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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-05-05
Social Debts rronp,i, pnld.

MIRA WCsiond- Who wus II calcdi
Mario Mrs Gruhbs. told her you wcre
ont
"SlrA Grubhs Is out making cn;is. t5cn'
Order my carriage quickly. will return
tho call before abe gets homo. ~ Philadelphia
Record.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-05-05

Bells Bros circus is bn!cd for Ro,o
may slN' ltWilI probably glvo E!ko
bencht about Tho 25,b,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
DISCOVERY.
whea the worlds first great westward vow.

Whea the worlds FIRST great westward vov.
ager -
Sailed out in faith to this new continent
"m tner he felt all h life-currents STIR
ihough knowing not unto what place he went
Ine oay, no land in sight, his grating keel
Reported shoals: The unconscious vessel alta
&C oss, nor heard the grinding sands reveal
me secret of the coast beyond them hid.
PC urilteu past, though waif of leaf and bird
fioating and futtering after, babe him stay:
vague Invita- ons everywhere he heard;
by nope own dazzling glamor led astrav.
ne iahaed on an islands rim, nor guessed
how nearly he had won his larger Quest
Aiasi The dumb, inscrutable human sea
Inat VIII not tell us of the shores we seeki
It's jealous waves in moaning mockery.
Dut Just returned from pressing blue cheek
against lresh roses blown for US, unseen,
In our own realm, that never will he ours
inougn through the starry dusk ali night We
AND, unaware. breathe balsam from the flow.
ers,
And feel its soft mists wrapping US around.
ana near far, wave-tossed voices whispering
from some dim bourne beyond the horizons
bound
Hearts kindred starving for the love we
bring,
AS we for theirs-an unreaped harvest-f1eld:
Our treasure just within our reacb-.concealed,
anu yet, Columbus, this New World is thineI
my ella m was in thy forward-reachlng soul.
AN inner, prescent right; thou didst divine
Wonders that the vailed hemisnbere sbou,a
unroll
AT last, from out the blue blank of the sea:
AND whatsoever foot might tread this shore
Clear was thy title of discovery,
whose thought outsailed thy ships so long
before.
TIL.
mat which we recognize and seek is ours:
approaching unperce we'd, related souls
STR irresistbly our noblest powers:
Us toward our own the tide of being rol1e.
AND shall it not be joy, the voyage done,
10 know the continent and island onef
Lucy Larcom, in Harper's Magazine.
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The Great AppIejack Belt.

The great applejacx-producing belt
of the country lies between the Hudson
river or the east and the Delaware
river on the west, and is pretty much
comprised within the bounds of Orange
County, New York. and Sussex and
Warren Counties. New Jersey. Within
this district are some fifty distilleries
devoted exclusively to the manufacture
OF the fiery spirit known upon the
United States internal revenue returns
as apple brandy, but commonly called
applejack. Ordinarily. when the apple
crop of the region is fair to good. the
distilleries start up when the fruit be-
gins to ripen early in September, and
are kept running until the crop is ex-
hausted. say about the LIST of January
following. Some of the dis
tilleries turn out a large pro-
duct The biggest apple brandy
dlstillery in the country is at Warwick,
Orange County. and has turned out in
the course OF a good season $4,000 gall
Ions. The product of the entire district
In a prolific apple ason will reach
near 100000 gallons, on which an in
ternal revenue tax of $3.50. 600 is paid. =
n. Y. Sun.
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DEATH BY GUlClOTlkE.
The Awful Suspense Of . Criminal d
scribed BY Abbe Faure.

