Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-12-01
A POOR
Flo Was Not built just Right for Hi,
business.

look.
He stood by the door of a sleeping
room and peered in
a f int light was burning and he
could hcar the measured breathing of
some one asleep.
Cautiously he crept inside, STOPPING
low, and looked around.
No one there save Il sleeping woman.
In an instant n cloth saturated with
ether was thrown over her face and he
waited one, two, three-tcn minutes,
and the stcrtorous breathing OF the
sleeper told him the drug was doil 2 its
work.
With a dextrous hand he seized the
jewe!ry and money lying on the dress
ing ease and began 4 quick search in
the drawers OF the case.
''Oo-oo." came a voice from the shad-
owS Of the room.
Quick as Il flash the burglar clutched
his silent knife and turned to meet his
victim.
No one was visible.
100000" cam the voice again and
the foot 81 Che led.
It WAS Il pretty baby, aleepi!y holding
up il, little hands 10 hira.
lie let the knife fail to his side and
stepping over to the crib touched the
cai!G.
1t Cooed again softly and held up it's
arls for him u tail2 it.
The impulse w@S beyond his control
and he ii.tra tn" la',Y II his hrs.na uu.l
j: nc%,!pd It's SIT, white clre;, Gown To
| HI and put its white arm ;:iput his
rr.,;.
liza ,,,,,,n,l T., = snO -, , ~, 80 -,
cur..T neai was lail Il &c.. ;:vr
az: IL WIS asleep again.
"%rv2r 500 Il Ia j." ,h"t." he
Whispered t. himself "I!oa. -, ,m is
af"ni Il &trarrers." and tendcrly he
laid il in tile Glib.
InrH he went back 10 the dressing
ell.
II" stood ill Il monent and then
l"o!. . f~rri;vcly over his shoulder to-
We ~ crib.
III .."rujng face of the child was
tara" ! toward him.
$."y:E Mc r>piated on the case Il ne
haI rG..cn frnEn it. h., ~ Switched
from tAI " :'&:.'a fHcn iar saturated
cloth, unruci "a vinIn" rv.;r the BED,
AMI quietly slipped downstairs,
Once on t..r street "~a.n he looked
up 1T the house Muu"rilr.
dang IL" lac r:nwlcl, "a man that
amt got no more g;@2arl ti:an | have
ought to git out Of the business"
And he disappeared into tho shadows
Of the night-N. Q. Timcs.Denocrat-
Suicides Ia france.
The minister OF justice mas just pub
li3hed Some statistics Of suicides which
are not without interest. T!,cv show:
an average OF t per cent. for males I'M
der twenty years Of aTc. anil Of - per
cent. for men over sixty. OF suicides OF
females, on the other hand. . per cent.
were those Of girls under twenty, while
there were not more than - per cent.
for wor7"n over sixty y""r, OF age.
Twcnty-siX per cent. OF the suicides
were attributed to mental dcrang1-
mcnt, and 20 to physical suffering.
Drunkenness IS held responsible for IL
per cent. and love affairs fer 4.
Most of the men had rccOurSc to the
rope, while the wOmc preferred death
by drowning, though some tool; poison,
which seems u be altogether cSchewed
by the stcrncr Sex. Strangely enough,
suicides arc far more frequent in the
spring anil summer Thar during the
cOldC months, which leads to the in.
ference that want, which is much more
prevalent in the winter than in the
other %eusons, IL not the usual cause OF
these sad determinations to be rid OF
life.-London Telegraph
A Wonderful Shake.
At the club house at Saratoga, d. wa:
shaking dice with a wealthy man from
the Pacific coast lie lost constantly
and finally found that he was $500.
loser. Thc time nCreed unnn to unit