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busted it off with bunch of herbs and
muttered:
"Whew! bat how the dust does git
into a housei Ya-as, that's the same
old chist, and LATED at Jim all the way
homo for buyin' it. Come outer here
and downstairs and be sum good fur
sumthin'! Guess you'll hold all that
corn and bushel or so more. If Han
she'd hev-"
"Durn my hind buttons and gosh-all-
fish-hoolxs! Hammer, whar be We!
Struck my hide if / hain't broke every
bone in my body and busted myself
all to finders! Hammer! Hanner!"
Whats happened?'' shouted Han
nah from the foot of the kitchen stairs.
''This blamed old chist has went and
gone and knocked me head over heels
down them attic stairs and killed me
as dead as door nail. Hurry up and
git the burned thing off, me!'
'"Why, Uncle Benz" exclaimed Han
nah, as she reached the chamber floor
and found the old farmer doubled up at
the foot of the attic ladder and the old
blue chest holding him fast.
'Git it off'n mel" he shouted. THAT'S
Jest like a Bebee! The time your IA
TIERS cow fell in the well he took two
hours to think of it and let her die!
Hang it, do We want to break my back"
You'll soon be a pirate if you keep
on cussin'," said Hannah, as she pulled
the chest SWAY and helped him up.
I'm pirate now, and dog-gone me
if don't cuSs all the rest of the day!"
shouted Uncle Ben. THAR, durn we,
take that-and that! Why, I'll bust
into the fire!"
1t is needless to explain that he
kicked the chest instead of Hannah,
and that the busting and smashing
also referred to the ancient-looking re-
ceptacle. The bottom was turned to-
ward him, and the third kick from his
heavy cow-hide portion of it gave way
and Hannah uttered a shrek of sur
prise.
'Lemme at it! Lemme bust it all
to kindlin's,'' shouted Uncle Ben, as he
danced around.
Look, Uncle Ben-see there!"
"Money-gold and silver-dog-gone
my steers!''
Yes, it was money-gold and silver
coins of Holland and Germany. There
was false bottom to the chest, and
they had been hidden under it for a
dozen years or more. 1t was the chest
of Holland immigrant, but how it
had gone astray and finally been sold
as unclaimed no one could have found
out, had they wanted to. There was
just seven hundred and fifty dollars in
the find" and Uncle Ben carried it
downstairs in his old fur cap and
poured it out on the bed before the eyes
of the wondering and astonished Grip
pie, and said:
Nancy Black, it's all yours-every
dollar of it, and thar's huff to pay the
mortgage and the doctor and leave ye
sumthin' to boot"
And you found it in the old chest ?''
That's whar' it was, but if the
blamed thing hadn't fell on me nobody
would hev knowed about it. Nancy,
I'm doggoned glad!"
''Oh, Uncle Ben, the Lord has not de-
serted me, after ALL" she sobbed.
mo, guess not. but if hadn't got
mad and cussed and kicked you'd never
hev got it. The Lord sorter helped,
l s'pose, but cussin' did tne most of it.
and from this time on Martha may
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Qp$ WI Pp' iFSES>-z44ssAzxRZgS Curtis, as he
showed back from the breakfast table
on Thanksgiving morning and wiped
his mouth on the nearest piece of table
cloth he could get hold of, this is reg
liar oId-fashioned Thanksgivin' wealth
er."
YES" replied Aunt Martha, as she
Acraped the butter off her plate back on
the butter dish.
six inches of snow and cold huff to
freeze dog"
Yes"
81 hain't got much to do this mornin',
md l guess I'll run down to Wilder
Hacks and see what l can do for 'efn.
It's a tarnal shame, the luck that WON
an has had"
''SOme of US git along and some of us
don't" drawled Aunt Martha, as she
put the meat scraps on a plate for the
dog.
burned if we don't!"
benjamin, don't cuss. A cussin'
xman1l never come to any good"
who's a-cussin'? l said it was
,tarnal shame, and so it is. Jim Black
was a-gittin' along as well as any of us
when that well caved in on him and
made his wife wilder. 1t wasn't huff
that she was hard-workin' an econo-
r1nizin', but she must go N fall down
