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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14
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w. III. Mills, one of the most
practical newspaper men on the
Pacific Coast, the man who built
up the Record Union of Sacra-
mento delivered an address before
the California Press Association
and urged upon them just what
the APPEAL has for years urged
upon the paper Of this State; or
CARNATIONS. Among other things he
said:
1t the community makes the
press OF a town five times as valu-
able to- morrow as it is today, the
community will get five times the
benefit from it. The weakfaced,
worn. threadhear newspaper of a
tosn does the town harm from the
time II leaves the press until the
last poor copy IS worn out. A
town With such paper ought to
su. { for libel. The community,
then. owes the rural press fran
chse; ii it won't give it, organize
AID command it. Educate the
people to pay, and pay we'll for
newspaper values educate them to
leave the transient sheets alone.
Gather the statistics of the waste Of
money on those outside sheets and
shpS the people how their earnings
a. thrown asav ny neglect Of tic
vitality and energy and p oppressive
vi.nr on which tie rou"t depends.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

80 WESTERN MAIL There was
n s-~te-n ntall Yesterday by the
Y K +. express due 10 "A failure OF
l. east-hound overland train to
c ,ect at Reno. The transfer
o the passenge mail and
e rrss matter over the gap in the
{ .iral Pacific line caused by the
/ ing OF the bridges at Cascade
= on delayed the east-bound
IA several hours, and so late
I = can he daily looked for until
Ii hurned heil.e- are replaced.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14
Cough! and Ceughl and Corgh!!

What in the WORLD is the reason
YOU will cough and keep coughing
and still keep trying inferior medi-
cines when BEGGS' CHERRY
COUGH SYRUP will positively re-
eve your cough at once? This is
no advertising scheme, but an &C
tual fact, and we guarantee it. w
FL. Chedic, IruggiSt.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

Al item u going the rounds oil
press giving directions how to
- every part of woman's
pe by an examination of the
4. THIS system may do for ex-
:. but ordinary men can hardly
ct to arrive at definite con-
SONS on .u.a meagre evidence.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

Prof. C. BOskey from san Francisco OPP
teal Institute. Special st and Scientinc
Optician. Spectaclos aud eye glasses SCI
entifically fitted To tne ght.
III YOU have defective eyes and value
them, call and see the Optician from the
San Francisco Optical Institute ana nave
your ewes examined and tested. Inc Up
tician will remain for few weeks IN Car
son CITY ut the Arlington House, and VIII
and can correct any defect in the sight
with Spectacles or Eye Glasses.
Lenses ground if necessary to correct
snv peculiar case We especially invite
those who have mad any difficulty in get
ting glasses fitted to their eyes. We guar
antee all our glasses 10 fit aud give perfect
satisfaction SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN
TO CHILDREN WITH DEFECTIVE EYES.
Call early and have your eyes attended
to in time. Consultation and explaining
the eyes free.
Office Hours-10 A. NJ. to 2 P. NJ. and 4 to
sP. NJ. at Arlington House, Rooms l5-l6,
Carson City, New. asst
Notice. EMPLOY no peddieis or
agents, so will not be responsible
for anv business transacted outsIde
of nay office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

Abe Cohn has cutter and filter
regularly employed at his En-
porium,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-09-14

orporal Tanner, Conmissis ner
., tensions, has resigned.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
Victims Of the Naphtha Habit.

