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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-16

Following are O,mo Of the desirable
goods just received ut Reinhart's:
Indies Dress Patterns; Elmo French
Flanncls; Ladies' Jerseys; Ladies'
Shawls; Latest H!3es Ladies' Hair
Ornaments aud Hat Pins; Ladies'
and Cbildrcn's Cashmere Hose; Mems
and Boys Winter Cloth <; Over
coats in all styles; Wall Papers,
Carpets, etc. Call and see them,
ut RrtSIiAKris, '
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A 1Iurderous Clergyman.

A dispatch dated La Fayette, Indi-
ana, Feb. 10, says:
The Grand Jury returned an in
dictment to-day against Mrs. Elmu
Whitehead and Rev. 4. T.. Petit,
charging them with the murder OF
Pettit's wife, who died July 18th last
of %strychninc poison. Petit has been
in Jail some time. He is a prominent
Methodist minister and Grand Prclate
of the Indiana knights Templar.
Mrs. Whitehead is a well-to do
widow.
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Tuny.

Uncle Geo. Tufly, State Treasurer,
came over from California yesterday
morning and continued on to Carson.
Ho was accompanied by his daughter,
Theresa. Uncle George has lost 1875
pounds during his sickness, nnd
Weighs only go pounds. He says
no feels pretty we'll, and that u
change to homo climate will soon
mako him strong again.-lReno Jour
nnl.
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Undertaking.

Having purchased OF Brown 4 Hoe.
kins their interest in tho Undertake.
ing business, / mn now prepared TO at
tend TO oil calls in hat line. I will
also attend to tho repairing and up.
holstering Of Furniture, otto. Shop
on Commercial etrcct, noxt door ts
Brown & Hoskins' old stand.
10 ~. l.. PETERSON.
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HI wATER SUPPLY.

Notwithstanding tho immense
amount Of snow which fell during the
month OF January, there does not seem
to be the amount of water which was
anticipated. the snow has nearly all
disappeared, except in the mountains,
and yet the ground is comparatively
dry, and unless we have more snow
or rain the prospect is that there will
not lie a superabundance OF water
during the coming Summer, and
those who seem to think the subject
of irrigation needs no further agita-
ton are making a mistake. Even if
there was q prospect that the water
supply the coming season would De
oil that the outlook a few weeks ago
promised, there would still bs ample
grounds for providing for future con-
tengencies in a scarcity of water. The
Enterprise takes the correct visw of
the situation when it says:
There is no need OF letting up on
tho question OF irrigation, as with %
much water as we now have in the
mountains, the stake We are playing
for is bigger than ever.
The subject Of water storage is OF,
as much importance now as il was
during the drought of last Summer,
for whatever be the result OF the sup
ply the present season, there is no
good reason to suppose that there
will not be u scarcity ut solle time in
the future, and hence the subject OF
winter storage is an important one to
the future welfare Of the State.
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Stock Losses.

From tho information furnished by
men from different parts Of tho coun.
try, about thirty per cent. will fully
cover tho losses Of range cattle from
Winter causes, and fifteen por cont.
the sheep losses. In Din localities
the losses were heavier, but not Who'll.
u from Winter causes, as cattle were
starving before Winter set In. ISilvor
State.
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The Lottery Scheme Collapsed

A dispatch dated Bismarc k, N. d.
February 10, says:
The great lottery scheme collapsed
suddenly to-day without a single motto
Of warning. The friends Of tho bill
In the House moved it's indefinite
postponemeDt, and carried tho mo.
tion. They then advised the Senate
OF tho death Of tho measure. Tho
real reason for the breakdown has
not developed, unless tho pressure OF
President Harrison and others in
Washington, as we'll as the presence
OF detectives and newspaper cores
pondents, who woro in the confidence
OF tho opposition, was too much for
tho lottery partisanI. In the Senate
n committee war appointed to invest.
gate tho charges Of bribery in con.
hection with the lottery business.
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Tho steamship Oregon upon one OF
its quick passages across the Atlantic
used 80 tons OF coal per hour, or n
triilo mor than two tons por milo,
ond 1914 tons for tho passage. Welsh
conl costs 81 TO q per ton. making the
cost for a trip about $4,000.
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Notice toTcnchcrs.

