosh Red, and while but eighteen
inches long bore eighteen apples. The
other is a small limb from a Transcendent
crab tree, and is laden with twenty-six
apples, all being in a well-developed and
healthy condition.
, 1890-08-31

The city fire department was called to
the stock yards at the west end of the
Union Pacific reservation about l O'Clock
yesterday. but could not operate etfectu-
ally. All the loading chutes and csnnect-
ing platforms were burned and two cars
scorched. The latter, all ablaze, were
rushed to the depot and the fire extin
Guised The total damag Is about $500.
, 1890-08-31

A splendid view of the city of Chey
eynne and the suow-capped mountains in
the distance is obtained from Lake Min
nehaha and FairvIew additions.
These additions have a magnificent fu-
ture before them. All who desire valu-
able property should lose no time 10.
investing now. Prices will o be ad-
yaneed to two hundred dollars per lot.
Gall on or address Theo. Menges & Co,
VINO Will be pleased to furnish you maps
and charts OF Cheyenne.
, 1890-08-31
Park Concert.


On account of the campaign last week
was rather quiet in realty circles, still sew
eral good deals were made. The prefer
ence was for outside lots. All of the adj
dition owners are we'll satisfied with the
state OF trade.
, 1890-08-31

The young ladies' OF Co. H will give a
dress drill and hop in honor of the candi-
dates OF both political parties on next
Thursday evening at Keefe hall. The at
tendance should be large as the occasion
will be made a very pleasant one.
, 1890-08-31

There are in Wyoming about ! Poo 900
head of cattle, 1850 600 sheep. . 600
Angora goats and not less ttan $50. coo
horses. Some of the best horses sent to
the Eastern market are Wyoming bred.
, 1890-08-31

Superintendent Burnham accepts the
Cheyenne shops of the Union Pacific from
c. f. Munro tomorrow morning. He
comes off the Santa Fe, at Argentine,
Kan, has a family and will occupy the
Gill residence, Nineteenth and House.
t. A. Davies will be master of motive
power.
, 1890-08-31

You can get anything you want at the
, 1890-08-31

All kinds OF fruit for preserving at the
c. G. z.
, 1890-08-31

For the latest nOreLttes Ira
JeNelry go to Zehaef-,
BMechner n Co., sChO sCtU
be pleased 70 sh0lU them.
, 1890-08-31

Comfortable rooms and good board.
Mrs. Jennie Conway, Tenth street, be.
tween Evans and Van Lehman.
, 1890-08-31

The undersigned takes pleasure in an
nouncinV that he has lust completed ar.
engagements that will enable him 10 sell
ene school books mostly used in Chey-
eMnne' Wyo, at the following rates:
, 1890-08-31

Beef. veal, mutton, lamb or pig at the
G. G. C.
, 1890-08-31

I~he-abo7e school book publications of
1ne American Book Company are well
known standards. and | shall at all times
nave a full supply on hand for sale to
scnool officers, teachers or pupils at the
prices named.
Other school books published by the
Amencan Book Company supplied at
correspondingly low prices.
M 1HEo. G.. LINTON,
Oneyenne New Depot, opposite Postothce,
Saratoga Chips at the c. @. G.
, 1890-08-31

SUNDAY. AUG. 81, 1890.
, 1890-08-31

TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Zip
Throughout the CITY
, 1890-08-31

Saratoga Chips at The c. @. Q.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11
GABRIEL'S TRUMPET.
Irs Noise Quito one by the Snoring of Chi
cago Husband.

