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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
A WOMAN FOR SALE.
Betrayed Girl Offers to Sell Herself to
the Southern Medical College.

A BETRAYED Girl Offers to Sell Herself to
the Southern Medical College.
With pale, haggard face; with wild,
despairing look and tears literally
streaming down her hollow, sunken
cheeks, Maud Fambro, once innocent
country girl, entered the Southern Med
zeal college yesterday afternoon. APP
preaching Uncle Robert Pierce, the kind
ly disposed old ianitOr, she asked for the
ladies reception room.
After havinr seated herself. the young
woman in a dazed sort of way sur
veyed the room and its contents with
evident fear and dread. After mo-
ment's hesitation sheinquired of the JAM
tor if the college wanted to buy sub
ject If so, she had one to offer for sale,
which, although alive now, would in the
course of a month or two be at the dis
posal of the college if terms were agreed
upon.
Where is the subject, MISS" he asked,
bowling lOwly.
why, here it is--right here. Do you
see me? | am the one. Do you think
they will buy my body?' she went on,
looking the janitor squarely in the face.
81 am going to die, and | know it, and
what want to do is to arrange for the
future. Ny history, l will say at the be-
ginning, is familiar to all where | live,
and rather than go back and face my
degradation and shame prefer to die!
Won't they buy my body she almost
pleaded.
Upon what terms would you make
the disposition?' inquired fiendish look
ing medical student.
Il will sell it for most any price.
What | want to do is to make future
provision for my baby. | haven't but
one copper in the world and am here
without place to shelter my head. l
thought by coming to Atlanta I'd make
a trade by the college agreeing to take
my body after l am gone. do not know
where to 90 or what to do"
1t is the same old story of mans per-
fidy and wOmans worse than weakness.
Six months ago she was highly respect
ed country girl, living on the line Of
the Atlanta and West Point railroad
near pretty little town Of 800 or 1000
inhabitants-now an outcast and a wan
derer upon the face of the earth. A once
poor, innocent country lass, she seeks to
make a horrible and CHASTITY disposition
of her corpse that she might make proper
provision for her future offspring. 1t is
indeed a sad case.
The girl, not meeting with what she
thought proper consideration, left the
college, saying she was going to carry
out her intention or commit suicide. She
was entreated to go home and was given
enough money to pay her railroad fare
to the little town from which she came
yesterday. 1t is not known where she
went after leaving the college.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
English Criminals,

Doubtless, to Judge from YOUR aver
age daily journal, murders and sui
cides, crimes and catastrophes, wars
and feuds and frauds, would seem TO re-
main the staple Of the human record.
But be it remembered that. for ohviors
reasons, all our worst AM darkest is col
lected there, One might as we'll Judge
of public health by the painful cases
described in medical publication as
OF the vast mass of solid human happi-
ness and innocent living joy by the dali
ly catalogue of these really trivial ex.
ceptions to it, As for sins-the most Sc
rious of which are only such as are
malioious-though the population in
crease, they seem steadily to diminish,
We had si,66S "hahituals" in 1865:
now the evil roll is only 90, 1853.
When the population of England was
~, 25i, 600 in 1869, there We're 1850
persons undergoing penal servitude;
now, with a population of 21.S30.l79,
the number is only 947. In 1878 the en-
tire number of prisoners in our ia,ls
was so,sSS; the entire number at the
same date last year was II, 66S, though
the population had increased by 6, OO0.-
goo. Pauperism is also declining. In
1870, l.0i9, SOL persons were in recent
OF relief; in 1891, with an addition of
more than 1000, 600 inhabitants, there
We're only IA, sos. The upshot of these
hgures = without pressing them too
much-seems surely to be that the COS
mic process in our own little corner of
the universe is not doing so badly.-Sir
Edwin Arnold in Long,nan's Magazine
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
LABEL FRUIT TREES,

