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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-28
FOR cOMMIssIoNER-sHoRT TERN,
JOHN HIBBETS.
PLATFORM.

l. The Democracy of Elko county
in convention assembled hereby re-
news it's fealty to the party organized
by Jefferson and perpetuated by
jackson and Bryan, and pledges it's
unwavering support to the great
principles underlying the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
2. Believing that the free coinage
of silver will bring prosperity to the
people Of the United States and
furnish sufficient amount Of honest
money to carry on the business of the
country and alleviate the want and
misery that followed the demonetiza-
ton in 1878, We hereby declare our
selves in favor of the FREQ and un-
limited coinage of silver at the
present legal ratio of lG to l, without
waiting for the consent or assistance
OF any other nation.
3. We unequivooally endorse the
platform adopted by the National
Democratic convention held in the
City OF Chicago in the month OF July,
1896, and unreservedly pledge the
support of the Democracy of Elko
county to the gallant nominees of
that convention for President and
Vice Observation-Disclosures j Bryan of
Nebraska and Arthur Sewall of
Maine.
4. The course vi Uur Senators and
Representative in Congress on the
silver question meets with our hearty
approval.
5. We are in favor OF an honest
and economical administration of
State and county affairs and insist
that the money collected from the
people shall be honestly and iudici-
ously expended for the purposes for
which it is collected.
6. The nominees of this conven-
ton for County Commissioners are
hereby pledged TO use the strictest
economy in the expenditure Of money
appropriated for the Improvement of
our county roads to the end that
taxpay ers OF the county shan get
value received for the money thus
expended.
Z. We congratulate the people Of
the State OF Nevada who favor the
free coinage OF silver on the action of
the National Democratic convention
In the adoption Of it's platform and
placing thereon candidates of the
ability, honesty and integrity OF
William j. Bryan and Arthur Sewall
and we invite all voters in this
county who are in harmony with the
Chicago platform and candidats to
unite with the Democratic party ia
the support OF the ticket nomin cd
by this convention.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-28
WAGES IN VARIOUS SILTE::
COUNTRIES

II the gold nakes for high and the
silver standard for low wages, how
comes it that gastitters receive S14.O
a week in Columbia and Sl8 in Venc-
zuela. both silver standard countries.
and but S4.0S in Germany and S3.49
in Italy, both on gold basis?
How comes it that cigar makers re-
ceive $l2.5O and tinsmiths Sl4 III
silver stand .rd Venezuela, and S4.sU
and 50, respectively in gold standard
Spain?
How comes it that distiuers receive
SIP per week in Mexico and but S3.JU
in Denmark.
How comes it that cabinet
makers receive $40 in Ecuador and
but Sl.2j in Germany, blacksmiths
Sl2.S3 in Venezuela and but $3.50 il
Italy, telegraph operators S1l.5O III
Mexico and but $3.50 in Denmark,
engravers Sl9.75 in Peru and but s.
Spain?
If the gold standard makes uni
formly for high wages, why Is there
such tremendous difference in the
wage rate of gold standard countries?
The aveage weekly wages Of brick
layers in the United States is S2i.1e,
In Spain $3.50. in Canada SlS and in
Italy 81 20, yet all are OH gold basis
Hold carriers average 1888 in the
United States and but Sl.7O III Italy.
plumbers $780, in Canada and 1926
Spain, $40 in the United States and
$3.50 in England, S13.35 in New
South Wales and $425 in Germany
all gold standard countries.
Coopers get 81 80 in China and $40
in Ecuador; reasons $3.50 in Japan
and $3.50 in Mexico; butchers S2.68 in
Persia and Sl23 in Peru; cigar
makers 81 40 in China and $3.50 in
Vepezuela-all silver standard coun-
tries. Yet the gold bugs ask the
workingman to believe that upon the
unit OF value depends the scale of
wages!
Carnegie, Mark Hanna and Nc
Kin1ey are wonderfully interested in
the welfare of the workingman--in
perfect agony lest he commit in
dustrial harikari! Will they please
inform us how the gold standard is to
prevent American wages going to the
English levelH Will they kindly take
a day off and explain how the adop.
ton of the gold standard by China
would raise her wage rate to parity
with that of New South Wales-while
that Of England, Germany, Denmark,
Belgium, France, ltaly, Spain and
Switzerland remains so far below that
of Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
and Venezuela? And when they
have explained this matter to the
satisfaction of tho public. will they
explain why gold standard Spain is
decaying, while silver standard
Mexico is going forward with giant
strides? If silver is the bette noir Of
industry, why is it that Texas begs in
vain for capital to develop the poten-
tial wealth Of her fertile fields, virgin
forests and fecund mines, while
millions upon millions Of Eastern and
European capital pours across her in
to Mexico? The people are tired Of
your Internal sophistry; now talk
-sense.--Brann's Iconolast.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-28
m pur@ 9