The regular examination Of appli.
cants for teachers certificates will DO
held Mt tho school house in Elko,
commencing on Friday, March I. 1880.
All those who desire TO pass an OK.
animation this Spring arc required TO
be present Mt the opening OF Tho c 9
sion, on tho above date, rs no special
examination will DO held.
W. 9. LOVE,
Ltd Sup't. OF Schools.
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Induratcd Fibre Ware.

The attention Of the public is di-
rcctcd to my new stock OF Tubs
Buckets, Basins, etc, manufactured
from Indurated Wood Fibre, pressed
out in one piece, without seams OF
hoops. 1t is light and durable, viii
not shrink or swell. will not faint any
kind of liquid and bids fair 10 super
cede tin md wooden ware. Call and
examine 1t.
II. CHAsg.
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s. +. Post-rhc future OF tho re.
vision movement in the Presbyterian
Church 10 difficult TO forsce. The
seed OF discomfort has taken root, and
the old confession OF faith may DO
completely revised within a few ycaty.o
-Four OF the religious papers arc 10 IA.
o Of II, and seven are ngainst it.
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yust received at Roi6hart'e. Go and
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down .4ts% - =
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NOT FRulTLEss.

man who has spent busy year sits
down for little retrospect. He falls
into moody frame, and in a tone Of
regret says: 81 worked all the year
through, but there is hardly any thing to
show for it; my work has had no perma-
nence." But good spirit was beside
him and she said: " My dear, do you re-
member those flowers that grew right
out there? Those roses. petunias, hello
tropes, geraniums, and most Of all,
that beautiful lilium auratum? Well,
they are all gone. Not one Of them had
any permanence. You can not find even
a stem to tell that they existed. And
yet, they were beautiful while they
lasted, filling the air with fragrance,
pleasing the eye Of all who saw them,
and they are remembered still by many
persons to whom they were messengers
of gentleness. !" And the moody shadow
seemed to break away from his brow,
giving place to smile and air Of salts
faction. But later in the day, after all
the wo rk was done, and she was weary
heaving asigh, she said, sadly: s.My
life is just a round Of the same duties,
and seems to be wholly truitless.'' II
| was his time now, and looking up cheer.
lily, he said: Not SO, my dear. Dc
| you see that tree over there, that
noble oak? Well, it has stood there
these many years, more than you
and ! can tell, and its life
has been almoss wholly without variety
! Each summer it is crowned with foliage
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-12-25
During the Holidays.

The best part of the holiday season,
perhaps, is the opportunity it gives for
home gatherings and the family re-
unions that IN these busy days are all
too few. Many a young man finds time
to get back to the old hearthstone and
sit down in the dear home circle who, il
the holidays were omitted, would be
kept strictly at his tasks. All the
schools are dismissed, boys and girls are
at home, teachers likewise are off duty,
and, with no care pressing, in thousands
of places parents and children have
happy times together for which they
may thank the festive season. There
are other unions and reunions, all Of
them pleasant and helpful, but there is
hardly any such joy to youth in this
world as that of getting back to the fire.
side where he was reared. There is a
rest there for him, a perfection Of peace
such as that, no matter how prosperous
he may be in his pursuits, never come
to him any place else. And greatly to
be pitied is he for whom no door Of the
early home is open, or against whom it
is blown shut by the pitiless storms that
have beset him.-United Presbyterian.
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covery was greeted by little jubilee
from the children and grateful glance
from their mother at Miss Priscilla,
who, somehow, seemed always to be
looking out of the window. But Mar
jory found something that puzzled her
IA long, black stocking hanging over
the back of a chair.
s'Why, it's big like yours, mamma
how FUNNY! And there isn't any thing
in it!''
"Yeth, there ith!' lisped Tot "Tum-
pin round and hard. Ooh, look, nam
ma" And the first ray of sunlight that
struggled into the room CLEANED on a
gold piece in Tots hand.
Miss Priscilla had disappeared into a
deep closet and was fumbling round for
something, which for some reason could
not be found; perhaps because her
nightcap had bobbed down over he1
eyes. But the next minute two arms
were wound around her and she heard a
fearful voice whisper: You have been
SO good, SO good to me, dear friend! ]
wish I could thank you. .
There, there, child. Don't say an
other word. I've been a rich, selfish
old creature, but I'm going to reform
And we've all made such good begin
ming this morning that I really think
this is going to be the first merry
Christm as j ever had! There, don't say
another word Fl. A. Hall, in Interior
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In Kris Kringle's Land.
/ MERRY CHRISTMAS" 1 THOUGHT


