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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-07-21
CLINTON, Iowa. April %. 1881

CLINTON, Iowa, April %, 1881.
~ wish you would send me spring for the
VIM Ellery Watch By the way this FL
lery Is watch sold in your Screw Bezel
Case to farmer las + all. The first of Jan
he lost the watch in the woods, and found it
this week in about one foot of water. 1t had
lain three months and over in snow and water
with but slight injury to the watch-only a
hair spring @. s, RAYMOND"
The above were very severe tests, and dem
onstrated beyond doubt. that for any rea-
souable length of time during which watch
might be under water it would receive no in
jury whatever.
We make these cases In both gold aud sill
yer, and as a Perfectly Dust-Proof
stem Win ding Watch Case,
Challenge thu Worid to Pro-
duce It's EqusI.
For sale by all First.Class
Jewellers.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-07-21
ssGlad News for the Unfortunate.

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ciic" positively cures all cases of
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practice of over thirty years in treat
ing mems diseases and disabilities,
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time upward of forty thousand pa,
tients, and in no instance without
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directed. The Specific" is in the
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does not interfere with business pur
suits. Sufferers may consult free,
enclosing stamp for reply. "Speclf
ic," one dollar; six for five dollars !;
sent free Of detection, securely sealed,
by mail, on receipt of price. Adj
dress all communication to Wheel
er & Co, chemists, 149 4 ,st Twenty
Seventh street, New York City.
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moh3l.lyr.
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No More Gate Sagging.

Esume years ago our attention was in
yited to what was considered as an in
evitable and remediless evil-the sagging
nof farm gates, and the question was re-
peatedly put if farmers were forever to
submit to these imperfect means Of en-
trance to- their fields barnyards, etc.
Our. reply was that the time-honored
''bars" must be again adopted, for, all
things considered, they were decidedly to
be preferred to these sagging gates.
What, indeed, is more annoying than a
sagging gate2 1t is forever out of order.
1t may be stifened up one day, and the
next it will begin again to droop, in
little while. to drag again; and away goes
a hinge, and this costs time and money
to repair There has lately been, how
ever, substitute introduced for the farm
gate, which is more efficient and con-
venient, and which requires no hinges,
chains, clasps or a gate-post 1t is simply
panel of fence made of inch boards,
say four slabs, six, to eight inches wide,
nailed together by cross pieces of the
same, the cross pieces commencing about
one foot from each end. AT the back
end of the panel two undressed common
renee posts are set, one, the side on which
the gateis to open, about an inch and
half farther back, and the posts to be
only about the same distance apart.
From one post to the other suitable sup
ports are nailed, on which this end Of the
panel is to rest and move. At the head
of the panel an ordinary fence post is
set, the holes corresponding to the ends
of the slabs in the panel, which can, if
necessary, be reduced little in width,
and the four are to fit in the holes in the
post. This panel can be moved easily,
can be carried round fully, is equally as
good as a gate, has no posts to sag, no
hinges to rust and break, or any iron APP
pliances in the way Of fastening at all,
and will not cost more than a sixth or
tenth as much as an ordinary gate. Any
farmer who can handle saw and drive
a nail ought to be able to make such an
affair without further Instruction. Ger.
nadrstoa0n Telegraph.
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Just made kettle out'n ice, built fire
and melted 'em up into taller. I didn't
knew how to get that taller home, so 1
just rammed both barrels of my gun full
of the stuff and shot it up to my wife,
who caught the candles,and slowed 'em
away. kept on shootin', till my wife
yelled to me that the cabin wouldn't hold
any more candles, 50 had to quit, leav-
ing at least two tons of as good bear
grease as was ever rendered down. l
piled them deer and kettle together, and
when the storm was over, and the thaw
had set in, and we was back on the yeth,
/ they just settled down in my back yard.
