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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12
CHAPTER WIN,

Edith could not say whether the laths
1he had seen turned were open when she
vemf 20 the window, and there were no
means of confirming the fact afterward,
because in pulling up the blind they
wOuld, If open, be returned to their
Hurmer position. In face Of my evidence,
she was firmly convinced that what she
lad seen and heard was an extraordinary
lInSion of the senses parallel to that
which furnishes the sole excuse for q
HrBerably widespread belief in superna-
turaI appearances. She was ashamed OF
tho feebleness of mind which her exper-
iences seemed to imply, and resolving to
0vercome the weakness, she resisted all
her fathers persuasions to change those
Ennditions under which she had passed
Ehe last two nights.
Van Hoeck alone refused to believe in
Edith's hallucination.
Zone has Only to hear Miss Lascelles
peak TO discredit a notion Of that kind, ="
he said; ''she has every sign Of mental
viEor and physical strength, and to &C
ense such a girl of that kind of morbid
insanity called hallucination is just as
eEeditable to your understanding as to
be1ieye in the simplicity and honesty OF
= vaxabond Californian card-sharper and
tho half-breed wench he chooses to call
his daughter"
When night came, he said to me, after
- had separated from the rest:
This is no time for sleep, Thorne; we
@st watch through the night, whether
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12

The beautiful Princess Of Monaco b
one Of the fair blue stockings Of
Europe, with = passion for books and
music. She has an extensive coterio
Of literary friends including our own
Blanche Roosevelt, who gather about
her round-table and play at literary
criticism in winter while her husband
gathers the elite Of Europe about his
green tables to play for more remuner.
alive stakes.
Richard Knowles. the sailor who
lashed Farragut to the rigging Of the
Hartford at the battle OF Mobile Bay.
says that after be had taken turn or
two with the ratline the old Admiral
gruffiy asked him what be was about
and on being told BY Knowles that TIE
captain had directed him to make the
Admiral fast the latter said. %. al
right and helped 10 iasten the line.
about himself
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12

nature Of the ground may permII, ana
there IL no fixed rule hs to the distance
at which they shall be placed apart. but
ranging from 100 TO $50 yards. These
holes are four inches in diameter and
about the same depth, and It iS well to
have an iron hoop or band inserted that
the sides may be held IN shape. The
ground around the hole for some thirty
feet square is kept closely moved and
is called the putting green" Care
must be taken In selecting the location
for the holes that there may be variety
10 the surface Of the land over which
the ball 10 to be driven. PLAN surface
without obaruetlonl not being in the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12

trifes to wake him when ne had bed 10
sleep in.
What already puzzled me was how
Edith's door came to be wide open when
she had tainted in a quite remote part OF
the room.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12
ITO BE CONTINUED.

Kittie Frances Of Dubuque, Iowa u
the latest witness TO the truth OF the
statement that q kind action Il not al
WAYS its own reward. Kittie until
quite recently was 9 domestic employ
ed by Archibald Graham, q wealthy
DUBUQUE citizen. Kittie was dutiful,
neat, tidy, and, e. q domestic, altogeth-
err desirable, but she was illiterate. Mr..
Graham very kindly offered to act as
her tutor, and began by instructing
the willing Kittie in the art OF penman-
shin. No sooner had the rudiments
been mastered than he undertook to
show her how to draw up legal forms
and simple commercial documents. As
an object lesson he wrote promissory
note for s., 1000, made payable to the
fair Kittie herself, and signed 1t with
mis- own imposing name. Unfortunate
lv he forgot TO destroy this at the close
Of the Lesson. So did Kittie. She was
An ant pupil The other day she I'M
dertook q little investigation OF the
commercial value Of negotiable paper
ON her own account and - the result
Mr.. Graham has q nete for 5000 70
pay at tho First National Bank, but he
has no domestio.-LaWrencs Journal
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-01
FREAKS OF THE MEMORY.
A Word OF Advice to Those Who Are
Studying Oratory. rs

