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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18
BEN HOGAN.

Ben Hogan, the well known reformed
sporting man and lecturer OF New
York city, will speak at the Opera
House this evening at 7:30 o'clock. NO
admission will be charged. Before MIR.
Hogan's reformation he kept several dit
ferent places of amusement. lie has
been in the 24-foot ring many times,
has trained a number OF eur prominent
athletes and fighters, has had wide ex-
perience in the matters referred to In his
lectures, and so be speaks from practical
experience. His addresses are said to
be very interesting and instructive. At
this evenings meeting there will be
good music and good singing by the
choirs of the different churches. 1t Is
requested that all bring their gospel
hymn books. Mr.. Hogan is under no
salary, hires the Opera House on his
own responsibility, is unsectarian, and
works to save humanity to the best
of his ability wherever he goes. He
has accomplished much good in Califor-
MIA, Butte, and in the East, and will no
doubt meet with as good success here.
Those desiring front seats should come a
litvle early. The doors will open at 7
O'Clock. Helena (M. IT, Independent.
1t is more than an even bet that this
Mr.. Hogan is a first-water fraud. When
he was a sawdust champion he was only
what he appeared. Now, the chances
are, that under his Sunday school coat a
purely honest impulse of his heart
would startle him more than a blow
under the belt in the times gone by.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18


OTTAWA. Jan. 1.-THE Governor zen.
eral opened Parliament to-day in person.
In his speech he said: "I rejoice to learn,
although the last harvest has been less
productive than its predecessors, and al.
though there are indications Of rapid ex.
pansion. your commerce will, to some OK.
tent, be followed by over trading. The
general condition of the Dominion Il
such as to justify me in congratulating
you on its prosperity.
LONDON, Jan. IA summons was is
sued against the Park Club for permitting
Baccarat in its rooms for high stakes
The club employed eminent counsel, and
maintain that the prosecution is illegal.
The affair caused a sensation in the prin-
cipal London clubs, which will be affected
by the decision in the case.
BERLIN, Jan. 17.-Prince Bismarck ia
o in better health than for many wears.
He begins work at 7 in the morning. The
Prince son, Count Herbert, started for
st. Petersburg to assume his duties in the
Embassy there.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18

Mile. Colombier's book, for writing
which she incurred the wrath OF the
actress, Sara B~ernhardt. has arrived in
New York. A publisher set s~ixty.nine
translators atwork upon ii, and in thirty.
six hours Ii was for sale. "All Of which
will 60 to assuage the bitterness felt by
the writer because Of the whipping she
got, and which was not anything more
than she deserved"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18
LOOKING UP THE RECORD.

Gen. G. G. Powning was in the Capitol
yesterday hunting up the past years
records Of the various State officers and
State Boards. Carson Index.
If it's thunder for the Fall campaign
the General Is after, the records at Car.
son, we are afraid, will not furnish him
with material TO suit him. The records
Of Nevada are too complimentary Of the
Democrats for anything like that, you
know.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18

The Japanese are a financial people.
The Government has built five lines of
railroads at a cost Of Sll, 9l2, 600, which
earned last year 81, 1872, 55l minus $780,
1882, the running expenses, leaving the
neat earnings at 81, O33, 100, or some 81
per cent on the cost. This is a more
profitable investment than the 81. 600, 600
we put into Alaska seals,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18
DIED.

In Eureka, New Jan. II. 1884. Gaetana. wife
OF Andres 6agliardo, a native, Of Colobrsro.
Napoli, Italy, aged &c years.
The funeral will take place from the Catholic
Church at 2 O'Clock this afternoon. Friends
and acquaintance are respectfully invited 10
attend.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18

The New York courts decide that the
foolish marriages entered into for amuse-
ment, afe not binding; and the young
lady, who sued the groom of one of them
for support. had the cost to pay.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18

A few days since fourteen conductors
of the Pullman cars on the Pennsylvania
Railroad were arrested for embellishments
in collision with regular conductors. 1t
was believed they had stolen $40, 900 in
four months.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18
SPECIAL NOTICE.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BOUGHT
l. At SheriH's sale the book accounts
OF j. COHN. requests parties indebted to him
to pay immediately. otherwise payment VIII
be enforced. HENEY oOUH
At the clothing store next 10 Empire saloon.
Eureka, Dec. 70, lsss. ds30.im
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18

Silver and s~ilverplated ware given awav
for . mere song, ct Ed. Wilhelm's,
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Shocking the COachman.