and break her leg, and her baby hain't
over year old. Who's takin' keer of
her?"
Hammer Bebee. l meant to hev gone
down Yesterday, but them pigs feet had
to be taken keer of. guess I'll make
up a basket of stuff to send along Ham
ncr Bebee is a purity good gal on pork
and beans and SIGH, but she amt no
hand to git up dainties. You give her
ray luv and tell her she's got to be right
mp and down with Hammer to git full
days work out o her"
When Uncle Ben set out he carried q
basket which contained jelly cake, tea,
n pumpkin pie and other articles, and as
ghe pursued his way along the frozen
road he drew his old fur cap down over
Ehis ears and soliloquized;
''Yaas, darn my buttons, but I'm sor-
-ry fur Nancy Black. On top of all the
other hard luck comes that four-hun-
; dred-dollar mortgage on the farm. and
it's my solemn opinion she'll never be
able to raise it. If / was able I'd buy
md hold it, but hain't. I've got to
see Squar' Potter, the old skinflint, and
tell him be must give the wilder and
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and you see If the wilder and the IA
therless kin find anything in that
basket to tempt their appetites."
Half an hour later Uncle Ben reen-
tered the kitchen and marched through
to the sitting-room bedroom to see the
unfortunate widow.
''Say, Nancy, I'm dog gone sorry fur
vel" he said, as he wiggled out of his
overcoat and flung his cap on the floor.
Here it is Thanksgiving day and
everybody gittin' ready to canter
round and stuff their stomachs, and
you a-lyin' here with a broken leg! l
say it's tarnal shame!"
"It's an unfortunate thing, Uncle Ben, y
the widow replied, "but am going to
try and not worry over it. Who knows
but what it is all for the best?"
'Mebbe It's, but I'll be hanged il
believe it! Aunt Martha sent her luv,
and guess she'll be down about Satur-
day.
''She is very, very kind"
and she said you'd hev to boss Han
ner more or less to make her step
around. Some folks hev to be sorter
driv, ye know"
Hannah is doing very well, I'm glad
to say"
"How's the young 'un?"
LAS good as pie
That's nice. Some youngsters is all
right, and some seem to be possessed Of
the old Harry. Look q here, Nancy, L
hain't no hand to go pokin' my nose
into other peoples bizness, as l guess
you'll allow, but thar's matter I'd
like to ask about. You remember we
went to slule together, and the night
we had the spellin' bee you'n me was
the last ones up, went down on dock
trine,' and you went ahead till the
teacher was pretty nigh tuclered out.
l kinder feel as if was related to We,
ye know"
"Yes; what do you want to talk about,
Uncle Benz"
About that mortgage. In course
know thar's one on the farm, fur I was
with Jim when he got the money, but
how about the INTEREST,""
Il won't be able to pay shilling of
it when due"
You don't tell mel"
''On the first day of the month the
farm will proSably be advertised for
sale, but / believe the law allows me
to stay on for a few months"
Has Squar' Potter bin up here
lately?"
He was here yesterday. He will take
the place as soon as the law allows
1.-THE blamed old skunk! Excuse my
cuss words, Nancy, but when I'm ex-
cited they slip right out. If that old
sl1inaint turns you outer house and
home I'll go down the road and take off
my coat and lick him till he bellers
like calf"
mo, Uncle Ben. He lends his money
to live on the interest, and it is only
right that he should be paid. l was
in hopes to be able to pay him the in
terest, but this misfortune will pre-
vent"
Its downright shame, and don't
keerwho hears me say so! Say, Nancy,
thar's a heap O. shelled corn on the
barn floor which orter be winnowed
out and put away afore the rats lug it
off,"
Il was hunting for box to put it
in when l fell and broke my leg. If
you'll go up into the attic, Uncle Ben,
you'll probably find something. I be-
lieve there's an old blue chest up there
with nothing in it, and it viii hold the
corn
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What IT Is For.