Blood is the prime cause of most
Of our bodily Ills, but it is often
difficult to convince people their
blood is impure, until dreadful
carbunclcs, assesses, boils, scro!-
ula or salt rhcum, are painful proof
Of the fact. 1t is wisdom now, or
whenever there is any Indication Of
impure blood, to take Hoods S;r-
saparilla, and prevent such cup
tons and suffering.
"I had dreadful carbuncle abscess,
red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor
attended me over seven weeks. When
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-28
FACTS ABOUT FURS.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Is the Leading City
In the Business.

The Best Furs Como from tho North
western states-Many of tho Fur
Bearing Animals Have Been Al
most Totally Exterminated.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
How a Letter May lie Recalled.

The public is not as familiar with
its privileges about postal matters as
might he supposed, says the Boston
Transcript. Many times people would
like to recall letter after 1t has been
mailed. This can be done, even if the
letter has reached the postolfice Of its
destination. At every pos+oifice there
ore what are called "withdrawul
blanks" On application they will be
furnished, and when deposit is made
to cover the expense, the postmaster
will telegraph to the postmaster at the
letters destination asking that it DO
promptly returned. The applicant first
signs this agreement SIT is hereby
agreed that, ii the letter is returned
to me- will protect you from any and
all claims mato against you for such
return, and will fully idemnify you
for any loss You may sustain by reason
OF such action. And l herewith de.
post s. to cover all expense incurred,
and will deliver to YOU the envelope
Of the letter returned" In many
cases persons have made romittances
to fraudulent parties or irresponsible
firms, not learning their true character
until after the letter had gone, ead
have succeeded in recalling them.-
Boston Transcript.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
GrCWscNle Inventions.

If one may judge from the patent
records, lave people do II good deal Of
thinking about death. The very latest
device that las been applied to burial
appliances is the "coiliu torpedo, :"
winch is desi gnctl as en- effective and
very summary punishment for body
snatcllers. Nothing less than u bomb
is introduced into the coffin, before
the latter is closed, the arrangement
being such--vc spare the reader NIL
technical dct@1ls-that any attempt to
force it opcn will release a spring,
strike percussion cap, and set off the
bomb. The thing is done, and tho
robber is tloating Ill pieces about the
air long before lie las had any time
to prepare for his sudden journey.
But what happens to tho corpse?
The inventor leaves US in the dark on
this point-pro5ably because The CUES
ton is hard to answer. We arc afraid
the coffin torpedo has no very brilliant
iusHre, on this account, and for the
further reason that local authorities
(wAo are notoriously difficult to deal
with) might object to have their burial
grounds studded with Internal ma.
chimes.
A device much more reasonable is
the "grave annunciator," for use in
case OF burial alive. Any disturbance
in the coffin closes IN electric circuit,
and springs al alarm in the house Of
the superintendent, who takes note of
the number OF the grave, and proceeds
without further delay to Dig up the
victim. For the benefit OF those whose
relatives have been cremated, another
inventor has patented process for
converting the ashes OF the defunct,
by the aid OF silicate of soda, into
paste which is to be moulded into
bust or statuette. -Tit.Bits.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
Bonanza Fortunes Gone.

