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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-06-20
20 REcOGNITloN ron CUBANs.

NV MENUsENhKAVN FUN CGBAN0
The announcement is made, with
out qualification, from the State
Department that President Cleve-
land intends taking no action with
respect to the Cuban revolution.
Neither he nor Secretary Olney
deemed it advisable that this i'll
formation should become public un-
til Congress adjourned, as it was
feared that were it known the ses-
sion would be protracted until a
joint resolution recognizing Cuban
belligerency could be rushed
through both houses. This is pre-
cisely what the President did not
want Congress to do, as such a res
olution would be mandatory in
character and require either his
signature or a veto. To sign it.
would result in war between the
United States and Spain. The
President has been assured by the
Spanish Minister, Mr.. Dupuy De-
lone, that such result could not
be averted, much as he and the
Spanish Government would deplore
it. 1t is the Presidents hope that
the conditions in Cuba will 80
change before the reassembling Of
Congress in December as to make
his course with reference to that.
unhappy struggle more easy.
The most perfect understanding
exists between the Madrid and
Washington Governments respect
ing the Cuban revolution Senior
Dupuy Delome has repeatedly ac-
quainted Secretary Olney, both or
ally and in writing, Of the high
which the Spanish
Ministry entertain Of the position
assumed BY this Government with
reference to Cuba. Through their
Minister al Washington and Other
sources they are familiar withathe,
strong pressure which public lnnen
and others lbreught TO bear nponsthe
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-06-20
$4,000
Given Away
Every Month

to the person submitting the
most sAeritOrioas iMventi0n
during the preceding month.
WE SECURE PATENTS
FOR IN VENTORS. and the
object Of this offer is to en-
courage persons of an invent
i've turn of mind. At tbs
same time we wish TO impre IS
the fact that :: ::
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-06-20
OFFicIAL DIRECTORY.

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The Republican., 1896-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1t is estimated by paper makers
that the consumption of paper for
books is only six per cent. of the entire
manufacture, the greater portion made
being used in the form of wrapping
paper or paper for the newspaper
press.
The United States Tobacco Journal
declares that the bicycle has caused a
reduction for the last year of over 700,-
100000 in the consumption of cigars,
the reason assigned being that men sell
dom smoke while riding wheel.
In machine sizing" that is, the
sizing of paper by a machine process,
solution of gelatine is employed. The
quality of the gelatine used depends
upon the kind of paper to be made
For the finest qualities of note paper
the best grades of gelatine must be
employed.
"A room in the Lawrence house at
Exeter, n. H., has on its walls the orig
inal paper that it's former proprietor,
the late lothian Lawrence, imported
fNon Italy at great expense when the
house was built, in 1909. 1t is known
as landscape paper and is made up of
scenes of the bay of Naples, no picture
being duplicated.
An old-time cart of kind that is
now very rare, even in the remoter
southern districts, was driven into the
market place at Lynehbarg' the USher
day. 1t was homemade, of course eVhe
wheels were solid blocks of who'd,
shaped round or nearly so. The body
OF the cart was four feet high A
diminutive red steer was pulling the
wagon, wizened old darky was driv-
ing it, and it contained the darky's lit
tie crop of tobacco.
OF the 4,914 sealsltins brought into
Port Townsend, Wash, during the sea-
son just closed, 1850 were of female
seals, an indication of the rate at which
the seal herds are being destroyed. 1t
is said by those who have been with the
sealing fleets that more than half of the
females killed were either nursing pups
or were graved. The skins brought
into Port Townsend only represent
about one-eighth of the total catch Of
sealing fleets.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
NOTES BY THE WAY.

The devil has hold of the boy whose
father is moderate drinker.
Victoria, in Australia, is following
in Falstaff's footsteps. 1t has 1,174,00
inhabitants. Last year they spent $751;
900 for drink, about $50 fcr each
adult male, and only half as much for
breadstutfs.
So long ago as January 20, 1894, the
Wine and Spirit Gazette printed in its
columns carefully prepared statement
showing 100000 liquor-dealers in New
York state, to which it added an average
of two barkeepers of other employees
each, making 100000 voters directly in
terested in the sale of liquors.
There is hardly any doubt that the
readiness of many foolish people to
laugh over the drunkenness of Others,
to treat intoxication as a subject and
occasion for fun, is calculated to en-
courage rather than to reform or avert
intemperance. There is just as little
doubt that the habit of ridiculing, abus-
ing or degrading an unfortunate per-
son who happens to fall between his
cups does quite as much in the sad work
of making and confirming drunkards.-
| Dallas News.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
AN EXCITING RACE.
A Deer, Panther and Locomotive Have a
Race in the Florida Woods