whats Thanksgiving for?' asked
a teacher of primary grade of her
class the other morning as the subject
was mentioned. Bot the cries of
'tFootballt'' and Turkey" were so
mingled that the teacher hadn't the
heart to disabuse the little ones So
she let it go at that.-IndianApolis
Sentinel
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Give Tbanks for r..
a crown

Give Thanks Tor It.
If.life is worth Twin
Jest go ahead an strive:
Each day big Thanl1sgivin
That a Teller is alive!
Alive to feel the sunshine
Alive to breathe the air:
AS man an boy, to feel the joy
Of simply bein' here!
The day IN darkness closes,
But the stars begin to glow;
The world is full of roses,
In spite o. all the snow!
Washington Star.
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"a And make the house-place neat
Put some cakes for travelling
Beneath the wagon seat;
Give an extra mess of oats
To good old Jim and Gray
We're going home to fathers house
For Thanksgiving day.
SO oft we've lived the journey DER
With the welcome at the end,
Sweet mothers kisses on our cheek.
And the hand-clasp of each friend;
And many time the little ones
Have travelled in their play
"All the way to grandpa's house
For Thanksgiving day."
The dear home fields have yielded up
Their grasses and their grain;
The bins and barns arc running DER
From orchard and from plain:
And with the rich years discipline,
It's hours of work and play,
Some fairer things are harvested
For Thanksgiving day.
Our arms, so full of blessedness
The years have helped US win,
Have opened wide enough to let
A little stranger in.
For the first time two little feet,
From angeI-land astray,
VIII toddle into grandpa's house
Tor Thanksgiving day.
We know the place is all astir
With plans of goodly fare,
And mothers look and mothers voice
Are present everywhere:
And to a ncighbor dropping In
She pauses just to say:
THE children are all coming home
For Thanksgiving day."
Mary T. Butts. in Harper's Weekly.
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Athletic Exercise.

Perley-Hullo, Jinx! going TO take
Thanksgiving day off?
Jinz-Yes. Going to devote it to ath-
letics.
Perley-Good. What kind3e Golf or
football?
Jinx-Neither. I'm going to carve a
turkey raised myself, for ten people.
There's exercise for you! - Harper's
Bazaar.
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Hf Last,

Briggs-This Is probably the last
Thanksgiving Rickerly viii celebrate.
Griggs-How's that2
Briggs-It's the day he's going to be
married on.-Bronklyn Life.
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Only Cir~umstantiaI Evidence.

"You claim that you Didn't assault
this man?" asked the prosecuting at
torney.
Oats wos L does,'' responded the
Lame Duck
''How did he get hurt, then2"
in in de alley wen e comes round de
corner wit rush an rims agin"a brick
1 had in ire hand"
you didn't rob him., eitller, sup
pose?''
Rob I'm? NitE I ies' took is v
round de corner ter git change ter buy
coat-plaster fer his aed, am takfn' a
drink ex two. gits dizzy an feTglts ter
come lack Detroit News
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The Gallant sArncer.

Mrs. Binks- My husband did not like
that tea you sent us last.
Grocer (politely)--Did you like it.
marian?
s.Yes, liked it,
James! Send Mrs. Binks another
pound of the same tea she had last
Anything else. madam Pm. \. Weekly
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Always in stock.

Dysweptic CustomeF-The doctor says
coffee isn't good for me and I must quit
drinking it, Haven't you some prepa-
ration that makes good substitute for
coffee?
Groceries, sir. Our "Pure After
Dinner Java, ready ground, at 90 cents
a pound, Is, an exeellent-er-imita
si1.-Chicago Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-09
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medaland Diploma.

Company F. N. N. G., of Carson will con.
test the new military law which deprives
the militia of monthly allowances from the
State. The other military companies of the
State have been notified and Poujade has
been retained by Company to contest the
law. The several companies have been
asked to contribute $40 each to cover the
current expenses of the litigation.
j. G. Pimental, the sheep owner Of Yer.
ington, who disappeared mysteriously last
week. was found by searchers. He was
wandering about in the hills, and when
found was in demented condition, proba-
bly, from the lack of food. He is now con.
fined in the county jail, and at times ap.
pears perfectly rational, then without warn
ing becomes violent and dangerous.
The Boston Herald has found man in
that city whose income in 1894 was ll3, 100
but who will have to pay an income tax Of
only 1872, owing to the fact that his income
is derived almost wholly from real estate Or
Government bonds. The case is interest
ing because it emphasizes the injustice Of the
law and proves it to be less Of tax on q
property than penalty ON business energy
and sagacity.
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w. d. PREwITT
Principal Phoebe Public School.
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.

The Star Spangled Banners Author.
Many interesting things about Francis
Scott Key-the author of the Star Spangled
Banner-are contained in pamphlet, which
may be obtained free, from the Key Monu.
ment Association of Frederick City, Mary
land, by sending one cent stamp for post
age This Association is raising funds for a
suitable monument to the poet, and they
suggest that in the schools and everywhere,
upon or before flag day June l4th,) this
subject be suitably recognized. Contribu.
tions, however small, are asked for. Every
one who loves the flag, ought to have some
small share in building this monument.
The Governor of Maryland has strongly en-
dorsed the movement. The names Of all
contributors will be preserved in the crypt
OF the monument, and published without
amount) in the history Of the monument
when completed.
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DE LAMAR DOTS.

