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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08
What the World Needs.

What the world needs to-day IS not
more medicine, but less of it. Not now
methods of shutting out sunlight and
the only true elixir of life, but more
pure air to breathe, pure water to drink,
pare food to eat, less overworls and
ovcrworry, more rational methods of
labor with many tOilcrs with brain and
hand, more wholesome exercise and q
calIncr, more cheerful frame of mind.
Tens of thousands die before their time
through consuming fear Of unseen ;2d
purely imaginary foes, and other tens of
thousands through false teaching, the
influence of false ideas, and, in conse-
qucnce, of senselcss violation of nat
ure's plainest laws. Instead of losing
our grip on life, we of this generation
ought to be getting firmer hold. Our
boastful modern ways arc pit;fully
weak and unreliable, asserts the Phila-
delphia Telegraph. 1t will take q hun
drcd Kochs to lift us above the ever
swelling tide that is sweeping mankind
so hclplcssly along toward the end of
all things human.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08
Cure for DIphtheria.

A peasant physician named Eicgcr,
of GlOg2u, in SiiCsia, announces o cure
for diphthcria which an agent of the
Emperor has examined and reported
very favorably upon. 1t is thought to
be 4 mixture of extracts from two or
three common weeds and an Oil. The
salve resulting from C;c mixture is
liqueficd, and applied with u brush to
the interior of the throat. The remedy
was discovered by Ricgcr's father, n
shepherd. It was applied by him only
to external wounds. Once, when young
Ricgcr's whole herd was dying of diph-
th2ria, he, in despair Of all other means,
began treating their throats with the
salvc. The favorable effect was 2npar-
Cnt almost Immediately, and in few
days every head of cattle was we'll
again. Shortly aftcrward diphthcria
became cpidcmic in the village. Ric~cr
was invariably called to give his remedy
in the most severe cases, and almost
without exception it wcs followed by
recovery. Gradually it's fame spread,
till to-day lie is receiving calls to cure
persons of diphthcria ell over Germany.
The cures that have contributed most to
his reputation were effected few weeks
ago Ill the family of the Freihcrr Won
Falkenhauscn III Berlin.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08

Probably the highest price ever
paid for a book was E10. 900, given by
the German Government for mi. sal
formerly given by Pope Leo x. to
King Henry VIII. OF England, along
with parchment comforting on that
sovereign the right of assuming tho
title of defender Of the Faith" borne
ever since by English Kings. 1t was
sold at auction some years ago. Tho
book which secured the highest offer
was Hebrew Bible in the possession
Of the vatican. In 1912 tho Jews OF
Venice proposed to Pope julius III. to
buy the Bible, and to pay for it It's
weight in gold. 1t wns SO heavy that
il required two men to carry it. In
deed. it weighed 325 pounds, thus rep
resenting the value Of half u million
of francs (G20,000). Though being
much pressed for money, in order to
keep up tho Holy League against
King Louis XII OF Franco, Jnlius IL.
clincG 10 part with tho volume
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08
Insects anI Coli.

Entomologi3Gs have determined that
the severity of winters is not destructive
to insect life. Larvio may be frozen
stiff and yet they will revive with the
return of warmth. Brnblcbccs and
butterflies are often met with in TIC
Arctic regions. Disease microbes are
even moro tenacious Of life Waclltinuth
and Verne found that they could be
subjected to cold forty degrees below
zero, be powdered with mortar, and
yes be capable of transmitting Diseases
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08
Short Sight.

1t was recently maintained before
the Paris academy that shortncss of
sight was u defect incident to civilii:a-
ton, or to an artificial condition of life.
An examination OF the eyes OF wild ari-
mails shows that those captured after
the age of six Or eight months remain
lo1G-sightcd, while those captured
earlier or born in captivity are near
sighted
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08

T,eaVee Elko every morning at 723O
o'clock.
Arrives frmn fueoHrpra cvory cven-
ing in time to Cnrnect with ESpreSa
trains going both lHnst aud West.
Onicc next door 70 tho 1NDEPSNns
ENT Office.
&. +. HOI LAND, Ageas
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