The latest female vice is intoxica-
ton by naphtha. 1t is not drunk. The
fumes of it are simply inhaled, induc-
ing, so the inebriate says, particular
~ agreeable exhilaration. Not even
hasheesh, it is understood, begets more
fascinating dreams or more gorgeous
visions of splendor. The girls in the
rubber factories, of whom there are q
great number in Boston and its neigh
borhood, are greatly addicted to this
novel form of drunkenness. In such
establishments naphtha is used in en-
ormous quantities to cleanse the rub
Der, being kept in big boilers closed
against the air. To the valves of these
boilers the young women employees
readily obtain access and breathe the
exhalations therefrom, some unlut1y
accident having betrayed to chance
experimenter the abominable secret.
The notion is said to have been brought
originally from Germany by immi-
grant laborers in petticoats. Now the
manufacturers propose to put stop
to the evil by keeping the valves care
fully locked
An overdose of naphtha fumes brings
on hysterical commissions and other
unpleasant symptoms. The habit, long
followed, causes swelling of the face
and other parts of the body, with
dropsy to follow, and sometimes epl-
epsy. On the whole, it is difficult to
know which of these new-fangled vices
for women to recommend. There is
ether-drinking, laughing-gas, and tea
eating, besides the naphtha. The con-
scientious pursuit of any of them will
surely lead to the lunatic asylum. You
pays your money-as one might re-
mark-and you takes your choice
Albdnu drouS.
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cursion train. Mr.. Nell will no doubt write
his name so that it will require mind
reader to get at the reading of 1t.
once knew boy quite we'll who went to
school with me, and in other ways had
every opportunity for refinement. He was
a boy with good intentions. and wore in
summer a chip hat faced with blue Bingham.
Each OF us had a stone bruiSe on the same
foot. and our feet cracked open on the back
in the same manner. so that at night. when
we went out to the we'll and reluctantly
bathed them in rainwater. with soft soap.
and wiped them tenderly on the grass be-
fore we went to bed. we could be heard
wailing at the same moment by the prac-
ticed ear.
But he did not aspire as I did. While I
was grinding scissors in the summer
months. in order to go to college in winter.
he loitered about the depot watching the in
coming and outgoing trains. and carefully
watching the brakemen as they coupled the
day he might see an accident Of some kind.
In this way he obtained great deal Of crude
Information about the movement Of trains,
and how to unscrew the hose of an air
brake 80 as to make it pop.
He did not care very much for literature.
science, or the arts. He preferred exercise
in the open air and fruit. While I was
struggling with Xenophon and Sallust. he
was standing in with Shorty Hughitt on
second seven, and trading maverick water
melons with him for a ride up to Nc Cords
willie and back.
When was sent abroad to complete my
studies at large and popular female SEM
fnary in Munich, Jasper L. Paintbottom was
running extra over the hill on second six.
under old Flatwheel George. Every one
felt sorry for Jasper. but each and all
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

account of himself from the agent at
Hanging Rock up to the receiver Of the
road. for the deeds done in the body.
Then I was shown to q small waiting.
In it. and a small fence around it. It was
quiet. painfully quiet. save the short crisp
notes Of q caligraph in the next room, and
q few stenographic notes lying on a roll
They told me that the president was
busy. also that he was away. I said trust
ed them most implicitly. and hoped they
would not mislead me. Once big. red
faced man, with 81 le-whiskers. brushed by
me and went into the presidents room,
where he remained until was sure he must
be the president himself. but afterward ]
learned that he was just down there to loan
some money to the road. and which was to
be used for paying dividends.
Finally the presidents hour for going
home arrived, and so he went home by an
other door. When the janitor swept out
the building and locked up. decided to go
1 was shown to the same room; 1 often
wonder what room thinks when man Is
shown to 1t. For few hours sat and lis
tened to the guinea-hen song Of the CALI
graph. and then I was told that the presi-
dent would see me.
I came in with that sinuous movement
peculiar to man who desires pass. and
leaned my wet umbrella up against the hot
radiator. Behind the desk sat q man with
red hair. It was Jasper L. Painbottom. as
the keen. far sighted reader has already
guessed. was poor and passless. He rich.
pampered. feted. sued. replevined. toasted.
enjoined. and courted all the way from the
justice Of the peace office to the court OF
last resort. He sat In an easy attitude,
his feet In the upper drawer OF his escre-
toire. His head was thrown back in q hall
defiant manner. and near him was blank
b66ksxof trip passes. void if detached.
knew t6St they had dark-red conditions on
the back. holding the company perfectly
oversight lose my baggage or lubricate its
road bed with my digestive economy. But
I did not care for that. knew that the
road would not take advantage Of me II ]
signed the conditions.
Mr.. Painbottom recognized me as soon as
I told him who was, and told me to draw
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

