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officer of our side; but alasl the
house was already in flames, and
the broad staircase, as he snxiously
looked through the open door, was
seemingly enveloped in sheet of fire.
A woman's life, however, was in the
balance, and. to be laconic, only q
few moments had elapsed before,
scorched but undaunted, this brilliant
soldier, returning, rushed past me
with his bleeding, but still breathing,
burden, who was soon being tenderly
cared for by the Red Cross doctors;
her mind, however, had given way,
and I heard when last in Spain that
the once beautiful and much-beloved
Maraqueta had become a raving
lunatic.
I have seen, too, in this same
campaign, women actually supplying
sklrmishers whilst fighting with
rancia Ia cheap native wine), ap-
parently dodging the bullets as they
rushed from man to man. Times out
of mum ber, too, have I also seen them
tending the wounded out in the open,
quite regardless of self, in the hail of
lead with which brutalized troops
greeted them, and by which in many
cases they were sent to their last
account, while engaged in this final
act of heroism.
In Servia I was much with the Red
Cross sisters and doctors, who, as they
always do, distinguished themselves
brilliantly in their self-sacrifcing de-
votion to the sick and wounded. 1
am here reminded how on one oc-
casion, when bringing from Semen
driato Belgrade seventeen manned
soldiers, I effected the journey partly
in sort of tumble-down steam barge
and partly in requisitioned wagons.
It was in the small hours we arrived at
Belgrade hospital, yet the Red Cross
nurses, already nearly worn out with
fatigue, were indefati gable in their
ministrations to my contingent of
wounded, working throughout the
whole night to alleviate the pain of
the sufferers.
As an instance of the ruling passion
being strong in death, I may mention
the fact that on ly two of my charges
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died; one on the barge during the
journey, the other in hospital. When
the case of the latter was found to be
hopeless. he was told that if he had
any special wish it should, if possible,
be complied with. For some time he
was silent, then, with bright smile,
he locked up into her anxiously SYM
pathetic face and said, "Apples." I
at once rushed out and returned with
several; he seized them with nervous
energy and commenced devouring
one ravenously, dying, in fact, in
the effort before he could finish it.
Foremost amongst distinguished wo-
men on the war path was the Queen of
Roumania (''Carmen Silva'O. Ny first
acquaintance with this most fasclnat-
Ing sovereign was at the Red Gross
hospital at Bucharest, Conigsby, the
London Times correspondent, who was
with me at the time, had just left
Philipopolis, where Lady Strangford
was also devoting her best energies to
the succor of the wounded. "Tell
me-" said her Majesty (then Princess
Elizabeth) in excellent English, chow
many beds has Lady Strangford in her
hospital?" 'Forty- EIGHT, your Ma
jesty." "Then tell her ladyship, when
next you see her, Mr.. Conigsby, that
I have fifty-four." Her womanly
pride raised her above her social sta
tion. Carmen Sylvia" was six to the
good; there was a merry twinkle in
that royal eye.
A romance worth remembering took
place while I was at Plevna, which
curiously affected the destinies of a
certain tiny damsel, who was found
left behind in a shattered Bulgarian
hut by the ad vancing Russian troops.
At the end of the war this little waif
was tenderly ared for and educated
by the officers and men of the regi-
ment which had found her, developing
eventually into very lovely and &C.
complished girl who only few years
since married dashing young lieu
tenant of that same corps which had
been instrumental in saving her life.
Surely fact'is stranger than fiction.
Here is yet another instance of Rus
sian cavalry officer who, having just
married, was about to start on his
honeymoon when war being declared,
he was ordered instanter to the front,
whittier, in defiance of military per-
mission, which could never have been
accorded, his young wife, circumvent-
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alone by the satisfaction of seeing, as
I did, some 700 OF these abandone
wretches, after the troops had retaken
the city, securely Gagged, awaiting
Cayenne, or execution, in the Oran-
gerie at Versailles; surely, the fair
sex, even in the reign Of terror, could
not have appeared to more hideous
disadvantage than these women of
Paris in the second siege; though it
must never be forgotten that the
highest as we'll as the lowest mo-
tives actuated French women of all
grades at that time, and that sisters of
charity, vivandieres, and others who
then came to the fore, justified ones
adding to the old proverb, Gle monde
est le livre des femme"-speciaily
France. 1t is, in fact, quite a relief
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A PETROLECsE.

