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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
Reasonable and Human.

Hours of labor are exacted in certain
employments, which cannot be main
tanned without running tho constitu-
tons and forbidding the home pleasures
of the haplcss people obliged to COM
ply with them. The Vienna strike
and the. capitulation of the tramway
company furnish lesson. Public as
sociations should consider, before they
are compelled, whether their dealings
with those who serve them are equiti-
able, reasonable and human. 1t may
well happen that arrangements must
often be continuous, that good men
cannot be spared, and that there must
be long spells of work. In that case an
honorable directorate will establish a
system of relays and reliefs; it will
not wear its personnel out body and
soul, as though they were brute beasts;
though, indeed, animals are constant
ly treated better than human beings,
by reason of their marketable value.
We would invite all omnibus, railway,
tramcar and public societies generally
to study these occurrences at Vienna in
the light Of the certain truth that it is
better to do justice spontaneously than
to have justice forced upon you. The
best work and the biggest dividends
are not got by screwing the last drop
of strength out of willing and necessi-
tous creatures. There must be kindli-
ness, consideration and fair play be-
tween employers and employed if the
worlds affairs are to go on pleasantly
and successfully.-London Standard.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
A Cheap Telephone.

Make two tin drums six inches in
diameter and four inches deep. They
should have q heavy wire formed in
same as half gallon cup. The wire
should not be less than No. 8. Take
rawhide that has been Invested of
hair and stretch it over the drum
while wet, and bind it on with a small
wire; let it remain till perfectly dry.
A very thin hide, such as squirrel,
cat, coon, is the best. Thick hide will
not work WELL Now, to erect your
drum, wire, etc, having set your
posts and put up your insulators,
which may be made of wire and sus-
pended from arms which have been
nailed to the posts, bore hole in the
wall where the drum is to be placed,
run the wire through your drum and
through the rawhide in the center,
having button ready. Pass the wire
through the eye of the button and
back through the drum and twist
tightly, letting the button GO, resting
it on the hide. Put up the wire at the
different insulators String loop sus-
penders) till it reaches the other end
of the line; then proceed to do as at
first. If the wire has been properly
stretched and all the work has been
done as it should have been done, you
will have good and cheap telephone.
No. 10 copper for main line should be
used.-American Artisan.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
What He Liked.

II always thought I was fond of
music" said Farmer Greene, 'but
since visited Matilda in Boston I've
had my doubts about it. hadn't been
there day before Matilda she saws to
me, Now, father, we're goin' to have
musical, and I do hope you'll enjoy
itr
"'Of course l shall, says /. You
know how fond am of them famous
old Scotch songs you used to sing, and
how I'm always ready to jine in when
anybody strikes up Coronation.
We'll, this will be the best music
you ever listened to, says Matilda, and
my mouth watered to hear it.
''The night of the concert you ought
to ha' seen the folks pour in, all silks
and satins and flowers. Matilda wore,
well, l don't rightly know what, but l
think twas silk and lace. Pretty soon
we all got quoted down, and then a
German, with long hair and great
bushy beard, sat down to the piano and
began to play. My, how he did bang
them keys There was thunder down
in the bass, and tinklin' cymbals up in
the treble.
1.-THE lady that sat side of me whis-
pered when there was minutes stop,
DO you distinguish the different mo-
tives?'
My, nor says l. 4 don't sec
what anybody's motive could be for
workin' so hard to make noise.
''Then she smiled behind her fan,
but don't know what at, whether
twas the music or me.
when the piece stopped everybody
hummed and whispered to each other
how lovely twas, and good many
told the German how much obliged
they We're l didn't say word.
Then tall woman, all fixed up
with silks and furbelows, sang a piece
that almost made my hair stand on
end, it went SO high, and had so many
ups and downs in it. She was master
smart; anybody could see that, but
somehow didn't fancy that kind of
singin'. 1t made me uneasy. When
she was climbin' up to her high notes.
l wondered if she'd ever get there;
and when she dropped down again, I
wanted to say: Now you've got
through it safe once, don't try it
again!
well, pretty soon Matilda came
round to me and whispered, Father,
how d'you like it''
81 don't care much for it, says I.
It's q little too much like frosted cake
when you want plain bread
"She laughed, and in minute 1
heard her sayin' to one of the per-
formers, My fathers little old fash
toned, you see, and would you mind?'
"What do you suppose happened
then? Why that woman that sung
the trills and MARBLES stood up, and,
without any piano playin' at all, sung
'Ye Banks and Braes' and John An.
derson.' HOW she knew what l liked
1 never could tell, but she sang the
songs I've loved since was boy, and
when she got through the tears were
streamin' down my cheeks.
BLESS you, my dearN says l and
I went up to her and shook both her
hands. And it seemed to me she liked
the songs herself, for when she looked
at me her eyes were wet, too.
Il had a beautiful time, but l sup
pose it's no use thinkin' l appreciate
real music. Youths Companion.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
Singular Showers.