1t needs little argument to prove that
frequent additions should be made to
the farm orchard. Ii this is neglected
| there will come time in which all the
trees will have passed their prime But
| little fruit will then be produced, and it
will be several years before young trees
can be brought into full bearing. There
fore it is well, where much is attempted
in the way of fruit-growing, to put out
few trees each year.
Not only should trees lie obtained and
set, but they should also be permanently
marked. 1t is always pleasure, and is
sometimes matter of considerable i'm
portance, to know what varieties have
been planted. But without some per-
manent record this knowledge cannot
long be retained. 1t will not do to rely
upon the memory. This plan has so
often failed that it may be regarded as
useless.
Many, perhaps all, nurserymen who
N'o a AaA &c buSAutss, dltstSl laptl W
each bundle OF trees which they send
out. Perhaps some label each tree, but
others prefer to put all the trees of the
same variety into one bundle and make
one label do for the lot. These labels are
usually OF wood, written upon with
lead pencil, and are fastened to the trees
with copper wire. Ii the writing is dis
tinct, it will remain legible for from two
to foar or five years, but it gradually
disappears. In some instances the labels
have been attached to main branches
which, as they have increased in size,
have been cut and seriously injured by
the wire. This evil can be prevented by
placing the wire loosely around a side
shoot, but much better label can be
made OF tin. This material should be
new and bright, rather thin, and should
be cut into strips three-eighths of an
inch wide at one end, one-eighth of an
inch at the other end, and four or five
inches long, Such scraps can be OBJ
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
Hollow Spars.

The use of hollow spars for boats de-
signed to attain great speed has intro
duced new and novel industry reuuir-
ing workmanship of the finest charac-
ter. The stick for this purpose is re.
quired to be of exceptionally fine and
straight grain, and after being roughly
shaped is split longitudinally from end
to end; the center of each of the halves
is then followed out, and a greater or
less amount is removed, according to
the intended location of the spar, the
upper spars being much the lighter
These hOllOws run nearly the length of
the spar, great care being essential to
have them follow the taper of the out
side of the spar exactly, to insure uni
form thickness at every point-of course
when this has been done and the two
halves of the spar replaced in their
original position, a circular hole is left
i'll the center of the SPAR running near
ly the whole length, and following its
taper from end to end. After this the
two halves are fastened in place again
by means of wooden bowels, which fas-
ten the split together, being placed al
ternately on either side of the central
hollow, and both bowels and split are
carefully glued. These bowels vary in
size with the size of the spar, but are
usually as long as they can be made
without piercing its outside surface
They are placed slightly nearer the cen
ter hollow than the outside, in order to.
give them all the length possible. In
small spars the glue and the bowels
suffice but in large ones metal bands on
the outside are added. New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03

1t Is amusing to the observer of
worldly experience to see how ingeniouslv
young couples will labor to throw off
the scent Of public attention from their
mutations, y case in point is that of
a dainty creature who is spending
the summer at the Davenport and a
young man at the darlington. These
two have been inseparable for DAYS.
They have walked and sat and danced
together every minute which they could
steal from other and more practical oc-
equations. For day or two they made
no effort to conceal their devotion TO
each other, but as soon as they them
selves realized the attachment, feigned
indifference in public. and much side
play of a sentimental nature was
promptly brought into play.
Early one afternoon the writer noticed
the young man drive up to the Earring
ton steps alone in buggy, with every
appearance of having come in from a
long spin over the country roads. Won
derlng why the youth should be so I'M
soclable, the scribe proceeded on his
way toward the postoffice He had gone
but rod or two when the pretty girl
alluded to above passed him in great
haste You seem to be in a hurry, "
quoth the writer logically. Yes. | am
afraid shall lose my dinner" was the
prosalc reply. And then it all was plain
as the handwriting on the wall. She
had gotten ont of the buggy at the cor
ner. See:-Richfeld Cor. Saratoga News,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
The Fair.

Oh, no! Twenty-three million five
hundred and twenty-nine thousand four
hundred people did not pass through the
gates of the Chicago fair, nor did 81 Al.
PIP individuals pay for admission. 1t is
fair to assume that at least 25O, 900 Of
Chicago's residents wentin a dozen times
each and some OF them a hundred times.
Scores of thousands of citizens blurred
their eyes, blistered their feet and wea-
ried their physiques all the way from ) to
% times each There is no practical
method of determining just how MANY
individuals did" the fair. tits sufficient
for us to know, and very pleasant also,
that after every debt is paid there will
remain at least $l,00O,O00 to be divided
among the enterprising, plucky and gen
erous stockholders. Joe Howard.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
THE OUTLOOK FOR HORSE.
BREEDING.

