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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-14
PLAIN SPOKEN.
A Sculptor Who Chrrmed sitters by Hh
Bluntncss-

A Sculptor Who Chrrmcd Sitters by HI
B~luntncsS-
1t is said that some of the sitters to
Nollekens, the celebrated sculptor,
were charmed by the downright blunt
ness of his compliments, which were
SO evidently free from all intentional
fiattery.
One day he was modelling the head
of a lady of rank, when she forgot her
self, changed her position, and as
sumed n look of great haughtiness,
which displeased the sculptor.
Don't look S o scornful, madam" he
said, bluntly, you will spoil my bust
and you're a very fine woman-l
think it will make one of my very
best"
Al another time he said to a sitter
who had n cast in ono eye: pray look
the other way, madam, hat 1 may get
rid of that shyness in your eye, which
though not disagreeable in life, is I'M
usual in art"
At n time he had had for q sitter Il
woman of great beauty, but Of ex-
tremely nervous and impatient temper
ament. During her sittings she con
stantly changed her position, and with
each change OF position her expression
varied.
At last Nollekens' patience gave
way.
Madam" he cried, unceremonious-
ly, what does it matter how hand
some you are, II you Will not sit still
till l have modelled you'll"
The sitter smiled with gratifed van-
ity, and much to the sculptor's amaze
ment was almost as quiet as n lay
figure during the remainder of her
sittings. Youths Companion.
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AN ALIEN VIEW.

H
Tho National Waterman, published
at Washington, prints the following
from an English paper,
The signs of the times indicate that
before the sun rises on January l,
1900, the great American nation will
groan and writhe in ON agony Of revo.
luton, and the streets of all her great
cities viii be slippery with blood-a
hundred drops of blood for each gem
that flashes on the necks Of rich and
pampered women, and ten drops OF
blood for each tear that has washed
the faces OF the poor. Politics is 80
rotten that it stinks. Every ono knows
and no one cares. America Is no
longer a Republic. 1t is a plutocracy.
Tho President Is merely tho creation
of bank directors, railroad kings and
coal barons; and it is the same with
the governors OF the States. Tho
poor whlne about their poverty and
gnaw their crusts OF bread, but can
always be relied upon to vote for the
rich, and nine tenths OF them would
shoulder their muskets and lay down
their fivesin defense OF the right OF
the rich to rob them. A nation such
as this, in which one million pluto.
Gratis tyranize over sixty millions Of
slaves, will be either oyerthrown by a
foreign foe or die Of gapgrene. The
various labor organizations neither
think together, nor work together,
and they have no money TO buy votes,
lawyers and judges. Soldier police
shoot down laboriDg people and are
chcered on in their bloody work by
monopolies and the clergy. But the
day will 500 come when there will
BIO a horrible dance to death lighted
up by burning houses, and the music
OF cries and grouns and dynamite
bombs. Rich idlers amuse themselves
at Newport and Tuxedo; poor work.
ers toll ceaselesaly in the darkness OF
the mine and the din OF the mill.
Young men and women dawdle over
ice.champagne and opera parties, old
men and women pick rotten food out
OF the garbage cars; lap dogs are
driven through Central Park to take
the air; children die OF oyerwork in
- AINhu raHNnNaM go n..k-E =. A. NryN q.
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1ks4ikafsb 1 dSssded inpfots
msntiA busines IA - Esss = gen
eralIy conceded By - pre-. Thai
prioes are Renernlly lower than ttaS
we're few pears ago = alsoadmitted
B~radstrsets. which i accepted = m
authority, gives tho number Of fail
urss for Tho past six months Of Tia
current year rt.6,597, q against 623e
Tor tho first half OF 1891. The mum.
Der Of failures from January 1 10 July
/, 1895, has not besn exceeded since
1879 IL then. There Il no great diff
ference In tho liabilities of those who
failed in business in the first half OF
1894 and the corresponding period of
1895. In 1894 they were ss255533a.
and in 1895 they wore e19,7O7ys6l Tho
difference in tho assets Of those who
failed in 1876 were about the same.
The largest number OF failures are
reported from Minnesota, Nebraska,
Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Mon
tana. All OF those States, with the
exception OF Montana, are agricul.
tural, and tho partial failure OF crops
and low prices of products are sup
posed to be the causes Of the increase
OF failures.
For the first three months Of 1895
the failures numbered 1872, and for
the second quarter 2,7s5. The liabil-
tiles for the first quarter were s46,9lO,.
443 as against, ga. T97,41s for the Sec
ond quarter.
Brodstreets says that many conserv-
alive men think the revival in bust.
ness is too sudden and rapid to indi-
cate permanency after such a severe
panic as the country has experienced,
but the majority account for the i'm.
petus by the fact that stocks were
greatly reduced and, therefore, be-
lieyo that present and future demands
will maintain the increased activity
now 80 general in the cast,
The agricultural sections of the
country do not chow much signs Of
improvement. Wheat, the staple pro-
duct OF the west, is low, and cotton,
he great product Of the south, is
cheaper than over before. In the
manufacturing States there is a
marked improvement. The prices of
steel and iron have been advanced,
and there is a brisk demand for the
metals. In New England there is al.
70 a revival Of business and the fac
.ones are running steadily, there be-
ng an increased demand for cotton
md wooden goods, and il there was
more money in circulation in the west
md south, so as to keep up the de.
nand for manufactures, and en-.
outrage new enterprises, the country
would be fairly prosperous, as COM
jared with two years ago.
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a CORNER ON SCIENCE.

