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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-15

OF the committee OH proppriations III
the present congress.
MIR. Reed conceived his purpose to
count quorum as the only alternative
of maintaining his authority in the
house and the position of the Republic
ans at very early stage of the session.
His only confdant was Cannon. He and
the speaker were closeted On the PROPOSE
ton for several days. Everything was
considered and every chance was care
fully weighed Reed knew that he was
taking a desperate responsibility, and
that nothing was sure as to what the
position of the Republicans would be.
The fact that without consulting his
marty associates he determined upon his
first conceived purpose is an illustration
of his fearlessness. Cannon after long
session, approved the programme and
promised to stand by the speaker, but
kept his counsel 1t was to be a surprise
alike to the Republicans and the Dem
ocrats There was to be no council OF
war of the leaders, with prospects OF
| friction and division, but coup d'etat
pure and simple IF it succeeded, 1T
would prove great thing in parliament
tary history; if it failed, everything was
lost. In short, the plan was to risk ev-
erything on the hazard Of die.
What occurred when the speaker
counted a quorum in the contested cleo
ton case then pending is known to every
reader. The Republicans were panic
stricken They thought Reed had gone
daft. In the supreme moment OF the up
roar and confusion which ensued Repre-
sentative Anderson of Kansas, RepuD-
lican member, rushed up to the speaker s
desk and in the greatest excitement SAID:
"Reed. what in heavens name are
you doing?'
Reed smiled coldly and told him ne
was counting those as present VINO re-
fused to vote Anderson was dumfouno-
ed for a moment. Then he said:
cts the riskiest piece Of business L
ever saw; but, if you have made up your
mind to do it, by the gods I'll stand by
you'll" ~.
In discussing the matter with a
friend afterward the speaker said that
| the words OF AuUoISOA SOu' AASN~~
that the Republicans would support
him in his position. He was rignt.
There was quick rally among hls party
associates, and in short time the po-
litical lines were faulty drawn on the
question of sustaining the speaker ana
he won. Washington Post.
| His Heart HUNS.
Edward Lewis, who says he Is foi-
ish Hebrew and a Russian ex-convlct'
arrived in Wabash, Ind, recently. Lew
is is afflicted with hypertrophy OF the
heart He was examined by Dr. Lorln
Smith. who says that his heart is Twice
it's normal size, and instead OF the regu-
lar beat, as in healthy cardiac organ
there is a singing systaltic murmur-
When Lewis chest is barred, the move
ment of the heart can be distinctly seen.
He has been in this condition for apou.
two wears. The disease is thu. result Oh
exnosure while being driven from TO
land TO Siberia with a number OF others
| - &c oa+f1o Il Cincinnati Con
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AG 2 IN!!
MONTAGUE 3 MCHUGH

Announce the people of Whatcom and Skagt
Counties they have large Stock of Dry Clothing
e Hats Caps, Boots Shoes part
Of the must be sold in the next THIRTY DAYS
der to do will begin
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Itisro-,e Reed Counted a Quorum.
men in ao KNOWN to 5 cut of 100 states
tocopnt Volgress how Speaker Reed came
Ees T. quorum in the Fifty-frst con-
ouly man ~, Is Known to still less that the
Tie suhiaot ~ The speakers confidence on
Sas JQc CannaS. chairman
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-25
4 Moving Mountain.

The object of greatest interest in
continental Europe at this minute is
Il walking mountain i'll Gard, France.
winch is moving toward the river Of
the same name ut the rate of Il feet
IL day. Tho advance has destroyed
the machinery iii the pits Of the
Grand Combc collicry and nearly IL
mile of the Alais railway. The great
thing now is to prepare new channels
for the Gard and Carbon rivers.
which are sure, when the landslide
occurs, to he completely choked up.
Six hundred persons have been
obliged to leave their homes at Grand
Combe. The lower strata of the
mountain, which rises sheer from the
valley, arc grit and green mari. Both
have given way owing to filtration of
rain. Recently 5000 persons went
from Mines to see the moving mount
ain. Tho noise it makes is frightfui.
and there are wide cracks in all Iii.
rections. Nobody is allowed to 90 on
the mountain or into the valley on
which it advances.-Ncw York Jour
nal.
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, M, cure Liver Ills; easy to
Hoods Pills take, easy to operate. 25c.
Ills Little Mistake.

