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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-07-31

me sun FoR Issi.

Everybody reads Tie San. IN The
sdiions Of this newspapar throughout
Ne year TO come everybody will nnd:
1. All the worlds news. % presented
hat he reader will get the Rreatosa
nount Of information With the least
Improbable expenditure Of time and
i3ys wight. The SEn long ago discovered
ne golden o between redundant
tuilness and unsatisfactory brsyity.
III. Much Of that sort OF news which
depends less upon its recognized i'm.
portance than upon It's intereet to man.
lind. From morning to morning TRs
Ssa prints . continued story Of the lives
Of real men and N and of their
deeds. plans, loves. hates. and troubles.
This story is moro varied and more In.
SsrestinR than any romance that wa
sycr devised.
III. Good writing in every column,
ND freshness. originality. accuracy, and
dScorum in the treatment Of every rub
oct.
Nv. Honest comment. II. suns
habit il to speak out fearlessly about
men and things.
V. Equal candor in dealing with each
political party. and equal readiness 70
commend what Is praiseWorthy or to
Sbuke what is blsrable In Democrat or
Republican.
vi. Absolute independence of parti.
sSn organization, but unwavering 10y
Aty to T Democratic principles. TRs
Sem believes that the Government which
the Constitution gives us is q good one
70 keep. Its notion Of duty is to resist
20 its utmost power the efforts Of men
IN the Republican party to set pc
mother forU OF government in plao Of
hat which exists. The year 1881 and
The years Immediately following will
probably decide this supremacy impor-
tant contest. The Sun believes that the
victory will be with the people as against
he Rings for monopoly, with Rings for
plumber. and the rings for imperial
powor.
Our terms are AZ follows:
For the Daily Sun, a four page sheet
d t~wenty-eigbt columns, the price by
nail. post paid, is SIS cents . month, or
$3.50 a year; or, including the Sunday
paper, IN eight page sheet OF ffty.six
columns, the price is SIS cents . month,
~ ST. 10 a year, postage paid.
The Sunday edition OF tn, Sun is also
furnished separately at Sl.20 q year.
postage paid.
The price of the Weekly Sun. eight
pages, hfty.six columns. Is 6 a year,
postage paid. For clubs OF ten sending
80 we will send IN extra copy free.
Address: I. W. ESoLASD.
Publisher OF The SUN,
New York City.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-07-31
FOR SALE--FOR CASH.

The undersigned offers for sale at = bargain
his stofc, with entire stock OF general mer.
ehandlso: The stock 10 new and complete.
Also Q dwelling house connected with the
store. Fruit trces, flower aud vegetable gar
Den and running tprlpg o watcr on. premises,
nrst.elass billiard saloon for sale or rent.
Call on premises for terms.
Ed ChRPEAUx,
BHllioH, EsyA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
Applications of Electricity.

The electric railroad which DIR. Stem
ems has constructed in Berlin between
the suburb of Lichtenfield and the Ca
'lettenhaus is now regularly opened for
passengers, and is giving great satisfac-
Jion. The rails are of the ordinary rail-
way pattern, but the gauge is only three
feet three inches. A single Car is pre-
PEELED by the current al an average
speed of nine miles an hour, though this
rate can be doubled if necessary. A SIM
liar line has been erected at the Crystal
Palace, Sydenham, England, as an at
traction for visitors, but it is probable
that elecric railroads will be practically
introduced into that country before ma
ny years are past. Velocipedes are now so
common that it is not surprising to find
that electricity has been applied to their
propulsion. NJ. Trouve, the well kn Iwn
French electrician, recently drove an
English tricycle. through the streets of
Paris by means of electricity stored in a.
Plante secondary battery and pair of
DepreZ electric motors. The tricycle.
with its occupant and apparatus weigh
Ell four hundredweight, and went at the
speed Of an ordinary cab; but with some
modification of the apparatus NJ. TrOuve
hopes to attain a rate of twelve OF fifteen
miles an hour. The new secondary bat
terry of NJ. Faure will also help his pur-
pose, and velocipedes driven by electric
power will probably by and by prove
useful to the ilyalided or the weakly.
In Paris, too, electricity has been applied
to work an air compressor at the toy
balloon factory of NM. Chauchard ct
Cie., behind the Hotel du Louvre. The
spare steam power of the engines has
been utilized by two Gramme machines,
one of which generates the current and
the other transforms it into mechanical
work. The energy thus transmitted is
about a horse power per minute.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
No Letter for Burch.