Ius Noise Quito one by the Snoring of "a Chi
cago Husband.
The fitting clouds obscured at in
tervals the face of the gibbous moon.
The winds sighed fitfully through the
trees like the flag end of worn out
simeon from the desert land of Oblivion,
agitating with its last expiring gasp the
long, thin whiskers of the city admin
istration. The faring electric lamps
lit up str eet corners where no signs in
dictated to the lost or belated wanderer
what quarter of the city he was travers-
ing, and weird unearthly aroma from
Bridgeport stole gently over the mighty
metropolis with presence almost WISH
BILE, and lulled the senses of its /, 101, 203
inhabitants to repose.
In the neighborhood of Van Buren,
and Lincoln streets the fieeting shadows
paled and darkened on the roof of a
barn inhabited by a recent importation
"a grayish four-hoofed animal of small
size, much ear, and incurable asthma,
but possessed of an iron will and I'M
conquerable ambition to sing, as mani
tested night after night precisely at the
hour of twelve o'clock by mad, deliri-
GUS frantic northumberland that
permeated the sleeping chambers for
half mile around and kept the record
ing angel busy
1t was very near the witching hour of
night. but this animal had not yet lift
ed its deadly voice and struck with pal
swing effect the innocent hour.
In the spacious upper back bed-cham-
Der of prominent citizens dwelling
house in that locality no sound was
heard save the deep, regular breathing
that denotes healthful sleep. The wife
had returned that day from a visit to
the country. For the first time in many
weeks the reunited family slept under
the same roof, and the smiling angels
of domestic joy and peace looked not
down on the dreamless repose of hap
pier household.
Suddenly, through the open windows
that overlooked that barn half block
away, there came that wild, frenzied
aw-he-haw- he -haw-he that denoted the
hour of midnight
The sleepers stirred uneasily. The
long-eared animal in the barn, with an
other agonizing shrek, persisted in its
original statement Then the lips of
the slumbering wife moved.
Frank" she murmured, 'for the
love of Heaven turn over on your side.
You are snoring awfully"
Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11
REGULUS IN SPECTACLES.

A Modern French Soldier Who Initiated
the Heroic Roman General.
The prevalence OF short-sightedness
has increased so much in recent years,
especially in European countries, that
officers of the armies, and sometimes
private soldiers, are permitted to wear
spectacles This was not formerly the
case; and where exceptions had been
made. through the Intervention of SUI
perior authority, the wearing OF spec
tacles in the army were often sharply
ridiculed by their companions.
In the campaign of the French against
the celebrated Abd-el-Kader, the Al
gerian chief, there was, in a battalion
of foot chasseurs, an adjutant named
Dutertre, who was often rallied by his
messmates because he was permitted to
wear spectacles. Not much of hero,
some of them fancied, could be man
who habitually wore glasses. Think of
a Leonidas or a Horatius in spectacles!
But one day Dutertre, engaged with a
accommodating party, was surrounded
by the enemy, slightly wounded in the
head, and taken prisoner. He was
brought before Abd-el-Kader. In the
meantime, the rest of the French com
mand-a small battalion-had taken
refuge in neighboring walled in
closure.
$50 to your companions" said the
Arab commander to Dutertre, and tell
them again what told them yesterday,
that if they surrender their lives shall
be spared And yours, in that case,
/. IgsTtf r = Il not
surrender, / shall exterminate them to
the last man, and shall decapitate you
and give you to my dogs. And under
stand, send you to your companions on
this condition, that in any event, wheth-
err they accept my terms or not, you are
to return to me- Do you accept my con-
ditions?'
II accept them" said Dutertre.
He left the Arab camp, knowing that
his only chance of life lay in the sur
render of the French battalion. If they
determined to fight it out, he was bound
to return and meet horrible death.
The specialized adiutant returned to
his companions. He had always been
man of few words, and he used very
few on this occasion.
"ChaSSeurS, he SAID, II you don
surrender, they are going to cut off my
head. Now die, every one of you,
rather than yield y
Without another word Dutertre re-
turned to the Arabs with the message
that his comrades refused to surrender.
Abd-el-Kaker carried out his threat,
and the brave adiutant's head, still
wearing the spectacles, was carried at
the end of pole before the walls of the
building in which his companions were
entrenched.
Heroism and patriotism are not pecul-
lar to any age or to any country, and
here we have a modern French soldier
doing precisely what the Roman Gem
eral, Regulus, did, or is said TO have
done, more than two thousand years
ago.-Youth's Companion.
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WEDDING REHEARSALS.
Reducing a Sacred Ceremony to Spe'
tacuIar Performance.

