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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-02-13

More psgonip this morning
Tomorrow is S9int Valentines day.
R, E. Sksggs, of Pleasant Valley, is
IN town.
Twelve inches Of snow fell in Bos-
ton on the 18th.
John Sherman says he is not = can
didate for President.
Harry Keyser, the, INDEPENDENT
devil, is on the sick list.
James 6. Fair Jr. died yesterday
morning IN San Francisco.
Gabe HOskins is running an under-
takers establishment in Reno.
Jno. NJ. Dorsey came in from Fort
Halleck by private conveyance yester-
day. d..
There will be lots Of good things to
eat at the Reading Room tonight.
GO and eat.
Seventeen yeSrs ago to-day this
eribe passed through Elko bound
fer Virginia City.
Don't forget the masquerade ball
at Freeman Hall on the night Of
Washington's birthday.
Bar silver was quoted at 8 .s9& in
New York yesterday. How is your
Sherman commodity bill nowH
A big vein of tin is said to have
been discovered in the mountains
kbout fifty miles north of Denver.
One hundred million Chinese are
Engaged in the culture, preparation,
arriage and expectation of tea
The President has appointed Hon.
Joseph McKenna Judge of the Ninth
Circuit, vice Iorenzo Sawyer, de-
f ceased.
Give Harve McAdams' lunch, stand
call when you go to Tuscarora and
want square meal prepared by a first
bass white cook.
The Ladies' Aid Society, of the
Presbyterian Church, will serve lunch
Rt the w. G. T. u. Reading Room
fhis evening, Feb. 18th.
The Japanese Government is
Shout to uRite all its islands by means
submarine telegraph cables at an
Estimated cost of s2,O00OOO.
Jack-"Why do you call your horse
Independence Day." Charlie be
ause in every race I enter him he
blways comes in a glorious fourth"
"Billy, kin yer tell me why it ia
then the rich folks kin afford to
by all the cIothin' they want fl +
aemselves that they prefer; to go
aked?"
In St. PauI's church tomorrow
here vail be morning prayer and SER
pom at Ii o'clock, evening prayer and
efmon at z O'Clock. The Sunday
ihool will be at 10 O'Clock.
The individual in Elko engaged in
ne nefarious business Of selling
/ ghisky to Indians deserves term in
he State prisoa. We hope he will be
sught and punished as he deserves.
In the Massachusetts Legislature
here are 80 Democrats who want
iroVer Cleveland nominated fol
resident, IL who prefer Governor
RUSSELL, and IL who prefer Senator
lil.
The New York Grand Jury on the
lth, indicted Edward NJ. Field fol
Orgery. He is accused of forging the
ane Of u. Moore to bill of ladine
pa large qusntity Of wheat last No.
enber.
!. ogden is making preparations II
ave grsnd band tournament mex
une Bands within radius Of 1,00(
I, lilies Of Ogden will be allowed Il
Ompete and prizes ranging from S5t
$500 are offered.
Hon. J w. Doraey left yeatardn,
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side in the future. Air. and Mrs.
Dorsey leave host of friends in Elko
county who will always bs glad to
hear of their prosperity.
Nevada has two Generals, 10 gem
ersl staff officers, q company officers,
81 non-commissioned officers, must.
clan, 459 privates in her organized
militia. The Rumber of men available
for military service uaorganized is TO-
$40
A understanding locomotive has
just been completed in, Bloomington,
ILL.,, for use on the. Chicago and Alton
Railroad. It is said to be the most
perfect locomotive of that kind ever
constructed. Not>a puff of smoke es-
capes from it.
Che cotton crop of the Southern
States, it is believed, will reach, 9,OOO,-
600 bales, the largest ever produced>in
the country. The losses ofsoperators
In New York are said to be enormous,
as the depression in the cotton trade
is unprecedented. y
The State Treasurer of Georgian
begun the payment Of the Confeder-
ate widows pensions. This tax upon
the State, authorized by the last
Georgia Legislature, entails an an
mail tax Of 100000. There are 1000
widows on line rolls.
The mercury was down to 48 de-
grees below zero at Pemoria, North
Dakota, recently, and the Sykestown
Gazette said communication was es-
tablished with the outside world by
means of hole made through the
snow with a rotary pillow.
We wonder what kind of recep-
ton Senator Stewart would get from
Nevada Republicans if he were to
travel through the State now and tell
. the people that the Sherman bill was
better than free coinage. Would
they bank on what he told them2
Scranton Misunderstanding out
the principle that on the label of
every bottle containing poison there
should be printed the antidote, &C
companying each can of kerosene sold
to servant girls there should be print
ed directions for laying out the body.
Reno Journal:-R. L. Fulton re-
ceived telegranfrom Hon. Francis
G. Newlands yesterday informing him
OF the death OF his son which oc-
Cured at Washington yesterday
morning from the grip. The child
Was about two years OF age, This
is sad blow to the afflicted parents.
The Reno Gazette learns from good
authority that the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad people have four or
five crews Of engineers 10 the field be-
tween here and Ogden, and that they
have bought the grade that goes from
the junction through Beckwith Pass
and on through Sierra Valley. That
looks as il they intend to push west
! ward in the near future.
There recently died at Westminis-
ter, Nd, an aged negro, Abraham Ire
land, who was in his youth as black
as Jet. When he died he was entire.
ly white. The change was Gradual,
but sure, first appearing in the form
Of white spots, which in course OF
time:spresd over his whole body until
there was no black to be seen. Both
his parents we're full blooded Africans
| Bradford FTa:-There is nothing
more valuable in this life than 8
cheerful heart, a chronic disposition
to take rosy view Of things and tc
snap your finger at so-called trouble
| Trouble. is not so much q reality as
condition Of mind. Some people
fret themselves insane over things
that others would not lose moments
sleep over. 1t does not pay to worry
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Gem Hotel--I. Ostreicher,
prietor.