Showers of frogs, are by no means
an uncommon occurrence. Professor
Geike says that they frequently hap
pen in Italy, but it is noticed that the
phenomenon always takes place near
q wall, and there is grave suspicion
that the little hoppers are merely
washed from the roofs and cutters dur
ing heavy rain. The rain Of blood that
frightened the Hague nearly out of
its wits in the Seventeenth century
was caused by an enormous swarm of
tiny red water fleas. Other sangui-
nary showers have had an equally
harmless origin, and most of them
have certainly been caused by rain
falling through very fine red dust from
desert regions. which is sometimes
carried through the air for hundreds
of miles. The peasantry of Andalusia
in 1904 witnessed shower of wheat,
and were disposed to think the good
old days of the children of Israel had
returned when provisions were provi-
dentially supplied. The explanation
was very simple when it was found
out. Over in Africa, across the straits
of Gibraltar, some laborers had been
threshing wheat. While they were at
their midday meal a hurricane swoop-
ed down, swept their threshing floors
clean, lifted the grain thousands Of feet
in the air by its mighty suction, and
finally sowed it over the streets of n
Spanish town.-Boston Transcript.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
The Yellow Garter.

The very funniest within is the wear
ing of the yellow garter Just one
garter, not two, you understand, and
it must he worn just above the left
knee. The other stocking may be
wrinkled .iisconsolately over the shoe
top or be fastened in place by any one
or all of the mysterious devices known
only to the initiated, but the loft one is
held firmly by band of yellow silk
elastic, with a ribbon rosette of the
same shade, and the correct and proper
thing is to wear it night and day for
six months.
The yellow garter's origin is shroud-
ed in murky uncertainty, but its signi-
tication is known to every girl who
possesses it, and this is its charm:
Any girl who wears u yellow
garter above her left knee is sure
to be engaged in less than six months.
The garter must be given to her by
friend-she must not make or buy it;
and it has never been known to fail of
its purpose but once, and then the
owner was wearing it on the wrong
extremity, or rather the right one in
stead of the left.
Just wherein lies its potency belongs
to the ethics of the esoterics of girl
hood, but the girls all wear them.
The slim slips of girls who want to be
engaged just for fun, though they are
not half old enough obe married; the
bright, clever girls, us sweet and spicy
and wholesome as carnations, who
have a career before them, and say
they wouldn't marry the best man in
world; the hopeless girls that have
tried everything else, you know, and
are accustomed to failures; the sweet
hearted, womanly girls, who are
waiting like Marianne in the moated
grange and signing because He COM
eth not, )" and the naughty, witching
girls who could marry every fellow in
the market if they were not so sort of
bewildering that no one quite dares ask
them, and the shy girls, who hide the
yellow band from their very best
friends, and think of it when they say
Their prayers all waiting for some
br sc knight of the garter to help them
solve the problem concerning the sue
cess or failure of the time honored in
stitution which is causing so much con-
troversy at present-all wear the yell
low garter. New York Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
Ready with an Answer.