CUBA has twelve varieties OF mus.
quitoes and three hundred varieties OF
butterflies.
hRooS and hclium have been cx.
tracted together from n m%ctcoritc, say
Prof. Ramsey and NJ. Bcrthclot, which
points TO the existence OF argon outside
OF this earth. Prof. IIodgkinson has
found gases, which he believes TO be
tho two new clements. in minerals OF
the samarskitc and cuxcnitc group.
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Appeal:-Tho sale Of the Silver
Star group OF mines is of. Senator
Wolcott, who was to pay si25. 600
laet Monday, but finally offered $780,.
600 cash, the balance to be taken
from tho mine. Tho proposition,
Brown who had tho leading mine.
refused 70 accept, on tho ground that
lie could take the gold out just us
we'll as Wolcott. The sale thon fell
through. 1t looked very much as II
Wolcott hod crawlod out Of his agrcc.
ment.
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Anu,nor.

1t ia reported on good authority
that a syndicate OF Eastern gentle.
tiut n man are again negotiating the build.
ing Of mother railroad across Neya.
III 1lls da 10 compete with the Central Pa.
II iSI, cifc.
a railroad on paper Is Of no earthly
oi 0l2i. account to Nevada or anybody else.
What wc want ia road bed laid with
'"lSs ol9GxT ties and steel rnils. equipped with
s' 'struly- cars and live, breathing loco.
n9}ipog motives, manned with Nevada yonog
s"'u n..Gazette. g !
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Prin.ersPI.

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dem
fusl as &s wont 10 ptees'
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OF tide,
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He qadu.l l!uuo to Tx ~ up,
And 30 re dipn't try
but SaAo ouL rsuders ono
amp ali
A dieoe % dinners pi.
Some !olas &qo do not un.
do1stBnd
The m6sleIIes OF the 1lade'
vrs Aol6 proue 20 iaiso u Juso'
Iyu tnislaTo Is maps,
Oomdos!lois sio no, SUI.
diissd
Mhen uu6lhin8's awry
They al qno& qow 1t is
tq9mseyes'
10 uiaHo a pIInter's pi.
tBy Nixon WATERWAYS
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The Comstock payroll for tho
month OF juno amounted TO s71, 500.
GO, which Is about ". 600 lees than for
May and slle,1s more thnn for tho
sarnc month IN 1876.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

WE learn from reports from Madrid
and Havana that the Cuban insurgents
have suffered another defeat. Very
likely they have, but, for a time at least,
we will probably hear more reports to
this effect than of any action where the
Cuban revolutionists have been In any
measure successful The Spanish
government will take care of
that. Neither will the signifi-
canoe Of the battles be indicated
in the news dispatches, for some time,
unless they all point to government
triumph. 1t is well to recall again that
it took the Spanish troops ton years
to suppress the last Cuban rebellion and
there is reason to believe that the present
struggle for liberty is to be in nowise
less important than was the last one.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15
BEEF.