A man from Branch county being in
Custar City soon after postOffiee was
established there, went up to the shanty
one day intent to inquire for mail mat
ter. A man from Missouri was just
ahead of him, and inquired if there was
any letter for Zachariah Burch.
"Be you the fellow?" queried the
postmaster.
81 am"
Named Zachariah, are ye?"
"Yes, sir"
"Too Internal long for this country.
You'd better chop it in two"
81 axed if there was letter here for
zachariah Burch," said the Misseul ian,
with bad CLEAN in his eyes.
"And 1 heard ye, and there is nothing
of the sort here"
"Kinder seems to me there is"
"Then am a liar ?"
The pair looked at each other for a
minute, and then Burch remarked:
"Mebbe you are"
Then Uncle Sans official hoped out
of his den and went for Zachariah
Burch. 1t was pretty even match for
ten minutes, and then the postmaster
got his favorite hold. Soon after that
event Mr.. Burch observed:
stranger, reckon it's no use pro-
longing this sorrowful affair"
81 reckon not, but ye inquired for
letter for Burch."
Yes"
"And you give il to me purity strong
that such letter had arriy."
"Yes 1 did," replied Burch. as he felt
of his left ear to see what portion was
left for future fights, but I've been
thinking powerful hard in the last ten
minutes. and 1 guess the ole woman
back in Missouri has put off writin' till
next Sunday. Let's go out and take
suthin' to bring tears to our eyes,
lTri County Review.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
WAITS.

Running into debt is the worst of col
lisions.
Many man who thinks himself a
great gun is nothing more than a big
bore.
She was the tppo's first mash, but her
mother came in and stopped the press.
Don't chew gum, girls; have some
gum-shun about you," is the advice of
the Newport News.
Sir George says he don't wonder that
his sweetheart is afraid of lightning
she is so awfully attractive.
It's as natural for baker to be crusty
as it is for a cobbler to be wholc-soled or
a dress maker to be biased.
81 find that with light meals my health
improves" said the Esquimaux; and
down went another candle.
For simply trying to get head in the
world poor little boy was sent to pris-
on. He stole head Of cabbage
School-boys want the rules and rulers
suspended this hot weather because they
are wearing thin pants.
A steamship captain has been trying
to improve the bed of the sea by throwing
mattresses into New York harbor.
A New York minister has tried for
the eighth time to kill himself. A law
should be enacted to abolish those do
nation parties.
A. man in Alabama having published
another as "a liar. a scOundrel, and pol
troon,' the lattercomplains that he does
not spell poltrppp correctly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
Blow Your Horn.
"Ben Wilde" in the Aurora News, TO His
Little Bow

"Ben Wilde," in the Aurora News, TO His
Little Boy.
My boy, blow your own horn. Rise
above thing mistaken for modesty,
which defrauds the world of something
good. If you have musical horn. blow
it. If you don't, it may not be blown,
and the world will lose so much good
music.
But make pretty sure that you have
something to say before you yell, "Mr.
ChairmanT You may get the floor and
make fool of yourself. Don't blow
your horn for the mere purpose of max
ing noise. Music is noise, but noise is
not necessarily music.
Don't attract attention to yourself un-
til you have something about you that
will bear scrutiny. Don't flash your
paste pin before the eyes of diamond
broker. If you have a gem it will do
very well to let him examine it.
Don't wear loud necktis with dir
ty collar. The necktie will serve only to
attract attention to the collar.
Keep in the crowd until you have
something in your mind that will make
you shine on the platform. Then don't
be afraid to step to the front.
Your object should be to do the hu-
man family good. II you think you pos
sess an idea that will help your fellows,
stand out where they all can hear it and
yell it to them.
Little men will say you lack mOdesty.
Great men will say you are doing good.
II you prefer the good opinion Of the
great men, blow your horn whenever
you have learned new and righteous
tuLe.
Nobody respects miser who boards
his money. Why should respects be
due to the scholar who boards his lore
And what satisfaction can be derived
from cramming ones self with knowl-
edge unless it be be for the purpose of
disseminating 1T among those who have
it not?
1t is by communion Of ideas that the
world is caused to progress. II you
learn something that robody else knows,
you will retard the progress of the
worlds eruditiOn in proportion as you
keep your secret.
| rejoice that it is tie nature of most
men to be glad Of opportunity to tell the
world something it never knew before.
1t is proof Of an excellent unselfish-
ness.
Dig for knowledge as you would for
gold, my boy, and when you get mug
get OF either, put it into circulation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
POETRY.
MEET ME WITH SMILES.


