The Lincoln County Leader, 1882-11-25

The Govcrnmcntfrce-hinch policy is said to have such an cxbilirating effect on tho lite bucks that tho agent has about all he ean do to prevent them from going on a hair hair-lifting - lifting hair-lifting excursion. A political article in a loading newspaper is headed "Tlc Decliuc of the Stump." This may be cheering news to those who snioko five-cent cigars, but it is rough on the hoodlums who pick the raw material out of spittoons and gutr ters for two ce uts cr pound. St. John, the Kansas apostle, has got down and hid himself in the dust of humiliation because ha was defeutcd for governor, while McCabe, a neutral tinted African, was elected auditor of 6tate by a good, rousing majority. Alas, how soon are reputations mado and lost 1 A young lady was lately quite seriously injured in the streets oí Bt. Louis by a cow, and now the City Fathers aro at a loss to de determine - termine determine whether to pen up the cattle or tho women. "What bothers them is to find out whether the streets of that metropolis are better calculated for a pasturo than a promenade. A party of masked men under undertook - took undertook to rob and murder tho Chinese miners employed by the Carlisle Mining Company, in tho Steeple Rock district, November é, but were driven off by Mr. Farrish, the superintendent, and a squad of men. There seems to be bad blood on the Gila over the Employ Employment - ment Employment of Chinese laborers in the mines. i Two cranks of St. Johnsbury, Vt., have started on a canoe voy voyage - age voyage from Lake George intending to bo gone a year. At last accounts they had got as far as Cincinnati, and propose to go from thence to the Gulf, and around to New York, continuing up the Hudson river to the starting point, unless some friendly wave should sooner cast them up from the sea. Mrs. Stowc, of San Francisco, is a dress-reformer who has given the Chief of Police of that city notice that on and after January 1st she shall wear a male's attire. The chief has replied that ho will arreut her if she appears in tho street in that costume. In the meantime the masculine world stands shiver ing with suspense until it is decided who shall wear tho breeches.

rick and sullered both m mind and body. An action for damagos was brought by tho husband, iu his own nd hi . wife's name, hikI judgment of $300 recovered. The compaiiy ayjealed, Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company vs., Frcderika, to the Supreme court of Texas, who, in June, af af-firmod - firmod af-firmod the judgment. Judge Wil Wilson - son Wilson in tho opinion, said that the company was liable for the neglect of the ticket agent, and that tho damages should bo sufficient to cover all reasonable claims for in injuries, - juries, injuries, including as well the mental as tho physical suffering. Brad Brad-street. - street. Brad-street. A steam generator has been do do-vised - vised do-vised on a plan by which, at each stroke ot tho piston of the engine, a cortain quantity of water is project projected - ed projected against two strongly heated metal plates, tho steam so produc produced - ed produced going directly into the cylinder an arrangement by which not only a special generator, but also tht valve system for tho entering steam, is snjrlluous. In a de description - scription description given of this mechanism tho vaporizing surface ia said to consist of two motalic cones, ono within the other, with an interval of about 0.0-1 inch between; the hollow space is divided into two chambers, each of which is connec connected - ted connected with ono side of tho cylinder ; and tho gases play first on tho inner surface of the doiiblo cone, then on the outer. This arrangement, as far as tested, has given quite satis- factory results. y. Y. .Sun.

A Woman s Way. Woman, in reading a newspaper has a distinct method of her own. She takes it up hurriedly, and be begins - gins begins to scan it over rapidly, as though she were hunting some par particular - ticular particular thing, but she U not. She is merely taking in tho obscure paragraphs, which, ehe believes, were put in out-of-the-way places for tho suke of keeping hor froni seeing them. Marriages and deaths are always interesting reading to her, and ad advertisements - vertisements advertisements are exciting and etim etim-ulatirg. - ulatirg. etim-ulatirg. She cares but little- for printed jokes unless they reflect upon the men, and then she de delights - lights delights in them and never forgets them. She pays particular attention to anything inclosed in quotations, and considers it rather better auth authority - ority authority than anything first-handed. The columns in which the editor airs his opinions, in leaded hifalu hifalu-tin, - tin, hifalu-tin, she rarely reads. Views are of no importance in her estimation but facts are everything. She gen generally - erally generally reads the poetry. Sho doesn't care for it, but makes a practice of reading it because she thinks she ought to do so. She reads sketches, and stories, and paragraphs indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. After she has read all sho wants, pho lays tho paper down with an air :;f disappointment as she ob observes - serves observes that "thero is nothing in it." - - Bill Arp on Modern Courtship.