JIM Dorsey, Fl Halleok; M X Ea-
ger, South Fork; x q Skaggs, Pleas.
ant; j P Avery, Promontory; Mrs A
HI Hooper, Salt Lake; r. Fl Beaver, P
b Langley, y NJ Carey, SF.
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sALs1AaUNDl.

10 Advrrtisements Allowed Under
Tnts Head.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-02-13
A Physicians Gift to Humanity.

Weak men restored to perfect man
hood by the Great A australian remedy,
free. Address, Box 1864, San Fran
cisco, Cal.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Depot Hotel CLARK & Green. Pro.
prIetOrS.

VIM d Roche, s F; s McMullen,
Deeth; Max Arnhold, Mound Valley;
p e Wore, Fort Hslleck, j A Rober.
son, Lamoille.
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FACTS ABOUT SOAP.
What Is Agreeable to One Skin is Like q
Poison 20 Another.

What Is Agreeable to One Skin Is Like q
Poison 60 Another. .
There isn't any way of Judging of the
value of a toilet soap except by trial. Be-
cause the value of a soap, no matter how
Loudly the advertisements may cry its
merits, lies in its adaptability to the skin
of the person using it-that is, to yoursel
And toilet soaps are like friends-purely a
matter of personal idiosyncracy. Either
they agree with your skin, or they do not.
If they do they will leave it clean and
white, and soft and fresh. If they don't,
they will either roughen it into minute
points like sand paper, or dry it, making it
feel withered and old, OF redden it, or make
it smart as if with sunburn. a..
All these latter things, may happen, and
yet the soap need not be wicked soap ut
all. 1t may be as pure and as expensively
concocted as 1t is advertised to be, and yet
it may do your hands positive injury. I
know one woman whose hands are dried by
one of the most famous and expensive
French soaps; one that is known to all the
world as perfectly pure and even of an un-
. usually healing and softening power. And
yet the white soap that she buys at her
grocer's for five cents cake keeps her
hands as smooth and soft as velvet Soaps
that contain much glycerine do not agree
with some skins; soaps that contain an ex-
cess of oils do not agree with others. It is
like tastes: there is no accounting for it.
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come hard the ears are pierced to receive
that relic of barbarism-ths earring.
The faces are then put in huge oven
where they bake from 28 to 80 hours.
Baskets upon baskets of baked heads, vary
ing in size from two inches to the face OF q
child Of four years, preserving Greek tea
lures and revealing many human expires.
sions are piled on every side. Children SO
young that home and doll would seem the
place and the occupation of their hours, are
met in the courtyard, running hither and
thither with great trays Of faces on their
heads
Each worker has her special task. After
the first baking one lays on the flesh tint,
another blends in the rouge on the cheek,
paints an eyelash or eyebrow, or gives the
vital touch to nostril or ear, while an army
of children deposit the finished faces on q
curtai4ed shelf, where they are left to dry
before going to the oven for another 80
hours bake.
'sWhat are you doing?" We asked an old
man who sat at log cabin window chip
ping off spherical bits from huge layer of
cork.
Making brains" was the reply. "Her
dollship's brainsp'
The second baking prepares the heads for
the eyes. They are OF glass and enamel
most delicate, most exacting work, The
eyes are made in a cellar, into which the
sunlight rarely peeps. The violet eyes re-
quire the most skill. The eyes made, they
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he gets his feet together and comes dow
easily and gracefully.
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he gets his feet together and comes down
easily and gracefully.
A Regular Track Is Needed.
1t would be good thing for the boys of
any village or neighborhood to club to-
gether and build regular track for broad
Jump work. The labor and expense, di-
vided among dozen boys, would be small
for each, while the enjoyment and physical
benefit would be great. The boy who