Meet me with smiles, let no shadow or care
Steal the soft hush from the hearts summer
air,
Floating together down life's silvery stream,
.Wrspt in the incense of faiths hallowed
gleam,
Trusting each other through all coming years
Meet me with smiles, darling, never with
= tears.
Over Thy brow let no gloomy cloud be,
Tenderly, lovingly, cherished by thee,
Warmed by the sunshine of love in thy
breast
Feeling 20 surely my barque is at rest
Thus be it ever, mid life's joys or fears,
Meet me with smiles, darling, never with
tears.
Meet me with smiles, let their eloquence
throw
Over my spirit loves rosiest glow,
Stealing like music drops down in my heart,
Touching it may be, some undying smart,
Leaving with memory a charm that endears,
Meet me with smiles, darling, never with
tears.
Though In this world there is sorrow for all,
Mysteries unravelcd around US may fall
Blossoms OF hope lying fresh in my heart
Mock al all shadows and bid them depart;
Sunshine on earth ever strengthens and
. cheers,
Meet me with smiles, darling, never with
tears.
Meet me with smiles though their cost be but
small,
Pricelessly ly tressured and cherished by all;
Snoolhipgshe rugged path wearily trod,
Lifting the burdens known only TO God,
Lurirg my sours thoughts TO happier spheres,
Meet meAxifh Smiles, darling, never with
tears.
Could earth be dark where such flashes of
- light
Born from the heart to the lips just at sight,
Would not such words, though unuttered
=. .stilllie ~
Like rose leaves at rest when storms had gone
by?
This be my prayer, through all coming years,
Meet me with smiles, darling, never with
tears. [-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
Aunt Nancy's Mind on the Subject,
By MARGARET Z. sANGsTRR,

And this is the New Testament,
And It's come in the sweet o. the year,
When the fields are shining in cloth-of-gold,
And the birds are singing so clear;
And over and into the grand old text,
Reverent and thoughtful men,
Through many a summer and winter past,
Have been peering with book and pen;
Till they've Strengthened the moods and lenses
out,
And dropped each obsolete phrase,
And softened the strong old>fashionod words
To our daintier modern ways;
Collated the ancient manuscripts,
Particle, verb and line,
And faithfully done their very best
To improve the book divine.
haven't doubt they have done it well,
But II is not clear to me
That we needed the trouble it was to them,
On either side Of the sea.
cannot help it; thought that comes
You know | am old and plain
But it seems like touching the ark Of God,
And the touch to my heart is pain.
For ten years past, and for five times len
At the back of that, nay dear,
I've made and mended and toiled and saved,
With my Bible ever near.
Sometimes it was only verse at morn
That lifed me up form care,
Like the springins wings of sweet voiced lark
Cleaving the golden air;
And sometimes on Sunday afternoons
Twas chapter rich and long,
That came to my heart in this weary hour
With the lilt Of triumph song
studied the precious words, my dear,
When child al my moilier's knee,
And l tell you the Bible I've always had
Is good enough book for me.
may be stubborn and out of date,
But my hair is as white as snow,
And | love the things learned to love,
In the beautiful long ago.
cannot be changing at my time;
TwOuld be losing part of myself;
You may lay the New Testament
Away on the upper shelf.
cling to the old one my good mar read
In our fireside prayers at night;
To the one my little children lisped
Ere they faded out of my sight.
shall gather my deac ones close again
Where the many mansions be,
And till then the Bible I'v always had
Is good enough book for me.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07

Larger pieces appear as fire balls, and
very large masses fall through the air
in state of combustion, which is not,
however, sufficiently intense to consume
their volume before reaching the
ground. This idea of celestial origin
seems to have originated among the
Greeks. Plutarch says: Failing stars
are, according to the opinion of some
physicists, not eruptions Of the ethereal
fire extinguished in the air Immediately
after its ignition, nor yet an inflamma-
tory combustion of the air. which is dis
solved in large quantities In the upper
region of space; but these meteors are
rather fall of celestial bodies, which
in consequence of certain intermission
in the retatory force, and by the impulse
of some irregular movement, have been
hurled down not only to the inhabited
portions of the earth, but also beyond it
into the great ocean where We cannot
find them" The views of Diogenes of
Appollonia are expressed thus: STARS
that are invisible" and consequently
have no name, move in space together
with those that are visible. These in
visible stars frequently fall to the earth,
and are extinguished, as the stony star
which fell burning at Egos Potamos." !"
Chaldni, as the result of his inYestiga-
tions, advanced the opinion that me-
teors are bodies moving in space. being
either accumulations Of matter origi-
nally created. or fragments separated
from large mass Of a similar nature.
Sir II. Davy offered the Same explana-
tiOn in philosophical Transactions for
1917. These views, OF rather modifi-
cation of them suited to our increased
knowledge Of eosmical ways and means.
have their modern advocate in Prof. Ii.
A. Newton. of Yale College.-Tinsley's
Magazine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
sSend for Mother"