A VIENNA doctor has declared that
cancer can be arrested by an injection
of one of the coal-tar derivatives,
methyl violet. - r-11a 1al =
A NEW antiseptic called microcidine
has been discovered. 1t is powder,
formed of naphthol and soda. It is al
most harmless, and is neither poisonous
nor irritant.
In Australia, where deadly snakes
abound, it has been discovered that
strychnia is almost an infallible cure
for their bites. The antidote acts quick
", snake poison slowly. AL physicians
use it.
A LErPsIc scientist has demonstrated
by facts and figures what most people
have always believed, that colds are
oftener caught by those who wrap
themselves up and avoid the severity Of
the weather than by those who dare to
brave the elements. IS" %
CryorDs consist simply OF water divided
into minute globules or drops. They
differ in no essential respect from the
steam emitted by teakettle, or the
mists and fcgs that fill river valleys at
sunrise. These forms of water are all
produced in the same way.-Portland
Me Express, ,~r--,.-f re -- .--
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
POINTS ron 64kI6

.a
YouR mother IS your best friend
TELL. the pleasantest things you know
when at meals,
Do NOT expect your brother to be a.
dainty asa girl. 5-o5.f -.-,e -. -. .
g HAVE nothing to do with girls who
snub their parents.
EXERCISE, and never try 70 look as II
you were in delicate health.
INTRODUCE every new acquaintance
TO your mother as soon as possible.
DoN'r think it necessary to get mar
ried. There is plenty of room for old
maids, and they are often happier than
wives.
ENJOY the pleasure provided for you
by your parents to the fullest extent
They will like that rs u reward better
than any other 7se siadsr1 wa 1sTe
r TAKE care of your teeth at cny cost
Of time or trouble, and do without new
dresses rather than neglect a needed
visit to the dentist.-Drake's Magazine
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28

tional prejudice as some hard-pressed
denizcn of the sea stirs up the slime
beneath to cover his retreat-Iowa
Tribune.
The alliance leaders and the true
blue bosses in Maryland had a sharp
little game at their last state conven-
ton. The alliance was conceded the
governor and the true blues took the
platform. which was devoted to adula-
ton of Senator German. It now trans
pires that the alliance is preparing to
control the next legislature and relieve
Mr.. German. In the little tilt of city
superiority over hayseed management,
the superiority got the taffy and the
hayseeders got all the meat-Alliance
Herald.
Some sneeringly ask: "What right
have the farmers to demand that pros
Perity to all other classes be dispensed
through them (the farmers)? The
Mercury replies by stating that it can
be accomplished in no other way. Agri-
culture is the trunk of our civilization.
Other avocations are the branches.
Fertilization must be applied to the
roots of the tree, not to its branches.
When the tree thrives the branches will
bloom; when the trunk languishes, the
branches wither and die. See?-South-
ern Mercury. -
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
CHINA AND JAPAN.

TIE Chinese do not permit their woui-
en- to be photographed s.-nr In er-r -7
FUsIAMI. the famous sacred mountain
of Japan, gives signs Of renewed vol
canic activity.
WHEN the japanese hitch horse in
the street they accomplish it by tying
his forclegs together. .-.r.
The Chinese paper currency is red,
white and yellow paper, with gilt let
tering and gorgeous devices.
1T has been found that ccrtsin mines
in Japan produce as good coal for
steamship purposes as the best Welsh
variety.
THE Shan Chinese. @ people living be-
tween Burmah and China, show their
love for their parents by killing them
and eating them to save them from tho
misery of old age.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
uitcorNss EARLY 1RiUMPHs.

