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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-10-12
SPEED PROGRAMME:
FIRST DAY,

friday. ....... November End.
First Race-G00 yards; free for all: purse
S75 90. First horse $50; second s25.
Second Rnce-Three-quartcr mile dash for
horses owned in Elko County; purse $3.50 co.
First horse SITS; second SIS.
Third Race One half mile and repeat. free
for all; purse $50 90. First horse 500; sec
ond $50.
SECOND DAY.
Saturday. .............N November 3rd
First race .-one-quarter mile dash. free for
all; purse $50 90. First horse 500; second
$50.
Second Race--Three- quarter mile and re-
peat; free for all; purse 5000 90. First horse
sl4o; second s6O.
Third INSTRUMENTATION handicap sweep
stakes; free for all horses that were beaten :
purse s75 90,
Fourth race--Yaquero saddle horse race
sweepstake race; GOO yards; purse $50 90.
| Unless otherwise specified entrance fee
shall be Is per cent. of purse and must accom-
! pany nomination.
In all cases any horse distancing the field
will receive first money only.
No money paid in any race without con-
; test.
Entries must be made by O'Clock the even
, ing before races are to berun.
In nil cases four or more to enter and three
| or more to start.
Pacific Blood Horse Association Rules to
| govern.
1. osTRE1cHER.
Secretary.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Goethe,s Digestive Capacity.

According to the bills of fare preserved
in the city archives at Jena, Goethe was
in the habit Of dining exceedingly well.
He also liked company at dinner, for,
during the period covered by the bills
when he had not one guest with him. he
had three. He always had four courses,
and sometimes more, the dishes Of his
choice being such as roast beef and roast
pork on the same day; soups with dump
ling, and a sirloin with anchovy sauce,
with roasted pigeons and roast mutton
to follow, the dinner rather Of glutton
than Of poet. For a week and more
he dined in this fashion, the bill only
coming to little more than e3. 1t is
satisfactory to know that this really
great man could dine well. and was not
querulous and dyspeptic wreck, though
it is not SO PLEASANT to know that the
poet squabbled with the landlord over
the items. and even went to law with
him on the subject. Life.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Superstitions Of the Highlands.

The belief in fairies and brownies, or
the more playful and fanciful kind of
fairy, seems to belong more to the Low
lands Of Scotland than the Highlands.
The character of the people was softer,
and the lighter forms of superstitious be-
lief found more fitting home there than
in the Highlands, where the gloomy and
austere character of the people led them
to invest the supernatural inhabitants of
their glens and mountains with some
thing more akin to their own darker and
sterner natures.
Thus the fairies and brownies of the
Lowlands take in the north the form of
warnings, that come in gruesome guise
to foretell misfortune and calamity to
the family to whom they belong, and to
whom they appear when danger or mis-
fortune threatens their patrons. Every
great and powerful family in the north
was believed to have a supernatural
warning or omen which appeared before
the death of any prominent member. 1t
varied in most cases, but each family of
clan generally received the same warn
ing before death as the chief. Very
striking condolences no doubt have &C.
CURED, quite important enough to con-
vince highly superstitious people of
their infallibility.- Murray's Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26