wishes to become road-jumper should
not, if he is unaccustomed to the exercise,
begin his course of training by jumping,
else the next day every bone and muscle in
his body will ache. Let him first get the
muscles hardened by week or ten days
practice in running. Then he may begin to
jump, but not more than twice OF thrice q
week.
The take-of should be the old-fashioned
to strike this with some degree of accuracy,
he may use the regulation plank, but with
out the ditch. Rubber soled shoes will do
at first, but when the novice becomes pro-
fcient, he should get spiked Jumping shoes.
These may be obtained of any dealer in
sporting goods at cost of from
81 so for the ready made to 81 for
the made-to-order, kangaroo skin article.
The run need be only firm, level stretch
of ground. The pit may be made simply
by 1oosening the ground with spade and
picking out any stones that may be there.
Where to start and where to place the
check must be learned by experience. The
check is usually from 7 to IL running strides
from the take-of, and the start the same
distance from the check.
There is no more important rule for
broad jumping, than to come up to the
''take-of' at full speed. 1t is fatal mis-
take to slow up or 'balk" in the last stride.
1t may take some time, however, before the
jumper loses his fear of striking the plank
at top speed with the spike-shod shoe.
WALTER G. DoHM.
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will find straight track about 80 feet long
and 8 feet wide. 1t is topped with coat
of einders or brick dust, is smooth as a
table, firm and springy. This is the ''run. :"
Across the end of the path, nearest the
grandstand, is thick, whitewashed wooden
plank, five inches wide Look at the plank
and you will see that the upper side, which
is level with the surface of the running
path, is full OF little holes, as though tacEs
had been driven in and then withdrawn.
This plank is the t'take-of' or line from
which the jump is made.
Ten or dozen feet from the end of the
track and plank is a square pit" 1t is,
perhaps, 16 feet long and or feet wide.
The pit has been filled to the level of the
take-off with mixture of sand and loan.
The soil on the side of the plank next to
the pit has been removed, leaving . little
ditch inches deep and inches wide.
Getting Ready for q Leap.
Now watch. the. expert jumper who has
come out for little practice. He first
measures off about 85 or 80 feet from the
.stake-of'' and carefully marks this point
on the ruE. About midway to the take-of,
he places check mark-a handkerchief or
q bit of white paper. He takes little run
to timber up his muscles, and then he is
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to years old. Her dollship's body is made
of brown paper. Sheet upon sheet, well
noistened with paste, is spread on table
at which women and children sit Befor re
each worker is an iron mold into which she
hammers wet, pasty paper with a mallet
One mold represents the trunk of the body,
others the legs, the arms, the foot, the
hand All faithfully preserve every curve
and dimple of the human baby.
When the molds are filled they are hung
up to dry. The drying process takes from
to 80 days. A coat of fesh-tinted paint
the dolls first layer of SKINS now put on.
1t is curious to watch the dimple of hand,
the nail of toe, grow under the quick, sure
brushes of these young peasant girls. Fin
ished, the hands and feet are pivoted on the
walls of the paint shop. A quaint picture
they make! hundreds Of little pink, dimpled
hands in all attitudes of entreaty; hundreds
OF little feet restless to creep into some
child's heart; little dimpled stomachs and
shapely legs-all standing out from the
white walls.
When each portion of the body has had
five coats of paint and yarnish they are
carried to great room where men gray and
bent with age set the various parts together
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TALES OF TAD LINCOLN.
Whims of the Martyr Presidents Son When
He Was Eleven Years Old-His Father
Humored Him-Drilling at the Soldiers
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.J

