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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-03-05
HAR10.

This In brave Harro's story
Harro who watched the sea
10 his renoWn set II down
As 1t was told to me. a.
Back from the rsef-caught vessel
came Harros comrades four,
And with them ten half-perished men
safe landed on the shore.
And are these ALP asked Harro.
Answered the sailors brave:
Nay, One dashed high We left to die
Ana nnd an ocean grave"
Cried Harro: who goes with me
To rescue him. the last.
Alive or deadI Shall Il be said
We left one on the mastY II
Spoke up his gray-haired mother:
Go not; / pray. It's death. they say.
And there Is only one!"
Father and brother 1--WE
The cruel sea hath slain
Ny last art thou. Good Harro, now
Let me not plead in vainr'
Answered brave Harro: Mother.
Who knows, perchance for him
Under the skies a mothers eyes
Today with tears grow dim"
FAREWELL God watches over
The nelds Of flying foam.
And he shall keep US on the deep
And safely bring us home"
And like fragile leaf
The life-boat tossed long ere It crossed
| Unto the distant reef
Wild was the sea. and madly
Ever the tempest blew,
While down the track came Harro back
With one besides the crew.
Hard to the oars his comrades
Bent In the shrieking gale,
| And Harro cried, when land he spied,
/ THANK God. we shall not fair
/ And when he saw his mother
| Pacing the shore in tears,
! Loud over all the storm his call
Brought gladness to her ears.
/ Over and over he shouted,
| And high his cap he waved:
| God gives thee Joy! God sends thy boyr'
| IT'S Eve we have sayedv'
/ Such is brave Harro's story
| Harro who watched the sea.
/ To his renown / set II down
As 1t was told to me.
Frank d. Sherman. in Harpers Weekly.
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A STUPID DRIVER.

A driver in the employ OF one OF the
big dry goods stores in Fulton street
was discharged last week under novel
circumstances. He had been for over
a year in the employ of the firm and
was faithful and honest. and his dis
missal astonished him.
One of the firms largest customers
Is the wife of a retired wholesale liquor
dealer living in Washington avenue
Her house is a fine one. and style and
lavish display of wealth are kept con-
spicuously at the front. This woman
visited the store on Saturday and asked
to see one of the proprietors. The con-
versation which followed was in SUBJ
stance:
Il want the driver of wagon No. -
discharged at once, and II you don't
discharge him I'll stop trading here"
why madam" said the astonished
merchant. III he has insulted you or
been dishonest we certainly shall dis
charge him. Pray what has he done?'
He don't give me all l pay for"
snapped the fair complainant
What! Impossible! We will make
good the loss at once" said the mer-
chant, adding: Now, Mrs. Blank.
give me a memorandum of what he has
failed to deliver
"Oh. | got all the goods / ordered"
said she, coloring. "but-but-well, he
don't deliver the goods right, or as a
driver should, and I've lost all patience
with him and want him discharged"
Please explain, madam" said the
perplexed storekeeper.
WELL said the woman, tits Just
this way. That driver has been in the
habit OF late of stopping his horse In
front of my next door neighbor, a hor-
rid, stuck-up thing, and day before yes
terday, when he delivered that piano
lamp and the carved bric-a-brac stand
for which l paid 800, his wagon wasn't
in front of my house at all, but In
front of the house next door When ]
called that afternoon on Mrs. c., across
the street, she said: Did you see the
perfectly exquisite piano lamp and
bric-a-brac table your neighbor, Mrs
-, received today?'
1T mortified me so l almost cried,
continued the grieved woman. land
| everyone on the street thinks 1t was
Mrs. - who spent 500 for bric-a.
brac table and not me. When l spend
my good money for goods insist thai
the wagon which delivers them stops
| right in front of my door, and that.
| why / want that driver discharged. It.
| my right and / insist upon my rights.
The merchant with difficulty KEEP
| from laughing outright, but he simula
| ted a sympathy and indignation anC
ordered the drivers discharge forth
| with. The woman's wrath was ap
peased. The poor driver will probably
be reinstated and put on another de
| livery route.-N. Y. Tribune.
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AT THE CROSS.

