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, 1897-10-27
WRITTEN IN DENVER.
BY the Funny Man Of the Bvsnins
Post.

DOCK, winchester William, Is out, ana
Wyoming people. while laughing yer
the quaint stories. wonder how either
William or the relator OF his tales can
lie so and yet expect to make a landing
in heaven when the earth gets through
with them. The first edition OF the
book has Deer snapped up. and the peo-
pie cry sor mare.
A Rock Springs girl is named Nancy
Hanks, but as yet she has made no
trotting record to boas; OF.
Marshal Proctor OF Cheyenne warns
parents that boys found carrying and
using "slingshots" will be prosecuted.
The "slingshot" OF Cheyenne is the
"nigger shooter" OF less refined locali-
ties.
EDITOR A.ndromedus McMicken OF the
Rawlins Journal sees things in his
dreams at times. He advises US that
some OF these days an enterprising GRIM
inal will startle the world by enjoinine
4 jury from bringing in a verdict Of
guilty.
Two or three state editors simultane-
ously advance the belief that George M.
softening nor an enlargement Of rnat
useful organ.
William Magruder. a Mississippi
COON" Is at Laramie with pack OF dogs
bound for the mountains to hunt bear.
II one OF those shaggy beasts concludes
% hunt MI. Magruder, he will return to
civilization with hair as straight 40 that
Of an Indian.
The Big Horn County Rustler tells u
.: the organization OF a debating 90
ciety at Hyartville which will meet
quite frequently through the winter and
settle some Of the vexed national qoes-
lions over which the government on
cials are walking the floor O. nights.
FOUND roo LATE.
j. E. Glass likes nothing better hhan
telling a coed story, and one that he
told me the other day win bear repeat,
ing. Matt Clark, who used to be in thu
office OF the land commissioner over In
the capitol building, and has for years
been identified with pine land matters,
lives out on Summit venue in st. Pa,ul
He has a little san S OF 6 years old, who
despite his youth. displays q marked
aptness. Desiring to earn q little mon
,y ,r,stt, -tt- - H.-, A-~-u-R-- a..
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1. Mary Bamforth. want to be notified il
FredBamforth sells any NOR cat ~
tie or horseswith such brands x ~
, 1897-10-27

The football team expects TO arrange
a game with the Denver university. to
be played on Thanksgiving day.
, 1897-10-27

AT q recent meeting o. the Univer-
SHY Dancing club. it was'decided to give
the first dance November 12,h.
, 1897-10-27

The first two Of the series of recep-
lions to be given the students during the
year were held at the homes OF DR.. and
Mrs. Graves and Prof. and Mrs. knight.
The hours from 7:3O to $3.50 were spen,
pleasantly in games and music. During
the course Of the evening light refresh
ments were served. Those who enjoyed
the hospitality Of DR.. and Mrs. Graves
were: Misses Land, Flagg, Copeland,
Coutant, Sheldon, Knott, Wyman, Cas-
tile, Crilly. Norma and Willie Downey;
Messrs. Breitenstein. Atherly. Wilson.
Campbell, Bartlett, Danielson. Eagar,
Cook, Rice, Gooding, Breese. Prot. and
Mrs. knight entertained the following:
Misses Allen. Barrows. Christian, Day
ton, Knight Fox. Sanders. Mabel and
Annie Cameron; Messrs. Allyn, Beach,
Bradbury, Campbell, Coutant, Denig,
Dayton, Fairfield. Gilmore. Fitch and
Knight.
, 1897-10-27
WOODS LAnoIne ROAD allCH

SAN WOODS, p,ssvsssss
Best q nais. nae bsds. sssA stabssa
and eosvsnisasly located ossG ssssa-
Dodatioas sa hsnssrs "a AaAernss.
0ivs Il . trhl
, 1897-10-27

Hood's Pins are tns only pills to tsks
with Hoods saraparilA. Cure all livA
ills.
, 1897-10-27
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST.

