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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. J. n.
i Barton, pastor. Services: Preaching
every Sunday at IL 80 a. m. and 7:3O D. m.
Sunday scho d at 1890 a. m. Christian En-.
deavnr Society at $50 p. m. Prayer meet
ing Thursday evening 7:3O p. m.
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Will Neither Sign Nor Veto 1t.
WASHINGTON. Aug. l3.-There is
good authority for the statement that
the president will neither sign nor
veto the senate tariff bill, but will let 1t
become law without his signature.
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A F. A. M.-Essene Lodge No. %, A. F.
"A. A. N. Regular communications held
at Masonic Hall on the Saturday on or after
full moon. Members of sister lodges and
so1ourning brethren in good standing cor
daily invited to attend w. V. Turkey. W. M.
Geo. Little, Secretary.
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CHAS. A. HAND.

NURVEYOR-Locates and surveys govern
~ ment and private lands. A complete set
OF maps showing all the open and occupied
lands in Boise Valley. Ditch surveying q
speciality.
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MRS. M. A. SWIFT.
DEANO, GUITAR, BANJO, MANDOLIN
j Studio, New Presbyterian Church, Boise
City. Will visit Caldwell Friday and Satur.
day each week. Word left with Mrs. j. T.
Morrison or Miss Ella Horn will receive at.
tention.
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TlNCAMPMENT-Temple Encampment. No.
IL 3, |. o. O. +. Meets the second and
fourth Monday in each month at Odd Eel
lows Hail. Visiting Patriachs made welcome
John Zehner, Chief Patriach. A. K Steunent-
erg, Scribe.
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w. @. STALKER.
DESIDENT DENTIST-Office in New Ma.
IL sonic Block.
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SPEAKER CRISP TO THE FRONT.


Mr.. Reed Gave Him q Shot Before the
Speech Began.
Speaker Crisp was recognized amid
much applause. As he was about to
begin an animated conflict arose over
the right of Mr.. Reed to close the de-
bate. Mr.. Tracey, who was In the
chair, informed Mr.. Reed that he had
four minutes. "And I will uee it in
my own time." said MI. Reed. "You
can not use it," responded the chair
man, Tin closing the debate. If you
wish to he recognized you can pro.
cetd. I will not recognize you to close
the debate" ut is quite fit,ing," said
Nj. Reed, "that that this refusal to
recognize this side should be pare of
this spectacle"
"The gentleman should know" said
Speaker Crisp, ''that the affirmative Of
u proposition closes debate"
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DIN r. MORRISON.
JOHN c. RICE


A TTORNEYS-AT-LAW- in Odd Eel
IA lows Building All legal business en-
trusted to us will receive prompt and careful
attention.
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FRANK ]. smith,

II lows Block. Will practice in courts and
q. s. Land Office. Collections speciality.
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CHAS. ii. REED,

OdAS. ii. REHO,
A TTORNEY-AT.LAW-O in Masonic
"a Block. Will practice in all courts and
U. 8. Land Office.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-01-30

| The above ba'ance st:nds to the credit Of the
various funds as per .reasurer's Balance
Sheet, dated Dec 80, 1898:
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'r Business hours trom 9 a.
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pruu ,sszssn ! srens "a usa 1su auo
p1'a1ds pzrp On s19tlgeeJ asq zsslduusir
usH snta s5E pzqs!lsz lou GU. seM alsJA
sqlnalled out such harsh protest. fhat
Mrs Puddle Duck was glad TO wuddle
on With whole bones But when she got
aas soo e d sas s sSSe sue osi sDttra ABOUT
'i''sAiai ahfl 9uack. quackl Anal You
are there are you? Ana you'll. have
trouble before you get away Aha
DUCK was the very one that had caused
Hrs. Blue Han all the trouble" said
Mr. Rabbit modelling his head soisEanly
Welding IN the branch Mrs: Puddle
her nest for three days, slipping ard
creeping Through the weeds and bushes,
and she wanted to know What all the
On 5ppin a t ad oTssp ME- YaS aI eo pck ad
some slipplns and creeping on her OWL
account She crept uD close enough 70
see AIRS. Blue Hen on her nest. and she
was near enough to see Mrs. Blue Hen
wfen she ran away cackling.
Then Mrs. Puddle Duck wsaddled up
and peeped into the nest. There she saw
three eggs. as white and as smooth as
ivory, and the sight filled her w7th jeaI-
ousy. She began to talk to herself.
7 knew she must be mighty proud,
The Stuck up thing / can see by the
way She steps around here. Quacs.
quack and III just show her a tning or
two. 81
Then and there. Mrs. Puddle Duck,
al muddy as she was, got in Mrs. Blue
Hens nest, and sat ON her beautiful
white eggs and soiied them. And even
that was not all. Ont of pure spite. Mrs.
Puddle Duck laid one of her own dingy-
looking eggs in Mrs. Blue Hens nest,
and that was the cause of all the trou-
bic. That was the reason Mrs. Blue Hen
found -four dingy eggs in her nest, when
there ought to have been three clean
white ones.
.sweH. Mrs. Blue Hen went to setting.
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THE DUKE AND THE TOAD.
A New and Interesting Story of the
Famous wellington.