Reducing a Sacred Ceremony to "A Spec
taeuIar Performance.
That the conservation of love by the
marriage ceremony of the church should
ever become so purely spectacular as to
be the subject of a rehearsal seems
almost incredible to an age of civiliza-
ton and refinement of feeling. 1t
would be no less shocking to ones sense
of sacred ideals to have a rehearsal of
the rite of confirmation, as observed in
the Catholic and Episcopal churches, or
that of immersion, as observed in the
Baptist church. There is just as much
reason for anxiety as to personal grace
of movement in that supreme moment
when the soul outwardly mauifests it's
inward assurance by accepting the visi-
BILE rites of the church, as there is when
the faith and love of two persons are
pledged for life before the altar. Yet
how shocking to the general sense of
both church and people would be ''re-
hearsal" of confirmation or baptism.
Almost as we'll. indeed, might the
funeral ceremonies be preceded by
an experimental ceremony. The
sacredness of marriage is exchanged
for mere spectacular effect when
such a scene as this precedes it. The
wedding whose chief concern is that of
display, where the mind of the bride is
wholly absorbed in the sweep of her
train. the fall of her vail, the number of
attendants and the beauty and richness
of the gifts, of all that makes up the
spectacular marriage ceremony of fash
ion, is a singular commentary upon the
most advanced age of civilization. Ex-
cept that it is more artistic and aesthetic,
it is no higher than the spectacular dis
play OF the savage. Human nature is
human nature, whether in the aboriginal
or the sophisticated form, save where.
by the deepening power of intellectual
culture and spiritual force. it is re-
deemed to something more divine.
Display on such an occasion is simply
barbaric and crude. 1t is impossible
that it should accompany any very gen.
uine feeling No bride who entered
into marriage as the supreme sacrament
of life could make the solemn ceremony
matter of theatrical rehearsal Tbs
tendency of the day to relegate mar
riage TO the plane of civil contract
only, a thing temporary, a state for
convenience. a material support mat
ter of social custom, Is probably the
most hostile factor that the higher civ.
ilization has to encounter. 1t is out OF
this feeling, utterly divesting it of all
its sacredness as religious rite, that
the barbaric custom of a rehearsal OF
the ceremony has originated.
budget.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.


CATTLE or horses should not be pas
tured in an orchard.
FRUIT muiching is too much neglected
A good mulch not only helps the grow
ing crop, but enriches the soil for future
crops.
ALL fruit trees should be trained low.
The lower limbs should never be higher
than to adapt the orchard to convenient
culture.
ENGLISH ivy can be planted with sue
cess on the north side of buildings, but
where it gets much sun in winter it will
not thrive.
THE Minnesota experiment station
has had excellent results in spraying
native plums with London purple to kill
the curculio.
A PEAR or an apple orchard planted in
grass, kept in grass, starved by grass,
will ''go to grass" speedily, and ought
to, otherwise it encourages shiftless-
ness.
IT takes an extra good farm and extra
good farming to yield six per cent. on
the capital invested. Consider this be-
fore you borrow money to buy more
land.
SOME Pennsylvania fruit growers raise
tobacco in their orchards, and do it sue
cessfully. But they don't allow any
weeds to grow there except the tobacco
xraaH
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BLIND.

DARK dark. ali dark.
For me there is no spark
No ray % light upon ny lonely way.
But must al M life 80 stumbling gropiIg.
feeling
Always stri- Ing, but never reaching the
mark
For al Is dark
Past. past, long past;
And yer it seems but yesterday that saw
last
why an cursed With eyes thai can Eor se.s
Nhy must I grope and stumble. who was ever
Zee
To wander where ] would with head erect
aud step as light as any Why did 1t effect
AZ aud none else but mes
And now ] wander lonely, and no helping hand
Is stretched 10 guide me to that far-0f land
Where. after striving, 1 shall see Al last
As 70 long past.
Light. lnuced- for light.
WHAT Is it makes me dreary way 30 brights
u i, that through the past, and through The
dark.
While was struggling ike a weary bark
Tossing forever on Az angry sea.
voice q loving voice said unto me:
II help thee. little pilgrim Of the night;
Mime s. the hand outstretched 10 aid thy sight
I saW thee wandering in this woeful plight,
] saw thee struggling in the weary dEhI,
Z care for. watch DER, help ana lead thee
right
give thee light
What care / now for all the weary pastS
No longer tired. but content a. last;
Thy love has made rhe darkened pathway
bright.
Anu all i light.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11

