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, 1891-01-04

The old. wrinkled. dusky aunties of
southern plantations will tell children,
DO not eat tho bluebirds' eggs; they
make You love to wander" They believe
thnt the pale blue eggs of that beautiful
creature. that violet of the air." that
bird with "sky tinge on his back, earth
tinge on his breast" will make the greedy
nest robber restless as long as he lives.
No place. however enticing, can hold the
being who has once tasted a bluebird's
egg.
He who eats u mocking birds egg will
be compelled to tell all he knows" The
n who robs a killdee's nest and eats its
eggs viii surely break an arm.
He who eats Il doves egg will be fol
lowed by bad luck, while the egg of any
bird of yellow plumage will be sure to
cause a fever, and he who eats an owls
egg will be always shrieking. The eater
of q crows egg will always, as old aunt
les say, ''he gwire on foolish like a crow
does go on. 'Ha! Ha! Hhy But a par
tridge's eggs" they declare, "dud es make
you thrive nm grow fas'; dey is de onlies'
sort er birds eggs dat you kin eat widout
hndin' EN- dangersome .7-Youth's Com.
naniOu,
, 1891-01-04
nxnlcINCroN N0MINxTED.
The West Enders Put up a Candidate
Tor the City Council.

The West Euders held their most en-
thusisstic meeting OF the series last night.
A large number were present regardless
of political affiliations and decided to
nominate a candidate for the council who
would represent the Third ward and look
after the interests of the West End via
duct.
Several names were proposed. but
Henry Harrington seemed to be the choice
Of the meeting. Mr.. HarriDgton's nomi-
nation was seconded by E a. Slack. who
gave him a very stroug endorsement as a
man TO be relied on and a friend OF the
Third ward.
Mr.. England and Mr.. Harnish also
we're mentioned but withdrawn in favor of
Mr.. Harrington who was nominated by
reclamation.
A committee composed of Judge
Whitehead, f A. Slack and NJ. Marks
was appointed to take from the registered
list of voters in the Third ward a com
mittee of one hundred who are to look
after the interest of Mr.. Harrington
during the campaign. The committee is
composed Of men Of both political parties.
, 1891-01-04

The New York World prints an inter
esting story of a trip which two boys
aged about Is have just made from San
F'anoisco to New York. The boys had
but 81 50 for car fare and expenses but
made the trip all right. OF their Chey-
enne experiences the World says:
The Union Pacific railway station at
Cheyenne is a beautiful one. It cost
100000. Passenger trains make the dis.
lance from the coast very quickly, but it
wa three days before two oily looking,
o nderv boys climbed out of a dlngy look
inS caboose in the yards at that city.
They carried their little traps with
them and walked mp into the big streets
As though they were to the manner bor-.
B .ot backing didn't amount to very
much in Cheyenne. The local maguates,
who monopolrzed that industry, were no
more friendly than the ones at Portland;
besides, they were bound for Brooklyn
10 End their Uncle John. and although 1t
would have been pleasant to have had a
lew dollars they decided to push on.
, 1891-01-04
EVER YTHING GOES WITH
GROESY


Polonius tGroesbeck) to Hamlet,
(Carey-W ren)-My lords the people of
Wyoming would speak with you in rel
erence to the silver bill, You know We
told the people during the last campaign
that the whole West was for silver and
we arraigned the Democratic party as op.
ponents of free coinage.
Hamlet Carey Warren to Polonius
tGroesbeckl-Do you see youder cloud
that's almost in shape of a camel2
Polonius (Groesbeck) BY the mass,
and It's n camel indeed.
Hamlet (Carey-W arren)- Methinks it
is like a weasel
Polonius &c rocsbeckl-lt is backed like
a weasel.
Hamlet CAREY warren)-or like a
whale?
Pol Mus CGrOesbeck)-very like a
whale.
Hamlet (CareY-W arrep)-Then We will
explain to the people by and by. In the
meantime we must tool the people still
more. and you must swallow the words
you uttered during the campaign and
come to our rescue 10 the mining con
s%ention. You are safe for six years at
least. We will m4naGe the people in the
future as We have done in the past. 1t
will not do for Us To speak now.
, 1891-01-04
1T A A BLUNDER.