You will go with me tomorrow
Yes, to the end of the worldr
She regarded him with dark eyes full
of somber fire.
why should / not go with your"
she asked. in tones full of plaintive
misery. Have 1 not loved you all my
life long? Why should l continue to
live with a bru e simply because a
mortal man has spoken mortal words
above our Joined hands?"
He cIasped her to his breast and COW
cred her face with burning kisses
My love, my life. my own" he
murmured, with tremulous incoher-
ence, and then kneeling down at her
feet, he buried his rapturous face In
was floating heavenward In the golden
glory of dawn.
1t was she who broke the mellow 81
lence.
IT shall take the child" she said,
in a tone denoting former discussion.
TT Is his child, too" he answered
bitterly.
yes, but he is not her mother"
But will 1t be well for her to" he
checked himself.
She covered her face with her hands
and sobbed aloud.
Even at this hour" she moaned.
you can think how 1t will be for her
in the future"
He tried to comfort her with assur-
lnces and caresses, but she tore her
self from his arms, and, rising to her
full, proud height. she stepped to the
ioor of her boudoir and parting the
soft draperies, entered therein.
An ormolu clock licked softly in the
seml-darkness, and the room had a
fragrance as palpitant as a gentle
shower on Violets.
She approached the little bed that
contained this flower life. She drew
tside the muslin curtains and looked
upon her child, who lay with upturned
ace and white arms outstretched.
She stood white, transf1xed with
| yes sad and steadfast as Fate's.
He had followed her, and when her
! gaze rested upon him he grew cold
md still as one in the presence of
| death
| She broke the stiffness, In a voice as
| clear and solemn as vesper bells
See? she said, pointing to the sleep
| !ng child. Her form has made the
shape Of the cross In her sleep, but II
shall be my crucifxion, not hers. ]
| VIII not go with you tomorrow"
He kissed her cold hands and depart
| ed like one stricken dumb.
she knelt down by the window and
| looked out at the stars
| TO her eyes, the heavens were filled
| with great radiance, and in It's midst
| she saw Christ on Calvary, not thorn
crowned and spent with anguish, but
RADIANT, sublime, as he cried in a voice
Of holy triumph Suffer little children
| 10 come unto me. "-Maude Andrews In
the New Bohemian
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A PERMANENT CENSUS BUREAU

If permanent census office Is to be
established at all, the initiative legisla-
ton looking to that result should be
taken without delay; for under such
legislation whoever might be placed at
the head of such an office would have
ample opportunity to study the whole
question and to report to Congress full
and comprehensive plans for future
census work There are these three
reasons, then, for prompt legislation:
the action looking to the unification
of certain inquiries in the various CEN
suses of the world for 1900; the necessi-
ty of preparation for the twelfth CEN
sus; the desire to establish a perma-
nent census office. In considering these
three reasons there Is no necessity of
indulging in any criticisms, for all
criticism must come back to the fact
that there has been no one whose par
ticular duty 1t was to see to 1t that
proper preparations were made, not
only for legislation. but for the real
work of the census.-Col Carroll d.
Wright, In the January Forum.
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counted for without supposing a mira
Gle. He explains that In many Of such
cures there Is a muscular action OF the
affected part. The muscle contracts
energetically; Il bre axis down the atho-
logical adhesions. II they exist, and re-
stores the bones violently TO their place.
In commenting on this. the New York
Medical Record says: What the sur
geon has TO do with his hand Is here
done by an influence exerted on the
muscles themselves. and In a far more
beneficent manner than surgery can ef-
feet. The exciting cause of these ener-
gettc contractions is that which we find
In all miracles of this sort-a strong
persuasion. n complete confidence. It
Is the brain and feeling generated by
the mind which give strength to the
person who thinks strongly. A equity
man. who has long hobbled about on
his crutch. finds his legs and power to
run with them II pursued by a wild
bull The feeblest invalid under the
influence OF delirium or other strong
excitement. win astonish her nurse by
the sudden accession OF strength she
may exhibit"
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FROM BACK TO BACK IN A DAY.