Ever so many ''toothache cures"
have been suggested from the time
toothaches were first invented. All of
them have been probably more or less
successful in banishing the pain. Here
is an unique cure" however, that we
have never before seen mentioned. 1t
is offered by DIR. Lambert of New
York. who says he has tested it with
good results:
He took silver half-dollar and a cop
per two-cent piece. He then placed the
copper piece on the outside skin over
the place where the tooth ached, and
the silver piece over aud on the skin
Just in front of the middle Of the ear, so
that the silver just touched the front OF
the middle of the ear, and held both
pieces with just pressure enough to
keep them in their position. In three
minutes the pain was gone and has
never returned.-N. Y. Voice.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
a WORD OF CAUTION.
The Spontaneous Combustion of Whea
In the Bundle.

The Spontaneous Combustion of Wheat
In the Bundle.
A correspondent of the Breeders Ca
zette writes: Several instances of barns
being consumed by fire originating
from spontaneous combustion of hay or
straw in them have been published in
your paper during the past year, and
now send you notice of another which
occurred Tuesday evening, July p,
1890.
Mr.. Samuel B. Perry, of Jefferson, O.,
was hoeing in his garden after his sup
per hour while it was yet light. and on
looking up from his work he saw fire
shining through cracks in his barn.
He went into the barn as soon as pos
sible and found the fire TO be wholly in
a NOV of wheat in the bundle which
he had placed there the week before.
There had been no smoking, no lantern
light nor fire of any nature around his
barn for many weeks, nor is there any
human probability that it was incendi-
airy work. Mr.. Perry informs me that
early last week he drew two loads of
newly-cut wheat from his field only
two days from the harvester, and in the
butts of the bundles was heavy grow tn
of new timothy seeding of grass.
He examined the berries of his wheat
and concluded it was little too green
to go into the barn. We had beautiful
harvest weather-hot sun every day and
no storm-so that his grain cured fast
Two days after putting in his first load
he put in another load. Being busy with
his haying the fourth day he put in an
other load and the following Saturday
he put in the balance, six loads, making
ten loads of good heavy wheat, filling
his barn from scaffold floor over his
horse stable clear to the roof.
The fire when it first broke out was in
that part of the NOW where the two
loads were first put. Being on a farm
and no help present but his wife he
could not put out the fire or save his
barn. He had $500 insurance on barn
which cost twice the money; $500 on
contents, and it was then jammed full
of wheat and hay; $500 on implements,
and for that he lost all his farm tools,
harness, wagon, and fine carriage, be-
cause as soon as he opened the front
door of the barn to look in the flames
spread so rapidly that nothing could be
done His loss is so heavy that it pre-
cludes any suspicion OF his selling it to
an insurance company.
have stated the particulars 50 fully
in order to caution others against run
ming any such great risk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11

The clerk of well-known New York
hotel proved day or two ago that he
possesses a sharp, quick eye. A young
business man from the West handed
him a 500 bill in payment of small
amount II can not accept this" re-
piled the clerk to tl-s astonlshed young
man. who had taken the note from a
large roll Of bills received from bank
in his native town. 1T is not signed
by the president of the bank" Inyes-
tigation proved this statement true.
The note was issued by one OF the Ma.
tional banks Of Stockton, Cal 1t was
signed by the cashier of the bank, but
the space reserved for the signature oil
the president was blank. The note bore
evidence of use, and perhaps had been
in circulation for number Of years.
y. y. Letter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-11
THE FAMOUS sULBUL.
Why the Hindoos Are so Very Fond of This
Little Bird.