In front of the Chestnut Street Opera
house last night was handsome private
equipage The horses, which were
clipped bays, were so restless that the
coachman had to stand ut their heads
to soothe them.
why don't you tame them horsesP"
asked reserve officer.
Tame emf retorted the coach
man. They're just as tame as kittens
now. They're just playful. that's all.
They'll mind me like soldiers Now
look how they'll mind me-"
The coachman stepped into the street
in front of the horses aud held up his
hand, with finger raised The horses
Pricked up their ears aud looked ut
him.
Dick John! Attention. he said, and
the horses trembled with pleasure.
Forward. mar"
Before he could finish the command the
bays had leaped forward aud the tongue
of the carriage striking him In the pit
OF the stomach sent him staggering
down on the street.
Whoa" cried the coachman and the
policeman simultaneously, and the
horses stopped to rise on their hind
legs.
1t was apparent from the way the
coachman held himself when he got up
that he had received painful and
notifying shock.-FhiiqdelphiG Times.
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Religious Reading.
PSALM LXL.

Oh. hear me, Jehovahi attend to my prayer
From ends of the earth unto Thee viii !
cry;
and care,
oh. lead me to the Rock that is higher
than /!
Ny shade and my shelter Thou ever hast
been!
My tower of defense, that security brings;
Let me dwell IN the courts where Thy glory
Is seen,
And trust evermore in the shade of Thy
wings.
o God. Thou hast heard and accepted my
vow,
And giv'st me portion with those that art
Thine:
Thon wilt lengthen the life of Thy servant
below,
And establish his throne in Immanuels line.
He ever doth sit before God as a King,
And Thy mercy and truth shall surround
Him for aye;
For this unto Thee endless praise will sing,
And daily my vows to Thy name will i pay.
-Reu. ". w. Smith. ia 5. s. Times.
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reputable. 50 little oandor and intslsI.

reputable, so little candor and intelsL
gence are in it.
8. A largo body Of absentees from
church services give as a reason for
their desertion the faults, failures and
sins OF churches and church members.
That there Is ground for this criticism
no one knows so well as the true lover
of the church; but as reason for re-
naming outside church worship and
service it is of all reasons the most
frivolous and untrue. If the church is
not what it ought to be, SO much the
more reason why your strength and
virtue should be added to it; If it holds
the truth in materialistic and unspirit-
ual forms, so much the more reason
why your finer spiritual perceptions
should be at its service. The church is
not, and never assumed to be, an or
ganization of sinless men and women;
is not, and never assumed to be, in any
Protestant form, an infallible EXPOSE
ton and revealer of the spiritual life; 1t
is fellowship of those who believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and are endeavor-
ing to walk in His footsteps. To assail
it for its infirmities is to emphasize its
human side; to stand apart from it be-
cause of those infirmities is to ignore
the Divine element which, even in its
worst days, if has never lost. The sim
less Christ did not withdraw from
Peter, the liar and traitor; He turned
upon him look so full of tenderness
and sorrow that the Apostle went forth
to a noble life and heroic death. II
there are mouey-changers in the Temple
your duty is not to desert the House OF
God. but to purify it.
4. The great majority OF those who
do not 60 to church simply disguise un-
der sneers and gibes their own spiritual
Incidence and deafness. They do not
go because the truths that confront
them within the church doors make
them uncomfortable, disturb their ease
of mind, and arraign their whole lives
az the Judgment bar of conscience.
The mind finds ready arguments to de-
fend the course of life which is easiest
and pleasantest; the man who does not
wish 10 60 to church readily discovers
the shortcomings of those who per-
form the duty which he leaves undone.
Those who leave God unrecognized
in their lives, anu who separate them
selves from the strain of spiritual
power and influence which has fertil-
lied the noblest lives in all ages, lose
infinitely more than they realize; for
they miss not only the great inspira-
tons anG consultations OF life, but its
grandest opportunities. The church
can i'll afford TO lose any from its COM
munton; but there il none so rich that
he can afford to miss the abiding
presence of that invisible God who Is
rs truly with the worshiper to-day as
in the day when the cloud and the
shining pillar were visible and indis-
putable. = CtyiStidn Union.
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Engraving on Steel.