1t is unfortunate that the mining con-
vention which contained many sincere.
earnest and practical men should have
allowed itself to fall into the hands OF a
gang of political takers who under the
guise Of advancement Of Wyoming's
mines, hid their own selfish and sordid
schemes. II cannot be denied that the
expressed purposes Of the convention
we're IN the right direction. There were
several able papers read and the exhibits
Of mineral products went far to establish
WYominR's claim to great latent mineral
wealth. But unfortunately a general
looseness prevailed as to the constituent
parts of the assembly. Men without a
dollar invested in mines, without a DAYS
practical experience in their work
ing. were admitted to the floor
on an equality with the men
whose whole interests were bound
up in mining. When the question Of
voting on the resolutions f~avoring the un-
limi' ed coinage Of silver came no it was
men who have never been identified with
mines who were mainly conspicuous in
the opposition. Senators Carey and
Warren durioE a few weeks spent in
Washinrtpn bad seen ft. for polite
reasons, to change their views on the sill.
yer question. Upon their return here
they Immediately set to work to lobby FIR
an o%ficisl EXPIRE sion from the mining cnn-
vention in oppo .ition TO silver. Esery
night they were to be seen at the Inter
Ocean decrying silver and bringing TO
bear such specious arguments as they
could against the RECOMMENDATION of the
white metal Their li|eutenants were
scattered about, actively engared
IN working on the feelings or
political prejudices of those who
cane to attend the convention. When
the resolution came to a vote men from
the outside, never before identified with
the conventions work, came in aud voted
and spJuted. The result was that the
free coinage resolutions we're voted down
and the first Wyoming mining couven-
ton is placed in the ludicrous attitude Of
opposing the extension of the market for
silver. and thus dealing a blow to their
own interests.
It is unfortunate that a Wyoming min
ing convention, no matter under what
guise or pretext. should be led into such
an e~Vregious blunder. 1t can only tend
TO make laughing sto,k of the proceed
ings whieh otherwise were highly inter
ing and give forth to the world an impress
sion OF lack of sense on the part Of Wyo-
ming miners, which they are far from de-
serving.
, 1891-01-04


It is n curious fact that in the Middle
Ages England was horticulturally much
behind the continent of Europe. In
Chaucer's time the English larder was
very meagerly supplied with vegetables,
and but indifferently with fruits. Onions,
leelfs, n%ettles, peas and mustard were the
only articles that then figured in the
short catalogue Of English vegetable
supplies. There ia no trace of the exist
nee Of cabbage in England Mt this
period. In the contemporary nccounts
Of orchards there is no a~llusion to plums,
only once to damsons. The pears wore
poor, but heappleH were good. 1t is ques-
tiouHble whether cherries, raspberries
and strawberries had crossed the Chan
mel.
The cherry gardens Of Kent were first
planted by a servant Of Henry VIII Be
fore the close of the Sixteenth century,
the turnip had reached England; so had
the caulitlower and the ounce, for both
are mentioned by Gerarde in his Her.
bal, Carrots. when Gerarde wrote,
were still II foreign vegetable, though
their naturalization in England was not
far OH. In 1912 we hear of the peach,
the almond and the filbert among the
products of an English orchard, and in
1920 the apricot was transplanted from
MoroccO.-New York Ledger.
, 1891-01-04

JUsr a year agI at a statehood meeting
held 10 RawlIns Judge Groesbeck made "a
speech, One OF the strongest arguments
which be made 10 favor of statehood was
that it would give Wyoming t so senators
who would work heartily for the unlim
tied coinage OF silver and thus aid IN the
development Of the SILVER mining industry
in the state. Groesbeck made a strong
argument In favor of the free coinage of
then. but this didn't prevent him
from bitterly opposing the free coinage
resolutions at the mining cOuyention held
10 this city a few days ago. In addition
10 his other accomplishments Groesbeck
seems to be as variable a. a weather cock.
, 1891-01-04

Allen O'Myers was ~lecturing in an up
country town. He had been speaking
ten minutes, when a man in the front
row arose and started to walk out. The
lecturer was not taken aback by this ex-
precision Of disapproval, but said. Hold
on, my friend, I'll join you outside in
a couple of minutes" The audience
laughed, and the man returned to his
seat without a clove.@Cincinnati Com
mercinl Gazette.
, 1891-01-04

THE Democratic CITY primaries will be
held tomorrow evening at 100 o'clock.
There shoull be a large attendance. The
people demand first-clAss representatives
in the city council this year aud each
ward should put forward frst-class
, 1891-01-04