The German Christmas has supplied
us with two of our best-known Christ
mas misunderstanding up stockings and
attaching gifts to sprigs of pine, called
Christmas trees.
From the German Christmas also
come Santa Claus and Kris Kringle.
The latter is a corruption of Christ
Kindlin, or Christ Child, of whom they
have the beautiful fable that with His
own hands He places Christmas toys
and sweetmeats in the stockings of good
children, while those of bad ones re-
ceive nothing but a small birch rod,
placed in them by one Pelsnichol-lit-
orally Nicholas with the fur that is
st. Nicholas dressed in fur.
1t is a rare sight in German house
hold on Christmas morning to see the
expression of abject misery on the face
OF some poor little wight, who, having
been disobedient or otherwise naughty
on Christmas eve, finds only birch rod
in his stocking, instead of bon-bons and
play things. The dread of getting the
rod from old Pelsnichol on Christmas
keeps many German child in order all.
the year.
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Our : HotrBAY : SUPPLEMENT-. <
There, tell me about it. I didn't.
know you had any children

There, tell me about it. / didn't
know you had any children"
She heard a simple story of the brave
little mothers struggle to make a nest
for her birds; and how, at last, finding a
position in the city, she had placed them
in boarding school where they would
be we'll cared for, and where she could
visit them every Sunday.
''We try to make that do for all the
week." the little woman added, with a
smile, land when holiday comes we
spend the whole of it together. And j
thought, Miss Hopkins, perhaps YOU
would let Marjory sleep with YOU to-
night"
Five minutes later Miss Priscilla was
standing alone before the fire, wrinklng
her forehead anxiously; for, some what
to her own surprise, she had consented
to care for six-year-old child all night
She! who had never held one in her
arms, who looked upon children as be-
wildering mysteries!
''What shall do if it cries?" she muir
INJURED, ''or has the Group, or falls out
OF bed, or wants doll, or-you're fool,
Priscilla Hopkins
But when Mrs. Clark appeared at the
door that evening, with little, curly
headed, white-robed figure half hidden
in a great shawl, and gazing with big.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-12-25

In the gray dawn of the early morn
ing, Marjory, cuddled close within the
protecting circle of her new friends
arm, reached up timid, little hand and
touched her cheek
''Say!' she whispered, shyly, ''do you
think he's come yet?"
''Who?" asked her bewildered bed
fellow.
"Why, Santa Claus. don't think I
can wait much longer to see-I don't
think I can"
TRY and wait till mamma comes with
Tot. Lie down and I'll tell you story
coaxed Miss Priscilla.
Luckily for the success of the story,
Mrs. Clark tapped at the door just then,
and with bound Marjory was standing
upright in bed, her eyes fixed on the
fireplace.
''Oh!' the child cried softly, ''Ohy'
The next moment the little voice burst
out into the happiest ripple of a song,
without words or tune, but it seemed as
if any one would know it was a Christ
mas carol.
II declareW said Miss Priscilla, wip-
ing her eyes on the pillow-case, II de-
clare, it makes me think of that hymn,
| Break Forth into Joy!''
The chubby fingers were already
diving into their stockings, and UNITY.
ing puzzling knots, and each new dis.
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and then each autumn the winds sweep
it all away. But the birds sit there and
sing, the cattle gather under it on sultry
days, and children collect about it to
picnic on their holidays. There is
nothing of all that there now, but what
help has the old tree been, and how
many pleasant things could be told
about it-how noble an object it is, also,
in the wintry landscape" The parable
was not without it's meaning. The good
mother returned the smile of the be-
nignant father, and together they sang
at their family worship of The loving
Kindness of the Lord. ~ United Presby-
terrain
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HOLIDAY HINTS.