Following 10 the list Of letters remain
ing in the postofice at Laramie. Wyo..
for the week ending October q. 1897.
Parties calling for letters in thh list
will please say Advertised"
Erickson E w Fish "A o
Flynn Mrs Ellen Geary John w
Hall VIM Hark CozhaiA
Jackson Andrew Palleson Christine
T. J. DAYTON, p. II.
Smoke tho best Nickel Cigar. the Davy
Crockett, for sale ut Kleemann'a.
Furnished housekeeping rooms tor
-sut aavar Hsnsea. 1G1 eth strast
, 1897-10-27

The freshman class after various meet
ings has decided to adopt purple snd
white as class oolors and The can ~ .
symbol. The motto and class PIN will be
adopted later. and they will defer CIV
ing their yell until the students and pso-
pie in general have recovered from the
effects OF rhe senior yell The ctass
elected MI. sudduth president and No
Stryker secretary.
, 1897-10-27

Weak nerves indicate de6cisnt blood.
Nervous people and rstief by PURIFYING
md enrichfng their blood with Hood's
sarsaparillA, the 1eat nerve tonic.
, 1897-10-27
NEWS OF THU VARSITY.
DEDICATION OF THE ORSERVA-
TORY OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO.
The Receptions Given by DR.. and Mira.
Graves and Prot. and Mrs. knight
Among the Societies-A Remark
able Yell-The Awards OF the Judges
in the Camera Club Contest.

The dedication OF the observatory
which Yerkes has presented to the uni
versity OF Chicago. has been a topic OF
interest to many Tor some time past.
This dedication took place October 21st
A former student OF our university. be-
ing fortunate enough to secure a ticket.
attended the services and writes the
following account o. them:
"a special train left the Northwestern
depot at $50 Thursday morning. Be-
tween 700 and 800 people were in the
company, many OF :nem very distin-
guished, hut one couldn't tell which ones
@'srC the ones.
Lake Geneva. you know. Is a very
beautiful place. mach sought as a summer
| resort. The lake is very lovely and is
surrounded by beautiful little hills quite
covered with trees and shrubs. To reach
| the observatory we crossed the lake in
some sort OF a boat. | should have liked
10 nave spent the day on the water. the
motion was so gentle and the air so de-
%licious. The observatory lies on a high
spot, reached by a winding, upward
path. 1t is a beautifully constructed
building with a large dome at n end
and two smaller ones at the other. 1t
IS decorated with all sorts OF suggestive
carvings, crescent moons with the old
face peering forth. consultations, etc.
On each side the doorway upon the
root, I noticed a globe with the signs OF
he zodiac carved around 1t. The whole
dome is ON wheels, SO that when the
telescope has been directed to n one
star, the dome may follow it, as it per
sues the star around the circle. The floor
oe the dome Is also a skill:ul contrivance
being a rising floor, worked like an e,e-
vator, l presume. The telescope is The
largest in the world, its lens being 4(
inches in diameter, costing Itself $685.
900. Yerkes presented his gift telescope
and observatory to the university in 8
d.gnified way. His speech was quite
impressive. The president OF The board
Of trustees and President Harper receiv.
ed the gift. Cablegrams were received
ON the occasion from all the great OBJ
servatories OF the world. At 4 p. m. tia
train left FOR Chicago. I reached my
room about 7:3O, after a very pleasanI
day.
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1t is pleasant to note that good work
sometimes has its reward. Neil Sud-
duth now holds the position Of sergeant
major, having been pormoted from the
rank Of hrst sergeant.
, 1897-10-27

The senior class held q meeting Mon
day evening and chose for their colors
azure and argent; for their motto, "Nev-
er do today what you can do just as well
tomorrow" They have originated a re-
markable yell, namely:
Wal-a-poo; Kick-a-poo!
Rickety-rate!
Click-a-poo! Chick-a-poo!
Zip '98!
, 1897-10-27

MI. Crawford, editor Of the Saratoga
Sun, and his daughter. Mrs. Poole. Wis
tied the university last week.
, 1897-10-27

KLONDIKB WALL PAPER
10000 rollA For - days Il VII DaS yoe
to buy for next year1s hanging osvsn.
ty-ave-cent paDsr for - oeata A
closing ont It eost Larry lots esiow
cost.
LOyurr. oseesA strsoR.
, 1897-10-27

In lieu Of 4 captain. Harry Houston
has been taking charge Of the football
team.
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A esstins q u elass 4 -1aaasAU
, 1897-10-27

ron RBlsf-oo rsss ~ n =
publican o0a
, 1897-10-27

The Olympic Literary society held q
meeting last Friday in the society hall
and rendered a very pleasant program.
Prof. Morey acted as critic and her criti-
cisms were much appreciated. The
journal and the debate were especially
enioyed. Following was the prn9ram.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
THE WEIGHING SEA.