A Word OF Advice to Those Who Are
Studying Oratory.
The human memory is proverbially a
lcalSy vessel, and sometimes, like q
litter, it retains the refuse of the mat
tor committed to its keeping and suf-
tcrs the more valuable portion to es-
cape. Often in writing or speaking
more especially in speaking-we vain
ly ranGaclz the chambers Of the brain
Tor a much-reeded word, while fifty
other words that we do not want OBJ
trusively suggest themselves. .,.
There are spccialitics in forgctfulness
which are exceedingly annoying, and
make the parties afflicted by them look
like fools in society. Yet these I'M
fortunate peculiarities do not neces-
>arily imply mental weakness. Per
sons of extraordinary intelligence have
been known to forget their own names
and there are others who are as oblivi-
GUS of dates us if they had never seen u
numcral. Blessed are they who, like
William Pitt or Lord Macauley, can
always find the word or phrase appro-
priato for the occasion.
A prchensile memory, that clings like
an apes tail to whatever it embraces
Is truly great gift; and yet the faculty
may celong to simpleton incapable Of
rsefully applying anything that he re-
members. We have seen prodigies o.
retrospcction who were absolutely good
for nothing except for purposes of ref
crence.
Let no one who cannot ''find words"
when he wants them, and the rigil'
words, too, ever attempt tho role of or
ator. He will infallibly break down.
In writing, one can afford to wait TO-
the truant symbol of thought to return
II IT. pace in the mental vocabulary or
tllzc time'to hunt for substitute; but
that sort Of thing won't do il the face
OF an expectant audience. If YOU
ilounler they laugh, or, perhaps, hiss,
and then where are you?-N. Y.
Ledger. g.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-01

Talks cheap, but when
it's backed up by a pledge
of the Aard CASH of a finan-
cially responsible firm, or
company, of worldwide rep
utation for fair and honora-
bic dealing, 1t means 6usznessI
Now, there are scores of
sarsaparillas and other
blood purifiers, all cracked
up to be the best, purest,
most peculiar and wonder
full, but bear in mind { for
your own sake }, there's only
me guaranteed blood-purifer
and remedy for torpid liver
and all diseases that come
from bad blood.
That Outstanding solita-
ry and alone-so sold an trial, is
DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery. 49,.
If it don't do good in skin.
scalp and scrofulous diseases
and pulmonary consump-
ton is only lung-scrofula--
Just let it's makers know and
get your money back.
Talks cheap, but to back
a poor medicine, or a COM
mon one, by selling it on
hzaR, as "Golden Medical
Discovery is sold, would
bankrupt the largest, fortune.
Talk S cheap, but only
discovery is guaranteed.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-01
HUNGER AT BREAKFAST.
That 1t Is Not Always Present Is the
Eaters Own Fault.

That 1t Is Not Always Present Is the
Eaters Own Fault.
Breakfast is rather failure as
meal with town men. That ought not
to be: there is something wrong when
:; man is not vigorously hungry in the
morning. Where is the fault? asks tho
Hospital. Is it in the late dinncrP No:
in the dinner, probably, so much as in
what is drank 1T dinner; in that and il
the nervous strain of the times. 1t does
not matter whether we dine in the mid
die of the day Or in the evening, so long
as we dine iudiciously. But the man
who has much work TO do, and particu-
llrly brain work, cannot dine in the
middle of the day. If he does, he must
make up his mind to lose at least an
hour of his most valuable time. a light
luncheon at midday, with no stimulant
stronger than n cup of coffee or n bottle
Of ginger ale, is the suitable thing. But
this must on no account be used as a
substitute for dinner. He who lunches
in this way at midday must dine in tho
evening, and dine we'll. The business
man should dine at half past six, or at
lutc.t half past seven. The lazy man
lnay dine wlien he likes. The man who
has earned his dinner should have a
good one - not heavy. but nutritious;
not too elaborate, but well selected and
we'll cooked. He should drink, if posi-
bic. only one kind of wine, and that a
light one, sparkling or still. Spirits
and beer he should avoid. Dinner
should be the last meal of the day. OK
cept for those who cannot sleep with
out II little food in their stomachs.
These may take % cup of cocoa, with a
little thin bread and butter, just at the
moment Of going to bed. If attention
DC paid 10 these suggestions, very few
people will fail to be hungry at break
fast.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-01
Rar3 Chance for Investment
A FINE RANCH WE'LL STOCKED
At A ga. GAIN.