Don't expect to find brown-stone
front in your stocking. Phila. Call.
Never look gift-horse in the teeth.
1t is also wrong to look Christmas
giftin the price-mark. -Somerville Jour.
The man who economises Christmas
for sake Of New Years blowout takes
time by the forelock just week too
soon.
Talk about oil trusts, rubber trusts,
coal trusts, ETC., as much as you like,
but what we want about Christmas is a
turkey or goose trussed. Boston Cour-
Ter.
III the man who devised the dumb
piano would only invent dumb horn
and drum many of us wouldn't be SO re-
signed to having Christmas come only
once a year.-Judge.
When some men give their wives
little pin money to buy Christmas re-
membranes for the children, it seems
much larger than when they spend
twenty dollars rafting to win two
dollar turkey. -Judge.
If any child gets up on Christmas
morning to find an empty stocking, he
will feel as bad for time as the man
who carries an empty sleeve. and the
men and women nearest him will be so
guilty that they ought never to be for
given.-Judge.
The Young Turkey Well, we've es-
capped Thanksgiving! Gobble! gobble!
gobble! .s.
Experienced Gobbler Sadly Ny
son, do not let your life insurance policy
lapse. Christmas is coming! Munsey's
Weekly.
Starting on a new year It IS we'll to
accept this teaching from Emerson;
Write on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year. No man has
learned any thing rightly until he
knows that every day is doomsday.
The close of a year is poor time for
good resolutions, but it is an excellent
time for good actions. It is late for
planning, but it is just right for per-
lformance. Now is the time to be and to
do, even though the hours are too prec-
ious to waste in thinking about being
and doing. S. s. Times.
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hang the little stockings here tonight
With two such pleading eyes shining
at her over an armful of packages, Miss
Priscilla felt she could hardly refuse.
s. HIM, yes. don't know that it would
do any harm. All foolishness, think .
"Do you?" said Mrs. Clark. brightly.
But it's such a pleasure to watch them
when they find the stockings in the
morning! Let me see, here's Noah's ark,
that goes in Tots stockings and the lit
tie elephant in Marjory's. Then here
is toy watch for each of them and a
stick OF candy,a popcorn ball and big
orange to cap the climax. Why, it just
reaches the top! How fortunate there
isn't any thing morer' laughed Mrs.
Clark
But, somehow, Miss Priscilla's spec
tacles grew quite misty, and she took
them off and wiped them once or twice.
The little packages were so very small,
and the little mothers way of laugh
ing at her poverty was so brave and
CHEEKY!
Have the children any dolls?" asked
Miss Priscilla, pinning the stockings
with her own fingers to her cherished
plush lambrequin.
Eyes, two forlorn, little relics. Tots
has lost it's head, believe, and Angeli-
mas arms are gone, but the children
love them and couldn't afford new ones
this year. | must run back to Tot now
am SO grateful to you. Miss Hopkins; l
hope Marjory won't disturb you. Good
night.
Goodnight" answered Miss Priscil-
la, and then she went back to the fire
and stared hard at the little crimson
stockings, glowing in the freight.
'sI'll do it-so!' she said at last, de-
cidedly. Softly leaving the room she
called down the speaking-tube for the
chamber maid. Good natured Katie
readily promised to mind the child a
Bit and, while giving numerous eau
tions, Miss Priscilla arrayed herself in
bonnet and cloak and started out into
the night.
The stores were dazzling with ga.
light and the air was sweet with the
odor of pine branches, but the gay fes
toons of bunting we're not in halt 81
happy a futter as Miss Priscilla's fool
ish old heart. How hard it was to de
eide between blue eyes and brown
wax and bisque, and blue or gold tie;
sets! And should she get nuts and raj
sins, or candy, or purple and whit.
i grapes? Miss Priscilla couldn't tell, s,
| she ended by getting them all ant
trotting home as fast as possible, witt
4 her arms full of delightful looking
bundles.
ssArrah!'' cried Katie, when sh,
reached the kitchen, s'Whatever ha
come over the ould lady? Bless M,
stars! ct she didn't hev tay-set,
little stove an q wagin' an two illegan
dolls! An she were q tip-toeing roun
