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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
HARVEST ON THE MASH.
A Charming Picture OF New England
Life That Requires Distance.

Charming Picture OF New England
Life That Requires Distance.
Harvesting the hay on the salt marshes
of the New England shore is picturesque
and pleasing occupation at distance.
The mowers. the men pitching hay on
the wagons or scows, or building it into
great ricks perched on saddles, the wide
sweep of the meadows threaded here and
there with the CLEAN of winding creeks,
the wheeling of white gulls overhead, the
low hills of the inland horizon, and to the
eastward the irregular rolling line of
range of sand dunes or the broad blue OF
the sea-all these unite to make a charm
ing and poetic picture.
But it is a picture that needs distance.
Close at hand it is seen that the labor Is
very hard, the men hot and weary, the sun
blazing down with terrific force upon the
shadeless expanse. Often, too, the pest of
the greenheads and gnats is so great that
the harvesters wear wells over their heads
and mittens on their hands as they work.
Nevertheless, in the old colonial day, hay
ing on the marshes had its compensations
Its close was marked by local ceremonies
of Harvest Home, forerunners of Thanks
giving. from which indeed it was little diff
ferent. In this, as in all other celebrations,
eating and drinking held foremost place.
1t did not seem to them unsuitable that
the women of their households during the
dog days should be hanging over hot ovens
and toiling in pantries, preparing dozens
Of mincepies, mountains of ready cooked
meat, jars full Of cookies and doughnuts
and long rows of loaves of cake, the richer
aud spicier the more creditable to the
housekeeper which provided it.
Much of this task was accomplished be-
fore the departure of the men, as the
greater part of the provisions were to be
packed for the mash" for them to take.
During the two or three days while they
were actually haying the women had COM
parative leisure and often took the time to
make a round of neighborhood calls, but on
the final return. boating day." as it was
often called, they were again on hand to
share both the labor and the festivity.
The hay was foated in great fiat gun
delows" up the creeks to the nearest posi-
BILE point where it was wanted, then carted
home in triumphal procession. Then the
men, who had done full justice already to
the provisions carried with them, were
quite ready to sit down to the harvest sup.
per, for which fresh array of good things,
even more solid, richer and more indigesti.
BILE than those previously consumed, had
been provided.
Truly, if our New England ancestors
were gallant workers, they were no less
valiant trencher men.-Youth's Compan
ion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11

In certain house, where the people
love nature SO well that no drapery cur
tains are used and where the shades are
usually rolled to their highest limit, it is
observed that the women all look old But
at night, when all the soft lights shine out
from under their shades Of pink and yell
low, they are young and fair. The oppo-
site effect is observed in another house,
where the women look their best in the
daytime and where the light is softened
by shades and becoming draperies that are
never thrown back from the upper part OF
the window. At night electric lights, I'M
der globes that can hardly be called artis-
tic, glare down on eyes that are tired and
bring out every mark Of time. One WON.
an abhors lamps in petticoats; the other
despises windows in draperies. -New York
Post
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
A Wonderful School.

The modern method of teaching differs
from the methods employed generation
ago. The fathers and mothers of today
can remember the rattan-how it seasoned
their school days and, like the sword Of
Damocles, hung over maps and problems.
The teacher of today is not a driver, but a
leader. The teacher is full of ideas, and
the modern methods embodies plan Of
not punishment for ill doing, but reward
for well doing. The negative government
is replaced by positive government, and
the youthful nature yields to the treat
ment.
In a certain public school in New York
city there are no bad boys-no poorly
dressed boys-no dirty boys-no laggards-
no boys with mud on their shoes-no boys
with buttons off their coats-and this
school is situated not far from tenement
house district. There is but one rule in
this school-and that is as Interchangeable
and inflexible as it is simple.
"Do right because it is right" Is the
rule.
There may be other schools of this ma
ture, but of this one l know personally
Every boy in the school is individualized.
There is roll of honor, than which the
book of the recording angel is not more
carefully kept. Good work is recorded
therein. The keeper of this book aims tc
strike the keynote of every childs nature
which, once sounded, every fiber of that
nature vibrates in unison. Does a poor
boy need coat or pair of shoes2 There
is a storehouse of supplies which never
fails No one knows whence the supplies
come, but they come.
This is new element in public school,
education. New York Recorder.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Respect for Amin ais.

