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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Guarding Republicans.

San Francisco, Sept % The Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Republican
State Central Committee was called
together this afternoon to devise a
plan for uniting the warning ele-
ments Of the local Republican party.
Chairman Mclaughlin believes that
the lack Of harmony is endangering
the success of the national ticket.
The committee adjourned after talk
ing over the situation, without formu-
lating a definite plan for harmony
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Beat the Record.

TIE longest string Of births ever
known in Carson is this one:
10 this city, September 26, to the
fsife Of George Pickett, a son.
In this city, September 81, to tn
wife Of Peter Fogget, a son.
In this city, September n. 1896, to
the wife Of Rev. Geo. R. King, a
daughter.
In this city, Monday, September %,
1898, to the wife Of J. d. ~TorreysoE, a
son.
All hands doing we'll. Aggregate
weight of babies, 80 pounds.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29

It is undeniable, as stated by the
London Financial News, that should
this country once cut adrift from
Europe and adopt silver coinage, we
would command the markets OF all
Spanish America and all Asia. But
ever that is Of less consequence than
that we should secu1e an ample
market of our own-with the landlord
gone.
The official newspaper organ OF the
knights Of Labor has come out in a
vigorous editorial indorsiDg Bryan
and tue Chicago platform. and urg-
ing the organization throughout the
United States to stand by free silver
against the gold standard in the
Presidential election this year. This
is the answer which the workinSmen
of the country send to men like
Pewderly aud Chief Arthur, who have
ALWAYS fawned on the rich.
LOST old, gentle, large black
mare, white hind feet and branded
] O on left shoulder. Came from
near Terra Valley. Return to Alfred.
: Chaltz, and make reasonable charg
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
The Hy, Doane Medal.

VIM. Hy. Doane secured from his
son VIII, a handsome silver medal,
enameled in blue and black. as we'll
as handsomely engraved, which he
has named the 'Hy. Doane Medal
1t will be given Saturday to the win
ner Of the one mile bicycle ace for
Carson wheelmen.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29

4li' Soi'S - 49,"
Miss Katie McCarts left for Elko
Sunday.
Ex-senator Gignoux and wife OF
DAYTON we're in town yesterday.
The first event on today's program
is a five furlong dash.
Fourteen men left fer Lundy yester-
day morning to erect a 40-stamp mill.
H. NJ. Yeringtoh and wife and
Miss Clara WATSON arrived from the
West yesterday.
Hot tamales at Muller q Richard
sons candy store tomorrow evening
Eastern advertising Office 25o-234 Tenn
pie Court Building New York City, E
katz agent.
TT. NJ. and Mrs. Y%erington and Miss
Clara WATSON arrived from Honolulu
Yesterday morning.
FOR SAIE "A l1SHt I"o-ScdtC'
spring wagon. Apply at Walsh ane
Wylie's.
Bryan and Mckinley lamp chin
neys-Get light on this subject a
Cagwin & Noteware's.
Joseph LaDgevin and family hav
moved to Lovelock's. The q. 5
Grand Jury will be drawn soon ant
this seems about the proper time TO
him to move.
There will be a dance at ArmOr
Hall Wedne oday evening. Sept. 3Ott
Given by the Turner Boys tickets az
hitting one so cents. The best {
music has been engaged for the even
T. S. Mossford, who served O.
an attachment against w. E. Lindse
Was arrested in Virginia City yeste
day Oh a charge OF obtaining none
under false pretense.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
A Tremendous Storm.

City OF Mexico. Sept, 2S.-The vest
coast Of Mexico was visited by a ire
menious storm, which caused great
damage and CONSERVATION. The town
of Alfalfa, a port Of the State Of Sinalos
is inundated, and the capital city Gull
iancana has suffered severely. Many
other towns have been flooded.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Don't like the Law.

The Silver party convention of
White Pine county endorsed the plat
form Of the State convention with the
exception of the plank relating to the
Purity Of Elections law. In regard to
that law the White Piners say that it
is better calculated to encourage and
promote perjury than purity OF elrc-
tiuQS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Piano Tuning.