81 opened butcher shop and sold veni-
son SO cheap that run every butcher
in town out of business and got enough
money to make good start in life"
When jim finished his story, his health
was drunk in silence. After a rest of a
minute or two, the sore-eyed miner took
fresh chew of tobacco and said:
Twas in Cheyenne after Jim had got
rich, aud persuaded him to give me that
dogof his'n, Bose. He was some on deer,
and don't you forget it. / was out
hutin one day near Laramie, when one
of them Hurricanes come up, and / didn't
knew what to do. 1t was perrant all
around. could see the storm comm,
but two miles off, II I run, it would
ketch me. If staid thar it was death.
So I jes' took and showed old Bosses nose
agin bank and yelled srats!' You
orter have. seen that dog scratch! He
throwed dirt behind him like breakin'
pillow drawed by twenty yoke of oxen.
| held on to his tail, and he scratched.
We hadn't got into the ground more'n
200 feet when the storm struck us, But
Bose kept on scratchin'. I let him go
on for mile or 50, when I told him to let
up, which he did, the surprisedest dog
you ever seed because he didn't caught
up with the rat. / got back to the top
of the ground, went to Laramie and
started the story that had found cave.
/ made 100000 by showin' tourists that
cave, but lost it all in speculatin' in
mines"
3 AS the miner turned to look at Jim
that individual rushed out of the
corral, ordered his horse, and the last
seen of him he was going out of town on
adead run.-DenUer Republican
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A GrOund.SMeat

We have heard of sick person who,
seized with some sudden impulse, has
had himself buried to the chin in the
ground; andsfrom the energetic action of
his faith, or some other not apparent
cause, cure followed the within. A few
weeks ago, while travelling in New Mex
leo, correspondent witnessed a more
practical and systematic application of
the ground-cure idea, near the old town
of Las Vegas. AT the foot of the noun
tains, on the south bank of the Rio Gal
linas, are numerous hot sulphur springs,
where from time immemorial the native
Mexican people have been wont to battle
for various diseases. An extensive bath
house has been erected within the past
two years. into which the hot water from
large number of springs is brought in
pipes, and the accommodations thus
greatly enlarged for taking both tub and
hot-vapor baths
The earth below the springs through
which the mineral waters trickle downto
the river has been found to be strongly
impregnated with those chemical ele-
ments which the water brings up from
deep in the earth. Of late the idea of
giving invalids ground-sw SO to
speak, in this chemically strong soil has
entered the minds of physicians, and
been put in practice.
The bath-house, or rather bath-shed,
presents truly singular spectacle. Four
long, deep bath-troughs of deal planks
are set in row, each filled to the brim
with black mud, of the consistency of
thick treacle, and of temperature of
from ninety-eight to one hundred and
six degrees Fahrenheit
On the afternoon of the writer's visit,
each of the bath troughs had at the far
end of it what, in the misty atmosphere,
looked to be a human head set on little
brown rubber pillow. The effect was
really startling.
And they acere heads. Immediately
they began to talk. Nor were they dis
severed heads. The bodies to which
they belonged were there-down in the
black mud, out of sight.
Attendants were moving about, turn
ing steam and bringing in fresh
buckets of the remedy" The heat was
kept as high as the bather could bear,
with no little banter and some begging.
A strong odor of sulphur emanates
from the mud. On the whole the asso-
citation of ideas and odors was not pleas
ant and had a purgatorial suggestion.
Yet for persons in limbo the bathers
seemed quite merry; they talked, joked,
laughed.
Often they remain in the mud-bath
for an hour or more, and it is needless to
say come out in rather parboiled,
though, it is to be hoped, purified, CON
dition.- Youths Companion.
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Truthful James Some Wyoming Pre-
VarieatOrs.

A party of ranchmen were assembled
together at Bailey's corral Denver, one
night last week, passing the time away
telling stories The wind storm which
swept over the city a few days before
was variously commented on. Some had
seen worse storms and some hadn't.
Among those who had was Jim Blanch-
ard, 49er in California and a seer in.