was enabled to inspect the internal
arrangements of the Russian convict
transport. Mimi Novgorod, which sails
hence with AGO criminal deportes for the
Russian penal island of Saghalien. The
Nizhni-Novgorod is an iron steamer of
about $500 tons burden and is specially
lifted as convict transport. With
full complement of convicts the vessel
carries G52. The more desperate charac-
tiers are manacled and chained to iron
staples in their berths, from which they
are released when necessary. Among
the AGO convicts carried by the Mimi
Novgorod about 100 are murderers. Upon
he greater number of these murderers,
n addition to their various terms of hard
labor in the mines and quarries, will be
inflicted upon their arrival a number of
blows from the knout, varying from fifty
to 1875, according to their crimes. Man
lcled and crouching at the end of one of
he cages was convict about IS years
Of age. There was nothing particularly
-illainous in the mans face, though it
vas by no means well favored by nature.
What struck me especially was his pallid
ook and apparently general bodily Ian
5uor. Seven years ago this man had
committed murder and was sent to Sibe-
ia for life, the first five years hard labor
% be worked in the mines. After the
expiration Of his mine labor he managed
10 escape, and was only rearrested after
committing a second murder.
He is now sentenced to mine labor in
Saghalien for life, to receive 1875 blows of
the knout on arrival on the island, and
hereafter to be chained to his barrow or
land wagon for the first twelve months
If his sentence. In these cases there is
10 u = haining; the chains are welded on
the convict's limbs. Chow long do you
imagine this poor wretch will exist under
the conditions of his first years punish
nent? ?" asked my guide, who has spent
SINE years of official service in Saghalien
Possibly a monitor two. The shorter
the better for the poor devil" 1t is this
question which does not appear to occur
t. the Humanitarian defenders of the
Russian penal whether capital pun
ishment were not an unqualified mercy
to such criminals, and their number is
terribly large in Russia. The convict's
borror and dread of having to live out
these sentences is shown by the desperate
attempts at self destruction he is ever
ready to make. The scene on board these
departing ships is altogether saddening
and depressing, perhaps the more so that
one does not hear a murmur or lament
from the stolid looking and broken spir-
tied wretches crowded behind the bars of
these cages, which remind the spectator
only too forcibly of the wild beast dens
we are accustomed to see in travelling
nenagerie. Odessa Cor. London News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
"Swing Bridges" Of the East.

At this stage of the proceedings we fail
in for the first time during the present
expedition with one or two of those ia
nous Swing bridges" which are such a
characteristic feature both of India and
Of Ceylon. Their construction is very
simple. Two ropes are stretched from
bank to bank about four feet apart, and
a number of thin planks fastened across
them 30 as to make kind Of rude foot
way; but the addition of handrail on
either side is absolutely necessary to make
this primitive bridge passable at all, for
by the time you get near the middle Of it
the whole construction is rocking to and
fro like a swing, making you feel very
much as If you were an acrobat dancing
upon a slack rope.-David Ker in New
York Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Sheep Jnterest.
THE WOOL INDUSTRY.

A gentlemen thoroughly acquainted
with the industry of sheep raising and
wool production boldly makes the
statement that if wool could be main
tanned at a standard price of 40 cents per
pound to the producer it would be better
for the people of every profession and
occupation in the entire country.
This statement he backs up with a
logical course of reasoning, and brings
to his aid some very pertinent statistics.
He reasons, very consistently, that such
a price would greatly and rapidly stimu-
late the production, and that if allowed
to continue for few years without any
m6diiI ling influence would result in over
production. Put right iicre is the bene-
ficent feature which would inevitable
work its own cure, the surplus would go
into mutton, and so great would be the
quantity that the tendency would be, as
experience has shown, to materially re-
duce the price of all kinds of meats. For
every pound of wool worn by an ordi-
nary family, the same persons would
consume, perhaps, 100 pounds of meat.
Hence the dollar extra paid on their
woolens would be saved many times over
in the reduced price of the great staple,
meat.
This gentleman has an abiding convic-
ton that the Importance of sheep hus-
bandry is not half appreciated in this
country as it should be. He says we
ought now to have hundred million sheep
in this country, and should insist on a
basis of protection that would materaiZe
this condition into an actual fact. That
number of sheep would require the care
of 100000 men, and on a basis of five
persons to family with one man, would
make two million people directly DEEPEN
dent upon this industry, number greater
than that dependent upon any other
single production in this country.
These suggestions are certainly worthy
of careful consideration, not only by the
lawmakers but by every intelligent per-
son, for it is a case where, as proven, all
have an equal interest.
1t has been said that under high
tariff sheep decreased, while under low
tariff they increased rapidly please
examine the following statistics and de-
eide for yourself:
In 1850 there was 81 ,723,320 sheep that
shore %, 5l6,959 lbs. of wool, and the
average weight of wool to the fleece was
2 40-100 lbs.
In 1860 the number of sheep was 3D.
4Sl ,275 and they shore 60,2S4, 9l9 lbs. an
average of 6S-100 lbs. per head.
In 1870 there were rs, 476, 95l sheep and
and they shore 100, 102, 1897 lbs. wool, an
average of 3 51-l0O per head.
they shore 235, G4S 1854 lbs. wool, which
was an average of 5 40-100 per head. In
1881 they had increased to 50,626, 62G.
The tariff was reduced in 1888, and in
three years they had decreased nearly
5000, 900, and in Ohio they have decreased
ust one thousand day for the last
year Bucyrus (Ohio) Telegraph.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Life of German Peasants,