H. O. Clark expert piano tuner and
repairer from San Francisco has been
in Reno for the past week and d half
and has the endorsements of the lead
ing music teachers aud musicians for
first class work, will be here 10 a few
DAYS for a short time. $50
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Wish the Strike Over.

Leadville, Col, Sept. 28.-General
Brooks, in charge Of the State troops,
said today that there is no Intention
70 withdraw even a part Of the troops.
Everything is quiet today, and a mum
Der Of local members Of the Union
who have resided here for years have
assured General Brooks they had nc
sympathy with violence and wished
the strike was over.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
ALL SORTS.

Trib cures bruises and sDrainS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
Millinery Goods!

Bessie Vivian Murphy has pur-
chased the business of Mrs. Knowles
and has greatly Increased the stock
She Invites the patronage Of The ladies
Of this city. New goods are being
constantly received and the most fas-
tidious are bound to be pleased. $50.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria.
When ste bad Chadren, she gave them Castoria.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29

ting tips from Lem Alien. The klcil
sisters list 'hiity cents apiece by fol
| ,Hing the r father advice and h.vr.
ordered him off the track for the :. 81
Of The week.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-29
CLEVELAND NOT GROVER

But a Cleveland Hydraulic Ram Beer
pump. now 10 operation at the We
and Saloon. Call and see it,
W. Wbituey. Prop.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
Observation-Disclosures OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BLOODHOUNDS GUARD TEXAS CONVICTS.


Austin. Tex, correspondence of the
New York World; Perhaps in no other
state in the union are bloodhounds
used so generally and so successfully
to capture escaped convicts as in Tex
as. The system Of dealing with con-
victs adopted by this commonwealth
makes the use of dogs almost impera-
tive, and the convcts well know the
almost inevitable result of an attempt
to escape.
There are two penitentlaries in Texas
one at Huntsville and the other at
Rusk. There are now more than 1000
convicts either at these institutions or
at some convict farm in the wilds of
the state. 1t is at these convict farms
that bloodhounds are used not only to
prevent the convicts from running
away, but also to capture them after
they have fed.
Fully $500 convicts are hired out
under Texas convict contract system,
system that enables the two peni-
tentiaries to be self-supporting and
occasionally return a profit TO the state.
About 500 Of the convicts are leased to
railroad companies, and are used to
Keep the roadbeds in repair Twice
that number are worked on farms. In
some instances the farmer hires a gang
of men, paying the state a certain sum
monthly for their work. More often
the state and the farmer enter into
partnership. The farmer furnishes
the land and the implements, while
the state furnishes the labor. In any
event, the state guards and feeds the
men, and each convict camp is visited
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
FAT WON EN-.
How to Get Thin-Diet an Important
Factor.

How to Get Thin-Diet an Important
Factor.
A great many women, convinced that
flesh is inimical to beauty-is the
"deathblow to grace" as an, arbitrary
critic puts it-injure health in the en-
deavor to reduce weight, says the New
York Tribune. They put themselves to
great trouble and inconvenience, swal-
low all sorts OF preyentives and RENE
dies in order to get thin and then stand
aghast at the spectacle of their
wrinkled, flabby faces and threats, the
result OF the falling away of flesh un.
der the elastic skin. AS a matter OF
fact, a number of the notable women
of the world, famous not only for their
beauty, but for the rarer charms of in
tellect and subtle fascination, women
who have helped to make history and
been power in their day, were of dis
tinctly generous proportions. Cleopa-
ira, she whose Infinite variety" OF
charm and temper could win stern
hearted warriors to forget their ambi-
tons, was small and stout. Marie An
toinette was Of the plump order, though
tall and of fine bearing, and, to come
down to the present day. view the
widowed Victoria, sovereign OF the
united queendom;" the increasing pro-
portions of Queen Margherita of Italy
and the generous outlines of Queen
Isabella of Spain. 1t is worthy of note
that most of the great interpreters OF
song are stout. or bordering on that
condition, and there have been lights
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
sWINDLINo sHoPKEEPERs.
New and Ingenious Devices Practiced b,
Rendez-Moi of the Capital