Humored Him-Drilling at the Soldiers,
Home-Doing Hamlet.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.J
'The Soldiers Home was a place worth
living in, in those days" said jamie.
Jamie is now rich man in Philadelphia;
but in the years of 1884 he was the small
son of very busy father, whose work was
with the President, and he was also Tad
Lincoln's oldest friend and comrade.
Everybody knows how MIR. Lincoln hu-
mored and loved his small 11-year-old boy,
whom he nickDamed 'Tadpole, and called
s'Tad'' for short.
At little distance from the pretty vine
covered cottage, where the Presidents fam
lily spent their summers, on the Corcoran
farm, hundreds of soldiers were encamped.
The white canvas dotted the wide green
fields everywhere, and in the shade of
beautiful oaks, naples and pines the hos
pital tents were filed with wounded and
dying. All day long from the city, from
boats and trains, ambulances rumbled over
the stones and pavements out into this
lovely country spot.
Interrupting Cabinet Meeting.
One hot day in July Tad surprised his
father in the busiest hour of the day by ap-
pearing in town in the Cabinet room
dressed in his top boots, blue Jockey cap,
whip in hand. In terrible haste he said:
stFather, I've come for an order to the Sec
retary of War for two rubber blankets! two
good-sized drums! one tent! and rations for
two good-sized boys"'
Although Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet were
used to Tad they looked up and awaited
with droll smiles the grave fathers reply.
With one long finger on his map, SEN
tence of painful impost on his lips, Mr..
Lincoln looked into the scrap of face, then
at the big red one of the Secretary of War
and laughed outright.
"Come here, my son. Who are the boys,
and are they for the Union, and where do
they serve their country"
Tad leaned or his fathers knee and
eagerly went on:
"You see, father, Jamie and have Joined
Company D in the Soldiers Home. We are
on waiting orders. and mother wont give us
blankets off our beds, and says you must
supply rubber ones so we won't get crippled
up with rheumatism, you know. It won't
take long for here is Mr.. Stanton right
here!'
Drilling the Soldier boys.
The boys went into camp next day. Every
spare. hour was spent with the soldiers.
The would beat 1.-THE reveille," shout orders
and rush the men into double-auick, until
the whole camp was in an uproar Tad's
young, clear voice would ring out: "Fall in,
Company d! fall in lively!'' And Com
pany u, men and officers, would obey.
The soldiers used to say f'they had rather
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THE PROPER KIND OF CRATE
A Shelf just Above the Throat viii Make
1t Draw Better.

A Shelf just Above the Throat Will Make
1t Draw Better.
Although the reasons for smoky hues are
manifold the ways of avoiding them are not
intricate; not beyond the reach of any per-
son of ordinary intelligence. 1 speak of
smoky fues, because one can see smoke.
In this city Of natural gas the necessity for
good CRATES and freplaces is just as great;
for while the products Of combustion are not
visible, they are just as dangerous from q
health standpoint.
Speaking first of external causes, the top
of the fue must not be within the close
proximity of overtopping trees, or ridge
poles, or dormers. If the house is situated
in very windy place fat stone placed on
top of the stack will prevent down
draught, the smoke being allowed to escape
through side vents below it, on all four
sides. These points being provided for, it
remains to place the fireplace and fue
properly, and especially to watch the
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PERFUME IN CRAYONS.