Let us suppose now, for a moment, we
are living in a German village. AT
o'clock you will see the farmer take his
first meal, consisting of a weak coffee,
which is very often composed of coffee
and roasted wheat, and in which milk is
largely used. He will take to this coffee
some slices of brown bread (corn bread
with jam, or with butter, lard, etc. At
o'clock another meal will be served,
for as people had already done some hard
work by that time they want another
meal. This second breakfast may con-
sist Of slices Of brown (rye) bread with
butter and ham, or butter and cheese, or
butter with eggs, or bread with bacon or
sausage only, to which as q rule by the
male members Of the family-very sell
dom by females-either small glass Of
''schnaps" (corn brandy or some very
weak beer is partaken Of.
An average peasant family, number
ing five heads, would about consume per
year, two fat pigs, four or Ave geese,
perhaps few ducks, about half q dozen
old hens and a dozen young ones, two
dozen young pigeons Pork Is In stock
all the year round, as well in form of the
well AHOWH bdusdSe as III the shape
Of bacon, ham, etc. It will be smoked
in order to keep. As to the vegetables
used, must say people know better to
appreciate their value than in England
or America. 1t is really astonishing to OBJ
serve the ignorance which prevails here,
especially among the poorer classes in
England, upon such matters. There are
thousands of people in England, who
never saw in their lives a Haricot bean,
pea or turtle-living on nothing but NUT
ton chops, beefsteak, pie and cheese.
This is entirely different in Germany.
Cereals and pulses are largely used, and
there is healthy variety in the bill of
fare. 1t will not happen very often that
the same dish is served for dinner twice
a week. remember having read once
in medical book-I forget whether it
was by Professor Cork or Redam-that the
rural people in Thurvingia and Saxonia
had the best natural instinct for the choice
of their foods, and that the mixture OBJ
served by this people could be put down
as standard for any other people by
any physician. -Pupke in Herald of
Health
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26

Undoubtedly Cagliostro was the most
able and successful scoundrel who ever
lived. Thomas Carlyle, after carefully
inspecting his portrait, describes his face
as follows: "Fittest of visages were
they to be worn by the quack of quacks |!
A most portentous face of scoundrelism;
fat, snub, abominable face; flat nosed,
greasy, full of greatness, sensuality. ak
like obstinacy; forehead impudent, re-
fusing to be ashamed; and then two eyes
turned up seraphically languishing, as if
in divine contemplation and alteration;
touch of quiz, too; on the whole, per-
haps the most perfect quack face pro-
duced in the eighteenth century. DE
troit Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
LES MlSERABlES.

For what are we thankfuf sages, declare,
From your high, carven pulpits, to suffering men;
We list to your sermon, your anthem, your prayer,
Your soft benediction. No answer is there
To the question ask you; the chill autumn air
Blows the words to our faces again,
You've talked of the merchant ships sailing the
seas,
And told of the treasures the harvest would yield;
OF the fruit hanging low on the o'erburdened
trees
OF the odorous breath of the vine on the breeze;
But whence comes the mandate, the law that de-
crees
That we starve In the brown stubble6eld2
We battled at MONDAY with dust and with heat;
We sang and we jested to tighten our toll;
We hoped the drear winter with plenty to greet
All, the mirage to near faintng hearts was SO
sweet
But empty our hands, bare and bleeding our feet;
The labor was ours not the spoil.
The harvests are garnered, the myriad sheaves
That piled the wide fields like gold from the mine
Fill up the great barns from the floor to the caves;
The grapes that grew ripe amidst whispering
leaves
Stain red, laughing lips while a starving one
grieves
Outside for the dregs Of the wine.
For what are we thankful For prisons and pain /;
For our babes murd ring sleep with their famish-
ing cries;
For the snow and the sleet, the wind and the rain
Beating out the dull life from the heart and the
BRAIN:
For the grave at last in potter's field gain;
For the stone with its deeply cut lies.
Margaret Holmes in New York World
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
How to Prolong Life.