1t IS not very encouraging to the horse
, breeder at first thought. The market is
over-stocked and the prices so low in
consequence that many breeders are dis
couraged, and if they have not disposed
OF their brood mares, they have not
bred them this year. Not for many
years have there been SO few colts raised
in this vicinity by farmers MS the present
one. There is no money in it, is the
reply when questioned in regard to it.
When weaving colts can he bought for
n little more than the price of service
fee, there is small inducement for
farmers to raise them, necessarily losing
the use OF the mare for time, and run
ming the risk incidental to colt-raising.
That there is no money in raising a
certain class OF horses | am willing to
admit, and it will be just as well if
there are not SO many raised, but there
is always demand for good horses, and
they always bring good price, too. 1t
costs no more to raise good colt than a
poor one, rs aside from few dollars
extra in service fee, the expense of keep
ing will be the same, and at maturity
the well-bred colt, whether draft, road
ster or trotter, will far outsell his
monsrel competitor. The man who
starts out to buy horse soon finds that
the better grades OF horses are not SO
chesp after all at the present time. A
we'll broken, sound young horse cannot
be had short OF Sl25 or $3.50, while poor
ones will not bring more than half as
much.
Ot course there are risks to be taken
IN raising colts, more, perhaps, than in
any other live stock, yet with ordinary
precautions the loss from accident either
to dam or foal is not great in proportion
10 the number raised.
II man neglects his horses, under
feeding and overworking them, the
chances are that he will not take proper
care OF 3 brood mare, and the chances
are also good that he will have bad
lucA' in raising colts.
There is no better time to engage in
any branch of farming than when others
are going out OF it. \ few years hence
will see the horse market back again to
its former position. The demand for
young horses will be good five years
hence; then it will be lucky % man
who has some good ones to sell. Not
every one can afford to 60 into this busi-
ness on q large scale, and it is not desir-
able that they should, but every farmer
can, ii he chooses, raise one or more
colts each year, and they need not be
scrubs either. On nearly every farm
there are one or two good bodied mares,
sometimes possessed OF considerable
speed and good action. These mares, if
bred TO a well-bred stallion OF any OF the
coach or trotting strains OF blood, can
hardly fail to produce colts that will
make good drivers-stylish, speedy
are exacly what is wanted
in our cites, and for which good price
can always be obtained. Five hundred
dollars is not an extraordinarily high
figure for pair OF such horses if well
broken.-COuntry Gentleman.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
UNDER THE MlSTLETOE.

Grandmamma, in your frame on the wall.
Beautiful aid Of the long ago,
Stately and slender, blond and tall
With the rinched in waist and the foot 40
small,
Prithee tell-for fain would know
What did you on that Chrstmastide
When Observation-Disclosures made you brido,
Handsome and cOurtly and debonair,
With his powdered cue and his Roman nose
As richly dark as his bride is fair
Ho rests n hand on your straight backed chain
To whisper to you, suppose
To whisper again as in long ago
When he kissed you under the mistetoe.
Fay beautiful bride in the antique dress;
Say, beautiful bride in your bridal white,
Did you let him gaze on your loneliness
Til lifted eyes did your heart confess
As you led the dance on your wedding nigbt2
Did he press your hand as he bent to say
Sweet words-as the lovers do today?
All! courtly groom Of the vanished years,
Beautiful bride of the days long fled,
Dust, but dust are your hopes and fears,
Cold your kisses and dried your tears;
But hang here, over your head,
A sprig OF such Christ mas mistetoe
As you kissed beneath in the long ago.
Mary Clarke Huntington in Good House.
keeping.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
over Hundred Stone kniv.s

While blowing field on Jesse Doan's
farm, in Buckingham township, near
Furlong, one day recently, Frank Dom
struck curiously shaped flint stone of
kind not found in that vicinity. II
was about . inches long by IL inches
wide IN the center, with the edges sharn
but irregular. Convinced that it was
an implement left by former Indian
residents ~ that neighborhood, it hav.
ing been found on the site of wood
near chestnut tree that is said to he
over 200 years old, Mr.. Doan concluded
TO investigate further. He dug down
several feet, and was rewarded by find.
ing ll0 stones of the same shape and
kind, which those learned in the WAYS
of the aborigines say are "skinninp
knives. "-Doylestown Pa, JIntelhgencer
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
AS to Giants.