The Awful Suspense Of . Criminal De-
scribed BY Abbe Faure.
The recent double execution of Al
lorto and SELLER at La Roquette has
again given rise to q considerable
amount of discussion as to the moral
effect of the ''guillotine" on the GRIM
inal classes. 1t is quite possible that
President Carnot's severity in accord
ing few reprives has had deterrent
effect on the cut-throats. who had
learned to expect 80 much from the
misplaced clemency of M Grevy. This
would seem to be borne out by the OBJ
servatiOns of the Able Faure, chap
liam of La Roquette prison, who has
communicated report on his minis
trations to the government. The Able
believes that no other punishment
which may be substituted for execu-
ton by the ''guillotine" will have so
fear-producing an effect as the terrible
instrument of justice at the service of
the public headsman.
In his report the Able draws q real
istic picture of the suspense in which
the doomed murderer lives from day
to day, until he hears either his sum-
mons to the scaffold or the news of q
reprieve. Nearly all the murderers
seek consolation more or less in re-
ligion, according to the degree of
education which they have received,
and none of them give up; the hope of
a reprieve until the last moment The
condemned criminals rarely or never
sleep when they know that their time
is approaching, or if they do it is only
to doze of into a horrible dream, from
which they jump up all livid with fear
and dread. Sleeping or waking the
'.guillotine," the lunette, the heads
man and his assistants are for ever
present to their imaginations. Out of
eleven persons whom the Able attend
ed during his six years of Office only
three were really asleep when the
summons came.
On the whole, the French system of
keeping criminals in suspense for
weeks or months is q severe one; but
neither the prison chaplain. who con-
siders it his duty alwayssto buoy up
the doomed man with hope. nor the
magistrates and police officials who
deal with the dangerous Glasses, are
inclined to recommend its alteration
in any of its details. London Times.
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LAND LEAGUE BALLADS.
Thev Are Crude, Hut Catch tho Fleeing
Impulses OF the Celtic Race.

They Are Crude, Hut Catch tho FlcetInR
Impulses OF the Celtic Race.
That the land agitation in Ireland
should be accompanied by ballad
literature of its own was q foregone
conclusion. The Irish are, and always
have been. song-loving people. The
ballads in which the peasantry find
vent for their feelings. though often
rude and rough. are still interesting.
because. like the Corn-law rhymes,
they are the genuine outcome of popu-
lar emotion at the time. The laws of
rhythm and rhyme are frequently set
at naught For these no one cares a
straw; doggerel does just as we'll. or
even better, than the most poetic die
ton; the great aim is to catch the
fieeting impulses which ripple over
the surface of the popular mind. and
TO throw in little salt of advice from
Land League point of view. If we
saunter down the principal street of
an Irish town on a fair day, we
are almost sure to see two bal
lad singers. They generally draw
up in the center of the town
after the business of the day
is over Their stock in trade con-
sists of handful of sheet ballads.
The lady vocalist usually has shawl
thrown over her head, and her hair,
which never seems to have made &C
quaintance with brush or comb, hangs
over her eyes in a tangled mass. She
begins by droning out the first verse
OF political ballad. or "ballat," as it
is generally pronounced. in a shrill
monotonous treble; her companion
chimes in second with nasal drawl,
and this goes on for at least seven
verses, sometimes with the accom-
paniment of a concertina, sometimes
not By this time crowd has assem-
bled round the singers, and if the bal
lad is approved of every one is eager
to pay halfpenny to secure copy of
it. These copies are carried away to
many farm by the lonely mountain
side or to the depths of many a shell
tered glen, and there, by the turf fires,
during the long winter evenings. they
are diligently read and often learned
by heart Meantime the vocalists,
with their pockets we'll lined with
coppers. set off for the next fair or
race course to pursue their vocation
and to dispose of the remainder of
their stock. 1t would be impossible
to overestimate the influence of these
ballads on the excitable Celtic mind.
They stir up the passions and make all
the right appear to be on one side
National Review.
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THE ROCKING CHAIR.

MY grandmother sat in this old rocking chair
But she was not my grandmother then.
ana ner sweet little ACE was bewitchinplv fair
AS 1t laughed a defiance to men.
der sun-Donnet fluttered nike bird on its strino
Her tresses trailed free on the breeze:
ana gaily ween did my grandmother sing.
Underneath the cd gnarled apple trees.
Ny grandfather rode through the white orchard
gate
ana tethered his steed to tree:
ne nad curls growing thick o er his silly vonno
pae, 'ONAe
ana nigh Hessian boots to his kree.
FROM the pink apple blossoms that over him
hung
he brushed of the dew with his hat.
I'LL ne came to the spot where the rocking chat
swung O'''-
AND my merry young grandmother sat.
Inc kingcup and cowslip bloc med round far
and wide,
The bees from their sweetness did sin.
But my grandfather blushed-and NV GRAND.
father sighed,
AS ne licked of their heads with his whin
Then my grandmother hummed her a cnnn,no
old song
RANT heart never won lady fair
SO he sighed and he sued and before very ,oro
There sat two in this old rocking chair
Pittsburgh Dispatch
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
EIGHTY RADICAL CLUBS.