have been much interested in recent
articles on 1.-The Christian Science" mo
More Sickness and Death" and "The
Psolongation of Life" l like those
articles amazingly well, as for years I
as.rde of it, only mine is muscular one,
and it doesn't matter whether your
thinker is wound up and going or not.
If l tell you of it, in an old fashioned
way SO you may keep your spine crooked
in the right direction and make yourself
feel ten or more years younger, it may
do some good.
Please call to mind how listlessly old
people crawl out of bed in the morning,
also if there are any young people in the
room getting up, notice how the urchins
stretch themselves. Also call to mind
how person just recovering from sick
bed is inclined to do the same. Call to
mind how seldom middle aged and old
folks are inclined to stretch unless ex-
pecting something of Importance.
have found that good, long stretch
in the morning, as soon as on my feet,
has turned the bend Of my back to the
front, has taken the stoop out of my
shoulders, and my wife says my hair is
becoming dark again. have sons past
80 years of age who step no lighter than
l.; and as for my eating qualifications.
defy any man to get away with me.
OF course take stretch several times
q day, with great benefit. l don't know
why it does me good, only to force the
blood and other juices of the body where
they belong. Anyhow, I know it makes
me feel young, and others I have told
about it say 1t does them great good
James Laurie in New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Both Sides of the Question.

Ethel entering suddenlySJack, dear,
l wish you to lend me your baseball
mask for-well, for six months at least.
Brother Jack-Gracious sister mine,
what on earth are you going to do?
Well-if l must tell-it is this
way: You know Harry and are engaged
now. He comes every evening and
stays-quite while. He is SO extremely
demonstrative, and he has such an-ag-
gressive mustache. l believe in free
trade up to certain point, then I am
for protection. -Pittsburg Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Silk from Wild Worms.

A curious method of silk manufacture
is said to exist in the Chinese province Of
Kwangtung. where are found wild silk
worms feeding on the camphor tree. The
full grown caterpillar is cut open and the
silk is taken out in form resembling
catgut, subjected to a hardening process,
and made into fish ines.-Arkansaw
Traveller,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26

According to New York correspond
ent, the western man is looming up on
the horizon of the New York woman in
a most astonishing way. ''He is just be-
ginning" he writes, 'to take his place
here in social life, and he takes an aw-
fully big place. He takes away the
breath of the eastern girl by his self
confident methods, and by the time she
RECEIVERS it she very often finds that it is
in reality her heart that is gone. Chi
cago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
NOtice..TaX Sale.

The resident proprietors of the town of Rip
ton In the county of Addison are hereby mott.
fed that the school taxes assessed by school
district No. in said town for the years spec
fed remain in whole or in part unpaid on the
following described lands In said town, to
wit:
List of lss5-Gibbs, Cornelia; 40s acres
tPlatt place, so called. Grand list, $3.50; tax,
s5.25.
Powers, Esther A, homestead, 0 acres.
Grand list $3.3s tax, 1901.
List OF lss6-Gibbs, Cornelia; 40s acres
(Platt place, so-called). Grand list. $500; tax
$500.
Powers, Esther A, homestead, acres.
Grand list $3.3s; tax, $3.Ss.
List OF lss7-Powers, Esther A, homestead,
8 acl es. Grand list, $3.50; tax, $3.50.
And so much OF said lands will be sold at
public auction at the town house in said Rip
ton ON the 18th day of November next, 1855, at
10 o'clock In the forenoon, as shall be requis-
tie to discharge said taxes and costs unless
previously paid. .....,
GEORGE T. FISHER,
Collector OF school taxes OF school district
No. q in said Ripton.
Dated at Ripton In said county, this 9th cay
OF October, A ID. lsss. Al :3w.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
knowledge Of Human Nature.