Make a coat In a day; from shearing
the wool from sleeps back to putting
the finished coat on ones own back
Nonsensel 1t could not be done. This
would probably be the reply to anyone
claiming such a thing, or II not. at
least one would receive a reply ex-
pressing strong doubt of the posi-
ollity or doing SO. notwithstanding the
vast improvements In machinery with
in the past fifty years. The feat, how
ever. was accomplished as far back
as 1871, by Mr.. John Coveter. of Green
nam Mills, near Newbury, England.
AT o'clock in the morning Mr.. Cove
ter was presented with two Southdown
Wedder sheep. At first the sheep were
shorn. the wool spun, the yarn spoiled,
warped, doomed and wove. After that
the cloth was buried. milled, rowed.
dyed, pressed. and late in the afternoon
put in the hands of the tailors. BY $50
the coat was finished, and Mr.. Coveter
presented 1t to cAe of the gentlemen
OF the town amid the laundering ap-
plause of 5000 spectatcfs.-Harper
Round Table.
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MISTAKEN SACRIFICES.

A certain woman, with a small in
come and a large heart, has family
OF impecunious cousins - mostly
girls. of the type that cannot
earn their own living, and let
themselves helr'lessly down upon
the nearest available benefaotor.
She worried over them last winter con-
siderably, because she was sure the ne
cessaries of life were running low In
their little house, and she finally gave
up her Christmas presents to her own
FAMILY and sent the cousins a check
instead. Two weeks later she met two
or the girls at a tea-they always go to
averything-an to her amazement
each wore a handsome gold buckle at
her waist. Dear Cousin Jane" one
OF them said. effusively, I'VE were so
grateful for your gift! We have want
ed buckles for year. and now we have
gotten them through your kindness!'
Cousin James feelings as she thought
OF her home Christmas sacrificed for
these adornments-butche to make
Roman holiday, as 1t were-can be
imagined
She could sympathize with another
friend In New York. who gave up GO
rng to hear Patti, with her son and
daughter, in order that she might send
the money for the three tickets-$15-
to relatives who, she knew, were much
stIdlleHeu Dy the business Crisis and
in actual need CT ready money. What
was her surprise to hear next day that
three of the family had treated them
selves promptly to Patti on receiving
the check 1T came just in the nick
Of time!' one of them said, apprecia-
lively; but of course Mrs. - could not
feel it as providential a happening
as they seemed to do.
Three gentlemen, none of them
wealthy, meeting at the seashore last
summer, happened to discuss the needs
Of an old classmate, and each pledged
himself to aid toward a generous gift.
The recipient. when last heard from.
was enjoying the Atlanta Exposition on
the proceeds. while his three benefac-
tors were a tritle sore over the affair,
which had cost them some troublesome
economies
We all know such cases. They are
both absurd and disheartening, and yet
since true charity is more blessed to The
giver than the receiver, and since II
takes all sorts of people to make a
world. generous minds win go on CIV
ing to the end of the chapter, and will
not lose by 1t after all.-Harper's Ba-
EAR.
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hand and arm OF such perfect symme-
try that native poets sang OF them as
matchless wonders OF beauty Her
dress was always In exquisite taste
and OF the costliest material. She
spoke Persian and Hindoostanee fiu-
emily. Her manners were charming.
and her conversation spirited, sensible
and engaging. But, as a set-off to this
long array OF personal attractions. her
character was detestable. She was
cruel, indicative and treacherous II
one OF her servants displeased or dis
obeyed her, she would order his nose
and ears to be cut or In her presence,
and watch the mutilation with gusto,
while she placidly smoked her hookah.
When one of her dancing girls offend
ed her by attracting the attention OF a
favorite officer, she. In a fit OF furious
jealousy. ordered the unfortunate girl
to be buried alive. There was a small
vault under the pavement of the saloon
IN which the nautch dances were held
and in that vault the Begun saw her
victim bricked up. When the horrible
work was done, she commanded the
rest of the nautch girls to come out and
dance over the grave in which their
still living sister was entombed. Ac-
| cording to one account-denied by some
story-the Begun. that she might ex-
tract the last drops Of fiendish pleasure
| out OF the cup of revenge, had her
couch placed exactly over the vault
| Chambers Journal.
Ladies differ from coolies, first in the
amount of ornament they display, and
| second, in the material of which their
clothing is fashioned. The only occa-
| sions for which a lady dresses gayly
| are weddings, birthdays and feasts or
| ceremonious visits. Ladies always
wear silks-never anything more COM
| mon-but their best are deliberately
embroidered. The first outer garment
is the san-a single or unlined long coat
Ranging loose from the shoulder to the
knees. with no waist-line. A lady has
| other coats-lined, fur-llned and
wadded. Under her coat she wears .
| white coat. and under that a smaller
white garment, the chin san. Under
everything goes the piece of CLOTH" q
plain short apron Tapped over at the
back. Just such another thing is the
skirt. which is worn outside, and
reaches half foot below her outer
coat. This skirt is always black, ex-
cept on special occasions. At her wed.
ding II is red, and at other especial
times 1t is pink, blue. purple, violet oil
green, and is embroidered with gold oil
pretty silks. She wears broad trousers
to within half an inch of the ground
The bottoms of the legs are elegantly
bordered with embroidery. Ladie:
wear socks with the seam up the
I front and beautifully embroidered sill
shoes. In winter a wadded silk logging
warns the calf and ankle. Out-of- door.
every lady wears a back and front,
or long sleeveless coat, over all hel
clothing. She carries a folding fan
like gentleman's fan-in spring, bu
at other times hers Is a round flat far
or a fan of fine feathers. AS for tn,
] coolies they dress in the same wav
but their clothes are made of cotton
From THE Story of Miss Pr" by Julian
Ralph, in Harper's Magazine for Jan
uary
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"a BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY. y