An Hmportant Figure In Baekwoods So
- 7sF aF-re - eiety. 91-li 81
b He won neighborhood reputation rs
u c}essr young man. which he increased
by h;a performances as q speaker, not
seldom drawing upon himself the dis.
satisfaction of his employers by mount
ing stump in the field, and keeping
the farm hands from their work by lit
tie species in a tocose and sometimes
also serious vein. Atti,e rude social
frolics of the settlement he became an
important person, telling funny stories,
mimicking the itinerant preachers who
had happened TO pass by and making his
mark at wrestling matches, too: for at
the age of seventeen he had attained his
full height. six feet, four inches in his
stockings, if he had any, and terribly
muscular cledhopper heTwasE But ne
was known never to use his extraordi-
nary strength to the injury and humili-
alton Of others: rather to do them a
kindly turn, or to enforce justice and
fair dealing between them. All this
made him fAvorite in backwoods So
ciety, although in some things he APP
peared little odd to his friends Far
more than any Of them, he was given
not only to reading, but to FITS of alb
straction. to quiet musing with himself,
and also to strange spells of nelan-
choly, from which he often would
pass in q moment to rOllicking
outbursts of droll humor. But,
on the whole, he was one OF
the people among whom he lived:
in appearance perhaps even a little
more iuncouth than most of them-a
very tall. rawboned youth, with large
features, dark, shiveled skin. and re-
bellious hair; his arms and legs long,
out of proportions; clad in deerskin
trousers, which, from frequent exposure
to the rain, had shrunk so Us to sit
tightly on his limbs, leaving several
inches of blush shin exposed between
their lower end and the heavy. tan-col-
ored shoes; the neither garment held
usually by only one suspender that was
strung over course. homemade shirt;
the head covered in winter with a coon
skin cap, in summer with rough straw
hat of uncertain shape, without band.
1t is doubtful whether he felt himself
much superior to his surroundings, al
though he confessed to n yearning for
some knowledge Of the world outside of
the circle in which he lived. This wish
was gratified; but how2- At the age of
nineteen he went down the Mississippi
to New Orleans as a Aatboat hand,
temporarily joining trade many nem-
bers of which at that time still took
pride in being called half horse and
and half alligator" After his return
he worked and lived in the old way
until the spring of 1880, when his father
''moved again." this time to Illinois;
and on the journey of fifteen days
"Abc" had to drive the ox-wagon which
carried the household goods Another
log-cabin was built, and then, fencing
a field, Abraham Lincoln split those
historic rails which were destined TO
play so picturesque part in the presi-
Dental campaign twenty-eight years
later.-Carl Schnrz. in Atlantic.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
WOMEN AND THEIR WAYS.

GENERALLY speaking, woman is sell
dom silent. 21s
THERE arc some women who seem TO
DC only good to love pug dogs. a
WOMEN look into the back OF . book
first because they always want to have
tho last word.-Puck. -.-.--.
''SHx seems q very clever woman"
"Oh, she isl had an hours converse
ton with her yesterday, and didn't
have q chance to say word. Truth.
EVEN . girl who realizes how thor
oughly wicked It would be for her Il
Hirt cannot help feeling little hattered
by admiring glauces from that horrid
young man across the way.-Somerville
Journal. 3, 5rc, f--7r ,-..rf .s,-ssrf s--
IT takes . woman with the strongest
possible kind Of self control to stay In
the back Of the house while q lot Of
men are unloading new chamber set
from furniture van and carrying Il
into her next door neighbours house.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
TEA SIMPLE PROPOSITION.

ksfst slks
The Esspsria Gazette Hodifes It's None
tary P1ap, aid II Nos Seems to Ben Good
Bads For an 90 Unite Upon sskAs
From the iEmporia (Kan.} Gazette of
August 10. clip the following:
Letters from George c. Ward, of
Kansas City. the well known statistical
and economic writer. snd other leading
writers on the financial question: show
Us that they do not readily understand
the provisions of the Gazette monetary
plan we have been Publishing. and
that, consequently. while Il secmsveEy
simple and clear tons, itgocstoo much
Into detail to serve As = n4finnol
compaign plank. We have been pro-
testing against a national platform GO
ing into detail in regard to any subject,
and must apply this tuieTto one none
tary plan as we'll as another. The
national monetary plank cannot be too
free from detail OF Complication AS
the question of how toput currency
into circulation must be met we make
simply this propositions: Issue it to the
several states and territories up to $50
per capita. of population, in exchange
for their respective bonds bearing
interest at one per cent per annum,
and leave each state and territory to
enact its own. law as to how it will put
its share of currency into circulation.
This avoids all national campaign
discussion as to details, and it seems to
us win stop the discussion and discord
created by the sub-treasury plan or any
other method for the general govern
ment putting money into circulation.
Issue ii to tie states and Idce the rest
to them, is a very simple proposition
that everybody can understand. and it
viii be very difficult to show that
state Legislature is not rs capable of
deciding how to put $50 per capita into
circulation in its own state as congress
is to decide how to put it into circula-
ton in all the states. ANY other prop
osition, it seems to us, antagonizes sec
tional and class interests and prevents
the harmony absolutely essential to
Success in national campaign. How
this Or that state may put its share of
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28