This is fairly good time to practice
vegetarianism or something like it.
To be sure, vegetables ut this season
are only fresh by courtesy, and only the
half-ripe new potato, at a fabulous sum
per peck, is available righ. from the
ground. But these hold-over vegetables
are sweet and wholesome just the same,
and they are cheap.
A few cents worth of squash, turnip
and potatoes would make dinner for
family, delicious dinner, too, when
you come to try it, well cooked, properly
seasoned.
Eggs are cheap and big and round.
Vegetarianism, for general practice, need
not exclude the embryotic broiler and
roaster.
Oatmeals, the EDWARD ATKINSON uni
versal solution for the habit of extrava-
CANT feeding, and the subsequent twin
miseries of an expensive Indigestion and
an empty pocketbook, were never so
varied, SO toothsome, 50 altogether sat-
isfying and wholesome.
Johnny cake meal, even the Rhode Is
land meal which makes ravishingly de-
lightful fat cakes with rich golden
brown crust on them, is almost cheap
enough to burn, and the manufactured
prouduct at the hands of the culinary ex-
pert is thing to make the gods envious
OF human kind.
Fish is cheap. Fish is good. Aud If
you want to depart 80 far from vege-
tarianism rs to indulge in hams and
bac )ns, they are cheap, too, and deli
cious, made right in your own town
better than anywhere else on earth.
Milk is cheap food at any price--the
best milk at the highest price. We
know a man who eats nothing but bread
or other cereal products and milk, three
times a day. lie doesn't do it for
health's sake, nor for economy's sake.
He is strapping big fellow, as strong as
a steer. and rs healthful looking as a
picture of perfect manhood from patent
medicine advertisement. He says bread
and milk do not pail on his palate.
Beans, plain dried beans, are cheaper
than the dirt they grow In, and my
aren't they nice baked in brown pot
There are other good things. too, in
the markets and in the grocery stores.
good wholesome products, palatable and
altogether desirable for steady diet.
They are all cheaper than beef at its
lowest price and any treatise on the sub
ject will tell You that they furnish nitro
gen and phosphates and all that sort of
thing in greater proportion than beef
and after all the acquiring of nitrogen
and phosphates aud such is the real, IL
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

ting all his strength to the work, the SOL
dier tore the barb loose from the ten
dons, causing wound that bled furi-
ously. While o surgeon was stanchinR
the blood jackson rode near, and recog-
nizing Houston told him not to go into
battle again. Late in the day there was
a call for volunteers to storm the last
refuge of the Greeks, which was por-
ton Of the breastworks sheltered by O
wooded knoll, where the trees had been
folled for better defense. No one re-
sponded to the call. Houston was with
his company looking on. Ordering the
men to follow, he dashed ahead without
glancing around until he reached the
crest of the ravine. Before his men
caught up with their valiant leader he
was shot down with two bullets In his
right shoulder.
GEORGE L. Ku.MER
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CONDENSED SPORTING CHAT.

Mike Leonard, the Beau Brummel Of
pugilism, will retire from the ring and go
into the cigar business.
The faculty at Wellesley have purchased
an eight cared barge, and the girls will
put q crew on the water.
Young Griffo will fight McAuliffe at 1875
pounds, weigh in at the ring side. He can
do that weight very handily.
In the Yale trophy room there are 40
baseballs won in games with Harvard, AZ
in games with Princeton and IA in games
with the University of Pennsylvania.
The New York Herald will give $50 to
the baseball crank who first ,names tho
leading six clubs Of the National league in
the order in which they will be found after
the games of May 81.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15
NEWS OF THE HORSES.

They think that Carldon is sure 2:0S
horse this year.
Crcscendo, the "colt Of the hour" at
Frisco, is engaged IN over 800, 600 worth
OF 2-year-old events.
Andy welch thinks that II Cobweb, 2:12,
Is handled right this season he will prove
as fast as Azote, 2:0sk.
IL Hulda is anywhere nearly as good MS
Hickock hopes, she will be an important
factor in any race she starts In.
Nelson was campaigned ten years. Hc
competed in 10 races and won ninc Of
them. His average for his winning miles,
at all ages, A. 2:l6A.
Twenty stations have sired money earn.
ers that in 1s92-3-4 earned ti, $50, 252. OF
this lot the great prcponderance Is TO tbs
credit of the Wilkes tribe.
In her career on the track Maud s won
thrco races. She trottcd 90 heats I'm $3.50
or better 27 in 2:20, 81 In 2;15 and . In
2;lo. The average Of all her winning heas
was 2:lk
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not always the recognized, object Of eat