Dear me! 1t wasn't enough for me
to nurse and raise family of my own,
but now when am old and expect to
take little comfort here, it is all the
time send for mother" And the dear
old soul growls and grumbles, but
dresses herself as fast as she can not
wlthstanding. After you have trotted
her off, and got her safely in your home,
and she flies around administering her
remedies and rebukes by turns, you feel
easier. 1t is right now, or soon will be-
mothers come!
In sickness, no matter who is there or
or how many doctors quarrel over your
case, everything goes wrong, somehow,
till you send for mother.
In trouble the first thing you think of
is to send for mother.
But this has its ludicrous as well as
its touching aspect. The yerdart Young
couple, to whom baby's TX raor-
binary grimaces and alarming yawns,
which threaten the dislOcatiOn of its
chin: its wonderful sleeps, which it ac-
cOmplisheS with its eyes half open, and
no perceptihle futter of breath on its
lips, causing the young mother to imag-
in" lt5>dead this time, and to shrek out,
send for mOtherl" in tones of anguish
this young couple in the light of the ex-
perience which three or four baoies
bring, find they have been ridiculous
and given mother good manJ trots for
nothing.
Did any one ever send for mother and
she fail to come? Never, unless sickness
or the intirmities of age prevented her.
AS when, in your childhood, those will
ing feet responded to your call, so they
still do, and will continue to do as they
are able. And when the summons comes
which none yet disregarded, though it
will be happy day for her. it will be
dark and sad one for you, when Ged,
too, will send for yonr mother.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
Theory of MeteOrites.

Ore of the oldest theories, and the one
tina. is, perhaps, most consistent with
known facts and laws, is that meteorites
are bodies moving round the sun, which
occasionally enter our atmosphere. and
are frittered into dust or reach the earth
as aerolites. In other words, they are
abnormally large fragments of comets.
Small frsgmants are dissipatsd in the
higher regions of the air by the intense
heat produced by friction. and give rise
to the phenomenon of shooting stars
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
Rely on the Druggists.

Malt Bitters are the best bitters.'
They promote sleep and sIlay nervousness.
Best liver and kidney medicine we SELL
They knock the chills every time.
'Consumptive people gain flesh on them.'
Malt Bitters have no rivals in this town.
Best thing for nursing mothers we have
we like TO recommend Malt Bitters.' in
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07

~ Don't forget that Piso's Cure for
Consumption is warranted to do all that
is promised in the directions, given with
each bottle. Always kept in stock by
Wells & Dent, Bridgeport, o. q 5 tf)
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07

Put pebbles of different sizes into a
Dox, shake them up, and the large ones
will be at the bottom. 1t is different
with strawberries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07

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Route. 1t will pay you to read their adver
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II Is better TO hit the nail on the head
twice than it is to hit the nail on the fin
ger once.
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THE English sparrow-"H Have driven
all the other birds from the tcwn?
Well, should twitterw
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Will the coming man wear q stove
pipe at?-Ex. That probably depends
upon whether the coming halter will
trust-Nor. Herald.
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but think Sunday evening the best in
the week for going to see your girl.
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w. \. MCMECHAN,
(512 tf) Real Estate Agent
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AFGH HA N IST AN.
The Ameer's Occupation Con

LONDON, August 1.-The Calcutta cor
respondent OF the Times say it is certain
that such of the the Ameer's troops as
have not joined AyoOb Khan are dis.
persed, aud that the Ameer's cause is
lost in Southern Afghanistan. The
chances are that this week will witness
Ayoob Khan in full march on Cabul.
1t is not unlikely that the Amer
NAV succeed in holding his own in Al.
ghanistan, and that the end oi the civil
war may see Afghanistan split into two
Kingdoms, Ayoob Khan being master
Of Cabul, Candahar and Herat, and Abb
lurrahman Khan reigniHg in Balkh
and Bodakshat. Should this forecast he
fulfilled the British Government will
have to face a serious problem. Abdur.
rahman separated from US by a victorious
rlyaI, can hardly fail TO sink to the same
position as the khans OF Bakhard and
Kbiva, and become q fudatary OF Rus
sia, which will thus practically advance
the Russian frontier to lindukSh,
while the remainder OF AfghsnistIn be.
longs to our avowed enemy. That Eng
land can not afford TO allow events
TO arrange themselves in this manner
is, | believe, the unanimous opinion OF
the people OF this country, and it is
matter OF general remark that the folly
of the withdrawal from Candahar and
the hastily patched up settlement made
at Cabul last year have already become
manifest