California has long had reputation
as the home OF tho bonanza king, and
recently issued document, based on
the records OF the San Francisco Pro.
bate Court, and published by tho Den
yer Field and Farm, tells an interest
ing story Of the contests and entangle-
ments which have massed about the
last testament OF many famous million
aires and the final disposition of the
vast sums they lett behind them. The
document gives the history of fifty
three wills, disposing of $l75, 900, 900.
About four hundred heirs divided that
vast sum, and to-day nearly half Of
that number are penniless again, and
only q Few have succeeded in adding
to their inheritance.
The average number Of persons pro.
yidcd for in each will was ten, though
in a number Of instances, the most
notable OF which was the case of
Florence Blythe, the entire estates
passed into the hands Of single heirs,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
Gratitude il Tigers.

Apropos OF how Wallace, one Of tho
forcest lions at the New York $780,"
had decsyed tooth extracted, the
Pail Mall Gazette recalls more diff
cult operation which was successfully
performed III the geological Gardens,
Dublin, few years ago. One OF the
finest tigers in the collection was
threatened with gangrene in its paw
the claw having become distorted and
grown into the foot. The Rev. Sam
uel HausLton, NJ. d., Senior Fellow Of
Trinity College, Dublin, and o we'll
known parsonage in the Irish metrop.
oils, undertook to perform tho dan
gerous experiment OF operating on the
paw.
The mate of the tiger was first se-
cured in side den. A net was thrown
over the tiger, and lie was drawn for
ward to the door OF the cage. Four
stout keepers then held the feetof the
struggling animal While Professor
Haughtou cut away the diseased claw.
The suffering beast furiously endeav-
ored to get at him during the opera
ton, but the rage of the tigress look.
ing on through the bars attho side den
was much more terrible. She roarcd
and flung herself violently again and
again against the barriers in he: mad
desire to 20 to the rescue Of her mate.
When the tigress was admitted to
the cage after the wound of her mate
had been dressed and the net removed.
she turned UP the paw and examined
it with touching solieitude, and then
licked her mate, as cat licks its kit
ten, to soothe him, purring softly the
while. But perhaps the most extra
ordinary part OF the affair was the
seqnel. A week later Professor
H"ug WAS sgain at tie 'Zoo" to
see how his patient was going on.
When the animal espied him he began
to purr like 81 Cat, allowed him to ex.
anime his paw, and seemed pleased
that he should do so. Indeed. tor
years atterward the tiger and tlgress
showed themselves most friendly md
grateful to Professor Haughton. SAP
Francisco Chronicle.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
How I'liimbles Arc Made.

The thimble is q Dutch invention,
and the first one was made in 1854 by
silversmith named Nicholas Van
Benschoten. Originally it WAS called
"tlumbell" because it Vas worn on
the thumb.
In making thimbles the gold and
silver ipgots are rolled out into sheets
OF the desired thickness and cut by u
stamp into circular pieces Of any re.
CURED size. These circular pieces ere
bent into thimble shape by means Of
q solid-metal bar that is OF the same
size as the inside of the intended thin.
bic; this bar is moved by machinery
up and down in bottomless mold of
the outside OF the same thimble, and
each time the bar dcscends it presses
one Of the circular pieces or disks into
timble shape.
When the thimblo is shaped th,
next work is to brighten, polish and
decorate it. First the blank thimble
is fitted with a rapidly revolving rod.
A slight touch Of Il sharp chiselcuts a
very thin shaving from the end of the
thimble, second chisel does the same
on the side, and q third neatly rounds
off the rim. A round steel rod, we'll
oiled, is held against the surface OF tho
revolving thimble, and it is thus given
a nice polish; the inside is frightened
aud polished in a similar manner, tho
thimb.e being held in o revolving
mold.
Then delicate revolving steel
wheel with raised, ornamental edge,
is pressed against the blank tbimble
and prints the ornament seen just out.
side the rim. Another steel wheel
covered with sharp points makes tiny
indentations all over the remaining
blank surface OF the thimble.
The last operation is to wash it
thoroughly in soapsuds, to br1sh it
carefully, and it is ready for N = lady'a
work basket.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
How to Make Cracker JACK.