footed, without . collar, without rui-
fles. without any of the pretty things
that other girls have to wear, ana tne
lack of which she now felt for the nrss
time. When he was entirely out OF
sight Mercy went upstairs and took
her fathers shaving glass, the only
one in the house, and looked at her
face. She saw large brown eyes, fuu
and deep, long lashes that swept ner
cheeks, wavy brown hair, very
sweet mouth and snow-white teeth,
and a rich, red color on her sun
Drowned cheeks. She thought moth
ing of her figure or she might nave
seen that it was the perfection OF
womanly grace. She laid the glass
away with sigh.
That night she went to her father
and asked him to give her some money
that she might get some clothes like
other girls. He stormed and ragged
and abused her until he was tired, and
she listened to it all, and when he was
done she turned and went upstairs
without another word.
The next morning she did up all her
work and then told her mother that
she was going over to see Miranda
Ferris, and not to be uneasy If she did
not get back before SHUTDOWN; she had
left the mems dinner on the table and
should be back in time for supper.
She walked toward the town, with her
head high and her cheeks and eyes
blazing, albeit that the little feet were
bare and the head covered by faded
sunbonnet, and straight toward the
house of Judge Peters, where there
was to be that day competitive ex-
animation for school-teachers, for the
sleepy little town was now to have q
fine school, and all the young girls in
the town who had extra educational
advantages wished to obtain the posi-
ton of teacher. The young minister
was one of the examining board.
Mercy walked up, and, in spite of
the murmur that her presence called
forth, signed her name as one OF the
twelve candidates, and then took her
seat and looked steadily down at knot
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The old man vent out At this junot-
ure and walked around q while. AND
finally returned and came sheepishIv
up to where Mercy was gathering her
mothers few clothes together, and said !:
sWell, Mercy, I've been thinkin'.
I'd kinder hate to have ye go away fer
good, and yer mother, too, though she
Is ailin', so I kinder thought mebby
you'd stay here, and you could pay me-
for your board, and that would about
paw for hired gal. I shouldn't charge
nothin' for yer mas board, SEEM as she
don't eat much, nohow. You'd better
think it over, hedn't you?"
And the old miser skunk out again.
Mercy gent to her mother, and thew
talked the matter over and decided to
STAY. Mrs. Lord seemed to gain new
strength and life every day, and she
and Mercy were busy preparing such
clothes as they could for Mercy's new
position, when, much to their surprise.
MIR. Lord came in one morning and
laid down between them twenty dol
lars, saying:
sThere, take that, you two, and buy
you some fixin's, and don't say that T
never give ye nothin'." Mercy smiled,
but she offered no caress. Indeed, her
father had never, to her knowledge, Of
fered one or seemed to expect one.
So their little difficulties straight
ened out, and Mercy took her position,
clad in black cashmere dress, with
lace ruffles at the wrist and throat,
dainty shoes and hat, and little white
apron, as befitted teacher, and she
looked so sweet and pretty that it was
no wonder that the young minister
should find that the interest he had al.
ready felt in this young girl, whose
industry in the face of almost insur.
mountable obstacles had achieved such
wonderful results, grew daily, and he
tried hard to emulate her by taking ur
his own studies again, SO that he might
not be shamed by her superior educa:
ton. Everybody in the village declared
that it was o wonder, and al, except
the parents of the disappointed candi
dates, declared they had always known
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

OF ralroads. who had no better chance than
ne has now. He wants q signature which
will look well on a pass,
Wen, 70 me. most any signature looks
well on pass. II everyone feels as I do.
any signature that is not a forgery looks
But we are to presume, in writing our
names. that we are entirely unknown to the
plainly as We would desire to have them
stand out upon the cold and polished sur
face of our catapult after we are dead. Or
is it o catapult or a crematory, where a
man gets fired for the general good?
The young man who writes signs himself
very distinctly. as follows:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