There has been no subject concerning
which more lies have been told than
about giants. Until it was found that
modern men could not be squeezed into
the armor at the Tower, it was taken
for granted that we had degenerated in
size. This is not only not the case,
but in the matter Of giants we have the
advantage Of our predecessors. The En-
peror Maziminian indeed was said to
nave been 8 = feet high, but ancient
mensuration, especially in the case of
an emperor, is not to be trusted; in
deed from its not having made him
taller, 1t Is certain that there was no
one else nearly so tall. Orestes, it is
true, we are told, was 0 feet long-aft-
er death, but he was not thought so
highly Of when alive; we may reasona-
ply take feet as his ultimatum.-Lon-
don News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
Corn in the Husk.

Never put corn in hot water to boil. I
have used the following recipe for
years for cooking green corn, and every
one who has eaten it declares it perfect.
First, buy good corn. In selecting be
sure that the silk at the end of each ear
Is brown; then open each ear, and by
pressing the finger nail in one of the
Kernels see that the milk flows freely.
Remove the outside husks and take all
the silk from the ear, leave the inside
husks on, put in a kettle of cold water,
To every six ears put one tablespoonful
of salt and three tablespoonfuls of sugar;
place kettle on fire and let boil Just five
minutes after it comes to a boil. 1t will
then be perfect. Serve with husks on,
covered with large napkin. New York
Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
Bobby Burns and the MAYOR,

On one occasion, arriving at Carlisle
on horseback. Bobby Burns is said to
have turned his steed out to grass for a
while, and the animal strayed on to a
meadow belonging TO the corporation
an got impounded. Although the horse
was given upto him, the poet retaliated
upon the mayor, whose tenure of office
was to expire on the very morrow of
the incident, as follows:
Was err puir poet sac befitted?
The master drunk-the horse committed:
Puir harmless beast. TAX thee nae care;
rhoult be horse when he's nae mair trnayorl.
Dundee News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
MANY MILES IN A CANOE,


terror OF Alaska.
Warourton Pike the English explorer,
mas arrived at Nanalmo, b, G., from the
interior OF Alaska, having made jour
ney of over 1000 miles in a small canoe.
lie LETT Victoria, b. G., year ago last
July for Fort Wrangle, and thence pro-
ceeded to Stlkeen rlverlna canoe through
the Cassalr country and followed the
Dease river as far as the junction with
the Laird tributary of the Mackenzie
river, There he spent the winter hunt
ing olg game. Late in the winter Pike
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
DA.
THE SECRETARY BIRD.
The Cool Manner In which IL Kills IA Snake,
Its Natural Prey.


Its Natural Prey.
As soon as the secretary bird, or
snake eater, of South Africa discovers
a 1nake, it advances toward it without
hurry and without hesitation, and when
within striking distance it Immediately
elevates its crest and the feathers of the
neck, and without losing any time de-
livers blow with its foot. If the snake
has avoided the blow and attempts TO
strike back, the bird interposes a wing,
thus receiving the deadly fangs harm
lessly upon the long feathers and i'm
mediately strikes again.
The fight is then virtually over, for
If the secretary gets in a single blow
the snakes back is broken, and the bird,
lightninglike, plants its foot firmly on
the reptiles neck and head, pressing
them into the ground, while it delivers
the coup de grace with its beak, and
then deliberately swallows the snake
whole, beginning at the tail, and just
before the head disappears, giving it an
enthusiastic parting rap ON the ground
But there is nothing refined about the
secretary bird's appetite, for one writer
says he found inside one three serpents
las long as his arm" II lizards Z
inches long, 81 tortoises about 9 inches
in diameter, besides large quantity
of grasshoppers and other insects, or
in other words, ~ feet of snake, 6b
of lizard, 80 of tortoise and say yard
of miscellaneous trihes!
The secretary bird is protected by the
cape authorities for the immense public
benefit it confers in eating poisonous
snakes, and a penalty is attached by
law to its destruction. And if it were
necessary hundreds of eyewitnesses
could be called to prove its right to the
title of serpentarius Curiously enough,
too, this bird may be trained and is
trained, to protect poultry yards, not
only from snakes, which are too fond of
eggs, but from other birds of prey. St
James Budget.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03

