The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-26
MIR. NYE IN COLORADO
The Cats, Rats, Mice and Beau
tiful Scenery of Leadville.
CRISIS IN THE SILVER QUESTION.
The WondePs OF Nature All Opon On
Sundsy-The Restoration Of the
Premier Danseuss.


Copyrighted. 1895. by Edgar W. Nye
ES ROUTE TO SEATTLE. March 3-tSpe-
cial Correspondence. Ibid you ever see .
porter on sleeping car make up . berth
It does not look like anything hard to do.
and yet if you try to make up twcEty-six
berths and have them look tidy you will
find that great beads of perspiration are
pouring down from your brow. l am
watching one at his work IS write. l
love to sit in car this way, with table,
and write on and on indefinitely. with an
earnest air, as one might If he were put
ting a summer kitchen on the universe.
One of these deft blackamoors is max
Ing berth tor a single lady whose face re-
minds me of dream I had when child
and had washed down q quart Of green
gooseberries with pint OF warm milk.
She has two cords at the back Of her neck
which run up into her raven black hair ~
far as the eye can reach. Some of her hair
will not remain up, but comes out in shy
way about her ears, like q bunch of timo-
thy on q vacant lot.
The porter is perfect Hebe in figure,
and as he gets warmed up to his work you
can tell where he is. Yet he is graceful in
his work. and when he is done the berth
into which 90 looks almost like Gala
lily with humming bird in it.
am the humming bird.
When Mr.. Pullman put forth his great
success in travelling and sleeping. he pro-
vided place for humble, simple race Of
people who are fitted exactly to this work.
The new feature he introduced has be-
come familiar now-viz: the African by
descent and the porter by berth.
Oh, what q great, CHASTITY, white, still
and solemn spinal column the earth lays
bare up at Leadville, Colo. Over 10000
feet, two miles and a quarter, above the
sea level lie the mighty vertebre of con-
tinent. Here dwell the avalanche and
the man who refuses all money but silver.
Even the conductors on the railroad hesi-
tate about taking anything but silver here.
had no idea that the silver question
had aroused such a feeling in the Western
states. A mine owner told me yesterday
that very little spark would let OFT an ex-
piosion in Colorado and the mining states
that would echo around the world. He
hours. he said. The present price Of sill
yer meant q loss of dollar day to the
miner and closed many good mines.
Wall street is blamed for all this. and
great capitalists are looked at askance.
Twice this happened to me in Denver. It
is great problem for the new and victor
i0uS administration to solve.
have often laid awake at night think
ing Of Mr.. Cleveland at Lakewood in his
room trying to write his inaugural address
ana some one tapping at the door to ask
for an Office just as he has almost invented
a new phrase like innocuous desuetude for
the new era, and then so many other
things, like the sugar teat islands and the
silver question. and ! start mp wildly and
Who would make the long fight in No
vember to take up in March such an I'M
welcome jOb?"
Therefore we must stimulate our sons to
industry by some other means than tho
hope of being president. I would honestly
rather speakin public on the stage Ut q
mere pittance. yet knowing that / was do
ing good and earning $3.50 per week for it.
than to be president of the United States
with cockroaches in the East room and red
ants in the cabinet.
Speaking OF these household pests. let
me say that never heard of q better illus
tration of feminine character than the
other day up at Laramie.
A young man whose sister is visiting
him came home the other night and was
scared out Of his wits by finding her at
midnight in her nightrobe prowling
around the outside Of the kitchen with a
cooked revolver waiting for a burglar to
come out at the back door. Sure enough.
he soon came out, and was captured by
the two and the revolver. He was sent
over to the Jail, and then the brother
asked why this slender young lady in her
nightclothes had gone around outside the
kitchen. why didn't you 20 in by the
inside door," her brother asked her.
why" she said, you don't know 30
much as | thought you dld. There are
mice in the Kitchen"
Speaking of the rat, the mouse and the
cat, We have been told for eighteen years
that cats cannot live at Lead vile owing
to the rarefied air which increases the
hearts action and finally affects the brain,
resulting in one of the most horrible Of
deaths. The death Of cat brought to
Leadville has always been regarded by
Eastern people as one OF the saddest sights
to be seen.
I inquired a good deal while there re-
garding this matter, and found that tho
cat does live at Leadvile, and in private
houses many OF them are as happy and
we'll as elsewhere. but there are no
rats" said my informant. I'VE have
mice. bat no rats.
That evening at the theater large boy