The Fifty-second Congress became al
most synonym for extravaganza
when IL passed appropriations aggre-
eating for the two years nearly one
billion dollars. The Fifty-third Con-
gress exceeded the record, authorizing
the expenditure OF larger amount. 1t
sought to defend this action on the
ground that the body which preceded
1t had passed measures for Improve
ments and for an increase of pen
sions committing its successors to the
larger outlay. Secretary Carlisle has
submitted his estimates for the year
ending June 80. 1897. and again they
are perilously near the half-billion
mark AS estimates are generally too
low, rather thar too high. II is more
than likely that The Fifty-fourth Con-
gress will achieve the distinction OF the
Fifty-second and the Fifty-third in the
matter of appropriations. Nor is there
probability of reduction at any time
In the future. The necessities of the
Government are constantly expanding,
and VIII have to be met regardless OF
all desire for retrenchment. This is
billion-dollar country. and there Is no
getting away from the fact.-Baltimore
Hara IA Hndl
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ToXINE's EFFICIENCY.

A Chicago physician declined to ad-
minister anti-toxin to two patients af-
dicted with diphtheria. or to allow it
o be administered to himself when
ielzed with the same malady, and now
I'll are dead. the conviction prevailing
'ery generally in the profession and
out of it that they would all have re-
covered If the remedy had been applied.
The records of the Health department
there show that not a single patient to
whom 1t has been administered within
the first twenty-four hours has been
lost, and 9S per cent of those who re-
ceived the treatment within forty-eight
hours of their seizure also recovered.
Such testimony of its efficiency ought
to be convicing to the most obstinate
of doctors, the fate of the Chicago
practitioner lending weight to 1t, and
indicating the perils of professional
conservatism when it flies in the face
IF common-sense and reason.
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THE TELEPHoTOGRAPH.

The telephotograph is the name of
a new Swedish invention, which is
claimed to do for the eye something
like what the telephone does for the
ear 1t Is based upon the popularity Of
selenium, that its resistance to the
transmission of electricity to a great
extent depends upon the strength of
the light to which 1t is exposed. A
fine point of selenium Is made to move
in a plane by mechanical arrange
ment In such manner that 1t. moving
within a limited compass of this plane,
repeatedly forward and backward, de-
scribes spiral consisting of very close
windings. An electric current passes
through the selenium point, and the
power of this current will vary accord
ing to the light to which the point at
any given moment is exposed. The re-
ceiver Is constructed In a similar man
ner To the above. except that a very
susceptible incandescent light has been
substituted for the selenium point. The
intensity of the light varies In harmony
with the light to which the selenium
point Is exposed. When the mean
descent is made to move in a similar
manner to the movements of the sele-
mum point, 1t will produce lights and
shadows on the plane similar to those
through which the selenium point
passes In its plane. The dispatching APP
paratus is lncloSed In case something
like Photographic camera, fitted with
an objective, which can be so adjusted
that the picture OF the, subject to be
photographed is formed in the move
ment plane of the selenium point The
lights and shadows produced by the In.
candescent light of the receiving appa
ratus will then produce a picture iden
teal with the one at the dispatchinf
station. This picture can be made visi
Bile in various manners, either through
photography or by being looked a
directly through some magnifier. or IL
a similar manner to the one used in
magic lantern. The rapidity of tn,
movements of the selenium poin
through any one point of the pictur,
must not allow of a greater interva
than about one-eighth of a second, s.
that the corresponding impressions up
on the eye of the beholder form con
tinuous complete picture.-Westerl
| Electrician. Chicago.
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A STUDY OF CHURCH ENTER
TAINMENTS.