The GAN That Socialism Is Making in
the English Metropolis.
There are eighty Radical clubs in
London. and as many working-men's
clubs, to which the Socialists proffer
their services on Sundays. Some of the
speakers are extremely intelligent, and
glapple with social problems with
ability. Among these are VIM. Morris.
already mentioned, who speaks in
Broadway, Hammersmith. and has a
lecture hall attached to his house;
Annie Besant, notorious for her partner
ship with Il 'adlaugh. and an extreme
Socialist; Eleanor Marx-Eveling. daugh-
ter of the Famous Karl Marx; Rev.
Stewart Headlan, member of the
London school board; Cunningham
Graham. Soc alist member of Parlia-
ment, who served three months i'm
prisonment for taking part in the dis
turbances in Trafalgar Square IN No
vcmber. 1887; George Bernard Shaw,
who has written several novels and is
known as an art critic; H M. Hynd-
man, the founder of the Social Demo-
cratic Federation and author of text
books on English Socialism, and Sydney
Webb. lecturer on political economy
at the City of London College. Each of
these speak once or twice in the open
air or inthe halls-every Sunday. John
Burns says that he has delivered an
average of a hundred Socialist speeches
in London and provinces every year.
He was the leader in the recent strike
movement London Cable.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
TRAITS OF MEXlCANS.
They Are Artistic and Their Children
Have an Intellectual Bent.

They Are Artistic and Their Children
Have an Intellectual Bent.
That the Mexicans are an artistic
people no one who lives long among
them can deny. In music they excel,
and all that is needed to make Mexico
take first place among musical ma
tons is the wider diffusion of technical
rluscal education. The veriest gamin
can catch at once novel air, and bits
from the operas are everywhere heard
from the most ignorant of the lower
classes. Not only are the Mexicans a
musical people, but they are lovers of
irt in all its forms, and their manners
are pleasing. whether you take the
nost olished and travelled citizen or
the humblest peon. Daily intercourse
with educated Mexicans has a charm
about it that is delightful to a northern
er;they are polite, not from affection, but
because they are trained to be so from
their youth, and also because they are
DESTROYS OF pleasing, being by nature
kindly and warm-hearted. Well might
the United States copy the manners
who the Mexicans have for everyday
use. as between parents and children.
masters and servants, and between the
poorest and the poor, who sometimes
seem to possess little else but their
courteous ways. The Mexicans are the
Italians of this continent; they have
been kept to the rearward of richer and
more fortunate nations by their long
and disastrous civil wars. Give the
poor people of this country educational
privileges for twenty years and they
will come up as the Italians have done
since Italy became one country for all
her children.
One thing foreigner in Mexico
comes to notice is the decided intel
lectual bent of the youth of the land.
Mexicans have great facilities In ac-
quiring languages. and almost every
lad in the higher schools knows French
and reads it as we'll as he does Spanish.
They take up English with enthusiasm
and master its abOminable photography
and difficult pronunciation by dint of
downright hard work. It is difficult
for us. trained in the Anglo-Saxon
speech, TO understand how very hard
our tongue is to acquire in the case Of
Span sh CT ITALIAN speaking person.
1t is impossible 10 know how an English
word is pronounced from its spelling.
and, although our grammar is COM
paratively easy. our idioms are diff
cult and our unwritten rules for the ar
rangement of words are tremendous
obstacles. only to be overcome by siren
uous practice and wide reading. -Bos-
ton Herald.
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COUNTING BY ELECTRICITY.
Interesting Machine to BE Used In tn