Engraving On steel is an American
process. the honor of the invention be-
longing to q Boston man. The plates
to be engraved are about one-quarter of
an inch In thickness and tempered soft.
The engraving is done by hand and by
etching as with copper plate. The
great advantage is the fact that if
many forms are desired on one plate
the original plate can be hardened in.
the usual method of tempering steel,
and then, by placing it under soft
cylinder and great pressure being ad-
ded while the cylinder is rolled back
ward and forward over the engraved
plate, it is transferred to fhe cylinder,
which is in turn hardened and capable
of transferring by the same method of
pressure an engraving similar to the
original as many times on one or more
plates as is desired. In this way the
vignettes on bank checks. drafts and
other commercial papers do not have
to be engraved for every plate, bat, be-
ing once engraved and transferred to q
small cylinder or die, can be rolled
into the plate desired, as is also the
border. dates, lines and so forth.-Chi-
cogo Nelcs.
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Choice Extracts.


They who forgive most shah. be
most forgiven.
Embrace wisdom, and He shall be
your defense.--John Seymour. 1888.
--Grieving over our imperfect pray.
ers is a prayer in itself. augustine.
The deepest trust leads to the most
powerful action. 1t is the silencing oil
that makes the machine obey the motive
power with greatest readiness and re.
suit. --HarcrgGi.
One of the sayings of Goethe's
mother was: 81 always seek out what
is good in people; and leave what is
bad to Him who made mankind, and
knows how TO round off the angles"
If those who profess to be possessed
of better process of life than that OF
their fellows do not illustrate that SUI
pcriority in its results: If those who
claim that they have shorter and a
safer road than others to given end
do not reach that end; if those who
take n medicine are not visibly cured
by it; If those who eat a food are not
obviously nourished by it grievous
harm is done to all such claims made.
If the Christian religion can not work
its miracles of grace upon its own adj
herents on its own terms, men will be
right in declaring that it is not what It
claims to be. And every layman who
fails to be purcr, truer, nobler, kinder,
as well as more devout, than his unre-
generate companions, is guilty of
treachery to the cause which he pro-
fesses TO love and has promised to serve.
-COngreqattonalist.
What the Christian churches, and
Christian people generally, want just at
present is not more power, so much rs
more directness and more purpose in
the use of the power which they already
possess. Force which is exerted toward
nothing in particular. but which diffuses
itself aimlessly on all sides, never ac-
complishes much; at its best, it seems
to lose itself in infinite space; at its
worst, it tears down and destroys.
There is enough goodness in the world
to work wonders; what is lacking, is
more goodness with definite aim; that
is, that people should cease to be sim
ply good In the abstract, and should
become good for something. instead.
Abstract goodness is all very well in its
way--whenever way for it can be
found; but if the worlds work and the
Lords work are TO be kept briskly NOV
ing on, the worker must employ power
with a purpose, and must himself, above
all things, be not only good, but good
for something. s.. s. Times.
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"Pufiing Billy.n