There is a curious story of how the
Duhe d Aoste, when king of Spain, told
muIeteer to whom he was TALKING to
cover himself, the sun being hot, for
getting that by so doing he made him a
srandee' Marshal Prim, to prevent this
catastrophe, knocked the mans hat ont
OF his hand, and according to some the
mNIeteer had something to do with the
ASSASSINATION that followed few DAVIS
a1terward.-London Spectator.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03

Poor Hankinson, who had come to
make an evening call, paused at the
doorway of the parlor. Young Fergu-
son was there ahead of him.
II can hardly hope for any inter-
change of ideas this evening, Miss Ka-
Jones' he said, with "a CHASTITY attempt
TO DO facetious, Ion the basis of unre-
strlcted reciprocity. You seem to be-
fully protected. "
Protected:' exclaimed Miss Ka-
Jones, with a ravlshing smile. Not at
all, Mr.. Hankinson. Raw material is
on the free list here, Walk in. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03

A treasury agent, speaking of the
watchfulness Of Uncle Sam S officials.
said; "A handsomely dressed man got
off ferryboat aud seemed to be unusu-
ally nervous. \ moment more and he
was struggling in the hands of the Off
GERS and desperately clutching at the
lapels of his coat. ! s no use, the
officers remarked; we know what YOU
have and where it is. Better give it up
and save trouble Apparently crushed
by the discovery, the man quietly as
sisted i'll opening seams and produced
the diamonds from various portions of
his clothing. Your shoes, please.' This
rather staggered him, but he submitted
with good grace, and one of the heels
being unscrewed another lot though
smaller and less valuable than the first,
was found there. The diamonds were
examined and pronounced to be splen-
did article of paste, worth about %
cents each. THIS did not satisfy us, and
the man was stripped to the skin. A
huge piece Of sticking plaster was on
his back, which was removed, and I'M
der it were concealed scores of genuine
diamonds. 1t is not often that a ruse
is SO adloitly planned and practiced.
New York Times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
An Attractive Way of PLACING p,,,

An attractive Way of Placing Picture.
over the narrow colonial maptel Of n
young matron's room in her nret,y
suburban home is arranged collection
OF what she calls my treasures Tbs
treasures" are pictures of her two l,ttIs
daughters, taken at various stages Of
their short earthly careers of three and
nve years respectively, and arranged in
irregular grouping around central nhn.
tograph of her husband.
Il had the wall above the mantal Loo.
unpainted when the house was built last
year, the wife and mother exploined
"and one of the carpenters paueled tbs
space under my directions, Some
smooth laths, stained to match tho
woodwork, furnished the frames. and
am sure | could have done the wort
myself except that the men were around
ana 1t was not necessary. 1t seemed 10
me such good way to keep these pic.
lures always in my sight. and | enjoy
them every day without effort"
IL should be further recorded that in
the library of this home its owner pref.
MY returns his wife's compliment bv
hanging a lovely crayon sketch of her
over his desk Her Point of View in
New York Times. w" "
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
Rev. Pink PUNK ON Resignation,

Always be prepared for de worst,
deah breddern, an den, if de best is
wot falls to yer lot, ya'll be able to en-
JOY it doubly, an chen if yer luck
changes va won't hab dat all gone feel
in dat de man has who expecks cherry
thing an always finds hisself amongst
de great ahmy Oh de left.-New York
Herald.