Why the Hindoos Are so Very Fond of This
Little Bird.
Throughout India people viii make
pets of any animals which can be in
duced to contribute to their entertain
ment. We noticed in Delhi that the av-
erage small boy, as well as children of
a larger growth, exhibited particular
fondness for certain little bird of ash
en- plumage and black crest. This was
the famous bulbul of which Hafiz has
much to say, and some Western poets
also who have sentimentalized about the
Vale of Cashmere without even having
seen it. He is usually tethered by a
string attached to his leg, and sits upon
his owners finger, or hops about on his
arm; sometimes, too, he adorns tall
perch in front of the doorway. A lady
at the hotel remarked that lit was
touching to see how fond these poo peo-
pie were of their little birds" The mys-
terry was soon solved. Returning from
drive one afternoon, we
passed the colossal gateway of the
great mosque, and saw that the
broad and towering flight of steps before
the principal entrance was covered with
scattered groups of people, all intent on
some occupation of absorbing interest.
So vast and imposing was the archi-
tectural background that the crowd OF
little figures suggested one of Martins
weird pictures of the Judgment Day.
Some great religious ceremony was evil
IDENTIFY going on. So we got out, deeply
impressed, to obtain a nearer view
when, behold, in the center of each lit
tie group was pair of these birds in
mortal combat; and they fought as
pluckily as the bravest of game fowl,
and breathless was the interest shown
by every spectator. whether street ur-
chin or shawled and turbaned merchant.
Edwin Lord Weeks, in Harper's Maya
zine
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LAND MEASURE.

1,444 square turns. AS 1,4i0 square
turns equal one acre. we find we have a
space II feet square more than an acre.
Once more we run the wheel 72 turns in
a straight line and go at a right angle;
6Ox72 equals 1920. Divide this number
by (as square feet make rod) and
we get 4sO square rods, or three acres;
or divide the number by LAO, the num-
Der of square turns in an acre, and the
result is the same. Approximate meas
ures can be taken of irregular tracts
thus: / have a field 242 turns in one
line, 1914 in another, So in another and
ISL in another, which brings me back
to the place of starting. These lines
added make go turns Multiply one
fourth of this number (155) by itself
and you get %, 025 square turns. or a
little over 16 acres. This is not perfect
ly correct. but near enough for all prac
teal purposes. Farm and Home.
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SHORT-LIXED MEN.
To-Day the Humorist Is on Top, To
Morrow He l. Forgotten

To-Day the Humorist Is on Top, To-
Morrow He Is Forgotten.
In fact, SO scarce is the funny man
that yo'. must seek for him when you
want him. He is not nearly so numer-
Gus as his reputation. He loves life
and light and warmth, and is so viva
cious in his mere enjoyment of life that
possibly he sometimes multiplies him
self to ones irritated Imagination. as
one light-winged, restless fly, child OF
the summer, seems to be a hundred or a
thousand to the wise man, bent upon i'm
proving his mind and tempting eternity
by reading the "Encyclope liza Brit
annica." The lend man" is a May fly,
living in the sunshine for one happy
day. and then forgotten. In a semi
critical paper, published in Hsrpers
Magazine a few months since, Mr..
Lukens mentions by name about 2S0
American humorists who have made
merry with their friends during the past
200 years. 1t is a pathetic record of
strangers Read it, ard underline the
names which have a familiar sound to
your ears. Blot out the names you can
not remember to have read or heard be-
fore, and II you are under forty years oil
age. the condensation of the paper will
startle you. The PEOPLE have not been
led into the wilderness of frivolity by
the end man. Sometimes the funny
man. in a moment of madness. consents
TO lecture two nights in succession. The
second lecture is almost invariably
dismal failure. Zone consecutive night"
is the limit of the funny mans course.
But people do like to be amused lit
tie. and so the end man is usually put
on. Frequently he is informed-and
tie unconscious seriousness of the com
mittee-man who so informs him is fam
nier than any thing in the lecture-thst
zee have the very best lecturers in the
country on our course this winter, the
strongest minds and the greatest think
ers in America. and nov cur people want
q little change. '-Buliette, in Forum