Is lien upon all the material wealth
OF the state issuing it, and the general
government codld suffer no loss upon
loans made upon such security. 2 ssr
Besides this, as the general govern.
ment would be at no expense whatever
under such system, the twenty-fiv o.
thirty million dollars paid by the states
to the United States would help defray
the expenses Of the general govern
ment
If this plan is adopted the monetary
plank of the platform upon which the
conflict of the ages is to be fought out
in the year of our Lord, 1892, will read
something after this fashion: 1
(A-The right to make and issue money is
a sovereign power to be maintainei by the
people for the common benefit, h,nce We
demand the abolition Of national banks as
banks of issue. and as substitute OF nation
al bank notes We demand that leg al tender
treasury notes be issued In sufficient volume
to transact the business Of the country on q
cash basis without damage or especial ad-
vantage to any class or calling. such notes
to be legal tender In pay ment OF ali debts,
public or private -
AS one method of getting such currency In.
10 CIRCULATION, we recommend us issue 10 tEe
several states and territories up to an aggre-
gate Slim of so per capita of their popula-
ton, In par exchange for their respective
bonds bearing interest of ono per cent per
annum, each to receive and put its share OF
currency into circulation through its own
law approved by Its supreme court as con-
stitutional.
We further demand the naturalization OF
the banking system Of the United States
in the interest OF the whole people To
this end We favor the establishment Of
state hanks Of loan. discount and de-
posft In all cities and towns demanding
banking facilities, the ofhcials OF such
banks to be bonded employees Of the
State. and the legal tender treasury notes.
specified above, 10 constitutes the banking
capital for such state bankGs 0aeh banks to
pay interest at the rate OK 0oe per cent per
annum on time deposits, ana loan to the
people rs demandsd By them. and at not
more than two per cont per annum. upon
improved farm ard city real estate with
proper limitations upon the quantity OF land
and amount Of money. and upon such other
approved security ms Is now considered good
by banks of loan and discount under the
present sy stom.
(B)-we demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
Each state could thus establish and
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28

Speaking of the fact that the state Of
Oregon loans its school fund to its citi-
zens, the National Economist says: .'Is
it not apparent that it would be . better
system than the present. were the gov
eminent to provide for its credit to 60
direct to the states, and the states
by some such system rs that Of Orc
gon let the money among the
people? The present system was
represented by 3,4.4 national banks
last year. ami there are about two
thirds that number of counties in which
agriculture Is the principal industry.
To carry out the system Of farm loans
specified in the Ocala demands. there
fore, would involve bard IN each
state, and all expense 10 the govern
ment and state would cease with that
provision and the distribution OF De
money to these boards The borrowers
would pay other incidental expensea.
and no reasoning would suggest thas
they would be greater than TO msintein
20 maay- hanks The intess6e. zaid
would replace other forms Of taxatioa. :"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
"A MODERN FABLE. J
sd. The modification of the tariff

Sd. The modification of the tariff.
President Polk has always held that
a change in the financial system OF the
government by and through which the
industrial many are being robbed and
ruined by the moneyed few is the great
overshadOwing paramount issue before
the American people. He has always
held that free coinage, tariff, sub-treas-
ury and aflother questions are subor-
dinate to this great issue. No free coin
age act, no modification of the tariff.
no increase of the currency-none, nor
all of these. can ever bring just and
substantial relief to the people. SO long
as the present unjust and outrageously
wicked financial system prevails The
national banking system mtist go The
money of the people must be issued to
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
THE FOX AND THE PLUTOCRATIC TRAP.

the people. Independent Of all expensive
agencies and in sufficient volume to do
the business Of the country. This, and
not the sub-treasury. this, and not the
tariff, this. and not free coinage, is the
mighty living issue before the people.
The alliance wants and demands
modification of the tariff and it intends
to have it The alliance wants and de-
mands free and unlimited coinage of
silver. and it intends to have it; but it
will no longer be deluded and ensnared
with the fallacious idea that these are
paramount to the money question. The
politicians of the country have been
deceiving and side-traeking the people
on these false ideas for quarter of q
century, but they can do il no longer. =
Raleigh IN. C.) Progressive Farmer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
THE, coLoRs OF LETTERS.