Colorado and Wyoming. Jim is known
as Truthful James," and the story he
related that evening as taken down by a
Republican reporter, shows that the title
is deserved one. After wetting his
whistle Jim said:
"That there storm reminded me of the
zephyrs they have in Kansas and New
brasky. " e seed worse in Iowa, and
worse right here in Colorado, but |
kinder think that if a man wants to see
the wind run hundred-mile race in half
a minute, stopping three times to spit on
its hands, he'd better go to Cheyenne,
Wyoming. That there place is Just
little the windiest this side of the knee
quater. Its common thing there for
the boys to hitch log chain to fiat car
and fly it for kite. When I was livin'
there used to hitch good sized cable
to my house, take up the anchors from
the four corners, whenever a storm was
comm, and coup in. the heyings beyond
the clouds. had capstan in my house,
and as soon as the storm was over would
wind up the cable, and come down on top
of the snow, nice and dry. One of my
kids fell out'n the front door one day
when we was above storm and ex-
peeted the poor thing was dashed to
the yeth and mangled into a fright
full corpse. It's nanny was cryin' and
takin' on dreadful, when she looked out'n
the winder and seed that kid floating
round the house, permiscuous like. She
reached out and yanked it in, and gave
1t the derndest spankin' it ever had.
There was one time when a snow storm
lasted for three days, and we got mighty
short of water. I'd bout made up my
mind to wind up the cable when happy
thought struck me. Islid down on the
rope till | reached the storm, then com
menced maxim snow-balls and throwin'
'em up to my wife, who was standin' in
the door, who'd ketch 'em and stow 'em
away in one corner. In that way got
enough water to last me till the yele-
ments was sufficiently imposed for US to
return to the yeth. / forgot to say that
on the third day of that storm the top of
it froze over solid, and as I was loekin'
down | saw drove of black tailed deer
feedin' along on top"
"What was they feedin' on?" inquired
a sore-eyed miner.
Jim paid no attention to the Interrupt
ton bat continued:
Il strapped my rife to my back, and
catchin' old Bose by the TAIL I slid down
the rope agin, and had the purtiest days
huntin' / ever had In my life. I killed
seyenty-fve deer and two bears. The
hears was 20 tot they want fiji to eat, 50 I
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ameter. Generally about half an ~;
at time IS as long as he can endnr aO :.
The dliator is passed in tbronob Az !.
mouth into the structure, and is keHf j. ~. =.
place by means of forceps with : str ~ -
attached. When an Instrument r s;.liig
diameter of three-forlrths of an ;ro Sisn
be applied, it is expected that M ' frs. ian
enlargement will be necessarv rTs'lef
opening in Lodenskis throat Is n,ot aneis
by means of hard rubber tnba sO '"t.t3u
ne wears constantly. The use II sn ~
tube is necessary to keep the cIott;s ol s,l9
and to allow him to breath, which h eI FL
no difficulty in doing. He is also Las la
able to eat all kinds Of food witbout I Az,
ticulty and his general health i sa u.1f
When the laryngal dilators have 49, ~.
their work, which the physicians 5eG Gono
will be within the next eigbt O -
months, the opening Of the throat will IN h
closed either by TRANSFORMING SKIN a. a. h. -
drawing the edges together, and n Il ~ ~
dlcted that medical science viii ~ 49, -
completely successful in the task s lo;d
out for it. 0 s''SA iaia
Lodensh was in the hospital nj v;onn.
for five years and half. A mart &c TIA +haa
time his wife and two children wa 70 s sIS
him, but couple of years ago thew w we,,a
sent for by brother-in law LIVING GIN II
San Francisco and he is now on his wa,-
to the Pacific to join them. He iSft
Vienna IN September last, and was taken
to London by DR. MorrelI McKen7ia
where he remained till he set sail ~
New York. Lodenski speaks eight :.
nine languages, the knowledge Of which
he gained in his journeys through Ron.
mania and the Danubain principalities
Russian, SerVian, Turkish, Monteneprin
and German are spoken with equal ease
He is also fairly conversant with FnpIisb
though not knowing syllable Of the
language when he went to London IN SEN
TENDER, and last night told his story
through that medium. One Of the m
cldents related by him with animation
was the capture of fourteen of the own.
sizes two years after their murderous rob
berry. Three Of them were hung and the
remainder sentenced to imprisonment for
life by the Roumanian Government DR.,
Ingals stated that he had no doubt Of the
correctness of Lodenskis story. Al be
came to him with credentials from phv-
sleians in whom he had every confidence.