Napoleon was worshipped and feared,
but men loved and adored the Iron Duke.
OF the former, how few are the kindly
human traits recorded! while of the other.
to this day fresh proofs keep coming to
light of simple sweetness dwelling long
i'm the minds of men. The following an
ecdote concerning letter lately exhumed
may serve as one instance out of a thou
sand illustrating the sympathetic nature
of the great commander. The letter, SO
far as my memory serves, was in some
such terms as these:
"Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington
begs to inform William Harris that his
toad is alive and We'll.
1t seems that the duke in the course of
a country stroll, had come upon a little
boy weeping bitterly over toad. A
strange trio they must have been-the
lean. keen-eyed old soldier the flushed,
sobbing boy, and, between them, the
wrinkled reptile squatting, with fearless
eyes and throbbing sides. The boy wept
because he was going to school next day;
he had come daily to feed his toad; the
little heart was wracked with grief be-
cause he feared his darling would be neg
lected when he was gone and might
starve The dukes heart was as soft as
the boys. for he undertook to see that the
toad was looked after, and the letter
above quoted is one OF the subsequent
bulletins
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refuge in if the people rebelled against
'im," was the ready reply. land partly
on account of the opal. Anyway, that's
'ow Pershad Jung explained it in the
palace tfs4t night
An frdefinable something in Pink S
manner suggested that tine object OF the
long and per4lous journey was about to
be fulfilled.
rs the opal here?" Jack eagerly de-
Iranded.
Pink solenanly nodded his head. Then
he led the bows TO THE right side of the
temple. and showed them a fat, peaked
rock jutting four feet out from the
bank. Beneath it the restless stream
had Scooped out a sort of pool, where
the blue waters swirled and eddied in a
circle.
rock" said Pink. "Tippoo Sahfb buried
the opal and the other treasure in a
brass box
The boys stared down with dazzled and
eager eyes. For a moment they were
speechless.
Then Myles cried in a tone. of dissap-
pointrneut: I'D like to know how we're
going to dig the box out?"
The water must be. pretty Deep" NUT
tered Jack. land it boils IKE a whirl-
pool"
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|MR THIMBLEFINGER
AND HIS
QUEER COUNTRY.
THE cH1IpREN's SECOND VISIT.


THE BLUE HENS CHICKEN.