Ho, for the sea at night,
Shining in ghostly lighti
Ho for the seal
Beloved and foam bedight,
Moonlit, all black and white,
Wanton is She
Heaving her bosom bright,
Wicked and full Of might,
Calling for me. 49,;
am no longer free.
Hark how she shouts in gleei
Sirens sang so.
Now in a sandy lee
Passionate lovers we,
Reckless grow.
And for the hour I'll be
Hers, with my soul in fee,
While her winds blow.
Tiger love hers, l know
Fair friend and subtle foe.
Hid out of sight,
Deep in her caverns low,
Turks her reward Of woe.
Come love, come spite,
Into her waves ! go,
Dare her undertow!
Ho, for the fightl Lark.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
ROBERT THE DEVIL.

Of course the generals will was at
the bottom of the affair, but the Eve
behind these fig leaves was his second
wife.
They could not call her stepmother,
for the generals children were all old
er than she was The general was well
along in years when she married him,
but that was her affair.
There hangs his portrait, painted by
Copley. Look at it.
You do not believe he was go when
it was painted?
But they say he was.
He was more handsome and fasci-
mating at 60 than his sons were at 80.
The second wife was rich-very rich.
She brought the greatest quantity of
gold and silver plate into the family,
all marked with an Arabic cipher, to
which she added the Chevalier crest-a
terrapin-and the motto, 'Not to the
swift -
No one knew certainly who her peo-
pie were. She said they were Spanish,
and her own appearance supported her
assertion.
There is her portrait, painted at the
time of her marriage. Look at it. The
general went to Paris, long journey
in those days, to buy those diamonds
she wears, and the corbeille.
Sometimes, even when there was no
one to dine at home but the family,
Mistress Chevalier would sail into the
drawing room, that peafowl's tail of
green embroidered velvet spread behind
her, her beautiful black hair turned
back-like that-in tour, her arms as
naked as Venus, her point lace falling
from her milk white shoulders, and
flashing from hair and ears and fingers
and flaming in fire circle about her
delicate neck, the diamonds-magnif-
cent stones, worth scores of negroes.
Lord! how the daughters would stare
at their plates and how the sons would
sheer at each other as the general
would meet her midway the room, lead
her to her seat at table and kiss the
dimple on her shoulder before he left
her.
1uCy say SuO 4OFCO IAAA p0oo4OAdUOAJ
that often, when she thought they
were alone and he would pass her chair,
she would turn her head upon her lazy
cushions and hold out beautiful hand.
And he?
Would kneel beside her and kiss he1
pomegranate lips and lovely throat un-
til you would have sworn him %, AND
mavhap not married at all.
They say, too, twas pretty sight tt
see her with her little son. A maid go.
ing to help her dress one morning heare
so much laughter and such baby shrieks
that she first peeped in at the door.
And, behold, the mistress on hel
hands and knees, and baby, just from
his bath, on her necki
She was crawling over the velvet car
pet in her linen shift, looking over hel
shoulder at the little shouting rrccal,
~. -: :. - lIil vi. N' l,le
-s,s II
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28

and frozen, "or remind you of the
home you have always had here. You
now have homes Of your own and must
live in them, as I shall live in mine.
AS long as you are in my house you
must conduct yourselves as your fathers
children should. Your quarrels and
cruel speeches insult his memory"
They took flight like SO many black
birds, but the mistress was so good ma
tured they flew back at intervals, and
every now and then the boy was per-
mitted to visit them. He went with
pockets full of gold and returned to-
tai bankrupt. He gave, and they took,
with both hands.
About year after the generals death
the boy came home from visit to his
eldest brother, Robert, who lived in the
city. He had been at home for day,
perhaps, when he was taken i'll.
His illness puzzled the country ply
stefan, and a city colleague was sent for.
But the boy died.
His mother, locking at his dead body,
spoke out her thought: "He has been
poisoned. His brother has poisoned
him.
And she called the eldest son Cain
and Robert the Devil to his dying day.
The speech went abroad like blot Of
ink in tumbler of water. Robert new.
er forgave her. There was no proof that
the child had been foully dealt with,
but the suspicion imbittered his life
and followed him to the grave, and SO
they hated each other fercely.
The Chevalier place was very valua-
BILE. Add to that the mistress money
and plate and jewels, and one can see
why every bachelor and many a man
who could not marry looked longingly
into her beautiful face
But one could tell by the manner of
her walking, the infections of her voice
and the immobility of her attitude
when she sat that for her there was
neither light nor sweetness, nor hope,
nor desire, left in life.
And yet she went about as usual,
even after her sons death, steadily re-
fusing the shroud of Grape and having
always in the house light, flowers, per-
fume and pleasant company.
The stepchildren locked curiously at
each other as year after year slid away
and said to each other that she would
never die.
Many of them died of dropsy and
other watery disorders, and their chill
dren grew up, but at 90 Mistress Chew
alier was still alive-and at SO, al
though, truth to tell, she had shriveled
into a brown mummy and sat all-day
and ofttimes all night in great wad-
ded chair with a hood over it, stuffed
about with cushions and propped with
pillows and hot water bottles. Her body
had mummifed, but her mind was as
clear and as crystal as ice.
She would look with her deep black
eyes at the faithful mulatto slave WON.
an who waited upon her and laugh tt
herself-a strangely clear laugh to is
sue from such sunken lips.
Sometimes her step grandchildren
would go to see her. When they were
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28