have for sal. the following described
property sit"a'ed in Independence Valley,
Eslko Cunt Nevada to-wi.:
400 acres of land, 500 acres of which is
meadow. Cuts 400 tons oi rcd top, timothy
and alfalfa. All uLGer coed fence. Plenty
of wafer and a clear title to same.
Az cows and heifers, graded Durhams.
10 calves and several earnings.
IL Thoroughbred Short Horn Durham cows
with pedigree.
Thoroughbred Kentucky Short Horn bull
with pedigree. srla
broocmares; ofthem weigh l, 4Ou pounds
OF them LOU to 100 pounds.
stallion sired by Blackhawk, dam a
Rather mure, wei hit l, 45O pounds.
3-yeuroId stallion.
A.! eur-Old lilies aud 3-year. FLY.
large work horses.
3yearling colts, =.
moving machines. ..... ~
1 hay lake..
2plows.
! narrow. .......
E lightning hay press (new).
tlueshing nmchine.
single drivt " cart and harness.
1speed wagon. 1919 HNa.a.
2SchutuSr wagons; and 4-horse wagon.
1 f'ur-horse set OF Concord team harness.
two-horse buggy and hurness.
Forks, huy-knifc, SHOW Lpiows and other
farming implements thrown in.
This is the best opportunity for sheepmen
III the state. Fine range elc. a of
which will be sold OH terms which render
this II rare chuIIce for profitable Investment.
Csii ON OF address, ....- ........ ....
+. L. CHAGEON, .
Tuscurora, Nevada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-01
A Woman In tho Noon.

It may n.t pc generally known, but
there = the hca0 e Eis:l in the moon,
says the htchiscn Globe. tits q profile,
and Gun be easily discerned when the
,aoon is full. When the moon is in the
Tiastern sky she is looking north and
tho head inclincs upward At the top
OF the yellow orb you will see her hair
md Il sort of naughty bang which con-
eei,ls most of her forehead; ittlc be-
Tow you will sec her eye; then comes
her nose Crisis rather indistinct), the,
win be seen the chin, underneath which
:, very shapely neck curves back, indi-
cntir>r TINT che is well fed.
How the Duchess Managed It. so
The orthography of our great-grand-
mothera was uncertain. The old
Duchess OF Gordon used TO say to her
eronios; s'You know, my dear, when
don't know how TO spoil o word I always
draw Nne under 1t; and II 1t is!Spellod
wrong + pa9soa Cor u very good Joke,
hud ii Ii Ia spelled light IL doG't tnas.
tor"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
The King of Spain's FOibles.

The Paris Figaro thus describes the
King of Spain; "He is small, very small; /;
but sinewy, restless, full of fun, and pre-
cocious. He dreams of uniforms, flag;
and battles. He will not have toy horses
but for two years has desired live
horse, in order to run races. He say.
thou to all people. He likes to nick
name the old Generals. For instance
Marshal Martinez Campos, chief of the
military cabinet, is called 'Campitos' by
the child. When he does not get what
he wishes at once he grows exceedingly
angry and can be quieted only by the soft
words of the Queen Regent. He is stub
born. He speaks excellent English al
ready. What offends him especially i:
the knowledge that he is still child
He would like to grow large at once, b,
man with a great mustache without de.
lay. He cannot understand how the
King of Spain can be so small"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