not always the recognized, object OF eat
ing.
Beef is high in price, just now, which
is why'we are moved to these observa-
tions.
The rich mans beef is especially high,
the choice cuts, the sirloins and the ten
der joints. We don't know but that the
poor mans beef is about as cheap as it
has been for some time at the retailers,
except for the fact that the poor man Is
not In the habit, always. of buying the
cheap cuts. But so far as the retailer Is
concerned, the rise in beef would natur-
ally be reflected in the price
he charges for the choicer parts. Shin
bones and less desirable parts offer small
chance to the retailer for making up for
the extra price the wholesaler charges
him on the whole carcass. Ii he pays
two or three cents pound extra on
whole carcass he must square himself
by adding five or six cents a pound to
the normal price of the choicer cuts, to
average up on the whole.
We don't know why beef is high.
Some folk tell us that it is because a
big trust has suppressed the supply.
Others tell us that the supply has sup
pressed itself, that the inexorable law of
supply and demand is in operation in
the same old-fashioned way, and that
the proportionate demand for beef Is such
that prices have risen. The burden
seems quite severe. We have no
doubt that our retail market
men feel it quite as much
as do their customers, and they are put
to the embarrassment of lot Of explain
ing. But they will cheerfully sell you
other things than beef from their frag-
rant stores, and little trial at going
without beef would shortly bring down
the price of beef to the old schedule,
whether that price is due to suppress
sion of the supply or to the fact that
the supply is short from natural causes.
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Full Associated Press Dispatches

With one exception THE PROVIDENCE
News has larger circulation than any
newspaper in the State of Rhode
Island.
The QUALITY of that circulation is
unexcelled. The greater part goes into
the RESIDENCES of the city of Providence
and of the suburban towns and villages
to and beyond the Connecticut border.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

act. will show the fallacy of sssny such
idea.
The revolution was won by the origi-
nal thirteen colonies, OF which Rhode
Island was among the most outspoken
and active, possessing fully one-hftieth
of the population, furnishing more than
her proportion of brave soldiers, includ-
ing such men as NATHANIEL GREENE,
WILLIAM BARTON. and others
of honorable record, and SUI
fering from the ravages OF an army
of occupation for half dozen years.
The historian, MONTGOMERY, says OF
Rhode Island: During the Revolution
every male citizen between the ages oil
sixteen and sixty stood ready to night ior
independence
The blood and toll and sacrifice OF the
revolution bought 827.Si4 square miles
of territory of Great Britain, OF which
price Rhode Island had paid her share
in full. AS the area of the thirteen
colonies was about $4,000 square
miles, there was an excess OF some
500, 900 square miles, including what Is
now known as Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Oaio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Reluctance to yield their claims
to this land to common govern
ment, to be used in carving out
other and rival States, was one OF the
greatest obstacles to the early adoption
of the Articles of Confederation, signed
by Rhode Island, last of all the 13, in
1890. Not until June 16, 1902, how
ever, did Georgia complete her formal
cession of land to the United
States. The very next year the Louis
lana purchase of S34, ,906 square miles
was made, practically by the old
thirteen and three or four Others. All
this had to be defended in the war OF
1912, in which again Rhode Island did
her full share, furnishing many brave
men, among them OLIVER HAZARD
PERRY, who went into the woods, cut
timber. and built nine vessels with which
he conquered British fleet carrying
more guns and more men than his own,
perhaps the first notable defeat of a
British squadron for centuries.
Compared with Rhode Islands share
of the enormous areas thus won and
thus defended, the 10000 areas given
the State by the Land Scrip act, even
with the $4,000 yearly of the Hatch
Fund and the annual $4,000 of the
Morrill, Fund, is but mere
fraction. Not Rhode Island or any
other Of the original thirteen colonies,
not Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee or
Ohio, but any of the other States, no
matter how large, is peculiarly fortu-
nate in receiving these gifts, if such
they may be called.
Rhode Island has an equity in all this
property which renders it particularly
fitting that the United States should
deal with the corporation and faculty
of the college through the Assembly
and not directly. Those who would as
sumo on behalf of the United States to
dictate to the Rhode Island General
Assembly in the smallest degree, in this
connection, merit-well, never mind
what They probably don't realize what
they are about.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