years passed they got quite used to the
sight of the great coffin in one end Of
the room.
cit is very comfortable bed," Mis-
tress Chevalier would often say. And
several times, when she thought the
hour had surely come, she made the
slave woman and her daughters put it
on its trestles and lift her in, and she
would lie, waiting for death, gazing
with a corpselike smile ct the generals
portrait.
At these times the family, in all its
branches, rejoiced. There were only
few of the direct line left. Nearly all
had married Some were rich, and some
were poor, and all were avaricious.
At last, one morning the faithful mu-
lattress found the mistress dead in her
coffin.
Once again the children of the house
assembled in the drawing rooms to hear
the reading Of will-the women, as
usual, hypocritical row of yelled
pleureuses. All were present except the
son of Robert.
He had inherited his fathers hatred,
and Mistress Chevalier's death revived
the story of her sons. So the STEP
grandson staid away from her burial.
His portion of the estate should be
the place itself. But the will ran, "To
my faithful and devoted attendant Gil
la, or Lucilla, Chevalier I leave the
place and certain sums of money at in
terest herein more fully described and
specified"
This LuCilla iChevalier was none 9TH
er than the mulatto slave woman whose
papers of freedom, together with those
of her daughters and sons, had been
declared before the will was opened.
Therefore was she a legal heir. A
gasp of horror ran round the room.
The Chevalier place!
But that was not all. If the surviv-
ing relatives Of the testator should at
tempt to set aside the conditions of the
will in any way, on any grounds, the
entire property, real and personal,
should go to the dead woman's ply
stefan. Between this man and the Chew
alters there had always been feud and
ill favor.
Niobe's son received life interest of
many thousand dollars, and there were
a few legacies here and there among
the poorest Guelph Chevalier tribe.
The mistress gold and silver plate,
diamonds and other jewels were locked
up in bank in the city, to be disposed
of, in accordance with sealed instruc-
tions locked up with them, a year after
the reading of the will.
When Roberts son was told these
things, he turned white and then green
"a livid, unpleasant shade.
The Chevalier place, his patrimony,
left to slaves! And God knew to whom
the gold, the silver and the diamonds
were left. The sealed instructions with
them would undoubtedly reveal further
determination on the part of the dead
woman to insult and rob the family.
Mistress Chevalier's coffin had been
placed in the family vault, between
those of her husband and their little
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28