A Novelty That Came to . Belle Of Boston
Town From Across the Sos.
A dainty and novel gift lately received
from Paris by young Boston girl is box
OF perfume. Not boz of bottles of per-
fnme, but an exquisite, hand-painted, gold
bound box of pertums solidifies, perfume in
the shape of little sticks or crayons. The
good feature Of these is that they can be ap-
piled without moistening or in any way in
iuring delicate fabric
If the possessor can get her own consent
to depart from that good old rule, ''the best
perfume is no perfume at alp (and most
women confess to a lurking fondness for
"a delicate perfume, very little, you
know, she rubs the crayon lightly on
her handkerchief, her gloves or her bou-
quet Of satin violets, and goes sweetly on
her way.
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are carefully matched and glued into the
head, which is then fastened onto the body.
The cork brains now round out the
head and the doll passes from the hands Of
her creators to the coiffeure's boudoir,
where, from great boxes of hair, varying in
color from palest gold to raven black, in
texture from natures sheeny silk to faxen
tow, her crowning glory is chosen. Not a
cry, not a word does dolly utter as her locks
are combed, twisted and tackled to her
brains with little brass nails!
Hair dressed, her dimpled feet are slipped
into the dantiess Louis XIV slippers of
satin or leather, made by IA year-old
children,
Coifured and shod, her dollship now puts
on a white chemise. Packed in a box she
is then sent for nap to the warehouses
until summoned to the great doll depots of
Paris, from which she is likely to journey
to the four ends of the earth.
Ida MCCABE.
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masons from start to finish. have known
good fues totally choked with rubbish OF all
sorts by their carelessness; fues led into
other ones from laziness, or built with bad
turns from sheer maliciousness or dishon-
esty.
A good plan for brick fireplace, and
one now in practical use, has an opening
feet inches wide by feet inches high by
1 foot inches deep, with fue Sx12, the
throat of the fue being 8 inches BY feet 3
inches, and the back Of the fireplace curv-
ing forward to effect these latter dimensions
and ending in a shelf about inches or 8
inches above the under side of the fiat arch
at the top of the opening / have never
known fireplace of these proportions 10
smoke.
Many people advocate the use of a
straight back for freplaces, with no inside
shelf, the fue gradually narrowing to a
moderate size But IL has been nv expert
ence that while this has often worked we'll
on the lower story OF house, it was open
to the objection that there was no check to
down draughts, such as is afforded by the
shelf &C." and in the upper floors of
house the fue was sure to smoke at times.
x. W. WINCHESTER. =
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THE RUNNING BROAD JUMP.

Walter DOhm Tells How the Experts Do
Laying On = Course-Ihe Champion Of
the World Il . etudent-The Require
ments.
twR1rTEN FOE THE pIsPArcH.l
Boys nowadays give so much attention
to the intricacies of baseball and football
that they seem to have little time left for
the vastly more simple and natural sports of
Jumping, hurdling and running. Every boy
has his rating among his fellows as fielder
or batter or as rushsr or hslfback; but
how many boys, wonder, have any idea as
to how fast they could run 100 yards or a
quarter of mile; whether they could clear
an obstacle at all on the run, and whether q
ditch would have to be 18 feet wide or only
dozen to be impassable except by means Of
bridge. s
Broad jumping is very different sport
to-day from what it was 20 years ago. Then
the athletes jumped from whitewashed
line. They took short run, great spring,
and came down on their heels on the hard
ground with q shock that you would think
would have leosened their teeth. In those
days championships were won by leap of
1s feet, and the jumper that could clear 20
feet was looked upon as wonder.
Modern Facilities for Jumping.
Suppose now you visit the grounds of a
modern athletic club On the field, inside
the oval quarter-mile running track, you
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HOW. DOLLSsARE MADE.
4 Peep Into the Largest Factory In
the World Near Paris.
MODELS AFTER THE LIVING BABY.
The Minute Division of labor BY Which
the Images Are Put Up.
SKILL REQUIRED IN MAKING EYES

rwRIrTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l
In the quaint old town of Montreuil, out
side the fortifcations of Paris, is the most
famous doll factory of the world. One hun
dred thousand dolls are manufactured there
every year. 1t was glorious day in au-
! tumn when 1 crossed the factory courtyard,
flanked on either side by hundreds of small
paned windows, through which / caught
glimpses of some 500 men, women and chill
dren bending over their work.
The model of the famous Paris doll is
ALWAYS the human baby-the child from l
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comparatively few are made. In art, as in
ure, it is easier to make doll baby say
'mamma" than ''papa.
My lads. head is made in another part of
the old town. AS we enter the factory
women and girls are filling tace-molds with
a white liquid which runs from . tankard
with faucets, like q soda fountain. This
liquid is Of the same ingredients as the.
famous Sevres and Limoges ware. When
the contents Of the mold are dry they are
emptied on trays and before they have be-
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on a fine elastic cord. This is the highest
art in the dolls creation, for upon the skill
full adjustment of each part depends the per-
fection of the whole. Wooden sockets are
then put in the shoulders, elbows and knees,
aud little wires called 'sarticulators''
(turned BY boys at pedal machine) are in
serted, and 10! every limb moves, not un-
like the human body.
To make one talking doll requires the
joint labor of 30 men. Germany was the
first country to invent the talking dolls. So
great is the cost of their manufacture that