like Saint Nick himself!''
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The big New York boarding-house
was almost deserted. ALI of the thirty
boarders had scattered for the HOLIDAYS,
except the invalid on the parlor floor,
the crusty German professor, old Mr..
and Mrs. Brown, and the pretty, power
ty-pinched young widow on the fourth
floor. Even the little music-teacher
was off for holiday trip, and Miss Hop
kins could hear the cham ber-maid call
ing blithely to the grocer boy, that
"she'd be ready-oh, by seven o'clock.
sure"
Miss Hopkins pressed her wrinkled
cheek against the window pane, and
looked down into the dull, city street,
with its patches of dirty snow. Ahard,
bitter feeling crept into her heart
There were so many good times and she
mot in EN-" The ledger on the fourth
floor back was leaning against the win
doW-pane, too, but her cheek was pink
and smooth, the room very tiny and
cold, and the view from the window
limited to a row of back-yards. Per-
haps her heart was quite as heavy, for a
tear splashed suddenly on the window
sill.
II don't see any other way" said Mrs.
Clark, looking at it, meditatively. ST
dread asking her-sbe is so stiff and 81
lent, and we've hardly exchanged doz-
en- words. But my babies shan't be dis.
appointed if I can help it, so cheer up,
my dear-we'l II have a merry Christmas
yet" and she nodded brightly at the
tear-stained face in the mirror. Then,
running down the long flights of stairs
she knocked at Miss Hopkins door.
Come in, !" called Miss Priscilla, turn
ing with a surprised air, as the doo1
opened.
II came-I thought-that is, want
to ask a great favor, Miss Hopkins,
stammered her visitor. 81 have prom
ised my little girls that they shall spen6
Christmas with me, and that Sants
4 Claus will visit them here; but there i.
only room for baby in my single bed; il
is too cold for Marjory to sleep on the
floor and So" Mrs. Clark faltered, bu
the elder woman gave her no help anc
she finished abruptly, with a little trem
BILE in her voice.
Miss Hopkins watched her in puz
zled way, till her near-sighted eye.
caught the glimmer of a teardrop; the1
she pushed forward chair, saying, no
unkindly:
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ana sigh:
OH any thing old-fashioned had best pass
out and die!''
And then I leaned back smiling and quite
self-satisfied,
And closed my eyelids slowly, when, 10! they
opened wide
In sheer amaze and wonder and would YOU
saw before me standing, the form of Santa
Claus.
But. OH so strange and altered! In clothes
Of latest style,
And not at all the Santa I'd dreamed of all
the while.
But still recognized him, and said: II didn't
You come out from the chimney-'twas very
dull of me-
. The chimneys' said he, grufay; IT beg Of you
Chamber down no chimneys; I stopped that
long agoy'
said: "Your load was heavy, you're tired;
won't you rest?''
/" Oh! no." he answered, grandly, my goods
were all expressedr'
You must have found it pleasant-the sleigh
ing, sir, mean.
The roofs are much more snowy than l have
ever SEEN"
"Indeedr'-his air was lofty-"'tis not the
present mode
To drive a sleigh. travel by the elevated
road"
Twas all so strange it chilled me- but still 1
said: "Now, please;
You won't forget to send us one of your
Christmas trees.
The children love you dearly and try to be so
good.''
He said: mo trees hereafter I'd have it un-
derstood.
In fact, the time is over for Christmas. I
should say
Those very old-time customs have really
passed away.
We want the very latest, dear madam, you
and I,
And peace, goodwill and Christmas are of a
time gone by
And then he seemed preparing to take his
leave and go.
But do you think let him? I called out
bravely: sNo'
I ran to him and begged him, between nv
To leave US blessed Christmas, just as in
former years.
To change no little custom; to take no part
away;
To leave us DEAR old-fashioned, beloved
Christmas day.
And then, for just an instant, my eyes were
very dim
With tears, and when cleared them saw
change in him:
His face, twas round and jolly, his clothes
were as of old,
He had pack upon his back as full as it could
hold
And as he beamed upon me heard his rein
deer prance,
Then sly old Santa gave me smile and
roguish glance.
81 wish you Merry Christmas ~ thought I
heard him say
And when tried to answer him he d vanished
quite away!