From June /. 1894. to June 1. 1895, l
have kept a record of the events ar
ranged by religious societies for raising
money, which have come to my atten-
tion. The record notes over two hun
dred occasions; these, of course, are
but a fraction of those which occurred
even in a limited district, but they may
be regarded as fairly typical of what
is going on in the country. Nothing
could be more disheartening, however,
than review of the list of church en-
tertainments proper-public perform
ances for money; these occupy most of
the record No attempt has been
made to gather sensational items, but
of those which have come to my at
tention more than half have features
which must be declared indecent.
These are not admitted among the
specific examples which follow.-Rev.
William Bayard Hale, in the January
Forum.
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1t seems there are number Of States
in which the increase in divorces IL
much greater than the increase in pop
an exception, the two keeping even. In
Arizona, where the population has in
creased 31S per cent. divorces have null
tiplied at the astounding rate OF 200
per cent. This is the star exhibit on
that side. IN Ohio, where the popula-
tion has increased 20 per cent, divorces
her divorces los per cent. In Illinois
the proportion of gain for divorce Is 81
to 81. and in Delaware 400 to II. 1t Is
the rather surprising fact that In Wyu-
ming, where so many divorces are
granted, the population has grown Il!
per cent and divorces only 81 per cent
Buffalo Express.
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post. 1t Is there, and no one knows or
realizes the extent or richness of Il.
when the nations are calling for more
gold to carry on the commerce OF the
world, nature reveals TO man the hid
Den storehouses where the wealth has
been stored ready against the day of
need
Brigham Young once said, looking
at the mountain peaks that wall in the
City of the Saints The hills sur
rounding us are filled with gold ana
silver. Some day 1t will be brought
from its secret places to help beautify
and build up Zlon.'
That was said before either gold or
silver had been discovered in Utah; to-
day thousands find employment in
bringing from the secret places both
gold and silver"
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GOOD ADVICE.

Mother. when your child goes to
neighbours house don't ask as soon as
he comes home: What were they do
ing?" How were they dressed?" and
WAS Miss Jennie's beau there ?"
Don't, 1 say. Do you know you are
teaching him a bad habit which will
give him the unenviable reputation of
a tattler and perhaps liar In the end :?
That is putting 1t pretty strong, but II
child is bright enough to look around
taking in all the details to be repeated
at home, is he not bright enough to
manufacture and repeat yarns to please
his mamma? The habit, once acquired
ia hard to break
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The Cheerful idiot

The saloon" said the prohibitionist
boarder, kills more men every year
than war"
why shouldn't itT asked the Cheer
full idiot. 1T gets better action, so to
speak. In battle only one ball out of
every eighty-five takes effect" In
dianapolis Journal
OF all perfumes the most popular the
world over Is violet. 1t Is the perfume
OF refinement, gentle. penetrating, re-
freshing fragrance that seems to set
the stamp of luxury and taste on all
who use II.
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A CRUEL EAST INDIAN WOMAN.

In person the Begun Somru was
small. with graceful, softly-rounded
figure, complexion of dazzling fair
ness, large black eyes full of ANNA
ton. delicately chiseled features and q
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MIRACULOUS CURES.

NJ. Littre of Paris. who recently in
vestigated a nuL4ber OF alleged mirac-
ulous cures. says that they can be ac-
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MINING THEORIES UPSET
Utah Formations Have Sur
priSed GolditeS.

A Correspondent of the. Chicago
Chronicle Writes of Camp Floyd
The Sedimentary and Volcanic Con-
troversy-Assays of Mohawk Ores
Confirm Previous Reports-Mc-
Queen Goes to the Sampson.