to refer to the heroines I, over and
over again, came across during that,
my first campaign, amongst whom l
may mention the daughter of man
of independent means, who not only
handed over his entire wealth toward
war expenses, but also took up arms
with his three sons, all of whom died
in the service of their country, while
(yet in her teens) the dead patriots
one remaining child took a situation
at cafe chantant at Havre, where,
with the tri-color wrapped about her,
she furthered the cause by nightly
singing--.sad at heart as she was..-
patriotic songs to the enthusiastic SOL
diery; amongst whom, by the way,
was a young French-tireur, whose
youthful, we'll defined features and
slim contour were remarked by every
one, till it WAS afterward discovered,
when laid low by bullet, that this
graceful warrior was also woman;
nor was this by any means an isolated
case during the -Prussian cam
Poishj Au "niSu "huy WOueu were W
thus be found on the war path.
Taking events in the order in which
they happened, recall romatic in
cident which I witnessed during the
battle of Behobea in the Spanish (Car-
list) war Of 1874.
One woman alone had remained in
that hotly shelled village of Behobea,
the others having escaped across the
frontier river, the Biddasoa, into
France. Maraqueta---for such was her
name---loved o young CarlIst soldier
whom she had almost unmannedby de-
termining thus to remain with him. She
was at last persuaIedto take up COM
paratiyely safe position on the balcony
of house situated near the barricade,
which, with others, her lover stoutly
defended as our republican troops
swept the streets from end to end with
bayopet and frebrand. Rally upon
rally ensued around about that barri-
cade, till, before her very eyes, ne was
shot dead ---Maraqueta herself, almost
at the same moment receiving two
wounds, ball penetrating both the
wrists of her clasped hands. Great as
the general excitement was she
was seen to fall by young
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possessor of this souvenir of the re-
cent fight, adding that, if I had any
doubt about its genuineness, the gold
seeker who appropriated it would with
pleasure supply the finger of the dead
man from whom it had been taken. I
WAS, however, in this case (even with
the finger thrown in) not to be tempt
ed, although (minus that dead mans
digit fellow correspondent at once
acquired the relic.
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WOMAN IN WAR.
SOME ANGELS OF MERCY AND
SOME SIMPLY FIENDS.
The Petroleuse's Share in the Com
mune's Reign of Terror-How
the Queen of Roumania Sue
cored the Wounded.

THE amount of material which
preceded ages have supplied
with reference to "Women on
the War Path'.-from Helen
of Troy and Edith, who searched in
the glimpses of an October moon for
the dead body of Harold, even to
martyred Joan of Arc, and innumer-
able heroines of more recent date
might we'll occupy far more space
than is at my command; hence, it is I
have elected to devote this pen and
pencil sketch to such women on the
war path as I have personally met
when representing the Illustrated
London News and other papers at the
front, writes Irving Montague in the
Queen.
The very word Petroleuse sends
thrill of horror through those who
can recall the atrocities she commit
ted in the second siege of Paris, as
described by eye witnesses, among
whom I, at that time, found myself.
Fortified with absinthe to a condition
of reckless daring and well supplied
with petroleum, she sailed forth from
her squalid attic or caberet, OF Belle
vile, Clichy, or some other equally
disreputsble suburb, as night closed
in, leaving in her trail death and de-
struction on every side in that city of
ruined palaces, which the Germans in
their attack and occupation had so
considerably spared. 1t was, indeed,
a grim sight tc see her hurrying over
the debris prying and peering into
such houses as were still standing, for
the most convenient means by which
to fire, and thus add to the rack and
ruin round about feeling equalled
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iety for her safety almost eclipsing