\ young farmer who had great con-
1t. liitlr discretion and scarcely
m. ,!Ication presented himself at a
.'r...',.t2rian conference and said he
'sil - to he ordained as Il preacher.
| ..i"'! had any great l"arnin'," he
Ii3. frankly, but [ reckon I'm called
, D".A.h. I've had Il vision three
.~',.s runuin': that's why I'm here"
'T,nat was your vision?" inquired one
= tie elders. "Wcll," said the young
...,n. L lr"alnt | see IL big. round ring
e.; ;'ra SIX, and in the middle of it was
o crca: lcttcrs-P. G. ! knew that
am Presbyterian confcrrn <. and
re | am There was an rncomforta-
.ia pause. which was broken by an
cider who knew the young nan and
vas we'll acquainted with the poverty
Iia family and the neglected condi-
;an uCthc farm in which his father had
, ".iru su"h pride. Il haven't any gift
g., "H%.iin~ ~vi>ions." said the Old nan.
'":vtlS. but Id like to put it to my
1hN% friend whether he doesn't think
~, possible those two letters may have
:,joUd for Plant corn?'" Fortunately
this version was accepted by the appli-
can't
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Density Of Population In Two Cities.

The density of population in this
London area was 373 persons to the
acre, against 16S persons to the acre
III the whole of Bcthnal Green. There
arc three wards in New York city more
densely populated. OF them the Tenth
ward shows n density of moro than
C:1. This is in Il large measure due to
the greater height of the New York
buildings; but, covering as they do
IL some especially bad blocks almost.
If not quite, rs large Il proportion of
tn" ground area as those destroyed in
London, it is not likely that their upper
stories get more light and air than the
VIC stories which made up the London
rookcrics. and it is likely that their
lower stories get n great deal less
Edward Marshall. in Century.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-25
A Spider with n Voice.

India, according to S. E. Peal, has a
stimulating spider whose sound, like
the pouring of shot upon n plate, can
be heard ten to twelve yards; ants
that produce sounds by rasping the
horny tip of the last abdominal seq
mcnt against dry leaves or twigs, and
a butterfly which produces a series of
raps with its wings. :
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DAILY INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY,. MARCH %, 1896
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
Congressional

WASHINGTON. March 24.-In the
Senate to-day Mills spoke i'll support
OF his Cuban resolution. He said
that the previous resolutions are in.
adequate. The people of Cuba had
far more claims on the United States
than the mere recognition of bellig.
crcncy. Ii Ireland or Poland or
Hungary struck for liberty to-day,
the hearts Of the American people
would be It in sympathy, but Cuba
had closer relations because it was a
part Of the Western hemisphere, over
which the Monroe Doctrine extended
the influence of this country. Mills
declared that the Monroe Doctrine
was Il law of protection. and as such,
God WIS the author of it.
louise
AS n important measures are pend
ing We one hundred Representa-
tives have gone home and the House
attendance is slim. \ bill to abolish
the death penalty in certain cases
where prescribed in the Federal stat
utca and to allow the jury to return
IL verdict qualified ny without cap
ital punishment i'll cases of rape and
murder, WIS passed by 10 to 60.
On motion of Hit. Chairman of the
Foreign Affairs Committee, the House
insisted on it's substitute for the Sen
ate Cuban resolutions and agreed TO
the further conference asked for by
the Senate.
The House Committees Of Naval Az
fairs completed the next year naval
appropriation bill. The total is S3l,-
GIL OBJ of which Sl3.000,000 arc for
the increase of the navy. The appro-
priatiOn is increased over the last hill
by over Sd. Doc.
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Thr Money Gang.

To read the history of the money
gang for the last thirty years is
enough to make one sick at heart.
Such greed. such hoggishness, such
cold bIoodcd scoundrelism as they
have exhibited toward their victims,
the people, to whom they are iDdebt-
ed for the value of everything they
have stolen from them, has never be-
fore been seen on this earth. and there
is 40 wry to account for it than to be.
licve the devil himself has been let
loose upon the earth for that especial
purpose. 1t is clear that the gang
does not believe there is any such a
thing as Il hereafter, and when cor
frontcI with their infamics their only
answer Is too peevishly snarled out:
"Wcll. you let us do it, what are o
kicking about?" This is a direct adj.
mission that they are nothing but
common thieves and they know it.
The Road.
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Gray Hair Frozen Black.