It is estimated that at least 1,000,0 900
pounds of rubber are used annually for
bicycle tires.
A Detroit manufacturing firm will
make steel wagon wheels, with hollow
felloes and spokes.
The big clock in the tower of Phila-
delphia's new City Hall is to be wound
by steam engine.
A consolidation locomotive weighs
fifty tons, and will draw on level about
fifty times its own weight.
A japanese recommends cleansing the
hands with tartrate of ammonium to
avoid poisoning from white lead.
Steam pipes have been made in Eng
laud from the ramie fibre. This ma
terial is subjected to tremendous hydraul
ic pressure.
Electric light or power is now used in
nearly forty American mines, and with
such success that a rapid extension of
electric mining is anticipated.
A new car of the Michigan Central
Railroad does the work of 800 men in
scraping the dirt dumped on the sides OF
the track to the edge of the fill.
An investigation in Switzerland shows
that mortality from organic diseases of
the heart decreases as the altitude of the
habitation rises, and that it is greater in
towns than in the country.
Cork covering for steam pipes has
proved very successful in England and
in some cases it has been found to make
difference of 100 to 124 degrees from
the temperature of uncovered pipes.
Two Austrian engineers have invented
a new explosive which is called ecrasite.
Its power, as compared with dynamite,
is as 100 to seventy, and it may be car.
ried from place to place with perfect
safety.
An electric typewriter is being con.
structed which will write letters in New
York as they are transmitted from Bos-
ton, and vice versa, the communications
being transmitted simultaneously over
four separate wires.
Twelve thousand silkworms when
newly Matched scarcely weigh one-quar-
ter of an ounce, yet in the course OF
their life, which only lasts about thirty
five days, they will consume between 800
and 400 pounds of leaves.
An English inventor has constructed
novel device to do away with the enor.
nous pressure of water against the bows
of ocean steamers. 1t consists of one OF
more screws on each side of the bow
which throws the water aside and creates
a dry we'll in front OF the vessel.
One of the recent inventions for life.
saving apparatus is the Irvine pneumatic
gun for throwing a line to ships in dis.
tress or to persons in burning house.
The air is admitted from reservoir to
the chamber behind tho projectile at
pressure of 2400 pounds on the squar,
inch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04

The Census Bureau has published q
statement showing in detail the receipts
and expenditures of one hundred prin-
cipal cities in the United States. The
cities mentioned contained an aggregate
population of II, 425, 1856, or about two
thirds of the city population of the
country. The total annual ordinary ex-
penditures amounted to 1924, 626, 655, or
nearly S19 per capita. Assuming the
expenses of the remaining 334 cities of
5000 and upwards containing the other
third of our city population to be in the
same proportion, it costs 1858, 900, 900
to run our cities. 1t must be conceded,
says the Philadelphia Times, that while
cities may be both necessary and desir-
able they are expensive.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
The Worst Smell In the World.

MN. Bauman and Fromm, expert
menting in Freiburg, Bresgau, on the
organic derivations of sulphur, caused
hydrogen sulphide to act upon acetone
They obtained trithio -acetone and new
compound, non-volatile and crystalline,
and at the same time very volatile sub
stance was given off, to whose odor all
the most ill-smelling substances hitherto
known were as altar of roses. The dis,
coverers think this gas is monosul.
phureted acetin, but they have yet been
unable to isolate it. Their efforts in
that line, although they used the most
perfect apparatus at their command to
prevent the escape of the smallest guam
tity of the gas, brought an indignant
storm of protest from the whole city
The stencil was uncomfortable within q
radius of 700 metres.-Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04

Professor Elisha Gray remarks that
electrical science has made greater ad-
vance in the last twenty years than in
all the 5000 historic years preceding.
More is discovered in one day now than
in 1000 years formerly. We find all
sorts of work for electricity to do. We
make it carry our messages, drive our
engines, ring our door bell and scare the
burglar; we take it as medicine, light
our gas with it, see by it, hear from it,
talk with it, and now we are beginning
to teach, it to write. What will it not
yet be doing for us2 asks the Boston
{ Transcript.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
The Thumb Ring.

"And do they wear them on theil
thumbsl"
eyes, miss. and they are right pretty,
too"
A jewelers. clerk was displaying his
new stock of thumb rings.
''May try one onl"
Certainly" he replied, aud stopped
low over the pink-tipped fingers, slip
ping on tiny circlet of pearls
''It doesn't look so bad after all,
said she, ''you see the band is so mar
row and the pearls so small that the
effect is not awkward, as l expected it
would be. I'll take that one."
The advent of this unique little orna-
ment is greeted with rather more favor
than was at first expected by the jewel.
ers.-Neao York Recorder.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
A soNd OF REST.