iety for her safety almost eclipsing g
his sense of duty.
Then there is that other woman to
be found on the warpath who follows
in the wake of carnage, one who con-
Germs herself rather with the dead than
the living, whose hopes and aims in
life may be summed up in the one
word-pelf-as represented by epau-
lettes and gold lace, with an occasional
watch or signet ring thrown in; in
deed, I have, with reference to signet
rings, a gruesome memory, which
dates back to 1877. 1t was the night
after the battle at Zevin, in Asia
Minor; one of my native followers
had purchased from one of these hags
of the battlefield massive gold ring,
with Russian monogram upon it,
and WAS now anxi ous that should be-
come, at an advanced price, the proud
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sary for him to sell house that has
cost him thousands of dollars, and be-
cause of its expressing too strongly
his own individuality, he finds he will
not be able to realize third of his
investment. 1t is the proper duty of
the architect not only to draw plans
but to advise with his client upon the
general style, accommodation and
arrangement of the house tob be chosen,
as we'll as, and perhaps above all, to
see that it harmonizes with it's SUR
roundings and suits the artistic de.
mapds of the neighborhood.
The design illustrating this article
would be much out OF place by the
seashore, but for a country residence
or the suburbs of city, where the
land is not fiat but rather mountain
GUS or billy, it's tasteful and striking
appearance would be most appropriate.
A brief description is given as fol-
lows:
General dimensions: Width lover
ally, So feet; depth, including veranda,
48 feet 2 inches.
Height of stories: Cellar, 7 feet /;
first story, 10 feet; second story. 9
feet.
Exterior materials: Foundation,
brick; first story, clapboards; second
story, gables and roofs, shingles.
Outside blinds.
Interior finish: Hard white plas-
ter; plaster cornices in parlor, hall,
dining room and three chambers; soft
wood flooring and trim, ash stairway
panels under windows in parlor, hall
and dining room; bathro pom and kitch-
en- wainscotted; interior woodwork
finished in hard OIL
Suggestions for colors: Clapboards
and sashes, olive; trim, dark green
outside doors, dark green with olive
panels; blinds, rain conductors and
brick work, Pompeian red; veranda,
floor and ceiling, drab; under side Of
roof overhanging, medium drab; pan
els on sides of brackets and over bay
windows, Pompeian red; wall shingles
dipped and brush coated with reddish
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stain roof shingles dipped and brush
coated with Indiun red stain.
The principal rooms and their sizes,
closets, etc., are shown by the floor
plans.
Cellar under kitchen and pantry.
Fireplaces with hardwood mantels in
hall, parlor, dining room and one
bedroom and kitchen range included
in estimate. Hall designed to be
used as sitting room. The attic is
foored for storage.
Three thousand five hundred and six
teen dollars is the cost for this design
as described, not including heater, the
estimate being based on New York
prices for material and labor, but in
many sections of the country the cost
should be less.
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Horse Formulation OF New York.

The Board of Health has just COM
pleted horse census of New York.
The recapitulation shows that there
are 1922 equines hauling everything
from garbage to pleasure seekers at oil
hours OF the day and night. Chicago
Times.Herald.
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senior, walked to church on the arm
of the Governor.
Mrs. Mckinley, says the New York
World, is distinctively o motherly wo-
man. All through life her advice has
been sought, and her favorite counsel
has always been expressed in Charles
Kingsley's verse:
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be
clever;
Do noble deels--aot dream them all day
long
So making life, death and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.
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OXTAH SOUP.

Chop the oxtail in pieces an inch
long. Set them on the fire with an
ounce of butter; stir until they turn
brown, and then turn the fat off. Add
the amount of broth required, and boil
slowly until the pieces of oxtail are
we'll done; then add three or four
tomatoes whole; season with salt and
pepper boil gently for fifteen minutes
and serve, meat and all.-Louisville
Courier-Jour rnal.
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ing an enormous number of difficult
ties, succeeding in following him, and
where on several occasions I saw her
riding around the lines, often drawing
fire from the Turkish rifle pits. She
somehow managed to remain, never
theless, throughout the greater part of
the siege, much, as her husband told
me to his own discontinue, his anx-
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CAKES WITHOUT SHORTENING.