The district court meets a week from
tomorrow. Mckinney, the alleged cattle
thief, will probably be tried, but the
Parkinson case viii probably be continued
as several important with esses are u
fghtlnR the Indians
, 1891-01-04

A box of hardware weighing 600
pounds fell overheard from a vessel at
Vancouver, and IN octopus, who thought
he had struck a soft thing, drew it along
the sandy bottom Of the harbor for q
distance Of 400 feet before becoming dis
couraged. Among the "dont's'' to be OBJ
served is don't fool with an octopus
Detroit Free Press.
, 1891-01-04

THE new county officers will take their
seats tomorrow. Sheriff Martin was
engaged yesterday in removing his house
hold effects so that Sherif-elect Kelley
might effect a change OF residence.
, 1891-01-04
PhYsIclnns Have Found onr

That a contamination and foreign element
in the blood. developed by indigestion. is
the cause Of rheumatism. This settles
upon the sensitive s~ub-cutaneous covering
OF the muscles and lIRaments of the joints.
causing constant and shifting pain. and
aGRreRating as a calcerpous, chalky de
post which produces stiffness and distor-
ton of the joints. No fact, which ex-
perience has demonstrated in regard to
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has stronger
evidence to support than this, namely.
that this medicine OF comprehensive uses
checks the formidable and atrocious dis
case, nor is it less positively established
that it is preferable to the poI-ons often
used to arrest it, since the medicine CON
tains only salutary ingredients. II is also
a signal remedy for malarial fevers, con
stipation, dyspepsia, kidney and bladder
ailments, debility and other disorders.
See that you get the genuine.
, 1891-01-04

New mattresses. 81 so; new woven
wire springs, 81 rs; second hand heating
and cook stoves at lowest prices. Every
thing delivered free. Corner Twenty-6rst
and Themes. +. Bohnsted, Manager.
, 1891-01-04
= WHO WON THEM.
The Prizes offered to the Best
Guessers in the Contest.
They We're Won by Very Close
Approximations.
The Next Contest Which The
Leader is Arranging.

The work Of going through over 2S,-
900 coupons received al this Office in THE
popular physician contest has Just been
completed. It was an exceedingly tedious
task. There was a remarkable range of
guessing. Some of the guesses we're
very wild and were probably put in at
random without any calculation as to the
possible number of votes that would be
received. The vast majority of the
guesses were away below the mark and OF
the three that won the prizes every one
came into the Office on the last day. They
were handed in before G O'Clock in the
evening and were not the result of any
elaborate calculations but guesses, pure
and simple.
The first prize was won BY Eddie Muir
rim, son of Col. Luke Murrin. He
guessed that DR.. Grimes would receive
l0,040 votes. Strange to say the second
prize was won on precisely the same guess
made by another party, but an hour or
two late. DR.. Grimes vote was 10, O43.
The first prize Is a els music box or any
that NAV be selected to that amount
in the store Of Rhodes & Troxell.
j. A Russell, an operator in the West
ern Union telegraph Office, won both the
second and third p1zes. The second
prize was won on a guess of 10. O4n and
the third On a guess of lO.O50. The Sec
ond prize is a years subscription to THE
DAILY LEADER and the third a copy OF
the handsome work If art, wild Flow
ers of the Rocky Mountains
The independent prizes offered BY
VIM. Myers, the dry goods merchant,
were won by j. A. Shannon of Carbon
aud Mrs. Maria Haley of Cheyenne, re-
spectively. The former got the first prize
on a guess of 10, O62 for Grimes and the
latter the second on a guess of $4,000 on
the total number of votes.
WHAT NEXT?
Hundreds OF inquiries have been re
ceived at this Office regarding the next
contest that THE LEADER has in view.
The physicians contest proved extremely
interesting to al concerned and its popu-
larity grew with each day. In
order to give every one an OPP
~portunity to be prepared for
the mex contest THE LEADER will now
announce that it intends to offer two mag
nifcent prizes, one to the most popular
public school teacher in Laramie county.
and the other to the most popular in the
state outside of Laramie county. The
terms aud conditions of the voting will be
announced in a later issue in which
will be published a full description OF the
prizes to be offered.
, 1891-01-04
The IndIan Outbreak.