pointed to me with pride. and the general
JOY when went away to complete my edu-
cation under q maestro. and it was admit
ted by one and all that might not come
back. was great and gratifying.
/ was absent for many years, travelling
through the Orient and doing the Cont
nent on foot wherever the fare was too
high. until at last. sunburnt and bilious.
but naughty and refined. l came back and
sought to astonish my old neighbors. /
reached the adjoining State. and there my
money gave out This did not surprise me.
because It had happened bsfore. grieved
over It for little time, and then. instead OF
taking to drink. as 30 many others would
have done. y went to the president Of the
road. who lived there.
I found the building first. You always
have to first find the building IA which .
railroad president has his once. Do not
attempt to look up . railroad president
without having first learned what building
his ONCE u In.
then went up the stairs. It was hail.
holiday. and 20 could not ride IN the ele-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

my chair up closer. where could see out
OF the window and so down the 1re-escape.
He wished his wife was at home, 50 that
could come up to the house and dine with
them.
But she was away. She had gone to
Tuxedo Park to stay few weeks with the
Lorillards. He was sorry-I could see that
but how long was I going to be in town?
said had nothing special to keep me
more than a day or two. had intended
to 60 right on that day. but had been de-
tanned by some delay in my transportation.
Oh. what was it? What seems to be the
matter?
Well. I said. my passport had not arrived.
and / had called to see him about giving
the conductor something in the way Of q
note Of Introduction, SO that would be per-.
fectly safe. Then he took blank pass and
filed 1t out. made 1t good for thirty days.
marked 1t issued on account Of charity.
signed It with q manner that made his old
signature. whitfield on the back of our
school house. look positively beautiful.
told me to receipt for 1t and sign the con-
ditions. rang the bell. and told his ONCE
boy to show in Mr.. Plunkhead. who was
waiting. wrung my hand as he would have
toyed with felon on his own hand. and /
passed gradually out.
self. But as I looked at his signature on
the pass. could not help contrasting it
with his old one. and fancying that it had
changed just as his manner had changed.
and 50 give them here to show how natur-
ally we drift into these things. and do what
other people do unconsciously.
Signature OF Jasper L. Pafntbottom while
brakfng extra. on second six under Flat
wheel George taken from time check:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
that Mercy was no common girl.

that Mercy was no common girl.
Mercy's mother seemed to renew her
youth so much that soon she was able
to go about little and superintend
the new hired girl, and the father be-
gan, little by little, to allow light to
enter h:J soul, and he came to realize
at last, before he died, that money and
hard-driving work is not all life holds
worth the living for, and before he died
he gave his daughter to the keeping of
Minister Prescott, who had found that
life would be desert place, indeed,
without the one woman for him-the
one Lords Mercy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
LINES.
n FLORENCE JosErHrss BoYcn.

Truth crushed to earth viii rise again.
A proverb old, yet new;
A consolation, you will find,
When trouble comes TO you.
When Ill Of others you may hear,
From idle Gossip's mind,
Do not believe too soon, my friend,
But seek the truth to find.
Nor coldly turn from trusting friends
When jealousys vile snare
Has spread her willy meshes DER
A life that once was fair.
For some time you may feel the sting
OF envy's poisoned tongue;
Perchance in LIES maturity,
Perchance when Life is young.
Then, for the good you wish to do,
Heed not the gossip's mind;
Nor censure friend nor foe before
The truth you seek to find.
NAITsFIELD, Vt.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

y,tor becsuse the elevakor man Was away
acquiring much needed rest But heard
that the president was ct work.
First went to large once and waited
a few weeks, thinking that was the ante.
room to the presidents once. but 1t turned
ont 70 be the room where old claims against
the company were stored away: aWaatina
the day when the heavens will roll together
as . scroll and each be required to give a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
A Conversation.