THE BLUE HEN IS CHICKEN
I'm not much Of story teller said
Mr. Rabbit, and never set up for one,
but I will say that l like the rough and
tumble tales a great deal letter than do
the kind Y here some great somebody IS
always coming in with conjurings and
other carvings on It's on account OF my
veil, stories can't be all alike, !" re-
marked Mrs Meadows. You might as
tune ~.
Tell US the kind of story you ike
best said Buster John to Mr.. Rabbit
IS NO, not now, responded Mr. Rabbit
iii do that some other time. | happened
to think just now Of a. little circumstances
That used to hear mentioned when Il
was younger
In the country next door there used to
be a great many chickens Some were Of
the barnyafd breed, some were Of the
Kind they called game some were black
some were white, some were brown. some
were speckled and some had their feath-
ers curled the wrong way. AMONG all
these there was one whose name as we'll
as can remember was Mrs Blue Hen
Was, she really blue?' Sweetest Susan
inquired.
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"But after awhile Mrs. Blue Hen con-
cluded that it was about time to nave a
family of her own, SO she went away Off
from the other chickens, and made her a
nest in the middle of a thick briar patch.
She made her a. nest there, and laid en-
egg. 1t was new and white, and Mrs.
Blue Hen was very proud of 1T. She was
so proud, in fact that, although She had
made up her mind to make no fuss over
DIT, she went running and cackling toward
the house, just as any common hen
would do. She made so much fuss, that
away down in the spring branch, Mr..
Willy Weasel winlzed at Miss Mirny
Mink.
g DO you hear that?" says ne
"T never heard anything palmer in
my life," says She.
Mrs. Blue Hen was so proud of her
new white egg, that she went back after
awhile to look at it. Nobody had
bothered it. There it was, shining white
hid it as well as she could, and then she
went about getting dinner ready.
''T1he next morning she went to the
nest and laid another egg, just like the
first one. This happened for three morn
ings, but on the fourth morning, Wnen
Mrs Blue Hen went back she found four
eggs i'm the nest, and all four appeared
to be dingy and notwithstanding. She
was very much astonished and alarmed,
as well she might be, for right here be-
fore her eyes, she saw four eggs, when
she knew in reason that there Should be
but three, and not only that, they We're
all dingy and dirty.
Mrs. Blue Hen was so excited that sne
took off her bonnet and began to fan
herself. Then she wondered whether she
had not really laid four instead of three
eggs. The more she Thought about 1T,
the more confused she became. She
hung her bonnet on a black berry bush,
and tried to count off the days on her
toes. She began ito count-'One, two,
three'-and she would have stopped
there, but she couldn't. She had four
toes ON her foot, and she was compelled
10 count them all. There was a toe ON
the foot for every egg in the nest.
This caused Mrs. Blue Hen to feel
somewhat more comfortable in mind and
body, but she was left in such a hySterl-
nervoUsly, and postponed laying an egg
until lata IN the afternoon. After that
there were five in the nest, ana she Kept
on laying until there were ten. altogether.
Then Mrs. Blue Hen ruanpled up her
feathers, and got mad with herself and
went to setting. l reckon that's what
you call it. I've heard some csll ut set
ting and others sitting Once, Wne ~, l
but the young lady said 1 was 100
prissy for anything
What is .prfssy'?" asked Sweetest
Susan.
his ear. Then me Shook his head slowly.
ITS nothing but a girls word, re-
marked Mrs. Meadows, by way Or ex-
PLANTATION. 1T means that somepodys $
trying hard to show off"
II reckon that's So" said NJ. Rabbit,
opening his eyes. He appeared to be
much relieved. Well Mrs. Blue Hen
got mad and went ITO setting. Sle was
in snug place, and nobody bot1ersd
her It was such a quiet place that she
could hear Mr.. Willy Weasel end NESS
Mimy Mink gossip:ng in THE calaInl1s
bushes, and she could hear Mrs. Puddle
Duck waddiing in the branch. One day
Mrs. Puddle Duck made so bold as to
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alton. and were sure to get an es-