We had light shower of rain Thursday
last.
Jas Nesbitts residence on upper Main
street is nearly complied.
Mrs. E. H. Bawden and Mrs. A, Adelman
from Phoebe are visiting here.
The building to be used as residence by
R. Nichols, is nearly completed
How about the proposition for a Jail here,
has that subject died out entirely?
Among the arrivals from Phoebe this week
was Henry Rives accompanied by Mrs. j.
McFadden.
Sheriff Prudential spent several days
here during the week and returned to Phoebe
Wednesday morning.
Tuesday was pay day at the DeLamar
Co.'S Office and all hands were paid off. As
usual the town has been extra lively since
then.
John Vietti opened saloon in his new
stone building on lower Main street, Sunday
night. All the boys had good time for a
while.
The firm of Hewlett Bros, of Salt Lake
City, was represented here for several days
during the week, in the person of Gus
Anderson.
F. p. Swindler and son Charles, having
finished the work of surveying the April
Fool group of mines for patent, went tt
Phoebe on Tuesdays stage.
+. R. McNamee arrived here Friday las
from Phoebe. Mr.. McNamee was recent,
admitted to the bar and his intentions ar
to stay in DeLamar and practice law.
Everything in and about the DeLsma
Company's works is going on like clocl
work. Tunnel No. 10 is progressing mos
satisfactorily, Notwithstanding the hard roc
encountered. Some difficulty is being ex
perienced through the scarcity Of water, bu
good work to the end of remedying thi
difficulty is being accomplished. Tn
Cedar Springs water is being used tempo
rarily until the pipe line to Meadow Vale
Wash is completed, in which event tn
water question will be settled. Lode.
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No one has counted the drops in the rain.
but it is stated that "there's millions in it. "
The deficit in the national treasury at the
end of the present fiscal yearly will be S45-,
100000.
A fend or fends are annoying Carson
cyclists by puncturing their pneumatic tires
with pins and pen knives.
A. W. Layman, editor of the Helena
Independent is the only newspaper man in
Montana who has to pay an income tax
A Virginia City boy carried off the honors
in the military drill at the State University
encampment recently Virginia Chronicle.
A Nevada man, writing from the lately
discovered mines in Cariboo, B. c., gives
the prices of miners supplies, among them
-four IS to $40 per hundred; pork 25 cents
per pound; eggs, $l.25 dozen; chickens So
each.
Ex-President Harrison is good man, but
his legs are short. Should he, as his friends
predict, try to stand with on foot on gold
and the other on silver, his attitude will be
neither graceful nor digniGed. Virginia
Enterprise.
There was an enterprising Georgia editor
who, while his office was being consumed by
FIRE, caught the hot lead from the melting
type, moulded it into buckshot and went
cunning for delinquent subscribers. Atlantis
Constitution.
The Belmont Courier Gays the Montgom
cry mines in southern Nye are looking wei
and another Huntington mill is to be erect
ed. Thirty new tents have been pitched il
the district in the last month by prospec
tors and miners.
There is no section of the world gets a
much advertising as southern California
and great good comes of it too. A compan
is now at work damming the Mohave rive
near Victor. The dam will be $50 feet hig
and the reservoir will cover 100, 900 acre.
Chauncey M. Depew has been out
Detroit and now speaks of his trip to tn
West, though it is some two hundred an
fifty miles further west to Chicago Lib
most New Workers he seems never to ha,
heard Of Chicago, not having got beyon
the Fort Dearbon stage.
Out at Bakersfield, British lord, son
the Marquis of Queesbury, was about
marry variety actress, when his frien'
had him arrested for insanity. Whoev
the girl may be she is peer to any knob
his calibre, and should now make quite
stake from breach of promise suit.-Ex.
!. A wise mans day is worth fools life,
8 are a few good, reliable, energetic m,
9 worth more to any community than as maj
Q hundred of idle takers. The former W
s have worthy enterprise in active operati,
. while the latter are preparing resoluti
n setting forth its numerous advantages
o hunting around to find somebody else to p
the thing in motion. --Ex.
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A Blow at Texas Bachelors.