A Strange HailucinatiOn Regarding Words
and Sounds.
In my youth always associated the
idea of color with the letters of the
alphabet. In later years the discovery
that other people recognized no such
coloration came to me. as a surprise.
The letter K, for example, always calls
up the idea of greenness. 1t is impos-
sible for me to think of r without the
thought that it is green. In like man
ner 5 is yellow, and X scarlet. The
celebration does not seem to lie in the
letter itself. as printed or written, but
to coexist with the conception which
the letter represents. AS the letter r
comes into my mind, it seems to go,
with grass and leaves, into the category
of green things. The sound has moth
ing to do with its apparent celebration.
for C soft and hard are recog-
nizcd as the same letter and
therefore colored alike. The COL
Grafton is not affected by the character
of the type. 1t is in the letter itself,
regardless of the way in which it may
be printed, or Of whether it is printed
or written at all. The idea has no con-
nection with the lettering in any col
ored picture books, nor does it arise
from any association Of that sort.
Words seem to me also more or less
definitely colored, but the association
of coloration with me arises solely
from the letters of which the words are
composed. The dominant letters, es-
pecially the initial letter. or the letters
most conspicuous in pronunciation, give
color to the word. Thus Rosalind,
though containing but two green let
tiers. has a dominant shade Of green, as
SALIVA or silica have of yellow. A pleas
ing variety in the colors of the letter
tends to render q word attractive.
Thus the words Vernon, Severn, and
Exeter, with contrasted colors, are
more attractive tEan such words as
Patton, Hammond. or Armenia. in
which the colors are few or not con-
trasted.- President Jordan, in Popular
Science Monthly. er
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-28
THE eoLO-eUos AROUSED.

Party Ties WH1- He D1sregar4ed n the
Fight BrtWeGn Them and the People.
Gov. Campbell of Ohio says: 81
am willing to riGk tree silver" and
a commercial firm IN Baltimore who
are pronounced ssanthoritiee on financial
matters, and in politics democrats go
for the governor with gloves of. They
say they do not believe in mixing pol
itics and finance bat where have these
authorities on finance" stood all these
years, while the tools of the money
power have been mixing politics with
finance" and have brought the country
to the verge Of revolution, II not of ruin?
So long as the oppressed and money
ridden people submitted to these out
RACES it was al right. but now that they
have risen in their might to burst the
shackles from their limbs, it is all
wrong. It was all well enough to mix
politics and finance SO long rs the mix
ing" was done according to the formula
laid down by Wall street. but as soon
rs the people propose to take hand, it
is all wrong.
Ye howlers against a third party,
listen to these democratic financiers
They say: I'VE consider it the duty
of all good citizens, regardless of their
political considerations, to oppose any
advocacy of free silver" :
= In other words, they advise republic
ans and democrats to throw aside their
party uniforms and join together to de-
feat this righteous measure of the peo-
pie Well. the Progressive Farmer has
maintained all the while that it would
come to thiA That whenever the peo-
pie demanded that the financial system
Of the country should be run in the in.
terest Of the people and not in the IN
terest OF the g0ld-bugs, that the lead
ers Of the two parties would Join their
forces together to continue this system
of oppression. We see indications of q
fusion between the two old parties to
thwaEt the will of the people. Mr..
Cleveland knew what he was about
and who were at his back when he
wrote his anti-silver letter, and now
NO note that the democratic couyen-
ton Of Maryland has gone against free
silver. What . pretty kettle of fishl
But Il will come, for The people vim
have . voice In this matter.
Qaery: If II be legitimate for dem
oerats and republicans to Join together
to defeat this just measure, would e
uoe be legitimate also for democrass
|and republicans 10 Join together TO e.
cure if5 Will some paper Of s,oe1ho.
dox" pretensious tell usf1Pfeeadeut
PQlk's Progressive F1snsa