This is good way to make fried
cakes without any shortening: One
teacup of sugar, one teacup fresh milk
Il don't think Holstein milk would be
as good), one egg, little nutmeg, or
cinnamon if preferred, pinch of salt,
Swo teaspoonfuls of good baking pow.
der, -four enough to roll. American
Agriculturist.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
COLD TEA IN APPLE PIE.

It is said that little cold tea added
to the next apple pie will elicit call
for another just like it, but whether
this goes into the crust or Tie apples
IS not deemed worthy of mention.-
Philadelphia Ledger.
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year when his legs are in such condi
tion that they have to be bandaged up
several times day. 1t is owing to
the Princes afflicted extremities that
knee breeches are 80 far less worn now
at entertainments, where royalty is
present, as was the case up to 1870.
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GoYernor McKinleY's Mother.

Governor Mckinley and wife went
to Canton, Ohio, recently, to cele-
brate the eighty-sixth birthday of the
Governors mother. Mrs. Mckinley,
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A Royal Sufferer From FaricOse Veins.
The Prince of Wales suffers terribly
from varicose veins, which necessi-
tates him taking the utmost care of
himself, and there are periods of the
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Cattle Statistics.

The statistics given by Secretary Morton
show that the cattle crop for the present year
is nearly 100000 less than that OF the year
preceding.
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Domestic servants are so scarce In Mon
treal, Canada, that housekeepers visit the
city prisons on the lookout Tor candidates.
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There are some styles Of architec.
ture that are particularly fitted to
American climatic and social con-
ditions. There are others that con
seldom be used with good effect, but
inasmuch as there are occasional calls
for the construction of houses Of
these styles, it is fitting that they
should be considered.
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RUSKS.

Mix in sponge at night or very
early in the morning the following.
named ingredients: One cupful of
milk, scalded and cooled; one table
spoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful
of salt, one-fourth cupful of yeast,
two cupfuls of -four. When well risen
add flour enough to make a stiff
dough. Knead and let it rise again.
then add one.fourth of cupful Of
butter one egg, beaten with butter
rubbed to cream, half cupful of
sugar. Let it rise in the bowl till
light. Shape into small sound bis
ruits, put them close together in u
shallow cake pan, that they may rise
very high. When ready to bake, rub
the tops with sugar dissolved in milk,
sprinkle with dry sugar and bake in
moderate oven.-St. Louis Star-Say-
ings.
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SWISS COTTAGE.
Copyright 1867

A Pleasing and Effective Design in
Architectu When Americanized.
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FIG PUDDING.

To make fig pudding, take one cup
Of black molasses, one cup of chopped
suet, one cup of milk, three and q
quarter cups of -four, two eggs, one
teaspoonful of soda, one of cinnamon,
half teaspoonful of nutmeg, one pint
Of figs. Mix together the molasses,
suet, spice and figs, cut fine; dissolve
;he soda with teaspoonful of hot
water and mix with the milk; add to
;he other Ingredients; beat the eggs
light and stir into the mixture; add
he -four and beat thoroughly. Butter
TWO small, or one large, brown bread
nolds and steam five hours. Serve
With cream sauce. New York OBJ
server.
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FILLING LAMPS AND CARE OF KEROSENE :.
The habit Of filling lamps after dark
Is a dangerous one and should be
avoided. When purchasing lamp Chin
aeys insist upon having only those
that are clear and bright as crystal,
leaving the fecked and imperfect ones
10 the careless purchaser. Do not keep
The kerosene in the house or cellar.
but locate the vessel containing it in
the woodhouse or other outbuilding,
Tor be as careful as you may, some of
it is at times liable to be spilled, the
door is spotted and the odor is not
pleasant. Get one of the improved
cans holding several gallons, with a
little faucet attached. Place located
upon bench or shelf and you have
this matter under complete CONTROL
American Agrioulturist.
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SOmeLlIneS dccOSteu ny tuOSo WuO OuSul W
lift them up. Thus the last vestige OF hope
to go and lift and save them are guilty OF
stripping the slain.
The point want to make Is this: Sin Is
hard, cruel and merciless. Instead Of help
ing man up it helps him down, and when,
like Saul and his comrades, you lie on the
field, it will come and steal your sword and
helmet and shield, leaving you to the iackal
and the crow.
But the world and satan do not do their
work with the outcast and Abandoned.
respectable impenitent man comes to die.
BE is fiat on his back. He could not get up
ifthe house was on fire. Adroitest medlcal
skill and gentle nursing have been failure.
He has come to his last hour. What does
satan do for such man? Why. he fetches
up all the inapt, disagreeabe and narrowing
things in his life. He says: do you remem,
Der those chances you had for heaven anu
missed? Do you remember all those lapses
in conduct? Do You remember all those OPP
Drobrious words aud thoughts and actions?
Don't remember them, ch? I'll make you re-
member them" And then he takes all the
past and cmpties it on that deathbed, as the
mailbags are emptied on the postoiiice moor.
The man is sick He cannot get away from
them.
Then the man says to satan: "You have
deceived me. You told me that all would be
we'll You said there would be no trouble at
the last. You told me If I did so and so you
would do 80 and 80. Now you corner me
and hedge me up and submergo me in every
thing evil. "Ha, ha!" says satan. 81 was only
fooling you. 1t is mirth for me to see you suf-
fer. have been for thirty years plotting to
get you just where you are. 1t is hard for
you now; 1t will be worse for you after
awhile. 1t pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don't
finch or shudder. Come, now, I will tear
off from you the last rag Of expectation. I
will rend away from your soul the last hope.
I will leave you bare for the beating Of the
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-11-12