Representative Moroney has introduced
in the house bill providing for the levying
of $50 annual tax upon all unmarried men
of 30 years of age who under oath swear
that they have not exsrted due diligence in
trying to get married. He shall be exempt
from the fine, however, if he can produce
evidence to show that he tried to get
married. To be exempt from this act how
ever, if he remains single, he must produce
the affidavit Of some reputable woman that
at least once year he has made proposal
Of marriage to her.-Aus.in (Texas) Dis
patch.
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NEW TO DAY.
LEGAL NOTICE.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIE FOURTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT, OF THE STATE OF
NEVADA, IN AND FOR LINCOLN
COUNTY.
In The Matter of the Estate Of Richard
German, Deceased.
Administrators Sale Of Real Estate

Notice is hereby given. that, in pur susnce of an
order Of the District Court OF the Fourth Judicial
District. of the State Of Nevada. County Of Lincoln
made on the 4th day Of May, A, D. 1895, In the
matter Of the estate Of Richard German deceased
the undersigned, the adm illustrator will sell at
private sale, to the highest bidder for cash, and
subject to confirmation by said District Court, on
Saturday the LIST day Of June, A. D. 1895. at 10
O'Clock M, at his residence in Phoebe. Nevada, In
the county of Lincoln all the right title interest
and estate Of the said Richard German at the time
Of his death, and has by operation Of law other.
wise, acquired other than or in addition to, that
Of said deceased, at the time Of his death, in and
to all that certain lot piece parcel Of land stu
ate lying and being in the said County Of Lincoln.
State Of Nevada, and bounded and described as
follows to-wit: All of the interest Of the said
deceased at the time Of his death and undivided
half ~ interest in the "Sugsr Loaf Hill" min.
ing claim, and an undivided one half ~ interest
In the "Bmetallic" mining claim all being situated
in the Crescent Mining District, Lincoln County,
Nevada, for cash, IN lawful money Of the United
St6tes. ten per cent of the purchase money to be
paid to the administrator. the day Of sale, bal
ance on confirmation Of sale by said District Court
deed at expense Of purchaser. J. o. GELABERT
Administrator Of the Estate Of Richard German,
deceased.
Dated Phoebe. Nevada May Q. 1895.
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Application for a Patent.
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE.
No. $50.
No. 800.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Oara0n. NAvada. Apri1 1aQk

No. $780,
UNITED STATES LAND .OrFIoE,
Carson, Nevada. April, 1895.
Notice Is hereby given that the Day Silver Min
ing Company, whose post office address Is Phoebe,
Nevada, has this day filed an application for
patent for Ave hundred and twenty linear feet of
the Junction mine or vein bearing silver with
surface ground $50 feet in width situated in Jack
Rabbit mining district, County Of Lincoln and
and official plat on file In this office as Lot No. as
follows to wit:
Beginning at post marked mol o 8 No As.
whence mineral monument No. bearB N 83s< deg
$40 feet west, thence running, 8 b3x E $40 It., to
post marked No q 8 No 48, whence tho original
location corner monument bears 8 90 deg W SO II.
8 No 40. whence the original location monument
bears b3A deg e 46 feet thence N b3k deg W 1853
feet to post No U survey No 81 Jack Rabbit
lode 62C feet to post on tho northern boundary Of
said NO ~ marked No U No 49 which post is
the original location monument, and thence 40
deg Z $50 feet to post No the place Of beginning
Containing 2 81 acres. 30 much Of this survey a.
conhicts with other adjoining locations is hereby
Conflict No Onondago lode beginning at post
No 2 OF this survey No IS and running thence $40
63N deg 100 feet to the place Of beginning con-
Conflict No Blue Bell lode beginning At post
No Of this survey No 4s aud running thence, N
thence 20 deg W 162 feet to the place OF begin.
ming: Containing DOT acres.
Total area Of survey 2.87 acres. Conflict No 1
OnondAgo 0.15 acres.
conflict No Blue Bell 0O7 acres.
| Remaining area 2.65 acres.
Courses expressed from the true meridian with
| magnetic variation Of 10 deg east.
Any and All persons claiming adversely any por
acn Of said JUNCTION mine or surface ground. are
required to hle their adverse claims with the regis
ter OF the United States Land Once at Carson, ir
the state OF Nevada, during the sixty days period
OF pubiication hereof, or they will be barred BY
| virtue OF the provisions Of the Statute.
| o. II GALLUP, Register.
It Ia hereby ordered that the foregoing notice o.
application for patent be published for the period
OF SIXTY days item consecutive weeks in the Pioch,
weeeiy RECORD, weekly nswspsper Published d
Pioohs, Nevada
H. GALLUP, Register.