Long before anyone thought OF sell
ing the candy Tint increases Jour ap.
petite rather than satisfies it. little
Southern girl thought out the recipe
Tor herself. She was very fond OF pop.
corn, also of mo|asscs candy, and it
occurred to her that it would not be q
bad plan to mix them. There was an
old hunting dog in the family, who
had the same tastes, and when his
mistress went into the Kitchen to mako
her favorlte delicacy, he went, too,
and sat near the stove, with his great
eyes fixed wistfully upon her and his
mouth fairly dropping wafer as he
smelled the good rich smell. Hc al.
ways got generous share OF the
candy rs soon Us it was done. This is
the way that little girl made it then,
and the way she makes it now for her
own children, who like it as we'll as
she did.
Tne corn she always preferred, if
she could get it. was the squirrel
tooth n,and, it possible, that which
was year old. She shelIed and
popped the corn, sometimes in 6 pop.
per, but often in tin pan with a pie.
plate for cover. BY shaking the pan
as soon as the corn gets hot, the corr
will pop as we'll in this fashion Us in
regular pepper. After the corn was
popped, she set an iron skillet on the
ire, with cupful of molasses, piece
OF butter the size Of walnut, and
saltspoonful Of salt in it, and cooked
the mixture until, on dropping q little
into cup of cold water, it would
candy. Then she set it Oh the back OF
the stove, where it would not cook any
more, and stirred into it just as much
OF the popped corn as she possibly
could. The more corn the better the
candy. Then she would take up the
pieces Of corn on the top OF tue skillet,
which had the least candy on them,
and pat them into cakes, or roll them
into balls. Next, she would stir III
more popcorn, and repeat the process,
and SO GU, until she had used up all
the candy. She would set the cakes
in buttered dish away to cool, and
afterward she and the dog would have
d feast. Chicago Timcs.H Herald.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
Universal Collecting Mania.

"For goodness sake," be clied, II
never saw anything like this collecting
mania"
cts avery instructive amusement.
eyes, may be, but not for rue.
There's ny daughter Agnes; she's
collecting buttons and asks me every
day to go round to the headquarters
to get her some, and I must buy of
every street falsir l pass or she doesn't
like 1t. There's my daughter Lucy,
she goes over all of my letters and
cuts off the monograns, destroying
them. I don't like her to do it, bnt !
can't stop it. She says some internal
nonsense about it's being all the
rage. Then my son Tom is just as
bad. He asks mo for postage stamps
and cuts them of the letters before I
read them in the morning. And they
are always having something new to
collect: Every member OF my family
is collector"
''How about your wife,"
ooh, she's worse than any OF them.
She says she's collecting coins, and
makes it IN excuse for going through,
my pockets every time. She calls it
being numismatist. I think itshould
lie called kleptomania." Just then
man with bill entered the Office.
II am" he began, "a collector
for"
'Confound you, then, GET" cried
the in|uriated man. II am collector
myself. ! am trying to collect my
senses" --Chlcago Times-He:ald.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

An Idaho nan has $4,000 sheep.
Amsterdam has 4 OIL karat dia-
hond.
a Belfast ME-. man has played &C..
400 games Of cribbage with his wife.
Mary Marks, colored, who resides in
Brennan, Texas, was born in the West
Indies in 1776, and is therefore lo0
years old.
Teapots were the invention Of either
the Chinese or the Indians, and are of
uncertain antiquity. They came to
Europe with tea in 1910.
It is said that tortoise shell combs,
chaius and other objects, when broken,
can be repaired by heating the oppos-
ing surfaces, and pressing them TO-
gether.
A cane worth $4,000, q gift from
some friends, is carried by DR.. H. Il.
Hale, of Detroit, Mich. 1t is orna-
mentod with gold and jewels, and in
the head is fine watch.
The Rev. Father Peter Adair, Of ST.
Louis, Mo-, called upon i'll the young
men in his congregation one morning
recently, who were wearing motto
buttons to hand them to him.
For two hours come boys in New
York kicked small bundle about the
size OF baseball around the streets
and played catch with it. Finally tho
bundle was opened and $3.50 in notes
was found within.
Along Butler Creek, Oregon, has
appeared vine that when above the
ground will leave the root and cling
to any yegetntlon to which it can at
tach itself and through which it can
draw nourishment.
At Ambaston, in Derbyshire, Eng
land, there is loaf OF bread 600
years old. It was included in grant
OF land from the crown in the reign OF
King John, and has remeied in the
Soar family ever since. =.
When little daughther OF Mrs.
John Kelly, Of Anderson, Ind, ap-
peared at tho scat hole" in the side Of
the house her mother mistook her for
cat and threw hot water over her, dis
figuring her face for life.
A telephone wire in Springfield,
No.. was unintentlonally connected
with tho fire alarm wiresa and when
the telephone was tested the fire de.
partment WAS aroused by long.con-
tinuedNfalse alarm, which for several
minutes kept the fireman on an exas'
perating hunt.
Carrier pigeons have been used for
great many purposes, one OF the
latest being on board fishing boats,
whence they ore let loose in the morn
ing when the nets or lines are hauled.
with "a message attached to their
wings, informing the curer or agent
on shore OF the amount of the catch
and when the boat is likely to arrive.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
Evils Of kvaSt l'olce.