Total. S12,495 IL
SUMMARY.
Total receipts. .s17, $50 81
Paid from county funds. 6,617 AZ
Paid from school finds. 5,499 65
Paid from road funds. 3T8 04
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HoJce of Sale of Real Estate
ana Personal Property at
Public AUCTION.

Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue Of the terms and DOW
ers OF the last Will and Testament
OF Il. j. Turner, deceased, the under
signed, the Executor OF the estate of
SAID deceased, will sell ut Public Auc.
ton to the highest bidder, for cash,
and subject to the confirmation of
the District Court of the Fourth Ju-
dlclal District of tho State OF Nevada,
on the 18th day of October, 1895, at
one o'clock p. NJ. Of said day, at the
front door of the Courthouse, in the
Town and County Of Elko, State of
Nevada, all the right, title, interest
and estate of the said E. j. Turner
at the time Of his death, and all the
right, title and interest that the said
estate has, by operation Of law or
otherwise, acquired other than or in
addition TO that of the said e. J.
Turner at the time Of his death, in
and to all those certain pieces or lots
OF real estate situated in said Elkt
county and described as follows, to-
wit:
An undivided one-half (1s) interest
IN and to the NORTHEAST ID of the
SOUTHEAST 4, the South half of the
Southwest q and the South half
OF the south East "a of Section 26;
also same interest to the North West
a OF the SOUTHEAST ID of Section
80; also same interest in and to tne
South Vest d of the North West ID
the SoGth-East I of the North West
a and The NORTHEAST n of Section
81; also the same interest in and to
the NORTHEAST d of the NORTHEAST
a, the North half Of the North West
= and the Northwest Il Of the
North East q Of Section So. all of
Township 81, North of Range 50 East,
containing GAO acres, together with
the same interest IN and to all water,
water rights, dams and bitches be-
longing to said lands. Terms and
conditions of sale: Cash at the time
of sale.
At the same time and place and
pursuant 10 the terms and authority
of said Will, tho said Executor will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash the following de-
scrlDed personal property belonging
to said estate, to-wit:
An undivided one-half interest in
and to 10 head of horses mares and
colts branded B on left hip; like in
terest IN and to 6,2O0 head of sheep,
3 wagons, 2 mowers, hay rake, der
rick and bob sleds and harness; also
like interest in $50 tons of hay stu
ated on said lands. Terms and con-
ditions Of sale: Cash on day OF
sale.
September 90, 1895.
ROBERT G. ORR,
Executor Of the Estate of e. j. Tur-
ner, Deceased.
w. A. MASSEY,
Attorney for Executor.
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