One of the physicians connected with
Rush Medical College had also seen
Lodenski when studying in the Vienna
hospital, and was familiar with the
circumstancesof the case Chicago Times,
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periments Of individuals that they are
very often looked upon with mistrust,
and adopted by but few, except those
who like new ways better than old, even
though they are no better
The great question among farmers to-
day is, how to feed animals to the best
advantage? This applies not only to the
kind of food it is best to give them, but
also how it is best to feed it out. That
we have already made some progress,
both in the kinds of food given and the
method of feeding, there is abundance of
evidence to prove. This is a subject
opening up so wide field for investiga-
ton that it will yet require many years
of careful investigation before all of the
important points will be settled. tits inn
portant to know not only how the largest
number of cattle can be fed from given
amount of land with the least expendi-
ture of labor, butit is also as important
to know just what permanent effect any
particular food may have on the consti-
tutional health of the animals fed.
There is no part of a farmers business
so difficult to understand as how to keep
his animals healthy, and yet none more
I'LL pOIt dIlt. w udICfcT CudlISeS Ne Hldy
make in the food he gives his animals, or
in his method Of feeding, if the food is
not of a quality to promote health, no
matter how beneficial its immediate effect
may be, it will result in no improvement
as rule. Exceptions may be found, for
example, the feeding of grain from the
brewery may be found to pay if the cat
tie, are to be kept but a short time, but if
it should be adopted as system it would
affect the constitutional vigor of the race
of animals thus fed. The feeding of hot
cooked food to mich cows may be high
ly beneficial for few years but when
followed up for series of years it is
believed to be destructive to the health
of the animals. Thus in making progress
in agriculture we are compelled to be
cautious. This is one of the reasons we
do not make more rapid progress, With
the helps which we are likely to have in
the near future, there is every reason to
believe important Improvements in agri-
culture are to be made during the next
quarter of a century, Massachusetts
Ploasghmdn.
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How Good Country Roads Pay.

Very few persons take a correct view
of the actual profit to farmers of good
roads, or of how much they can afford to
pay for them. Our daily kilograms from
the West supply one hint. All along in
autumn, and not unfrequently during
the winter, we can read between the
lines of these dispatches that business is
active, the markets brisk, everybody
cheerful and hopeful in all departments
of trade, manufactures, agriculture, etc,
or the reverse of all this, according to the
state of the country roads generally. 1t
is fact that in some years, for months
together, the whole traffic of the country
and the activity and prosperity of all
classes, are largely diminished, and the
losses incurred amount to. very many
millions of dollars, because the condition
of the roads stops general intercourse,
and practically prevents the marketing
Of grain and other crops at the proper
season.
Another view. Take, for illustration,
say the 100000 farmers in Illinois, Iowa,
and Indiana. Suppose that, on the
ten loads of grain and other products to
be hauled to market, and of fuel to be
brought back, distance of ten miles on
the average-we include only half the
farms Call the cost per load only 81 for
man, team, and wear of vehicles, when
the wagoning is good. If the prairie and
other roads are soft, wet, and miry, only
half load can be taken-often the team
can barely draw the empty wagon. If
from. the condition of the roads the
number of loads must be doubled, the
aggregate increased cost amounts to ST.
600, 000-or enough to make fourteen
thousand miles of good roads at an out
lay of $500 on each mile.
Another illustration. Take a township
of the regular size, six miles square. A
road along each section, or square mile,
east and west, or north and south,
would require thirty-six miles. Suppose
the town voted to expend 5000 per mile
on these roads, and that this sum would
make them fairly available at all seasons.
This, if paid down, would amount to ST.
200, or 81 Ia cents per acre for the town
ship. Will any one question that with
good roads, available at all seasons for
marketing and bringing home fuel, for
town and church going and other
travel, all the land in the region would
be worth on the average at least one dbl
lar an acre more, or three times the as
sessment? On farm of 100 acres, the
tax would be S31 25-not a third of the
cost of an extra horse, to say nothing of
his keeping. In fact, would it not pay
well to expend 5000 per mile on all the
leading roads, amounting to 81 an acre?