M. Renan's personal recollections Of dogs
are endless, and he might fill book with
traits and stories of them and of cats. He
thinks we are. on the whole, better than
our Seventeenth century ancestors, and
asks for no fuller proof than what lies in
the present day manner of looking at ami
mails. Descartes and the philosophers of
his time only saw in them machines. They
were wound up like automata to do GER
tain things. Their suffering could not be
very deep when they were beaten or other
wise ill used. If there are now vivisection-
lists in whom the lust of cruelty goes some
times hand in hand with the love of science,
there are people to enforce Martins act
and the Grammont law
The world, says NJ. Renan, is learning to
see relatives-in collateral and far out de-
grees no doubt-in animals. Their poor
little lives are just like ours, but cast in
narrower lines. You find the germs of
every faculty that we can boast of in their
hearts and brains. The worst sin of omis-
sion of Christianity was it's disregard for
animal life. The beasts that perish" were
on the same plane as Descartes' automata.
Greek paganism was kinder, it seeing gods
goddesses and lovely and interesting per
sons disguised as beasts and birds. Divine
fatheibood, says NJ. Renan, with shre,vd
glance, was revealed in the vain imagin.
ings of theologians. Butthe divine mother
hood was proved very low down indeed
London Truth.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
What Becomes of the Old Directories?

Every year thousands of new directories
are issued, but what becomes of the old
ones? This question very seldom occurs
to the mind of the public, and yet it is ev-
ident that the thousands of old directories
which are displaced by new ones every
year must go some place.
In the first place, some of the old books
are not displaced at all, but are kept by
their owners until they fall to pieces, when
they are burned. Many of the directories
are so racked up at the end of the year
that they are not fit for further use, and
great number of these are sold as old pa
per and are manufactured into cloth. Then
large number of them are sold to second
hand book dealers for prices ranging from
25 cents to 81 and are in turn sold by them
to people who do not feel like paying for
a new directory, but do not begrudge 81
or so for one year old, Many more of
the old directories are sold directly by the
owners to other men for about ST. Many
men take the new directory every year and
also keep their old ones, and in some places
of business may be seen a collection of di-
rectories dating back for six or eight
years. Thus are the directories kept in
circulation until they wear out and are
thrown away or sold for old paper.-To-
ronto World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Making Precedents.

Squire Abel Fuller, as justice of the
peace, has distributed the law in and
about the Barley Run balliwick of the
great hemlock belt with an impartial hand
for forty years and more He is truly a
backwoods Solomon and a Daniel come to
judgment combined. He has strong con-
tempt for conventionality in his Office and
he scorns precedent. Once when one of
his constituents had brought suit before
Squire Fuller to recover something from a
fellow citizen and had won his suit all
straight enough and got judgment, he
lifted the squirrels deerhound out of his
way with his foot as he was going out Of
Abel's office. The dog yelped and the
squire raped on his table and called the
court to order again.
Judgment reversed in this here case!'
he exclaimed. 81 find fer defendant, an
mone'n that, Lie Crimper, fine We twelve
shillin fer contempt o. COURT"
Elijah was the plaintiff in the case, and
his lawyer, Sim Foley, of the Corners, pro-
tested.
Great Socratesp' he shouted, "you can't
do that, yer honor! There hain't no perez
dent fer setch percedin!"
"Percedents be durned!" said the squire.
when l want percedents Phi make 'em,
an this is one on 'eml You're fined twelve
shillin, Lie Crimper, fer contempt O.
court, an the Judgments reversed in this
here casei'-New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11