One bright day in June, 1881, a
group of miners who had just finished
their work were standing around
Wylam Pit, near Newcastle, Eng.
Word was passed from one to
another that baby boy had been boru
in old Bob's cabin. Old Bob, the en-
gine-man at the pit, had hoaseful OF
children already, but he and his wife
had plenty of love for the newcomer.
whom they called Geordic.
Wee Geordie Stephenson was not
born with silver spoon in his mouth.
His fathers house was a rough hut.
with upholstered walls and a floor of
clay.
Geordie began to work when he was
less than seven years old, at twopence
per day. A lady paid him this sum for
10 liking after her COWS. When a little
older, he was taken on at the colliery
as "picker," receiving sixpence a
day, and at fourteen he became his
fathers assistant at shilling a day.
A year or two later he was given the
charge of IN engine of his own. 1t be-
came his pet, and never had engine bet
ter care.
At eighteen years of age George
Stephenson could not read. He was
wide awake, and had great longing
for knowledge, but did not understand
the alphabet. This could not be borne.
He went to a night-school, and paid
three-pence week to be taught spelling,
reading and writing, and soon Scotch
minister who knew him undertook to
teach him figures. He worked very
hard, and made great progress.
ln his leisure hours, when he was not
busy with his engine or studying, he
made and mended shoes. Bit by bit he
saved little money, and by-and-by he
was able to marry.
suppose you are wondering what
all this has to do with Putting Billy"
Have patience: l am coming to that
part of my story.
Though James Watt had invented the
working steam-engine, as yet there was
no travelling steam-engine. 1t was
George Stephenson who first laid rails.
found out what the locomotive could do
when attached to cars, and sent the
iron horse spinning along the line.
bis hrst1ocomotive was called Putting
Billy.
Ii you were to peep into some of the
public journals of the England of 1925
you would laugh at the fright the peo-
pie felt at this monster, which fed on
Goals and water, and flew over the road
at the rate of eighteen miles an hour.
Some thorght it was like witchcraft.
Others gravely said that one might as
we'll be shot off like a rocket at once as
put themselves at the mercy of such a
machine as this.
George Stephenson kept quietly on,
plodding at everything he attempted.
until he had found out its secrets.
Whatever he did he did with all his
might When men opposed him he did
not lose his temper, but only said:
''Wait awhile and you will see."
Suppose, Mr.. Stephenson" said a
grumbling somebody, thinking he was
advancing a terrible objection to the
new iron horse COW should
happen to be on your line?'
"Well," replied Stephenson, very
coolly, lit would be bad job for the
COZ"
So it is all through life. boys. When
a brave, wise man has a new and bril-
liant thought it will never be put stop
to by any 1000. Margaret E. Sang
ster. in Harper's Young People.
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Pity the Physicians.

Speaking of the necessity for some
legislation tending to correct the over
crowding of the medical profession a
busy physician said: ITO tell You the
truth, the medical profession is poor
very poor. And doctors who talk of
incomes of twenty to twenty-five thou
sand year simply talk for effect. l
earn from twelve to fifteen thousand,
and think myself well off if actually
collect one-third of it. The rest | NAV
or may not get some day-probabIy
not; and l know that my practice is
larger and my clientele moro lucrative
than that of at least one pretender to
$4,000 that could name. 1 keep
carriage, TO be sure, and a colored man
with very bright buttons; but it is often
that l haven't dollar in my pocket to
pay for cab if my own equipage should
happen to break down couple of
miles away from home"
There is now. it seems, in ratio to
population, such an excess of doctors in
the United States that the best equipped
graduates start with scarcely prospect
of success. Taking the whole area of
the United States into calculation, the
ratio is one doctor 10 every $50 persons.
In this State it is one to 600; in this CITY
one to $50. In England the ratio is one
to 800; in France, one to 1900; in
Germany and Austria, about one to
every 1900. In any community, city,
town, or country district the number of
persons constantly sick is found to be
18 to % in 1000 depending upon
salubrity of situation and other condi-
lions II Is safe Tn gay that in fhis citv
the number in every $50 who are regu-
larly on the sick list is not more than
ten; and so, on the average. New York
has one physician to every ten sick per-
sons. Count out two or three of the
ten as disabled by age or incurable
disease, and at least one rs too poor 10
pay, and physician has an average of
six or seven paying patients. OF course
some have fifty to hundred patients,
and q great many have two, three, halt
a dozen, or more; but the average ratio
is not altered by this inequality of dis
tribution.-N Y. Sun.
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her ears, and shc hoped She was going

her ears. and she hoped she was going
to die.
"Why, Catherine!'' exclaimed Mrs.
Lee.
'srhis is all there is, 'am-every
bit" she said.
Mrs. Lee looked around in speechless
surprise. Her glance fell at last on
Margie. One look was enough.
You can 60 upstairs, she said.
Margie did not wait to be told twice,
but fed to her room. She had a very
unpleasant visit from her father before
she went to bed that night He said it
was quite as painful to himself as to
her, but she had her doubts upon the
subject. At all events, she was quite
grown up before she cared for fruit-cakr
agaiD.-Anna N. Talcott, in Goldey
DGVS.
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HUMOROUS.