Oh! sing me song Of evening,
A song of peace and rest,
When, weary with useless flying
The wild birds seek the nest; -,
When the lamps of home are lighted
And those we love draw nigh,
And overhead the kindly stars
Are smiling in the sky.
The day has been dark and dreary,
The shadows fall thick and fast,
And my limbs and my heart are weary
From battling with the blast;
And now as the shades of evening
Creep darkly DER the land,
sigh for breath Of peace and rest
And the touch of friendly hand.
My thoughts turn back in the twilight,
To scenes long passed away,
When, free from the thrall of labor.
wandered in childish play; "a
see the vine-clad doorway,
Where oft my mother stood.
And the thoughts of home l know no more
Come DER me like a food.
Then sing me a song of evening,
OF peaceful love and rest;
am weary of useless striving
And 1 long for the sheltering nest.
The rugged shadows Of evening
Are filing all the land,
And sigh for a breath of love and rest
And the touch of mothers hand.
-Mortin,er C. Bro,on, IN Yankee Blade.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04

The latest reports from China are to
the effect that the native opposition to
all work of railroad construction, if less
fanatical than it was short time ago, is
still obstinate and serious. When work
was begun, short time ago, upon the
projected line at Kaping, the attitude of
the Cantonese was so menacing that more
than one-half of the English workmen
were compelled to retire.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04
A YOUNG MAN SAVED.
by AMELIA L. BARR.

Julius May was lawyer-that is, he
was going to be one-if spending more
or less hours every day in Reed s. Tap
pens offices could produc the arranged
for result. At first the prospect, had
been pleasant enough to him, but
course of winter amusements in New
York must have some effect upon u
young man, and the effect in Mr.. Mays
case had not been, in legal sense. sat
isfactory.
Music and the drama, libraries bound
in Russia, instead of calf; fine ladies and
fancy balls, London tailors and Fifth
avenue boarding houses-these, and
many other splendid things, had become
very agreeable to the newly -ledged ex-
quisite. But his little fortune was rap
idly disappearing, and his little salary
was so extremely small that was scarcely
worth counting as means toward these
desired results.
What must he do? He had asked him
self this question almost every hour late
ly, and had never got but one answer
"Marryw At first he had met the sug-
gestion with a negative shrug, and u
muttered "Nonsense but it had come
back every time with more persuasive
appearance. Finally, one cold, windy
night in March, he determined tc devote
an hour or two to a consideration of his
chances in the matrimonial market.
After careful and honest review, he
was compelled to admit that among all
the rich and splendid girls whom he had
habitually spoken of as crazy about him,
only two were likely to be crazy enough
to entertain the thought of marrying
him-pretty little Bessie Bell and the ex-
ceedingly clever Nora St. Clair. He was
quite sure both of these lovely creatures
adored him; the only point to settle
was which he liked better; or rather,
which it would be best for him personal.
ly and commercially to choose.
Bessie was the only child of rich
widow, who lived in excellent style. and
who was perfect mistress of her income.
She was a sweet, dainty little blonde,
always irreproachably stylish in dress,
always ready to dimple into smiles, and
never at loss for just the most agreeable
thing to say.
Nora was close friend of Bessie's,
but in all respects contrast. She was
no tenderly nutured hciress, but poor,
brave girl, who had by the force of in
tellect, study and hard work gained an
enviable position in the literary world.
Her income from her writings was very
handsome; she visited in the most arls-
tocratic circles; she was charming in
person and manners, and dressed like
the rest of the fashionable world. But
then julius felt that in every sense she
would not only be the "better half"
but probably the four-fourtbs of the
house; and that his personality would
simply sink into "Mrs. Mays hus-
band.''
SO Bessie won the decision, and he
determined, if his new sait came home
the next day, to offer Miss Bell the
handsome person which it adorned. For,
to tell the truth, he was handsome
fellow; and if this work day world
had only been a great drawing room,
with theatrical alcoves and musical con-
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04

Japanese immigration is disturbing
the serenity of the Californian mind.
There are now 5000 japanese in San Fran
cisco, with as many more scattered over
the State. At the present rate of arrival
they will number over 30, 600 within five
years. This immigration is considered,
asserts the Atlanta Constitution, a more
serious matter than that of the Chinese;
for the cheap labor of the hitter com
peted only with unskilled industries,
whereas the Japanese are skilled trades
men-carpenters, cabinet makers, shoe
makers, tailors, and the like, and they
work and thrive at low rates of wages.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-09-04

= German women, led by Fraulein
Lange, have petitioned the Government
for gymuasiums for women students
which shall be empowered to grant di
plomas and honors equal 70 those granted
to men. This has been granted, the
headquarters being at Weimar. The set
ting apart of special State institutions
has been refused