1t Is ordained by the City Council of the City OF
Providence as follows;
SECTION 1. The city treasurer, acting under the
direction OF the joint standing committee
finance, is hereby authorized AID directed 10 bor-
row from time 10 time and In such amounts as may
be necessary the SUM Of six hu ndred thousand dol
lars and 10 Issue therefor the city's notes. bearing
snnum, payable semi-annuaIfy signed by him
and countersigned by the mayor and the chair
obtained shall constitute a special appropriation
and shall be exclusively used and expended upon
difsetou Of the city counoil of said city as pro-
yided by the act passed At the January Session Of
SIC d The sum q four hundred and afty thou
sand SsssooT9 do,ar Sr so MSSa 'hefsoi as may
section one Of this ordinance is
hereby appropriated for the purpose Of grading,
enumerated; and the co mmissiouer OF public
works is hereby authorized and directed TO build
pine street from Beacon avenue to Hay street;
Friendship street from Chestnut street TO Dyer
clifford street from Richmond street to Dyer
street;
Dyer street from ship street to the end OF the
pavement near Friendship street;
Page street from Pine street 10 Clifford street;
Potter street from Weybosset street TO Friend
Eddy street from weybosset street to ship street;
Dorranee street from end OF pavement near Pine
Orange street from weyhossetto Dyer street;
Peck street from weybosset street TO Dyer street;
Hay street from Weybosset street TO Friendship
street;
Hewes street from Stevens street to North Main
street.
Gaspee street from Cove street to the railroad
bridge abutment;
Gaspee street from Kinsley avenue 10 hrst angle
east of Francis street;
Frabcis street from Cove street and Exchange
place to Gaspee street Except the portioa now
paved over the b. idge);
stillman street from Gaspee to Promenade street;
Railroad street from Gaspee street To Francis
street;
Kinsley avenue from Gaspee street to Harris
avenue;
Harris avenue from Kinsley avenue TO Eagle
street;
Prone made street from present end Of pavement
near railroad bridge to steeple street; and
To build aud pave the two approaches to tho
proposed depot In Exchange place.
Also to grade, curb and build:
Abbott street. from Knowles street 10 Camp
street;
Alma street from Candace street to Pekin
street;
Atlantic avenue from Elmwood avenue 10 Mel
Evergreen street from Camp street to North
Main street;
Gordon avenue. from Public street TO Oxford
street
Hudson streetfrom Ellery street to Huntington
avenue;
Kossuth street from Bowdoin street to Putnam
street;
Taylor street from Glenham street TO Chester
avcnue;
Also 10 build and pave Washington street from
Eddy street TO Walker strceti
And also to build and curb the avenue decided TO
the city December "a 1894 ado ming Roger Williams
Park from Bro ad street to It's westerly termina-
tion, all of said work herein ordered, TO be per-
formed according 20 the plans aud specifications OF
the city engineer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

Captain JOHN WATERS, Mayor of
Newport Is dosd. His city and State
could have better spared better man.
We have reported" Captain WATERS
on many red-hot political occasion, and
we have stood by his side on the
deck Of an abandoned ship
amid the rocks in shore
in the midst Of the storm.
and watched his fine skill and dauntless
energy, his exhaustless resources and
extraordinary capacity for command
triumph over the elements and bring
the wreck to a safe anchorage in hos
pitable port. We always felt that the
stuff that made New England sailors
and privateersmen inconquerable and
heroic in the early days Of the nation
was in JOHN WATERS. We guess ne didn't
know what IL was 10 be afraid OF any
thing, We doubt IL he ever accepted a
verdict Of defeat without sturdy APP
peal. We don't believe he knew
how to lie or even 10 deceive. We are
mighty sorry that he is gone.
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"iF THOU VERT TRUE AS FAIR

II thou were true as thou art fair,
Love should for thee thy burden bear;
No service would his heart disdain,
Or deem 10 idle or in vain;
But fare thee well, too fair art thou;
So faro thee wei, forever now
II thsu were mine and mine alone,
Then shouldst thou reign upon loves
throne;
But other hands may thine caress,
And other lips those lips may press;
So fare thee welll Unfair art thou
Go, fare thee well forever now.
II thou goddess vert divine,
Should all men worship at thy shrinef
Nay, prithee, Thinks there not one
Who from thine altar would pass on,
Crying, "Fare thee well, mere fairy thou.
Nay, fare thee well forever nowf"
Yet tell me, thou, my own, my queen.
Art true as thou hast ever been,
And thy servant still shall be,
Nor doubling, sing this song to thee
OF "Fare thee well" but, "Fair art thou, ="
And "with me fare forever now"
Samuel Waddington in Atheneum-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-15

THE fact that the Washington County
Court House, in South Kingstown, was
located near the Kingston depot, after a
strong plea for Kingston hill. where the
old Court House stands, indicates that the
hill sentiment would not prevail today,
as it did six years ago, If the townsfolk
were given another opportunity to be
heard on the State school matter.