"And SO your nice clergyman is going
to be married, Mrs. Marigoldl hope
you'll like his wife as well as you like
him."
"Well, ma'am, I'm sure I hope 30
but we generally find that when the gen.
tleman is hafrable, the lady's 'aughty"
London Punch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Bremen,s Statue of Liberty,

The quaintest thing in Bremen is its
statue of liberty, the "Boland" DIS it is
called. 1t is a colossal figure, eighteen
feet high, and was erected in the center
of the town in 1412. In one huge hand
the giant holds a shield marked with an
eagle (that symbol of liberty in all ages,
in the other a naked sword. 1t was the
gauntlet thrown down to all the world
that Bremen would be free.-Chicago
Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Sharks and Convicts.

There lat Cayenne) when . convict
dies the body is borne to the sea and q
great bell is tolled. And then b the Wis
cous, glaucous sea surface furrowed sud-
denly by fins innumerable. swart, sharp,
triangular-the legions OF the sharks
rushing to the hideous funeral. They
know the bell!-Harper's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
The Ideal Battle Ship.

The ideal battle ship, according to Ad-
miral Sir George Elliott, possesses quail
fications ranking in this order; /. Sea
worthiness; 2. Guns and armor; 8.
Hardness; A. Coal endurance; 8. Speed;
9. Light draught of water.-New York
Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Chiefs as Top Spinners.

An Independent state in the Malay Pc
ninsula is Pahang. 1t has just been ex-
amined from the outskirts by some En-
glishmen, who report it capable of sup
porting large poulation if the rulers
would cease from spending their time
chiefly in top spinning. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
Better Than Soap.

1t is asserted that, under certain con-
ditions. the bark of the quilla tree Of
Chill possesses cleansing properties SUI
perior to those of the best soap.-Arkan-
saw Traveller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
On n Peace Footing.

At 260 yards the Lepel rifle would 60
through two men. The French arsenals
have enough ammunition to supply each
soldier with $500 cartridges. New York
Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
General Manager Associated Press
New York.

al have seen in several OF the New England
newspapers telegram which says that Mr..
Frank Burr, who has written a life OF Gen.
sheridan, was an inmate friend of my hus.
band; that Gen. sheridan aided him in the
preparation OF his book and in revising II.
The statements thus made are untrue. Gen.
sheridan was never an intimate friend OF Mr..
Burr, and he not only never aided HIM in the
preparation or revision OF any book, but he
ordered Mr.. Burr from his Office when that
gentleman approached him on the subject
last winter. ! certainly have no objection to
any one writing OF my husband, but when it
is proposed to tOist Mr. Burr's book upon the
public by false representations | believe that
the public will forgive me Tor appearing in
the matter, particularly as am prepared to
prove that agents of Mr.. Burr's publishers
have represented that am pecuniarily inter
ested in their book representation also
false, for have no pecuniary interest in any
publication about Gen. sheridan except his
own personal memoirs which are being pub.
lished by Charles J.. Webster ~ Co., No. East
l4th Street, New York City"
MRS. u. ii. SHERIDAN.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE-Estate OF
" Loyal 4. Remele.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court tor the District OF Adj
Olson, Commissioners to receive examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate OF Loyal e. Remele, late
of Shoreham, in said district, deceased, and
all claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby
es aforesaid, at the late residence of the de-
ceased in Shoreham on the 27th day of Oc-
toher and sth day OF March, next, from |
O'Clock, p. IN. until O'Clock, p. m. each of
said days, and that six months from the sth
daytot September, A. D. 1883, is the time linn
tied by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated at ShOreham, this Sth day OF October,
a. ID. lSSS.
Al H. S. BROOKINS, con,,,s
Ut. STICKNEY, I No o.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26

To do SO no more is the truest repent
ance. -Luther.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26

1t is generally understood that Lord
Tennyson composes much Of his poetry
during his rural rambles.