Benjamin F. Butler, in the early
days of his practice at the bar, was re-
quired to give some legal notice
in o suit in which he was engaged.
The Judge asked him to name the news
paper in which he desired the adver-
tisement inserted. Butler was at that
time an ardent northern Democrat,
and The Lowell Advestiser, a journal
entirely ignored by most of the com
munity, was the only organ of his
party in the judicial district
SIN what paperg" asked the clerk
contemptuously, when told to insert
the notice in The Advertiser. 'Idon't
know such a paper"
''May it please your honor" Butler
replied, II trust the clerk will not in
terrupt the proceedings by attempting
to tell us what he doesn't know, be-
cause if he does, we might as well
adjourn till after the day of judg-
ment. San Francisco Argonaut.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
Crooked Eels.

An elderly man sat pncidly on the
string piece of far downtown pier,
contemplatively waiting for bite at
the other end of his fishing line. 1t
came, and the old fellow pulled out a
very "wriggly" eel. ''What'm goin'
to do with inn" he echoed to strang-
'er's utiery. ''I'm goin' to make i'm
lay still and keep alive, too" Grasp
ing his squirming prize with a well
sanded hand, he laid him out perfect
Iy straight along q crack IN the
wharf's flooring. Then he let him go.
The cells eyes had strained, intense
look in them, as if he was doing his
level best to squirm, but not CULVER
passed along his rigid length.
ever see q machine get on dead
centerY" asked the wise old fisher
man. That's what ais the eel. Ye
never see an eel straight in the water.
No, ner We never will. He's got to
keep crooked, or rather he can't get
straight. When he is he's paralyzed
One set of muscles pulls just as even
against the other, so he can't move"
An hour later the stranger passed
that way again. The eel still lay
there, feeling, no doubt, like the
Titan under the mountain. The ole
man gave the eel push, SO that the
straight line was broken. The eel be
gan Instantly to wriggle harder than
he did on the end of the line just out
of the water. "How did you Learn
that tricka" the stranger asked. %
always knew it," was all the old mar
could tell.-Philadelphia Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
Cheap Dispensaries.

Most people imagine that dispense
ries are public adjuncts to hospitals.
They should be, but they are not al
ways so. In fact there arc dozen or
SO alleged dispensaries in this city
that are merely private speculations.
l have one in my mind now that
will bear explanation as to its origin
and progress. Three years ago two
young men who had just graduated
conceived the idea for opening u dis
pensary for the treatment OF special
form of disease. Their joint capital
was 5000, and they rented store In a
densely populated section of AvenueB.
Their stock of medicines cost them
very little, for it was derived mainly
from the wholesale drug houses
throughout the United States in the
form of samples of various prepara-
tons sent in response to their request.
Then they put up a sign: 1.-THE poor
treated gratuitously from 0 a. IN. I'M
til ~ noon, and from 2 p. m. until s."
In four months they had paid their
expenses out of the ten cent fee that
they had charged for putting up their
own prescriptions, the patients provid-
ing their own bottles. AS prosperity
overlook them they opened another
dispensary in another part of the city
on the ten cent basis. They have now
been in tho dispensary business three
years and they number their custom
ers by the thousand. Both their
places are crowded right straight
along.
In other cases of similar character
the fee is from fifteen cents to thirty
cents. At one hospital uptown out
door patients are sent to n certain drug
store in the neighborhood to get their
prescriptions made up, and they have
to pay fifty cents and furnish their own
bottles before they can get tho medi
cinc.-Physician in New York News.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-06-28
WHARF THE HAND o, GOD is SEEN.