of all observing persons Í have spoken to when! say that immense injury is beii.g done by this high pressure life. The physique- is be being - ing being nnderminod. i The San Diego Rains. Theso are tho most interesting ruins on tho American continent for many reasons. No record ex exists - ists exists of their building w destruction. In Jemez Pueblo there is a volume known :g tho ''Montezuma Rook," which is a history of Spanish man manuscript - uscript manuscript (.f the Conquest by Cortez, but it makes no allusion to this building. A tradition comes through tho Jemcz Indians to tho effect that their ancestors had been used as slaves by the inmates ol tho building, and that they rebelled and massacred them, but they do not seem to havo any idea of how long ago it happened. Never havo any ruing been found of mich stupendous proportions as tluwo. Walls nowhere less than nine feet thick, of solid stone, and around tho great tower fourteen feet thick. The walls are yet stand standing - ing standing forty toot high, and tho tower seventy-five. i'hero are many rooms in the building, and the one apparently used for divine serviced is ono hundred and fifty feet long. Adjoining tho church there is a largo court-yard enclosed by a high stono wall of equal thickness with the walls of tho church, and thero aro a dozen of ponderous stono buildings near tho church. A largo brick pavement that stood in front of the entrance to tho church hacheen carried off un

ness and light " which we are told distinguish the cultured man from barbarism, nevertheless there is a sense in which any assertion is true. You know primitive man lacks jwiwcr ot application. Secured by hunger or revenge, he can exert himself energetically for a time, but bis energy is spasmodic. Monot Monotonous - onous Monotonous daily toll is impossible to him. It ifl otherwise with the more developed man. The stern discipline oi social life has gradual gradually - ly gradually increased the craving for persis persistent - tent persistent industry until among it, and still more among you work lias be become - come become such a passion TUAT THE COXrRAST OT NATURE hus another aspect. The savage thinks only of present satisfactions and leaves future satisfactions un un-cared - cared un-cared for. Otherwise the Ameri American, - can, American, eagerly pursuing the future good, almost ignores what good the passing day offers him, and when the future good is gained he ncg ncg-lests - lests ncg-lests that, whilst living for some still remoter good. What I have seen and heard during my stay a a-mongyou - mongyou a-mongyou has forced on mo tho bo lief that this slow change from hab habitual - itual habitual inertness to persistent activi activity - ty activity has reached the extreme from which there must begin a counter change, a reaction everywhere. I have beun struck with the number of faces which told in strong lines

Ono of thoso unnaturally bright children who aro always getting people in'.o difficulties was at a prayer-meeting the other evening witli his mother, when ho asked aloud : "Ma, say, who was Dinah Moore)" "Ilu-u-sh," whispered his moth mother, - er, mother, cautiously, "it's a hymn." "No, it ain't, ma," continued tho hopeful, "it'sa woman: say, whoso going home to Dinah Moore." "Willie," said his mother, in a ghastly voice, "you're disturbing tho meeting. It means going to Heaven to die no more." "Diño no moro I Oh, ma ; don't they eat anything there) I don't want to go thero if they don't have any dinner !" Ilia mother explained as woll as sho could, and Willie sat still for half a minute, his bright eves rov roving - ing roving about the church. Then hu asked, in a shrill whisper. "Ma, is God out of town )'' "No-o-o, no-no," answered tho distracted woman, faintly. "Then what's Mr. Kelly running this meeting for, ma)" continued the sweet child. The choir sung him down, but aH the meetiug closed with a mo moment - ment moment of silent prayer his gentío voice was distinctly heard saying: "Old Mrs. Jones' switch doi?t match her hair like yours docs, ma !" Detroit, . W and Tribune. A defectivo memory: "Havo you ever before been punished by

Eores Trading and Theology. A Hudson river farmer who wanted a better horse than ho ks ks-scissed, - scissed, ks-scissed, drove into Yonkers one day with his nag, and hunting up a cit citizen - izen citizen who had the sort of liorse ho wanted, the farmer stated his de desire - sire desire to exchange, end added: "I understand that you are a Chriatian man?'' "Yes, sir." "Belong to the Baptist church " "Yes." "Oncjor the deacons, I believo" " I am." A trade was made, and the farmer drove home with the new equine. Put in the course of three days he returned and began : "See here, deacon, what kind of a man are you) You never told me that horse I got of you had spavins and ringbones and "heaves) " "No, I believe I didn't." " Well, you a.-e a pretty Christian, you are." "My friend," placidly replied the good man, "it you can find it anywhere in the good book that a deacon in the Raptist church must point out the defects in his own hort-e, where a binnor '.a too ignorant to see for himself, I'll admit my sin and trade back. Come in and we'll hunt for the passage."

til now not a vesiigo remains ex excepting - cepting excepting some broken pieces scat scattered - tered scattered through the debris. A few of tho bricks have been secured by the people hero, and wo will at least havo theso to show to visitors. They havo withstood tho viscissi viscissi-tudes - tudes viscissi-tudes of the weather for upward of three centuries, and aro as good as the day they were made. They have a uniform bright tint, and when struck sharply emit a metallic ring. They arc far superior to any in the line of brick that is made at the present day. It is a great pity that the pavement has been des destroyed, - troyed, destroyed, for tho bricks were arrang arranged - ed arranged in artistic manner, and wero of diffcront shapes, triangular, octa octagon, - gon, octagon, square, oblong etc. No underground rooms or vaults have been found in tho building, but it is believed that 6uch exist, and also that thero ie treasure bur buried - ied buried somewhere about the plaee. Around the church are the ruins of an ancient city of considerable dimensions, the houses of which were built of porphyry, and eomo of tho walls are yet in a;good stato of preservation.