| sat ana SnOOK IlK6 d LUSCIOUS IuOlu OI
berry jam, while the young mistress
crawled about, crushing the yellow
flowers under her soft hands and knees.
The door of the inner room sprang
open, and in walked the general, his
dressing gown with the Persian border
wrapped around him.
There was shrieking then, warrant
you.
Those years were the generals holi-
day time. He had earned it, for his
first wife was Guelph, and everybody
in Carolina knows what that means.
She never got down on her knees ex-
cept to pray in her life, and she never
prayed for anything except money.
She put on mourning the second year
of her marriage and never took it off
again. They say she slept in her Grape
veil
Her children were all born black in
the face and crying and they cried the
greater part of their childhood.
The boys got ashamed of it after
awhile, for their English blood was
strong, but the girls never did, and
ought to have lived in land of droughts.
Their tears would have fertilized des-
ert.
AS it was, there was rain a-plenty
and to spare, and the general kept out
Of their way, gave them Ill ,brellas and
handkerchiefs for birthday gifts, and
rejoiced greatly when they cried over
him at their weddings for the last time,
as he thought. But some of them drown
ed their husbands in tears and came
home again damper than ever, and no
one but the second wife could have
stood them.
She laughed, ordered more fires,
brighter lights, opened the windows,
and filled the house with flowers and
gay company.
She called the eldest Niobe to her
face and spoke of them collectively as
the weeping willows, for they were
tall and liked to be thought willowy.
They cried so much over their little
half brother that the boy fairly detested
them and ran away from the sight of
them.
He grew up strong like his father and
beautiful like his mother, veritable
enfant de l'amour, but when he was 10
and the general was 70 the fine, hand
some old gentleman died suddenly.
The mistress was but 80, just the age
of the youngest stepdaughter, and she
sat in the drawing room when the will
was read with such look on her face
that nobody but Guelph would have
dared to cry. The boy sat by her, the
very print and copy of his father, with
his little aquiline nose, his bright blue
eyes, and his fathers own trick of hold
ing up his chin and stiffening his spine
when he desired to see clearly.
Now, the general had been good to
his children. He had given generously
to his sons and had helped them in
business. He always gave marriage
portions to his daughters
They all came to hear the reading of
his will-the women shrouded in Grape,
with red eyes and noses. The mistress
sat in the gown the general had loved
her the most in, and everybody stared
at it and at her beautiful grief stricken
face.
The will stated that she should hold
the old Chevalier place for her son. II
she survived him, it should be hers alb
solutely, to leave as she pleased.
There should be no division of prop
erty until the last son was of age. Then
came requests to relatives and servants
and that was all.
The stepchildren were furiously an
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-01-23
GRANT. AS a YOUNG DEBATER.
Took a Prominent Part in q Kentucky


Apparently Grant entered the Philo-
nathan Debating club, Maysville, KY,
or the first time at it's thirty-third meet
ing, January 8, 1887. He took q promi-
nent part at once, says McClure's. BY a
curious coincidence, the question for
this first evening was: ''Resolved, That
the Texans were not justifable in giving
Santa Anna his liberty" In the names
of the debaters this night there APP
peared on the record II. y. Grant. He
was on the affirmative side. He was
on the affirmative side at the thirty
fourth meeting, with this question:
''Resolved, That females WELD greater
influence in society than the n2ales.'
The affirmative side won in this case
as we'll as the other. At the thirty fifth
meeting his name appears On the affirm
ative OF the question Ca very vital one
at that time): 'Resolved, That it would
not be just and polite to liberatc the
slaves at this time" Again he was On
the winning side. At the thirty-sixth
meeting the name appears ~. Grant"
on the affirmative side Of the resolution
that ''Intemperance is a greater evil
than war;
At the thirty-seventh meeting he was
elected, together with his friend, A. II.
MARYLAND, and W. Richeson, as a mem
Der of the committee; he also took part
in the debate on the question: RE
solved, That Socrates was right in not
escaping when the prison doors were
opened to him. He took the afirm;l-
tive and it was again the successful side
And in all the succeeding meetings,
down to March II, 1897, the record
shows him to have been active, but after
that date his name does net appear.
The probabilities are that he returned
home to help put in the crop.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-01-23
The Egyptian Aftecslow.

We all know what "Egyptian dark
ness" is, and that in most tropical coun-
tries sudden darkness after SHUTDOWN is
one Of the peculiarities. In Egypt at
certain seasons of the year there is Il
marked exception to this sudden draw
ing OF the curtains Of the Skies" The
sun got~; down ard darkness comes OF
very suddenly and continues fer /;
space of 20 minutes or half an hour.
Then, all Of a suddcn, the hills and sands
take on ghasuy palsness and in an
other moment everything begins to
brighten, and it a ppears that the sun
is about to rise out of the west. Thes<,
tints of golden, purple, orange and lilac
attain their maximum degree of bright
ness in about ten minutes after they
begin, and in 20 minutes everyt hing ha::
faded into darkness and YOU are only
conscious Of the fact that you have just
witnessed the phenomenon known as
the ''Egyptian afterglow.''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-01-23
Temperature OF Deep Wells.

W. Hallock, government expert
geologist, has taken the temperature
at various depths in the famous '<dcep
wells" at Wheeling, W. Va. Several @!
these are over 1900 feet in depth. In
one of them Zone in which the depth, as
given by the foreman Of the drilling
company which put the we'll down, is
1858 feeD, it was found that the tenn
perature at a depth of 1890 feet was
2o.4 degrees centigrade. When the in
strument was lowered to a depth OF
2,OCO feet and given time to do its req
istering, it was found that the mark
had been set at 1922, while at point
only eight feet from the bottom and
1850 feet from the surface of the
earth it registered as high as 43.4 de-
greeS