Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-26

had no idea that the silver question
had aroused such feeling in the west
ern States. A mine owner told me yes
terday that very little spark would let
off an explosion In Colorado and the
mining States that would echo around
the world. He could command $4,000
troops in few hours, he said. The pres
ent price of silver meant the loss OF
dollar a 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.
1t is great problem for the new and
victorious administration to solve.
I have often laid awake at night
thinking of Mr.. Cleveland up at Lake.
wood in his room trying to write his in
augural address and some one tapping
at the door to ask for an Office just as
he has almost invented 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 I start up wildly and say
to myself: "Who would envy him? Who
would make the long fight in November
10 take up in March such an unwelcome
job?"
Therefore we must stimulate our sons
to industry by some other means than
the hope OF being President. | would
honestly rather speak in public on the
stage at mere pittance, yet kno wing
that was doing 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 cabi-
net.
Speaking of these household pets, let
me say that 1 never heard OF a better
Illustration 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
cooked revolver waiting for burglar
to come out at the back door. Sure
enough, he soon came out and was cap
tured 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
go in by the inside door?" her brother
asked her.
Why" she said, ''you don't know so
much as l thought you did. There are
mice in the kitchen.
Speaking of the rat, the mouse and
the cat, we have been told for IS years
that cats cannot live at Leadville owing
to the rarefied air which increases the
hearts action and finally affects the
brain, resulting in one of the most hor-
rible Of deaths. The death of a cat
brought TO Leadville has always been
regarded by eastern people as one Of the
saddest sights TO be seen.
Inquired a good deal while there re-
garding this matter and found that the
cat does live at Leadville, and In private
houses many Of them are as happy and
well as elsewhere. 'But there are no
rats" said my informant. "We have
mice, but no rats"
That evening at the theater q large
boy rat came into nv dressing room and
ate cake of soap while was washing.
Cats, it is said, cannot live at the top
Of Pixies peak. Possibly they cannot.
Neither can anything else. Speakers
and singers experience great difficulty
at both Aspen and Leadville on account
OF the hyperclimatic conditions there.
They gasp and become giddy, aud some
times Inconsistencies follows
DR.. Dugan was once in the audience
when st was suddenly discovered that
the queen of the ballet had become un-
conscious in her undressing room. He
was summoned. Around him he found