New and Ingenious Devices Prscticed by
Rendez-Moi of the Capital.
A fashionably dressed Partisan the
other day entered a tobacconist's shop
in the Rue st. Honore, in which several
persons were being served He select
ed cigar, which he lighted, and stood
for few moments as If waiting for
something. He then turned to the shop
girl and asked for his change out Of
the 5-shilling piece he had given. The
girl denied that she had received any,
at which he appeared very indignant
and said that if she looked in the till
she would doubtless find 1t, adding that
IL had a certain mark on 1t. The girl,
to satisfy him, looked and found s.
shilling piece marked as described,
and, apologizing for her mistake, was
about 10 give him the change when
two gendarmes, who happened to have
observed his maneuvers from the out
side, entered and took him into Gus
tody. He was taken to the commits
sary OF police, where he was recog-
nized as a skillful practitioner of the
description OF thief called rendez-moi.
His plan was to send someone into the
shop, some little time before him TO
purchase a trifilng article with a
marked 5-shilling piece, and then to
enter himself and act as described, by
which process he managed to get from
40 to 80 shillings per day.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28

on each of these farms. They sleep at
night in long, one-story frame build
ing, with iron bars at the windows.
In one end OF the building Is the kitch-
en-. The rest Of the structure is
divided by a narrow hall, with lattice
work walls. In this hall guard with
a loaded rifle is stationed. He can
keep his eyes on all the convlcts,
whether sleeping or eating, and his
presence keeps the men quiet and or
Derby. AT night the men sleep on
hunks arranged around the wall of one
OF the rooms. The other room is
used as a dining-room, and is furnish
ed with plain tables and benches.
These convict farms are scientific
ally cultivated and are regarded by
Texas capitalists as good investments.
The work is not interrupted by holt
days, camp meetings or Sunday school
picnics, and rain is the only thing that
viii stop the ploughs and hoes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28

in the literary world decidedly fat,
whether tall of stature or the reverse.
George Sand was fat and small. and
likewise Nine. DE Stael. Fashions vo-
taries will doubtless continue TO strive
after the slenderness which seems so
desirable. For those willing to sacri-
flee the promptings of appetite for the
desired aim an authority recommends
that they should regulate their days as
follows: A tumblerful of hot water
must be taken on waking in the morn
ing. Rise early and have tepid bath,
with vigorous rubbing afterward with
a flesh brush. Avoid drinking at meals
and have only three meals a day. Take
one small cup of tea at breakfast. some
dry toast, boiled fish or small cut
let and baked apple or a little fresh
fruit AT dinner. which should be at
midday. take white fish or meat, dry
toast or stale bread. vegetables and
fruit. either fresh or stewed. For sup
per. toast, salad, fruit and six ounces
of wine or water. Hot water with lem.
on Juice in it is good for supper.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
VENUS OF MILO.
Buried In an Oak Conn During tn,
franco-PrussIan War.

franco-Prussian War.
The death of NJ Henri Brest whose
name was celebrated many years ago
IN connection with the statue of Venus.
now one OF the great treasures in the
Louvre museum, brings to mind some
interesting souvenirs connected with
.nat statue, says an exchange. 1t was
indeed Nj. Henri Brest who discovered
the wonderful statue which had been
uhearthed by peasant in the island
Vi MILO and who bought it of him for
mere song in 1920. He soon sold It
u NJ de Marcellus, through whom it
reached the Louvre. The wonderful
statue remained undisturbed In the gal
iery OF the Louvre, of which IL was the
principal ornament, till the Franco
RUSSIAN war, in 1870, when the means
VI preserving it against the possible
piiiage OF the Germans caused great
anxiety to the curators. Few English
men are probably aware that the Venus
ue MILO was on that occasion placed
IN an immense sort of padded oak cof-
IN ana buried mysteriously in a great
trench made to receive il in the court
yard OF the prefecture of police. This
was done in the middle of the night, in
the presence of very few witnesses, with
the object of keeping the hiding place
OF the statue perfectly secret. 1t was
thought by the officials of the Louvre
that the statue was In perfect safety
there; but their anxiety for the fate
Oh the treasure was revived, after the
signature of peace, by the outbreak of
the commune and the setting fire to the
prefecture of police and to the Palais
dc justice opposite. Fortunately, how
ever, when that instruction had been
put down the curators of the Louvre
on once more unearthing the statue,
found 1t had suffered no deterioration.
The inscription on the pedestal of the
statue in the Louvre does not even
mention the name of NJ. Henri Brest.
1t relates simply that it was bought
by M. de Marcellus for the Marquis
de Riviere, the French ambassador, who
presented it to King Louis XVIII. in
1921.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
AUGUST HERMANN.
New President of the Municipal Inn
provement Society.