Tho Shoe and Leather Reporter has
made the painful discovery that very
few brass bands can play rs many airs
as a drum major puts on.
When a clothing shop gets on fire
some of the clerks spring over coats
and some fall over coats, and nearly
every one pants when he gets out
"A Pittsburgh chemist has found
opium in cigarettes. The same drug
has also been discovered in soothing
syrup. The dude has hard time of it.
Pittsburgh Post.
Yes" sighed old Mrs. Gumbo,
''that accident was horrible When
read about it, it exaggerated me so that
j couldn { decOmpose myself for several
hours. ~ Y. Mail.
"A boy writes to a paper that his
father has ''hit upon an important sub
Jet and hit hard" From this it is in
ferred that the old gentleman has been
resort.ng to corporal punishment.
-Pomp: "Cuff, can you tell me the
difference between an accident and a
misfortune?' Cuff: ''Gives it up,
Pomp. Can you?" Pomp: IF you
should fall into the ribber that would
you out, that would be misfortune"
Mime. Darcy Why do you weep,
my poor woman?" Weeping woman
''My son has just been hung" Mime.
ID Arcy Happy mother!' Weeping
woman-'Happyl" Mime. DARCY :
''Ies. My son is alive, but he is dude"
Philadelphia Gail!
"A Wizard
Twas famous East Indian wizard
He could change COW to n lizard,
A fish to a squirrel
Or just by twiri,
Make gold from black hens gizZard.
This cever East Indian wizard
Fell in with Kansas blizZard;
They had a set-to,
And when they got through
He didn't know "a" from lizard"
Wide Atoahe.
"A boy who had been sent to carry
u silver card-basket to a young lady as
bridal present was asked upon his re-
turn TO the Office If he found the right
place. ''Oh. yes" ''See the girl her.
selfP' "Yes.'' Did she seem sur
prised?" Every much So" "Say
anything?" "Why, yes; she told her
mother she presumed it was plated, but
would be good enough for her aunt out
in the country. "-Detroh Free Press.
--"Mr. Billings" said an Arkansas
boarding-house mistress, addressing a
gentleman who had just taken his seat
at the table, "you make the thirteenth
at dinner. l hope You won't consider
me superstitous, but / wish that you
would leave" Why" my dear mad
am" replieI Billings, shave no fears
whatever. This thirteenth-at-thc-ta table
business is q fraud." Yes, 1 know"
continued the lady, ''but, as you owe
me for two weeks hoard. I'd rather you
wouldn't eat. quite agree with you
the thirteenth is fraudh-ArkdnSaU
T-dceiier.
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Over n COflln.Lid.

"She -was-a-good-w wife tome!
good wife, God bless herr"
The words were SPOKEN in trembling
accents over coffin-lid. The woman
asleep there had borne the heat and
burden of life's long day, and no one
had ever heard her murmur; her hand
was quick to reach out in helping
grasp TO those who fell by the wayside,
and her feet were swift on errands of
mercy; the heart of her husband had
trusted in her; he had Lett her to long
hours of solitude, while he amused him.
self in scenes in which she had no part.
When boon companions deserted him.
when tickle affection selfishly departed,
when pleasure palled, he went home
and found her waiting for him.
Come from your long, long rowing,
On LIES sea so bleak and rough,
Come to me tender and loving,
And shall be blcst enough
That had been her love song-always
on her lips or in her heart. Children
had been born to them. She had reared
them almost alone-they were gonel
Her hand had led them to the utter.
most edge of the morning that has no
noon. Then she had comforted him.
and sent him out strong and whole.
hearted while she stayed at home and
cried. What can q woman do but cry
and trustr
Well, she Is at rest now. But she
could not die until he had promised to
''bear up" not to fret, but to remember
how happy they had been. Thew
Yes, it 10 even so. For she was blest in
giving. and he in receiving. 1t was an
equal partnership after all
"She-- was-a good = wife - to -
Oh, man! mani Why not have told
her so, when her ears were not dull by
death? Why wait to say these words
over coffin wherein lies q wasted.
weary, gray-haired woman, whose eyes
have so long held that pathetic story Of
loss and suffering. patient yearninQ.
which so many women's eyes reveal
to those who read Why not have
made the wilderness in her heart blossom
Ike the rose with the prodiga;ity Of
your love? Now you would give worlds
were they yours to- give-to see the
tears of Joy your words would have
once caused, bejewelling the closed
windows Of her soul. It Is too late.
1--WE have careful thoughts for the stranger.
And smiles for the sometimes guest 80
But Oft for own
The bitter tone
Though zoe t0re our osOn The best"
Detroit Free Frsse