Dol like the cityi Stranger. 'tisn't likely that
would;
Tisnt likely that ranger from the border ever
could
Git accustomed to the furry an the loud. on.
earthly noise
Everybody in hurry men and wimmin, gala an
boys
All a-rushin like the nation mid the rumble an
the jar,
Jes' as If their souls salvation hing upon their
gttin thar.
Like itf No. love to wander
Mid the wales and mountains green,
In the border land out yonder,
Whar' the hand o. God Is seen.
Nothin' var but bricks and mortar. towerin' over.
head so high,
That you never see a quarter o. the overhangin'
sky.
Not tree or grassy medder, not a runnin' brook
In sight,
Nothin' but the budin' shadder maxim gloom o.
heavens light
Fen the birds ar all imported from away acrost
the sea-
Faces meet me all distorted with the hand o. mic
cry.
Like it, No I love to wander
Mid the wales an mountains green
Inthe border land out yonder
Whar' the hand o. God is SEEN
hoarin railroad trains above you, streets by
woriSmen all defaced,
Everybody tryin' to shove you In the gutter in
their haste.
Cars and carts an wagons rumbln through the
streets with deafenin' roar,
Drivers yellin, swearin', grumbln', jes like imps
from Sheol's shore;
Factories jnin' in the chorus, hepin' of the din
to swell;
Auctoneers in tones sonorous lynn bout the
goods they sell
Like It? No. love to wander
Mid the wales and mountains green
In the border land out yonder
Whar' the hand o God is seen.
Yes, love thewestern border pine trees wavin'
in the air,
Rocks piled up In rough disorder; birds a-singin'
everywhere;
Deer aplayin' in their gladness; elk a-feeden in
the glen;
Not a trace o. pain sadness campin' on the
trail o. men.
Brooks o. crystal clearness fowin' DER the rocks
an lovely flowers
In their tinted beauty CROWN in the mountain
dells an bowers.
Fairer pctur' the Creator
Never threw earthly screen,
Than this lovely home o. natlW'
Whar' the hand o. God is seen
Capt Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout, in Outing
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-10-31

That the effect upon the morals OF
the community will be salutary no
one viii affect to doubt. Even tho ,e
who have found pleasure in witnessing
these pugilistic encounters have had
to confess that it was not pleasing to
them to witness the interest which the
rising generation was learning to take
in such matters, aud many an old
stager. easel hardened and emotionless
though he might be. could not view
with equanimity the son of his friend
sitting IN the next row to him and
exultlng over the sanguinary victory
Of one Of these contestants. Yet the
line could not be drawn. The young
man had Just as much right at a
slogging match as the middle aged man
aud the latter could not with any
plausibility object to the presence of
the former while he himself was i'll at
tendance upon the exhibition.
There is u middle line in these
matters, and this line the Board of
Supervisors have attempted to draw.
They have not cut oil sparrihg exhlbi-
,ions, under proper conditions and
auspices, but they have put their foot
down upon prize fights under the
puiss of such exhibitions, and at
places conducted by wholly irresponsl-
BILE persons and associations, and the
sentiment of the community will com
mend them for their action. Slogging
matches as they have been conducted
only too often in this city are strongly
indicative of reversion to barbarsn,
and il is consistent with the spirit of
the age and with our modern civiliza-
tion that they should be prohibited
Chronicle.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-10-31
No. Oil.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
Eureka, Nevada, September 9th, 1889.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ A. White, by his Attorney -in-fact, James
LOWE, whose Postoffce address is Frisbie, Ian
der County, Nevada, has this day filed his ap-
pication fora patent for 1920 linear feet OF the
Silver Prize NINE or vein bearing silver with
surface ground 900 feet in width. situated in
Bullion mining District County of Lander and
State OF Nevada, and designated by tie neld
notes and official plat on file in this Office as Lot
Number 80 or unsurveyed land, said Lot No so
being described as follows, to-wit.
Beginning at q post marked No. ], u 10.
whence U 5 Mineral Monument No / Bullion
District, bears deg 20 min 4, 2601 feet, Z s
Mineral Monument No bears $ rs deg rs min
1921 feet and run thence
1st Course-N 40 deg 81 min L 425 feet to
post No U survey 3S on Grand Prize lode
thence, on fame course, IT'S feet to post No 2
U 5 80, thence for
I'd Course-N As deg 81 min W, 142o feet to
post mark ed No u 5 Survey 80 thence
81 course, S 40 deg 81 min W 900 feet to post
marked No4 u \ 80, thence
tth course, S as deg 81 min L 1920 IT to post
marked No U 5 80 the place Of beginning
Magnetic variation IT deg s5 min East.
Containing 10. So acres.
The location of this mine is recorded In the
Recorders office of Lander County. Nevada, in
Book l of Duplicate Mining Records. The ad
joining claimants are owner OF Grand Prize lode.
Any aud all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Silver Prize mine or
surface ground are required to file their adverse
claims with the Register OF the United States
Land Office at Eureka in the Co. of Eureka state
of New. during the sixty days period OF publica-
ton hereof, or they will be barred by virtue OF
ths provisions of the statute.
ID. II. HALL, Register.
IL Is hereby ordered chat the foregoing Notice OF
Application f,r Patent be published FOR the
period OF 60 days (ten consecutive weeks In the
Central Nevadan, weekly newspaper pub.
lished at Battle Mountain, lander Co.. New.
ID. Ii. HALL, Register.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-10-31