DIR. George w. Griffiths reports the
case of a man 65 years of age, who had
had gray hair for eight years; for three
years his hair had been perfectly
white. He was exposed one night to
severe cold, and his eyebrows and whis-
kers got wet and we're frozen stiff; it
was found next day that his hair had
turned black.-Popular Science.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-25

It's just as easy to try One Minute
Cough Cure a. anything else. It's
easier to cure a severe cough or cold
with it. Let your next purchase for
q cough be One Minute Cough Cure.
Better medicine; better results; bet
ter try it. For sale by +. +. Muller.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-25

When You are IN need Of letter
heads, bill heads, note heads, envel-
opes, statements, ETC., remember that
you can have them printed at the In
DEPENDENT Office at prices within the
reach Of all. -
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Burns are absolutely painless when
De Wits Witch Hazel Salve is APP
piled promptly. This statement is
true. A perfect remedy for skin dis
eases, chapped hands and lips, and
never fails to cure Piles. For sale by
+. F.Muller.
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A little ill, then a little pill. The ill
is gone the pill has won. DE Wits
Little Early Risers the little pills
that cure great ills. For sale by F.F.
Muller.
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If you don't buy "Silver Med.I
Flour, you don't get the best.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-25

Snow glasses Of all tints and variety
at::Muller's.
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Is tho One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 81.
Prepared only by c. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass.
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SIDE.LIGHTS.

The People who Excuse Themselves
from all Religious Duties.-The worst kind
of religion is no religion at all; and those men
who live in ease and luxury. in Judging them
selves in 1.-THE amusement of going without re-
lgioD," may be thankful that they live 10 land
where the Gospel they neglect has tanned the
beastlinass and ferocity OF the men who. but for
Christianity. might long ago have eaten their
bodies like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off
their heads and tan their hides, like the mon-
sters of the French Revolution.
Men Excuse Themselves to their Harm
Il met in Jersey City poor man with white
face and trembling limbs, evidently sleepless,
without food, badly clothed, and uncleanly. He
showed me that he had only seven cents in all
the world. l was able by the help of friends to
offer him abundance of food for at least week,
a good bed, the use OF bathroom, clothing. and
pleasant, light, employment He refused; he
wanted nothing except what could be turned
into liquor. He spent his seven cents on bad
whisky, and went his way,-pale, tremulous.
sleepless, famished, ragged, filthy, and bad as
Extraordinarily.
Opportunity.-To beggar there appeared
by the wayside beautiful being, with her hands
outstretched laden with treasures. As he gazed
at her in stupid surprise she glided past him.
She had no sooner gone than, as if waking from
a dream, he hurried eagerly in the direction she
had taken. He met traveller and said "Have
you seen beautiful stranger, with her han1s
full of things that l want, going along the
road?n "Yes," replied the tt aveler, "her name
is Opportunity. But when she departs she sell
dom returns. Indeed. the same Opportunity
never returns"
The Gospel Invitation is as Wide as
Humanity am so thankful the invitation
says whatsoever" If it said, LET Richard
Baxter come and will in no wise cast out" l
should be afraid there was another Richard
Baxter in the world, and IL might mean him.
Richard Baxter.
The Sufficiency of the Gospel Feast.-If
we do but get hold of Jesus Christ and feed
on him, he is sufficient for US sufficient for
gigantic labors. sufficient for anguish and grief
and sorrow; sufficient for the weakest of the
babes, for he is the unadulterated milk; sufficient
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TEACHING POINTS.

INTRoDUCTIoN.-The clue to the parable OF
the Great Supper is in its historical setting
Jesus is now too overwhelmingly in earnest to
conceal his Gospel for mere Gus 'omary courtesy.
He outrages Pbarisaic prohibitions by heal
ing man of dropsy on the Sibbath.--The
Pharisees could themselves feast on the Sab
bath, being careful that the food was preyi 'usly
cooked; but they thought 1t dissertation OF the
day to exercise the healing power of the Spirit.
He gave a lesson.-rather pointed the 3D.
je,t-lesson before the hearers eyes,-against
self-seeking at a feast. He suggests the oil
yineness of self-abnegaiion.--The sight OF the
excluded beholders of the feast, the physically
and morally poor and MANNED and blind, gave
him occasion TO tell his host what the ideal
feast would be,-namely, one that was unself-
ishly designed for the benefit of those in need.
a. V. 1917. How the Parable of the Supper
was suggested. A fellow guest at the feast,
wishing to break the spell of realism Jesus has
cast over the company, INDUCES In remark as
to the blessedness of those who eat bread ia the
Kndgom of God. He Is not in doubt that he
and his brother Pharisees will do this when
their Messiah appears. Jesus responds by
drawing the picture OF a Great Supper prepared
by man rich and generous. Many OF the repu-
table people of the neighborhood are invited.
When the feast is prepared word is sent to the
guests.
I'd V. 1920 Excuses. The invited guests,
according to an agreement among themselves,
without exception decline to come to the feast.
They exercise their wits In making excuses.
The fact behind all the excuses is that they
have agreed that there shall be no guests at the
projected feast. They question the social stand
ing of the certain man." They have combined
to cut ami crush him.
(3.) V. 21-24. The tables filled. The host
rises to the occasion. He first sends free in
vitaton to the broad and narrow streets of the
city, to the invalids, the beggars. the outcasts.
highways leading out OF the city, to all the peo-
pie found in the hedges or coverts, to the NOR
ally outcast, and the Gentiles, to come to his
luxurious feast. This invitation is SO urgent and
persuasive that it is in a sense compulsory.
The feast-giver's house is filled. Then. when
the first-summoned guests behold that they
have not stopped the feast, and that it is
really worthy of their attention. they are told
that their company S not now wanted.
The application of the parable is in its ex-
act description of the attitude of the Pharisees
toward the Gospel.
To the Pharlsees at the feast this parable,
being home-thrust gave, we assume, some
offence.
TO the excluded on-lookers at the FEAST
the poor, the manned, the halt the blind. physi-
cally and morally,-ihe parable was the COM
pas sionate and heroic utterance of their cham
pion. Jesus cared for their favor. He came
not as the physician of the whole, but of the
sick.
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PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUP
PER.
INTRODUCTION.
April 12, 1896.
Lesson II.-Luke xiv: 1924