The tramp was looking fairly respecta-
BILE, and as he moved along the street
brilliant idea occurred to him-how to
work racket for breakfast-and he
went into the first good looking residence
he came to and knocked at the front door.
The lady of the house came out.
"Do you want to know how to prevent
moths in carpetsP"
"No," she replied curtly
"Want to know how to prevent mold in
first floor closets?"
"No."
"Want to know how to clean windows
without waterP"
"No."
"Would you like the secret of preserving
the polish on furniture?"
"No."
He hesitated moment.
Excuse me-" he said insinuatingly,
"can get something to eat here9"
"Ofcourse you can, she replied prompt
ly. "Why didn't you say so at firstP Go
on around to the kitchen door," And as
he followed her directions he kicked him
self four times for ever letting brilliant
thought occur to him how to work a
racket.-Detroit Free Press.
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pears, as if they had not been fed for a
week. They will act as if always hun
CRY, and this action will be construed
by the farmer as something earnest, for
he will then give them more food be-
cause they have indicated that they de-
sire it, while at the same time the habit
is being more strongly intrenched, and
the hens will cease searching for food
and wait for him to appear.
1t is all kindness to do this on the
part of the farmer, but his mistaken
kindness is really an injury, for the
hens will not attempt to scratch and
exercise, and soon become excessively
fat, and eggs will then be scarce. 1t
is important to avoid making the hens
fat if eggs are desired, and if they are
to keep in good condition, they should
have plenty of exercise and be really
hungry when they demand food.
Those who give their fiocks good treat
ment also believe that hens should have
all their wants supplied, and they
therefore provide great variety of
nearly everything the fowls will accept,
especially if the birds are confined in
yards and cannot be allowed outside,
which method induces them to eat even
more than they would if limited in
variety; but as grain is more easily pro-
cured and fed than any other it is used
lavishly, and the hens will become
idle, indolent, sluggish, very fat and
Improbable. The points to observe is
never to overfeed. Always have them
rather hungry than to give too much.
Never so feed as to have food left over,
and keep in view the fact that when
the hens are not laying they will then
require less food, while in the summer
season their wants are very few COM
pared with winter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Not a Food for InyaIids.

Rice is such harmless looking food
with such reputation for wholesomeness
so seemingly ''childlike and bland" that
few people realize it is actually food for
out of door workers and for people who
live active lives, not for sedentary folk,
and only rarely for an invalid A mis-
guided creature who fed during an un-
healthy summer on "plain" boiled rice,
with plentiful butter, oiled by its heat, a
person who took almost no exercise and
who suffered severely from the heat, was
astonished to learn that his diet was ag-
gravating the liver trouble and stomachio
irritation, and that his HARMLESS" food
had been suitable only for railroad
navy" or stevedore.
Rice with butter is undoubtedly a real
food and nourishing since whole people
live on it and work hard on it in the lands
where cholera hourishes. Rice, in time
of precaution when people are advised to
watch their diet and avoid indigestible
food, is not nearly so useful as boiled -four.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Lightning Prints.

There is a class of phenomena produced
by lightning which is well worthy Of at
tention, but of which little is yet known;
we refer to lightning prints. We are al!
acquainted with the peculiar action Of
light upon papers imbued with salts Of
silver or other chemical preparations SEN
sitive to its influence, by which the images
of surrounding objects are permanently
and elegantly fixed upon paper. Well, a
lightning flash now and again produces a
similar result upon the thing or person it
touches. M. Poey, who has treated the
subject of lightning prints very fully, mel.
tons twenty-four cases Of impressions on
the bodies of men and animals.
OF these eight were impressions of trees
or parts Of trees, one of bird and one Of a
cow, four of crosses, three of circles or OF
impressions of coins carried about the per
son, two of horseshoes, one of a nail, one Of
metal comb, one of anumber or mineral
one of the words Of sentence and one OF
the back of an armchair.-Chambers' Jour
nal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Praising the Chinese Servant.