The coffee eating habit is on Wv, !.
crease and doctors shy there AZ, " !;
worse. Coffee, when eaten !. loss s'.k
productive Of o train Of ills tnas - 81
result in complete physical ana Nv
prostration.
The trouble is more prc7alens sI ~
young girls than any one else 49,
eat parched coffee without any ~.
object, just as they eat soapsso..a ~
pencils, but with much more ]. ~ !,
trous results. The coffee ess
comes weak and emecisted, .a ~.
plezion is muddy md sallos, ! y
petite poor, digestion fa'p'u
nerves ell unstrung. ~
Roast coffee will give q rev f. lI
OF exhi'aration, followed WIZ
weakness. The victims new. III
when deprived OF the accustomed
ulant. New York Journal.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-12-19
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Generally speaking, We say thet the
J curvature of the earth amounts to
| about seven inches to the statute mile;
it is exactly 800 inches, or 1902 ill.,
ches for q geographical mile.
Snow appears white because it is an
aggregation of an infinite number of
minute crystals, each rejecting ali the
colors of the rainbow; these colors,
| uniting before they reach the eye,
cause it to appear white to every nor
NAL eye.
DR.. Correct. ofBerlin, collected dust
from the walls and headboards of beds
in which tuberculous patients had
been confined, and found that in ff-
teen cases out OF twenty.one the dust
was capable of iacculating animals
with the disease.
Professor Thomson, in his address
to Section A Of the British Association
recently. sums up our knowledge IN re-
gard to the true nature OF X rays in
the following words: "rhough there
is no direct evidence that they are q
kind Of light, there are no properties
of the RAYS which are not possessed by
some variety of light"
4 sun dial made tor London would
bs useless for either Paris or Edin-
burgh. The altitude Of the pole star
varies with the latitude, and hence is
greater at Edinburgh, and less at
Paris than ut London; and as The
stylus must always point to the polar
star, the angle it makes with the dial
plate must vary with the latitude.
It has been proven that the iucan-
descent electric lamp does not
"smoke" the ceiling, as has been
claimed, but that the smoky effect is
due to dust. Tue heat Of the lamp nat
urally causes q current Of air to arise,
and the consequence is that there is
more dust deposited on the ceiling
above the lamp than anywhere else.
Doctors D'Arsonval and Charrin, OF
Paris, have been taking the tempera-
ture of the human internal organs.
Tue7 find that the temperature is
highest in the normal liver, which is
one degree centigrade warmer than the
intestlnes; then follow in a decreasing
ratio the spleen, the heart, the kid.
ncys, the marrow, the brain, the mus.
cles and the skin.
DR.. Burton Ward, according to the
Medical Age, declares that there ''ls
one infallib'e symptom indicating
whether one is sane or not. Let per
son speak ever go nationally and act
ever SO sedately, if his or her thumbs
remain inactive there is no doubt of
insanity. Lunatics seldom make use
of their thumbs when writing. draw
ing or saluling."