The Great Supper, parable OF
religion, has had numerous verif1cations
in history. -Universalism, CEN
tury ago. was offered to the So called or
thodox churches OF America. 1t was de-
clined without thanks. 1t was then Of
fered to the spiritually POOR and manned
and halt and blind. And such outcasts
of the earlier period have actually built
up the Universalist Church. The re-
puted orthodox leaders set their faces
against the rising sun; the dawn never
theless advanced. What mistake they
made when they excused themselves
from this Gospel Feast. What good
cheer might have been theirs II they
had not preferred their darkness to the
coming light.-AnOther Appl1ca-
ton may not be SO satisfactory to our
Uniyersalist self-complacency. We are,
in our inherited Universalism, invited
to the real Gospel Feast. We are invited
to feed upon Gods Fatherhood and HUI
man Brotherhood; we are invited to live
in the righteousness and charity OF an
allinclusive and all enduring hope. Are
we excusing ourselves from this prof
fered feast? Are we making our religion
a theory rather than life? If we are,
let us be assured that the intellectually
moor and manned and halt and blind,
who nevertheless obey Christ, will be in
immediate fellowship with Christ in his
kingdom, while we, the first invited, will
be elf.excluded.
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Where 100000 Buffaloes Died.

Near Cheyenne Wells is long stretch
of level prairie, which suddenly termi-
mates in precipice, making perpen-
dicular descent of perhaps fifty feet to
another plain below. In the winter Of
1858 great blizzard ragged for several
days. The snow was driven at terrific
rate before hurricane of wind, and the
buffaloes were obliged, in self preserva.
ton, to turn their backs and run with
the wind. The result was that vast num-
bers of the buffaloes we're carried over
the precipice and their dead bodies we're
covered with twenty or thirty feet of
snow. For many years people visited
the spot to look at the bones. which lay
in piles ten and fifteen feet high as far
as the eye could reach along the preci-
pice, and it was commonly estimated
that 100000 buffaloes found grave on
that fatal spot.
Sandstorms in those days were 80 de-
structive that it was not unusual for
freighters to lose their entire outfit.
During the prevalence Of storm no at
tempt was made to move forward, and
drivers cleared the sand out OF the nos
trils of the horses and oxen, as otherwise
the animals we're threatened with death
from suffocation. A sandstone usually
lasted only two or three hours, but its
effects were felt for days by men and
animals exposed to the fury of the
blast.
A curious phenomenon noticed in diff
ferent places on the plains was the i'm
mense excavating power of the wind in
sandstorm. There were areas of three
or four acres where the wind scooped
out the sand forty or fifty feet deep and
whirled it away in the air. 1t seemed as
If the work began at central spot no
larger than could be covered with a
mans hat. In an incredibly short time
round hole would be excavated. The
wind then took hold in real earnest and
the probabilities we're that an entire
sand hill would be leveled down in the
next thirty minutes.-Denver Field and
Farm.
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for the full-grown men among us. for he is the
strong meat of the kingdom. His flesh is meat
indeed For your spiritual manhood there is
bone. gristle, muscle, brain. everything that you
want in Christ.-Spurgeon.
When Death Invites
go to prove my soul
see my way as birds their trackless way.
shall arrive: what time, what circuit first
ask not;
In some tme-His good time
shall arrive;
He guides me and the birds.
Robert Browning.
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bigots and the self-righteous, would be,
as such, excluded.
The prophecy contained in this
parable afterwards, in the experience of
the Jews, became history.