tary station, and were sure to get an es-
coft."
EXACTLY" assented Pink, and as the
troopers might take it into their 'eads TO
&t,it around through the Chants, we won t
lose any time in finishing things up and
getting clear Of the gorge. SO and over
the rope"
Jack had one coil and Paltu the other.
Pink unxIapped them and knotted each
at short intervals. Then he tied the two
together, and fastened one end to the
crenated parapet. When lowered to its
full length the rope dangled within sever
al feet of the ground.
The boys glanced uneasily at one an
other.
Il don't like the looks of it," said Myles
II it sways much ! know I'll grow dizzy
its bound to Go that" said Jack.
Pink knitted his brows thoughtfully for
a moment. Then he hauled up the rope,
and made it six feet longer by means of
the rifle straps.
Were all right now he declared, as
he deftly fashioned a. running moose in
end. (which of you will so first?''
Jack pluckily volunteered, and the moose
was tightered under his arms His com
panions lowered him over the parapet
and slowly paid the rope out.
The lad safely reached the ground. and
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and after so long a time mine little
chickens were Matched. She was very
talk. and then she wanted to get on
her nest and teach them how to scratch
about and earn their own living. But
there was still one egg to hatch. and SO
One day she made up her mind to take
her chicks off. and leave the egg that
wouldn't hatch. The old SpeckIed Hen
happened to be passing. and Mrs. Blue
Speckled Hen was very much shocked
when She heard the particulars
. What, with nine chickens" she
cried. Why, mine Is an odd number. It
would never do in tine world Hatch
out the other egg.
But young people are very impatient
and Mrs. Blue Hen was young. She
fretted and worried a good deal, but In
few days the tenth egg matched. Mrs
Blue Hen felt very. much better after
this. In fact, she felt so comfortable,
at the chicken THAT Matched from the
tenth egg. Butt when she brought her
children off the nest, she was very much
astorished to find that one Of them
was entirely different from all the rest.
She was not only surprised but shocked.
Nine OF her children were as ncat-look-
ing as she could wish tfem to be, but
the tenth one WAS sight to see. 1t
oase-knife, and big, fiat feet. Dts feet
were SO big that it waddled when it
walked, and aIl the toes or each fOSt
were joins1 together.
Mrs. Blue Hen had very nigh notions.
She wanted everybody to think that she
belonged to the quality, but this wsb-
bly, chicken with a broad bill and a foot
that mad no instep to it, took her pride
down a peg. She Kept her children hid
as long as she could, but she had to
come out in public after awhile, and
when she did-wen. III let you know
there was an uproar in the barnyard.
The old Speckled Hen was the first to
begin it. She cried out:
q 'Look-look-look! Look at the Blue
Hens cIrickensv
Then the Guinea, hens began to
laugh, and the old Turkey Gobbler was
so tucked fle came near Swallowing his
snout Mrs. Blue Hen. hung her head
with shame, and carried her children
away off into the woods.
'B1gt her fatfooted chicken gave rise
to a byWord i'll all that country. WhSn
any stranger came along looking rough
and ragged, it was the common saying
that he was the Blue Hens chicken
I've heard lit many a time" re-
marked Mrs. Meadows.
There was no story in THAT" Buster
John suggested.
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spade, and when theyy were hauled up 4
|cilain was seen fa'sf ened tq the ext naity
Of each and running deep into the sand
Pink Ers bbed one SPY ke.and AZ les and md
i is c9R n 0 B the ISL fippix u the
tie hole and paused u moment. gney were
Breathing quickly now ana thear faces
Fave away. lads: link whispered:
The boys SET theft teeth and pulled hard.
Slowly TIE chains rose UP, dragging q
great weight Soon a shadow was seer,
under the water and then a square, bra
gen box. co5ruSafea Win Win, me rust Of
Eager shouts rang thTongh the gorge as
i,Ink and hlS companions dragged box.
Stand aside, lads, commanded Pink,
seizing q spade and swinging it overhead.
He struck the box a terrific blow OH the
side, and the rusted I'D lew oft in two
All what a sight was Beheld then.
Quarts Of precious stones, dull and tar
nisfed though they were by their long
burial, flashed and spark1ed and glittered
Here were ru6ies carbuncles, sap5hires.
nlQon5tones, diamonds. and all other varI-
cites that the jewel mines of ancient In
ter from the Arabian Nights REIN
carnation Of the fabulous treasure Of Col
conda. 49,
For q moment Pink and his companions
were speechless Jack and MyIes tren1-
hied with rapture, and Paltu's eyes SEEM
ed starting from his head. i
Ere's q mine Of wealth., mlIttsred
Fink; enough to buy Buckingham palace
ana the tower regalia-aye, and the Man.
sion ouse in the bargain. =
And they are ours, gasped Myles.
We VIII be as rich as any millionaire"
No, lads, they belong to the govern
ment, protested Pink, gravely, Ito or
majesty Queen Victoria. =
lie stared moment at the glftterine
heap and then thrust his right hand deer
DOWN amid the jewels. Almost instantly
ne drew out a great milky blue stone az
large as hens egg
The magic opal. he cried, in sh1in ex-
clIenent. Mysore is saved, lads
hardly were the confident words uttered
when dozen ENDORSED troopers sprans
with yell from out the thick timber. AND
surrounded the little party on all sides
Inc lcaping flames shone on a Gordon
or sWarthy. heimeted heads, and leyeIed
rifle barrel, and drawn tulwars-oil ths
tan figure of Mogul Mir, standing ,vjff
ms arm in the bloody sling, and a CLEAN
OF satanic triumph on his rnutiiated face
Dogs of iarsi" he muttered. HNeyey
VIII We see Mysore again. Your alIotfssi
hour Oh punishment has come. -
j ITO be Contintietl
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Pink winked one eye and wlhfst1ed
..Ofd Tgppoo lad a way fixed for every
thing" ne remarked That do1umenll
OF Is as proved true 50 far IA a'n as5,,,, Z.
you something. Drop the guns, but keep
The pistols andy in your belts. :"
This order having been earned OH,
Pink shouldered the two spades and ie9 !
the boys TO the extreme upper END "
Now, ne said, burning around. 'ere
flows the stream TO cne side, alla v .nsa,s
very much 'ig1her. Now What's the rea-
sen the water never tore that dry chaI-
nei open in time Of flood. and made an
island of this placer
The conundril1n was too much for the
boys, and they frankly said so.
.'Well, added Pink, L II tell you why.
Under that gully, and running clear
drain of masonry T,ppoo Sahfb built 1t.
and turned the stream in while e buried
the treasure under the overhanginS rock
ON the other side. Then e eated the
stopping the mouth of the drain WITH
a 'eayy stone fioodgate, and to ide tne
work e covered it with g layer or eartn. I,
Pink paused and looked triumphantly
at his companions
.'All we've got to do he went on, is
to cut open the lower end of ittle drain,
dig the slab out of the upper end, and let
the stream pour through. Just about as
the other channel will be ign and dry.
And then won't we dig the opal UP in a
'urry!'
The boys cried out with wonder and
delight-Paltu as Justify as amy. They
complinnented Pink on his aptitude for
eavesdropplng, and praised old Tdppoo
Sahifb's Ingenuity.
They clamored to begin work at once.
but Pink vetoed that by Styling: NO,
lads; wen eat what's left in the bag
first. Then we can 'andle the spades al
the BETTER
He marched them back to the temple,
and, sitting upon a, fallen column. they
shared and ate the scanty bits of food.
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CORK AND LOBSTER PEOPLE.