II have had a good deal of experience
with Chinese labor" said Judge Worden
of Denver, "and my belief is that the Chi
nese make the best servants in the world.
They will do just what you tell them to
and in the way that you tell them to do it.
A combination of three virtues constitutes
their principal fault-they are industrious,
obedient and frugal. Hence they will do
more work, do 1t more willingly, do It
cheaper and save more money than any
other race of people. The difference in
wages is not as great as is generally repre-
sented, and the coolies on the fruit farms
in southern California, where have seen
more of them than any place else, are paid
as well as similar labor is elsewhere As
house servants they are par excellence
They will obey the rules of the household
and do not draw the lines as to what their
duties shall or shall not be. They can be
relied upon and are not given to changing
employers. st. Louis Globe Democrat
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
CONSUMPTION.
How Utterly to Prevent the Hitherto De-
FAINT and Deadly Disease.

FAINT and Deadly Disease.
As the tubercle bacilli do not multiply
outside Of the living body, excepting IN
der artificial conditions, and as it has been
proved experimentally that the disease is
due to these germs, it follows that when
the disease occurs it must be produced by
the same individual germs that nave been
thrown off by some other human being or
animal suffering from tuberculosis.
A vast amount of evidence can now be
adduced to show that consumption is COM
paratively rare among those who live an
outdoor life under normal and healthy
conditions. For every 900 deaths from
all causes 103 farmers die of pulmonary
tuberculosis, los fishermen, 12l gardeners,
1922 agricultural laborers, 1917 grocers,
while among tailors the mortality rises to
290 and among diapers to 30l. Out of ev-
cry 900 deaths among printers and com
positors 461, or nearly so per cent of all,
result from consumption.
The duties of state, municipal and SAM
tary authorities in this matter are clear
and specific Comprehensive and efficient
means should be at once taken for the pre-
vention of tuberculosis. These means
should consist in educating the people as
to the infectious nature of the disease, in
structing them in the means and methods
to be taken to render the sputum innoc-
uous, in the systematic employment OF
meteorological examinations of the spu-
tum for the early diagnosis of tuberculo-
sis, in the proper disinfection of rooms &C.
cupied by tubercular patients before they
are again occupied by other people, in the
establishment of public hospitals for the
segregation, isolation and treatment of the
consumptive poor; in the enactment OF
regulations which shall forbid the employ
ment of tubercular patients in such occu-
pations as shall injure the welfare of others,
in the adoption Of sanitary regulations to
prevent the dissemination of infection by
means of tubercular sputum in places of
assembly, in the governmental inspection
of dairy cattle and in the destruction of
those found to be tubercular.
A person suffering from pulmonary con-
sumption may be absolutely free of danger
to his most intimate associates or his i'm
mediate surroundings if only the sputum
is disposed of with scrupulous care. The
sputum, and the sputum alone, in some
way is the source of danger, and common
sense, good sanitation, humanity and even
| the requirements of simple cleanliness de-
mand that this should be destroyed or rem
dered harmless. Dr. Lawrence Flick of
Philadelphia, who has studied this subject
carefully, has expressed the firm convic-
ton that with our present knowledge we
have it in our power to completely wipe
out pulmonary tuberculosis in single
generation, and he adds, "Were half the
energy which is being spent in the almost
hopeless task of searching for a specific
cure for tuberculosis devoted to it's exter-
mination its accomplishment would be as
sured. Forum.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
The TYnical Society Girl.