New President of the Municipal Inn
provement Society.
August Hermann, the newly elected
president of the American Society for
Municipal Improvements. was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio. thirty-seven years
ago, and has lived there ever since. For
six years he has been member of the
city board of administration. having
charge of eleven municipal depart
ments. He is also a member OF the
board of water commissioners, and has
been a member of the board OF educa-
ton. He is a self-made man. Early
In life he became printer, and worked
for several years as compoeitor on
the Cincinnati Enquirer. He gained
recognition and prominence as a citi-
zen by the interest he manifested in
public affairs. He is active in politics
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
Removing Ink from Fingers.

To the young women employed in
the Offices OF large cities one of the
most serious annoyances is the fact
that from time to time their pretty An
gers become discolored by the ink used
IN their business. IL will be of interest
to these unfortunates to know that a
number of chemicals may be employed
90 free their digits from the stain and
put them in proper condition for the
next party, but the use of these arti-
Giles Is inadvisable from the fact that
they sometimes remove the skin along
with the ink. A bit OF pumice stone,
smoothed and vigorously used on the
finger tips, will effectually cleanse
them from any stain, without the dan
ger Of causing soreness. which fire.
quently arises from the employment of
chemical preparations.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
The OPAL supcrstition.

A Topeka man, who has always
laughed at superstition and even made
his engagement ring an opal one, has
been gradually getting poorer all the
time until a short time ago. when his
wife-he had married her since-broke
the opal and threw the ring away.
since then his salary has been unex-
pectedly raised, his wife has secured
three boarders. his widowed mother
has secured her long desired pension
and two of his heaviest creditors have
died. Now he is picking up pins and
carrying rabbits feet and buckeyes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
MANY. YEARS OF PREDICTION.
Joseph 4. II. Swan, the Sage of White
Water, IA Feeble Old Man.


Water. Feeble Old Man.
Joseph c. Fl. Swan, the sage of
White Water" (Kansas). is in a feeble
condition and his services to the farm
ing communities of the west have not
made him a rich man. Weather fore
casting is not profitable business and
the old man is now travelling about the
country selling his book for a living.
"Old Probs" Swan was born in
Wayne county, Ind, where the city of
Richmond now stands on July 8. 1921.
He came to Kansas in 1875. Mr.. Swan
received little or no education, and that
fact made weather prophet of him.
He began to make daily records of the
weather and finally discovered that it
moved in cycles of twenty years. The
repetition of severe frost in his
twenty -seven years of daily observa-
ton led him to go over his data, and
TO his surprise he learned that he was
repeating or duplicating his past rec
ords. Making this discovery in Sep
TENDER, 1868, the following January he
wrote brief forecast to cover the next
four years. After coming to Kansas he
wrote an article or two for the press
and began to write for the Kansas far
mer His readers began to call for the
publication OF his predictions and in
1880 he printed volume of prognosti-
cations covering forty-six years. He
claims that all his predictions have
come true. Between his weather rec
ords and his experiments he is believed
by many TO be the best posted man as
to farming now living. He does his
forecasting from history. covering cen
turtles of the past in addition to the
proof of his records. He has looked up
statistics and meteorological reports as
far back as can be found in America.
He refused an appointment in the
weather department some years ago,
preferring to remain at his home here
and be independent. He has an hon
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
Not to he Pleased.