what was then fashionable, or whether
they were responsible for creating the
fashion, is question of reflex action
whose discussion need not be entered
into here. 1t is certain, whichever
way the cause and effect may have
stood, that women of the fair, fragile
and faintlng type were as common in
real life as in fiction. Painting was
then one of the great resources of the
gentle sex, and it was resorted to in
the firm conviction that it had tell
ing effect on the sex which has always
been grati6ed to call itself the
stronger. Men adored helplessness in
women, and women gave men the full
measure of this alteration. The
feebler the woman was the more ador-
able she Good health was considered
vulgar, stronger nerves still more so.
and strong minds the most vulgar
thing of all. 1t was the height OF
fashion to be delicate and pale, and
no woman could expect to be interest
ing who was expected to live long.
The fainting frenzy was used in the
unreal life of that time as regular
form of courtship as much as it was in
the pages of sickly romances. Swoon-
ing at an opportune moment was one
of the most effective methods of
storming the masculine heart, and no
man could long remain cold to the
slinsy damsel who understood the art
of gracefully losing consciousness.
One comical result of all thus swoon-
ing aud syncope was the growth of the
"earrier out" Men studied to excel
in the delicious duty of resuscitatng
the dear limp creature with the same
assiduity that the fellows Of the pres.
ent time practice lawn tennis or rack
their brains over new figures for the
german. lie who would make a name
for himself among the Eyelinas and
Prlscillas had but one way to achieve
that social distinction. 1t was per.
emItory that he should always be con.
veuientiy near when the fair charmer
lost her balance, and it was upon the
grace aud dexterity with which he
caught her ere she reached the floor
or lifted her after she fell and bore
here barely OF the scene that his sue.
cess depended. The man who did at
tain chat success secured a fame thai
want ahead of him, while damsels
fainted along his line Of march for the
very honor Of il; his own sex envied
him and the ether gave him its wor-
ship.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-10-31
RIg Can Baking Powder.

Is the boss, and is guaranteed to be
far superior to the celebrated Royal
baking powder. 1t is put up in one
and a half pound cans, and you get
lust double the amount for the same
price as you pay for other baking pow
ders. Try it and you will be con-
yinced. Lemaire the groceryman, is
sole agent for it at this place.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-10-31

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,
fever sores, t-,tter, chapped hands,
cailblains, corns, and all skin erup
tons, and positively cures piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re.
funded. Price 20 cents per box; for
sale by Blossom & Black.
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