! sides for arms and took some silver paper
/, off one of the popping crackers and made
! the cork man belt. He stuck two more
matches like the legs into this mans
shoulders and built UP another man on
/ top Of him. Then he made two little aero
bats out of smaller corkS and dressed
+; ened to the pins and tuck the pins into
| the first mans arms, just as If he were
holding them out in the air. Then he
made flags out of the colored paper fast
ened to the pins and etuck the pins into
\ the end Of the matches that served for
arms, and 1t looked Ike 9, splendid group
| of acrobats waving flags at the end OF
cripple to take home win him, and he
| has it yet.
| I asked Uncle Harry how ne knew how
| to do all these beautiful things, and he
said he learned them from a French gem
tleman who calls himself Tom-Tft and
writes lovely books showing how to make
| thinks to amuse children. GLADYS.
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Well, not an indigo blue,' replied Mr.
Rabbit. after rejecting a moment, NOR
yet sky blue. She was just a plain, dull
was very fine. She belonged to one Of the
first families and moved in the very best
circles. She was trim looking. so I've
heard said, and as she grew older, came
10 have very bad temper, so much so
that she used to fly at a hawk if he came
near her premises. Some of her neighbors
used to whisper it around, that she tried
she had grown old and hard headed
When Mrs. Blue Hen was growing up.
She was very nice and particular She
couldn't bear Ito get water on sIher feet,
and she was always shaking the dust
from her clothes. Some said she was
fnicky, and some said she was nervous.
Once, Wdlen She famed out little Billy
Bantam, who called ON her one day, a
great many of her acqua4ntances said
she would never settle down and make
a. good housekeeper.
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IL Iofu ms t&ntu1y.I
would were q violin.
To rest beneath her diInpled chin
And SOFTLY kiss her sWan-iise throat
and breathe my love through every n0le
+. SS.hen Ger my Strings her fingers fair
Should lightly wander here and there.
,lne while her flashing bow did PRESS
NY 0oson1 with its swift cares.
znen would H<lkeH into song
The rapture thai had sinmbered long
Mine ear against her swelling breast
should hearken to its sweet unrest
= 8s,IlSi-itappy spy then should know
ttosy desp beneath thar drifted Snow
a Elissf.l tuniult IN her heart
< Made ali her huttering pulses start
-, 4ne eL Inat high calm, that maiden grace.
III, ~ lneekiy PROUD ami peerless face,
Ina, ls DroW such as the seraphs wear
. T2 ionssr these should baffle quite
: a q S-Iz.9uS lovers dazzled sight.
Al, would were her violin.
mat thus her secret might win.
JAMES T. KENYON.
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mo" replied Mr.. Rabbit. Just some
everyday facts picked up and strung to-
gether."
Speaking of stories said Mrs. Mead
ows. II have one in my mind that is a
sure enough story-one OF the Old fasn-
TONED kind
well, please mann, tell It," said Bus
ter John, so seriously, that IAley all
laughed except Mr.. Rabbit.
ITO be conltinued.)
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AS 1T SOMETIMES Is.

[F'rorn the Washington Start
The race not always is to him
Who f1ustles round and tiollsrS,
Some visitors from an office dim
Just ladle out the dollars.
Some people wish you a Merry Christ
mas instead of giving you a. present, be-
cause it's easier to pay the compliments
of the season than it is ITO settle with
Santa C1auS.-Truth.