In a well-known bank in Edinburgh
the clerks are presided over by rath
er impetuous manager, whose violent
fits of temper very often dominate his
reason. For instance, the other day he
was wigging one Of them about his bad
work. Look here, Jones'" he thun-
dered, this won't do! These figures
are a perfect disgrace to clerk! 1
could get an Office boy to make better
figures than those, and / tell you |
won't have IL! Now. look at that 5. 1t
looks just like g. What do you mean.
sir, by making such beastly figures?
Explain Teri beg pardon, sir"
suggested the trembling clerk, his
heart fiuttering terribly; "but-er-
well, you see. sir, it is g." "A 80"
roared the manager. why, you idiot,
1t looks just like a So And then the
subject was dropped for an indefinite
period.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28

at frequent intervals by an inspector,
who reports the condition to the state
prison board.
These convict farms are usually To-
Gated in unsettled regions, in order
that the prisoners may be isolated
from honest labor and incentives TO
run away. One guard is assigned to
every eight men, and, rife in hand, re-
mains near them while they are at
work. Should one of his charges run
away no excuse is accepted from the
guard. He is at once discharged and
efforts are made to catch the runaway.
BIoodhounds for the Trail.
There is a pack of bloodhounds at
each of these convict farms. These
dogs, trained from puppyhood to look
upon man as natural enemy, are
never allowed to become familiar with
any man but their keeper, who is
known as the dog sergeant. When
the convicts are at work in the fields
the dogs are always under leash near
by in the care of their trainer. When
convict attempts to escape four or
FIVE dogs are released and put on the
trail, while the trainer and guards fol-
low them as closely as possible.
AS a rule, convicts attempt to
escape during the late summer, when
ihe corn is high enough to offer a hid
ing place. or when working in n re-
Gently cleared field that is surrounded
by brush and underwood that will offer
security from the rife of the guard.
AT such times when a convict can hide
himself by a short run, the temptation
TO make a dash for liberty is too
strong to resist, and the convict runs
away. Within few minutes the dogs
are on his trail, and his capture Is
usually a matter only of few hours.
Negro convicts attempt to escape
much more frequently than white men,
but their attempts are rarely success
full.
When the hounds are released and
mt on the trail they follow their quar-
nv RAPIDLY. and the keeper is compell-
ed 10 keep we'll up with them. lie
knows we'll that when the convict IL
run to bay the dogs would make shor,
work of him unless he is there TO cail
them off. Negroes when attempting 90
escape usually act in concert, and sew
eral start at once. They walk III
streams. swim rivers and resort 70
other tricks to throw the dogs OF the
scent; but these tactics rarely aNail'
Cor the dogs are put on the trail too
soon after the escape 20 let the run
away get far.
Texas Convist Farm.
From 80 to 100 conyiets are woiKeu
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
The Cow aud the Ring.

A gold ring that is supposed to have
spent nearly two years in cows
stomach was sent the other day to its
owner. young lady OF Homestead.
Pa. Two years ago the young lady
was visiting on dairy farm near here.
and while in the barn picked up kit
fen and tossed IL in pile of chop and
bran. With the kitten went the gold
ring from her finger, which could not
no found. and was given up and finally
forgotten. Several days ago Edward
ZONES. a Suterville butcher, bought n
COW from Frank Hough, the dairyman,
and when the COW was killed the ring,
with the young lady's name engraved
upon II. was found In its stomach.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
GLASS AND GLASS MAKING.

Flexible glass was known in Persia
in 1910
Strass invented the glass that bears
his name in 1760.
The revival OF glass making at Ven
ice occurred in 1888.
Thevart discovered the art of cast
ing plate glass in 1866.
window glass was manufactured at
Pittsburg, Pa, in 1908.
Experiments in glass making were
instituted in New York in 1872.
A flint glass mandatory was estab-
lished at Sandwich, Mass, in 1926.
In 1747 Connecticut granted to Thom-
as Darling the exclusive right to make
glass in the colony.
Plate glass windows for coaches were
made at the duke of buckingham
works, London, in 1873.
Flexible glass was reinvented In
France in 1920. but the art was again
lost with the death of the inventor.
Flint glass was rediscoyered by the
English in 1915. Ir the same year coal
was substituted by Sir Robert Man
ssR inStead os wood as fue. ~ H5-ss-
making.