@Why, Mrs. Smashleigh," said .
Chicago lady to caller, Haven't seen
you for over week. Have you been
quite well? ?"
~Quite well, thank you"
"Are you still keeping house?"
ooh, no; am q widow now"
"A widow
Eyes, didn't like my last husband,
SO discharged him. Merchant Trau-
eler
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

in the rag carpet. The young ladies
we're called up IN rotation, and soon
the number was diminished to four be-
sides Mercy, three of whom had grad
uated at young ladies' seminaries. It
did not take long to exhaust their fund
of information, and then it came Mer-
cy's turn.
She took her place amidst an utter
silence, and the examination COM
menced, and she answered every ques-
ton correctly, and in such choice Ian
guage that the whole board were
surprised. Then the young minister,
with his college learning still fresh In
his memory, began to question her,
with a bewildering rapidity, but she
never faltered once, and he went far
beyond the list of studies required,
and into those that are properly classed
as sciences, and there he almost failed
to find flaw. In algebra, mathemat-
les, and mental calculation, she far
surpassed himself, and then he asked
her to write. With burning heart,
she took the dainty pen between her
red, rough fingers, and wrote rapidly
and most beautifully part of Tenny-
sons "Dora" from memory.
That completed the examination, and
she was told that she should hear their
decision the next day. She bowed in
silence and went home, but when she
reached there she was pale and wan, as
if she had won a victory by force of
arms, that had left her also exhausted
and bleeding.
The next day Judge Peters and the
young minister came to Mr.. Lords
house, and Mercy would have given
worlds to have not been obliged to open
the door for them, but, with an effort
of will, she did so, and led the way to
her mothers sitting-room with q firm
step and proudly carried head. It
took but q few minutes to acquaint
Mercy and her mother of the verdict of
the Board, and that was that Mercy
was chosen as principal of the new
school, at salary of seventy-five dol
lars q month. The whole world faded
away for few moments from Mercy,
but she soon recovered to hear the min
lister, Mr.. Prescott, tell her mother all
the story about the examination, and
heard him ask where Mercy had stud
led with such good effect.
When he heard, he turned a very ad-
miring gaze upon the lovely face, and,
somehow, he turned his eyes very often
in that direction many times thereaf-
ter.
When Mercy's father heard the news
from his proud and happy wife, and
discovered that ell these years Mercy
had been defrauding him of the time
that she must have used studying, he
few into terrible passion and acted
more like mailman than anything
else, but at last Mercy, driven to bay,
stood before him and said:
stop! I have borne all I ever shall
of abuse and m-treatment from you.
You have treated me from childhood
worse than the poorest OK youA have on
your farm. It is ended now. am Of
age, and I shall go away from here and
take my mother. You can hire some
one to do the work I have done all these
years. I shall take mother to board
with Mrs. Ferris, and you must do thu
best you can"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
Peculiar Accident.

Oliver Tucker, whose home is at
Elderville, Pa, was climbing Q tree,
when it split, allowing him to drop into
the opening, which closed upon him,
crushing him terribly. One Of his eyes
was squeezed from its socket. At last
accounts the unfortunate man was iy.
ing, but in . most critical condition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

That is a good signature to start with,
and may with slight change sound rather
striking when pronounced rapidly. Some
day. however. when the tide Of prosperity
Is at the flood. when wealth and fame have
come. and as President of a road he does
not mind paying for the loss Of q whole ex.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
VERY earnest and
very dear young
friend writes to

Know Wnats In tue
opinion Of this de-
partment. would be
a good signature for
him to adopt. Hc Is
in the railway busi-
ness, and hopes to
go on getting pro-
noted. as he has
started out in that
line. until he be-
comes the President
of the road. 1t Is
not at all unlikely.
he says. for other
bows have become
--sI4 foS ~Daosaontc
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SHOULD BE CUT PLAIN.


Aney All look Wen When Attached to .
Fess-Good Signatures and Bad Ones
biifs Interview with . Bloated Railway
President.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

A MOVEMENT has been started in Nor
way for the dispatch in the summer OF
1890 of an expedition which would try
to reach the North Pole, and 1t Is sup
posed that the leadership will be offered
to DR.. Nansen. The intention Is that
an attempt shall be made to reach the
Pole by way of Franz Josefs Land
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

THE London Athene,lm offers the
latest noteworthy criticism on Miss
Rives' @The Quick or the Dead ?" Miss
Rives' execution" says that Journal,
Shows all the faults of o want of train
ing, but in other respects she is supe-
nor to other minor American novelists
in the same way as a niger minstrel is
superior as an artist to schoolgirl sing
ing . drawing-room ballad"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25

JAPAN has 90, 1000 schools and one big
university.