One is often ignorant of the existence OF
young girls in the houses of ones triends
until by chance they are revealed at
matinee of the opera, sitting demurely III
the family box, or at their summer homes,
on horseback, or playing at tennis on the
lawn. The dancing class, controlled by a
bevy of matrons who carefully select the
names sent out upon invitations to belong
to it, is her training ground for polite So
ciety. At these classes, meeting in the
afternoon or evening once a week, the
mothers sit around the halls while the boys
and girls go through the exact forms to be
observed in the ballroom of the future.
When the young person is ready to be In
troduced into society, the mother, as often
as not issues cards for general afternoon
reception of her friends. Gowned in sim
plest home dress, high at the throat and OF
pure white, the debutante stands beyond
her mother at the chief entrance of the
drawing room. Behind her, piled upon
tables or the piano, is seen veritable
hecatomb of flowers sent in by friends to
celebrate the hour. Each guest, after
speaking to the mother or chaperone, is
then mentioned by name to the debutante,
who bows or curtesieS as she has been
taught to do.
Later in the afternoon, when the crowd
thins out, the girl, surrounded by her par
ticular set of friends, displays her flowers
her gown, her new ring or the string Of
pearls presented by a good papa. A din
ner follows, at which her mother presides
and around which the same young people
assemble. Here she is queen of the feast
and amid flowers and lights and music ant
kind words no wonder that the vista of so
ciety seems to her like fairyland From that
day on she is rarely seen in public without
her parents, or one of them, or a fitting
substitute Burton Harrison in La
dies II ONE Journal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
1t Outliyed the Pharaohs.

The stone age and the bronze age have
passed, but the advertising age remains.
Advertising is not so very modern. The
pharaohs were prudent advertisers. With
what subtilty they put their ads in crafty
lines on obelisk and pyramid, and they
have drawn in the shekels splendidlyl
Advertising is the searchlight of trade.
The advertiser is more privileged than
the plaintiffs attorney. The former not
merely has the opening and closing ad-
dresses, but keeps the ear of the jury all
the time.
No exposition ever had such worldwide
reputation as the Columbian. Why not'
No other has ever advertised 80 ably and
deliberately. Cause and effectl-Carpet and
Upholstery Trade.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
Deterioration of Varieties.

1t is very common thing to hear
the remark that a certain variety Of
some crop has run out" that is, has
deteriorated from its original state to
such an extent that it has largely lost
the good qualities that recommend it
when first introduced. This is reme-
died by adopting other varieties of later
origin or seed of the same variety from
another portion of the country. The
writer was one of the first in this
country to begin discussing heredity in
seeds, and to claim that careful selec-
ton year after year would not only keep
any variety up to its original standard
of excellence, but in many cases i'm
prove it. This assertion was not made
from any theoretical view of the mat
ter, but as the result of several years of
careful observation with varieties of
vegetables. Seeds from the very best
specimens were saved year after year,
and the results were most satisfactory.
From small package of beans received
from Canada all of a certain shape
were selected, and the next year those
of this shape were again selected, and
so no, and in about five years the type
was so fixed that 80 per cent. of the
crop was of the shape that was selected
as the model. In parsnips, the best
shaped roots were used to grow seed
from and only the center seeds used
with the result that improvement was
noticed from the beginning. Corn,
squashes, beets and melons showed the
same Improvement from careful selec-
ton, and now, after about ten years
trial, the same varieties are grown in
our garden as were used to begin with,
and we have not found it necessary to
change the seed. In breeding seeds to
standard only perfect specimens
should be used for seed purposes, and if
this is continued year after year the
yield will not fall off nor will the quail
ity be lowered.
Where seed is selected at random
it is impossible to select the best, and
in breeding seeds as in breeding ami
mails, the faults of the parents seem
more liable to crop out in the progeny
than the good points. If every man
would carefully select seeds for his OWL
use, both for fields crops and garden,
it would not be long until the average
yield would be materially increased
and the profits augmented to a very
appreciate extent. Carelessness OF
this one point is the cause of great loss
to the country every year. We men
ton the matter at this time that oul
readers may begin to prepare for ;
proper selection as their crops ripen
American Farmer.