Interesting Machine to BE Used In the
Forthcoming Census.
I We have on more than one occasion
published a note on the complicated
electrical appliances which have been
manufactured to be used in taking the
forthcoming census. We now give
brief description of the process:
The census collector will call with
his printed blank, and answers to ques-
tions will be written in the usual way.
These sheets will then be placed be-
fore a person who operates machine
which may be likened to typewriter,
except that instead of the usual ink
marks on paper. small round holes are
punched in a card. The cards, one for
each person, are about six and half
inches in length by three inches in
width. and the particular position of
hole in a card indicates an answer to
some of the questions in the printed
blank.
AS many as 25O items of information
can be punched out upon a card. al
though no one card would ever have
more than one-tenth part of the whole
number. For example, no one person
can be classed as both white and black.
American and foreign born, and if
foreign born he can only come from
one country. These cards, when
punched, are placed one at time in
sort of press, and lever operated by
one hand is brought down, when a
series of pins are brought against the
card. Whenever hole has been
punched in card, the corresponding
pin passes through into mercury cup
beneath. completing an electric circuit.
These circuits. one for every hole, pass
out to large number of counters
which operate electrically, and which
add upon their dials all items of the
same kind upon the same dials. For
instance, all white men are counted
upon a dial marked white males"
all business or professional people
upon dials which indicate their par
ticular business or profession. The
cards. as they leave the press, are all
sorted by means of an electrical sort
ing device, whereby they may be
sorted into groups of States. Modern
Light and Heat
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND Oh


SEATTLE w. r., October 81, 1885, !
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ compliance with the prov visions of the act
of Congress, of June 3. 1873 entitled AN act Tor
the sale OF timber lands in the States of Cali
fornla, Oregon. Nevada and Washington Terri
tory"
HENRY KENSMAN,
OF Hillhurst w. r., County of Pierce. Territory
81 washington, has this day filed in this office his
the south west of Section No. IL. in Township
No. ~ N, Range No. w, and ill offer proof
to show that the land sought is more valuable
for its timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes and to establish his claim TO said land
before the Register and Receiver of this office
at Seattle. W. I. on Wednesday the 9Th
day of February, 1890.
~ He names as witnesses: James Ingraham of
Tacoma, w. T.; James Burgess: of Tacoma. w.
man, of Stones Landing w. IT,
ANY and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office or before said 5th day of
February, 1890. T. M. REED, JR.. Register.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22

The primitive plan Of washing win
dows by sitting out on the sill to clean
the outer sash killed one woman, who
fell backward into the street yester-
day. It is always a marvel. seeing
this perilous plan for cleaning upper
windows. that more Of such unaccus-
toned gymnasts do not lose their bal
ance. and, with 1t, their lives. Moth
ing can save them when they once
topple over, because theif hands are
otherwise employed than in holding
on. A fashion of sash that hinges, in
stead of being raised by weights and
pulleys, is desideratum. There are
contrivances for this purpose. but it
will probably take q number of funer-
ais befors hcuse-builders and owners
conclude to adopt them. Even when
the window-washer does not fall out
backward. the strain upon nerves and
muscles is most injurious by this bad
old rlan--Philadelphia Ledger.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND Or

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,l
SEATTLE. w. T., November 2, 1882
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act of
Congress of June 3, 1878. entitled San Act for
the ale of Timber Lands in the States of Cali
fornia,. Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritOry,"
JAMES GAGNON,
of Seattle, county of King, Territory of Wash
ington, has this day filed in this Office his sworn
statement No. 5000, for the purchase of the
north west n of north west "a of section
off proof to show that the land sought is more
valuable for its. timber than for agricul-
tural purposes and to establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver of this
Office at Seattle, W. T., on Monday the 10th day
of February, 1890.
He names as witnesses: John Cailow, Will
liam CallOw and Ed y ard Callow, of Kamilchie,
W. T.; .ohn P. Shelton, Of Shelton, w. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims In this offie on before said 10th day of
February, 1890. T. M. REED, Jr., Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICl

Ell
SEATTLE, w. T., October 81, 1889. !
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act of
Congress of June 3, 1875 entitled Gan Act for the
sale of Timber Lands in the States of California,
oregon, Nevada aud Washington Territory"
JAMES INGRAHAM,
OF Tacoma, county of Pierce, Territory of Wash
ington, has this day filed in this Office his
sworn statement No. 4S17, for the purchase of the
north west "A of section is, in town
ship y north. range west, and will offer proof
to snow that the land sought is more valuable
for its tim b9r stone than for agricultural pur-
poses and to establish his claim to said land be-
fore the Register and Receiver of this Office at
Seattle, w. T.. on Wednesday the 9Th day of
Feb uary, 1880.
He names as witnesses: Henry Kensman, of
Hillhurst. w. T.; James Burgess, of Tacoma,
w. l.; A. E. Eske. of M cdia, W. r.; 10 Front
man, of Stones Landing, w.. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
claims in this Office on or before said 5th day
of February, 1890. T. M. REED, Jr, Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE

SEATTLE, w. T., November s, 1889.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN CON-
IN pliance with the provisions of the Act OF
Congress of June 8, 1878, entitled Gan Act for
the sale of Timber Lands in the States of Cali
fOrnia, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory."
HARRY e. FORD,
of Shelton, county of Mason, Territory of Wash
ington, has this day filed in this Office his sworn
statement No. 5004 for the purchase of the
WI of swL and SEA of swZ of section
Is in township 20 north, range 6 west,
and will offer proof to show that the land sought
il more valuable for Its timber or stone than for
agricultural purposes and to establish his claim
to said land before the Register aud Receiver of
this Office at Seattle. w. T., on Tuesday, the
18th day of February, 1890.
He names a. witnesses: William d. Dunbar,
James b. TreAse, Hen-y Keezer, Lansing
Decker, all of shelton, Mason csunt-, W.T.
Any and al pers0ns claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this ofce on or before said 18th day Of
February. 1890. 7. NJ. REED, Jr., Register.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There were SIG conversions and 40
cessions In the mission churches served
by students Of Garrett Biblical Insti-
tute last year.
The Polytechnio Institute at Wor-
cester, Mass. has introduced q new
course Of electric engineering, lead
ing to the degree ofbachelor Of science
The Moravians. though small in
numbers and wealth. have sent out
during the last century. 26. 900 mis-
sionaties. and expended Geo. 600 year-
y. They have pine mission ahipa
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A lawsuit in New York developed
tie fact that latter the owner of lot
In Cypress Hills Cemetery has buried a
deceased member of his own family in
II he is absolutely forbidden. by the law
under which the cemetery is incorpor-
ated, to ever transfer or sell the lot
outside of his family"
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me greatest work which the teach
er can do for the pupil is the work
which Cardinal Newman says DR..
Whately did for him: he taught me
to see with my own eyes and to walk
with my own feet"
"A novel scnemes in raiiroading is
about to be tried by an English syndic-
ate on the Austrian railway system.
Lending libraries will be established
1t all the railroad stations of any size,
1t which books will be loaned at low
rate. They can be returned at any OF
the libraries Of the company. Travel-
srs are as rule, greedy for books.
and the venture Is expected to meet
With success, notwithstanding the OPP
position of train news agents. whose
business will be sadly hammered
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"A New rork physician recon-
mends the Jewish custom of washino
hands before meals as a preventative
against typhoid fever. He says that
contagion can be conveyed into the
system by the handA
From the general appearance OF
the vegetation, together with discus
sion of the origin and relation of the
dora. it is concluded by eminent
botanists that Greenland is not q
European province from the point OF
botanical geography, but has nearer
relations to America
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"A CHRISTIAN tribe, surrounded by
pasans. has just been discovered in the
.eart OF Africa They had never be-
.ore seen white man. While their re-
"slous ideas are crude. still they
nave priesthood, the cross and other
:. OF Christianity. They are be-
l.eVed to have been exilcd from
Aoysslnia about eight hundred years
aso.-Catholic Reyiew.
St1Ses for 4 Family.
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Ssajes for 4 Family.

Father of Family-How muchP
Shoe Dealer Figuring on back OF
package)-Pair of shoes for the lady:
IS: eldest girl. S.; boy, S.; other girl,
50; baby. SLIGO. Just 800 80. sir.
Thanks. Can't / show you some shoes
for yourself?
Father of Family (wearily) Ooh.
don't bother about me. can go bare
toot-N. Y. Weekly.
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"A very goOa llnlmenJ for sores and
bruises is made of oneshalf pint of
sweet oil, one ounce of laudanum, and
q piece of camphor gum the size of q
walnut.-Housekeeper.