The annual interest on this would be but
Sc or 81 for each 100-acre farm, and who
would not pay that to have good roads
always?--Ameried1a AqricHtta,rist.
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The Hedgehog-Domeaficnted.


This curious-looking animal serves a
distinct purpose in creation by DESTROY
ing slugs, caterpillars and numerous
smaller vermin, which, though they are
to a certain extent useful, are neverthe-
less destructive to vegetation in general.
Beetles and cockroaches seem to belong
to that class Of insects the uses of which
we find it so difficult to discover, and
therefore devise every means to expel
from our dwellings. The writer's house
being overrun by these pests, and other
efforts at determination being useless, he
applied to farmer friend to supply him
with hedgehog; which he obtained, and
has now had in his house-in a large
town-about four years.
During the first year Tommy-as the
cook christened him-retired for about
two months to a bed of withered grass
underneath the rain-ttib in the ward
according to the custom of his kind in
winter. Prior to this, however, he had
a plentiful supply of beetles, which
might serve, him to ruminate upon for
many day. He lived in closet I'M
derneath the stairs, from which he sailed
forth into his hunting ground, the
kitchen. Like other beasts of prey, this
occurred during the dead hours of the
night.
When beetles became scarce, however,
his operations were watched by the dim
gaslight, and it was evident that he was
guided more by scent than sight He
worked the floor as pointer-dog
works his field; and when he
crossed the trail of beetle,
even a few inches from him, he be-
came excited, and putting his nose to the
fresh scent, followed up his prey. Fur
Their evidence of this feature was OBJ
served by his discovery of creviee in
the floor, where he exhibited a singular
mode Of proceeding. Discovering by
smell that his game was there, he inserted
his hind-leg-the front one probably be-
ing too short-and grasping with his
claws, dragged out the black beetles one
by one and gave them quick dispatch.
But the tameness and apparent intelli-
gence of the animal are his most interest
ing characteristics. The winter sleep is
almost abandoned now, or is very short
at the most, and in lieu thereof he comes
into the kitchen at all hours, getting in
s'AAS CAAO ASdNtSAi
out before the fire for snooze. He eats
any pickings he can get, sharing the
bones with the dog, tapping from his dish
OF water or milk, not sucking it up as a
pig does.
But it is very remarkable to find him
"tappingat the door," If, after taking
stroll in the back yard, he finds the door
of the house is shut, you hear gentle
tap, tap, tap, often repeated if you don't
answer. You 60 and gently open the
door; and the little animal actually tries
to look you Ia the face, by turning up its
nose and small pig-like eyes; which you
at once interpret-"Oh, thank you; /
have been wa ting here for some time,p
as he mounts .he step and walks in.
1t may be thought that such an animal
in the house would be dirty. Not So
When you discover any smell, the odor
approaches that of musk; moreover, the
children are quite familiar with it, and
take it up and let it eat from their hand.
Chambers Jla7nag.
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Item for the Near. Sighted.

A reporter who had the misfortune to
ride out to East Cambridge about mid
night in car which contained, among
other passengers, two men who were
aggressively drunk, noticed an action
of a clerieal-looking young gentleman
in the corner which excited his curiosity.
He had often observed this clerical gem
tleman before, and had remarked that
he never appeared in public without his
eyeglasses, on which he seemed entirely
dependent for clear sight. But on this
occasion, when the drunken men entered
the car the clerical gentleman carefully
unsettled the eyeglasses from his nose
and put them out of sight with some
trepidation of manner. The reporter
took the liberty of inquiring why he did
this. 90, no, I don't mind telling YOU,
of course" said the clerical gentleman
with some confusion. II have ALWAYS
noticed that a drunken man when he
feels ugly always picks out man who
wears glasses as victim. He seems to
think instinctively that that man must
be supercilious sort of fellow. That's
all. like to keep out of harms way.
am not a fighting man" This may
prove valuable hint to travellers on
night cars.--BoSton Globe.