And consequent excitement will not OPP
crate 10 affect the new Dyer hotel rates
for day board. which are only "a 30 a
week moderate 10 price. excellent in
quality.
, 1891-01-04

Ed Knapp as rerefcing-
fresh oysters and CLAIMS tsi
the sh~H direct from ~ eiC
York erery other day. at
his restaurant on SfI-
feeffh street. Supplying
of families a. specially.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-16

On a small island in the middle of the
South Pacific lives planter, the only
white man on the island-which is full
of brown-skinned folk-who cuts and
dries the meat of cocoanut, which he
sells to trading vessels. When any
stranger stops at his island he gives him
of the best the island Affords he viii get
up great concerts and dances of the
islanders; above all he win take
them out to see his pet, which
is perhaps, the largest and Oldest
animal that was ever petted by any
man. This pet is sperm whale nearly
seventy feet long. He came through
the narrow entrance into the little har-
Dor, which is walled in by q coral reef,
when quite small, and remained until
he had grown so large that he could not
get out if he wanted to. The great
creature comes up to be feed when the
planter blows his horn, and after his
meal of barrel of chopped meat or fish
performs some wondrous and amusing
tricks, apparently knowing what is ex
expected of him--Chicago Inter-Ocean
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FARM AND GARDEN.
rRElLIs HOUSE PLANTS.

How to Develop the Incompatible Bcaue
of Climbing Vines.
Il is rare to find any climbing vine
among house plants given half chance,
or so treated as to develop a 1.-THE of the
beauty that might be secured if fur
rished with suitable trellis and prop
erly trained thereon. The ordinary
trellis as manufactured for the trade is
about as insufficient, worthless an APP
ology for what it is intended for as any
thing could well be-a simple fiat lad
der. 1t takes only short time for the
plant to reach the top and then there is
no chance to support the growth unless
the vine is turned unnaturally down.
ward or led off on to something else.
What is wanted is large amount of
surface exposed to the light and air
with chance to train the growth
horizontally for a definite length of
time.
The simplest form is to follow the
example of the gardener or hop grower
and have pole, only it should be a
skeleton and as large as the inside of a
pot. 1t is easily made by taking six
plant stakes and making holes through
them with a brad awl, three inches
apart. Take wires the size of the
holes, and about as long as the inner
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olLINo THE vENTRILoQUIsT.

His Imitation of q squeaI1ing Spindle
Proves an sUnpleasant Joke.
During sea voyage ventriloquist
made friends with the engineer of the
ship, and was allowed to enter the en-
gine-room. He took a seat in the corner,
and pulling his hat down over his eyes
appeared to be lost in reverie. Pres
emily certain part of the machinery
began to squeak. The engineer oiled it,
and went about his usual duties. In the
course of few minutes the squealing
was heard again, and the engineer
rushed out can in hand. to lubricate the
same spindle. Again he returned to his
post, but it was only few minutes
until the same old spindle was squeak
ing louder than ever.
s'Confound the thing" he yelled 1T
is bewitched!'
More oil was administered, but the
engineer began to be suspicious as to its
cause. Soon the spindle began to squeak
again, and, slipping up behind the ven
triloquist. the engineer squirted half a
pint of oil down the joker's back.
There, said he, that spindle won't
squsak any more. London Tid-Bits.
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Let's reason together.

ASt ASoSOAA SSO~s
Here's a firm, one of the
largest the country over, the
world over; it has grown, step
by step, through the years to
greatness-and it sells patent
medicines ugh!
THAT'S enough =
Wait a little
This firm pays the news
papers good money (expen-
sive work, this advertising }
to tell the people that they
have faith in what they sell,
SO much faith that if they can't
benefit or cure they don't want
your money. Their guarantee
IS not indefinite and relative,
but definite and ads0knts-if
the medicine doesn't help,
your money is "on aaA"
Suppose every sick man
and every feeble woman tried
these medicines and found
them worthless, who would be
the loser, you or they?
The medicines are Doctor
Pierce's aGolden Medical Dis
covery," for blood diseases,
and his Favorite Prescrip-
tion," for woman's peculiar ills
If they help toward health
they cost $I.oo a bottle
each! If they don't, the,
eost nothing !!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-16
Dust and the Complexion.

Dust is the great enemy of health and
of women's good looks. 1t settles in
the skin, especially where there is a
little steam to help it; the wax and oily
matter of the skin fix it till no ordinary
washing will remove it. Wrinkles are
accentuated by it, as they have deeper
bed to draw in the dust with the stylus
of time. That is the reason so many
women look about ten years younger
when they find time to take their hot
bath and the vapor has fifteen minutes
or more to soften the tissues. There is
nothing like steam for Pumping up the
skin and washing out the CRIME which
clouds every complexion not daily
treated to soap and hot water. How
MANY have the heating pipes OF the
furnace cleared of the years accumu'
lation of dust? From the pite coils i
is ready to enter lungs and skin, and
being deadest of all dead matter, it i
itself death to hair, to freshness OF
complexion and general vigor. Shirley
Dare. IN Detroit Free Press
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cylinder form and attaching it to short
stakes to stick in the pot, it is but a
step to the balloon form, a section Of
which is rudely shown in Fig. 3. To
bend the wires in the right form, take
a piece of board and draw balloon
shaped outline upon it of the desired
size Then cut the heads off of some
six-penny wire nails and drive them in
the board at intervals of two or three
inches along the outline mark. Then
bend q wire in the line of the mark,
giving it one turn around each
nail. These loops are represented in
the drawing at A, b, c, ID, E and F. To
make the trellis, take three such wires
and crossing them at the apex stick
them in the pot and connect them by
horizontal wires put through the loop
holes. A perfect globe trellis may be
made in the same way. A collection OF
climbers upon handsome hollow trellises
might be made very attractive, having
the trellises of different forms and sizes
to suit different kinds of plants. A
free growing climber like the German
ivy or Madeira vine can be made to
cover trelIis as big as an oil barrel in
a few months, if properly grown. If
ladies would study little upon their
collection of house plants and get a
little out of the beaten path they might
perhaps get little better return for the
coal consumed in carrying them through
the winter. For cemi-climbers, to grow
in five or six-inch pots on balloon trel-
Uses eighteen inches high and nine
inches in diameter, nothing is prettier
than the ivy geraniums. There are now
more than twenty varieties double and
single) of these clearly beautiful
plants, and collection of them would
adorn any sitting-room.-L- b. Pierce,
in Ohio Farmer.
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WHEN you feel all broke up, and life
hardly seems worth living. When ,-ou
hardly feel able to attend to your daily
work When you feel you would give half
you own for a little more strength, just give
Dr. John Bulls Sarsaparilla n trial and see
what lift it will give you You will bless
the day you tried DIR. John Bulls Sarsapa-
rilla.
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IT is pleasure to recommend the Hart
man Manufacturing Co., whose ad. appears
in this paper and will be seen weekly for
some months. The volume of their business
Is immense, and their goods are as good as
their business is great This is high praise,
but is thoroughly deserved.
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The Fault, and Follie, Of tho AZ.

Are numerous, but of the latter none IS
more ridiculous than the promiscuous and
random use of laxative pills and other
drastic cathartics. These wrench, con-
vulse and weaken both the stomach and the
bowels. II Hostetter Stomach Bitters be
used instead of these no-remedies, the re-
suit is accomplished without pain and with
great benefit to the bowels, the stomach and
the liver. Use this remedy when constipa-
ton manifests itself, and thereby prevent
it from becoming chronic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-16

90, p, q. X, Y, z are plant stakes repre-
scented only 10 inches high, to save space, in
which holes are made with q brad awl for the
reception Of the wires. BA, CB and DE. The
hole A, in stake o, is supposed to be punched5
inches from the lower end; in T. So inches and
so on. When bent In q circle the end OF the
wire is placed in the hole A; in and
so on.
circumference of the pot, and string
the stakes upon them and then, bend
ing the wires in the form of cylinder,
stick the stakes in the pot and you have
a light, substantial trellis with an out
side surface three times the diameter
of the pot multiplied by the height. A
hollow trellis like this. six inches in
diameter, is eighteen inches around,
and one two feet high would allow
twelve spiral turns of German or
English ivy, &C eighteen feet in length.
Fig. shows how to bore the holes so
the wires will ascend in spiral direc-
ton from top to bottom. The second
series of holes Is three inches above the
first, and SO on Making the wire en-
circle the stakes in spiral form gives
less formal and more pleasing appear
ance to the hollow column or trellis
than if the wire ran around horizon
tally.
From this simple hollow column
form, which can also be made by bend
ing piece of wire netting such ~
plasterer's serves are made of, into a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-16

MANY people think that the word Bit
an Intoxicating beverage. This is mis-
take, as the best remedy for all diseases OF
the blood, liver, kidneys, ETC., is Prickly Ash
Bitters. 1t is purely medicine and every
article used in its manufacture is OF veget-
able origin Of known curative qualities.