Race In the Florida Woods.
c. c. Taylor, engineer of the Pablo
railroad, has pulled throttle for So
years, and during that time he has had
many novel experiences, but a few DAYS
ago he had one that has no parallel
in his life's history.
1t was during the run from Pablo to
Jacksonville. Conductor r. Rogero
pulled the bell-cord to leave Pablo at
five p. m. The train slipped out of the
depot and sped for home. About eight
miles this side of Pablo is Cedar swamp,
n tangled morass in which bears, wild
cats, deer, and even panthers have been
often killed. When about half way
through the swamp an immense buck,
wild-eyed and iathered with sweat.
made clean leap of 25 feet to the track,
within 60 feet of the engine. An in
stant later there was a crash of the
underbrush, and out of it came an i'm
seemed to be lever wftfI t1re -e;roIriu.
He was so eager to catch the game
ahead of him that he had no eye for
the train.
Passengers in the five coaches did not
know of the exciting race going on
ahead of the cowcatcher, but they did
notice that there was q series of quick
and successive jerks, and that the train
was spinning along through the swamp
at a whizzing pace. 1t was at this time
that Engineer Taylor resolved to take
a hand in the race himself. He pulled
the throttle wide open and the engine
fairly bumped herself.
The deer was about 100 yards ahead,
and the panther was 80 yards behind
the deer. The deer was barely holding
his own. Something seemed to be the
matter with him, for he didn't run as
he should. The deer kept the track for
u half mile. Before he left the track,
however, the engine crawled close upon
the panther. He heard the rumbling of
the wheels and the trembling of the
track, and he quickly got out of the
way, hiding himself in the underbrush
by a series of successive and graceful
leaps.
The deer did not quit the track until
quarter of mile farther on. He
took to the open pine woods on the op-
posite side to which the panther had
leaped, and the last seen of him he was
still running like chain lightning.
! Conductor Rogero went ahead to see
what was up when the train was run
ming so fast, but only got there in time
, to see the deer scudding through the
, woods. He told few of the passen'
gers, but none of them was fortunate
!, enough to catch a glimpse of the buck
Mr.. Rogero says that deer have fre
; quently jumped on the track on the
!, Pablo run, and before this have had {
: race with the train, but this is the frs
time he ever heard OF panther getting
mixed up in any of the incidents.-Flor
ida Times-Union.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

To render linen, cotton or muslin
fncombustible dip it in a solution of
common alum.
-Creamed onions are simply small.
white onions boiled in salted water and
dressed with hot cream and butter.
Pound cake (measured in cup, and
always reliable).-Two cups butter,
three cups sugar, three cups flour, eight
eggs, rind and juice of one lemon
Prairie Farmer.
beef Croquettes.-Take any remains
of cold meat, chop fine, add twice the
quantity of mashed potatoes, well sea-
soned, one beaten egg. Form into cakes
and fry in hot butter.
Steamed Indian Bread.-One pint
of sweet milk and one of sour, three
pints of Indian meal and one of flour.
one cupful of molasses, one teaspoonfuL
of soda, one OF salt. Steam one hour.
then bake one hour. Either eat warnr
or cold.-N. Y. Ledger.
Minute Biscuit.-One pint sour milk
Or buttermilk, one teaspoonful Soda
two teaspoonfuls melted butter. Flour
to make dough just stiff enough to han
die. Mix, roll and cut out rapidly with
as little handling as may be, and bake
in Il quick ovcn.-Marion Harland, in
Farm and Fireside.
Fig Layer Cake.-One cupful Of
sugar and one mixing spoonful round
ing full of butter creamed together, one
egg, one cupful of milk, in which dis
solve one teaspoonful of soda, two level
cupfuls of -four in which two teaspoon
fulS of cream of tartar are mixed. Beat
thoroughly and bake in two layers
Good Housekeeping.
Apple Compote.-Pare the apples,
cut the cores out, leaving them whole;
make syrup, allowing three-fourths
of a pound of sugar to pound Of fruit;
when it comes to boil put in the apples
and let cook until tender, but they
should remain whole. Remove the
apples to glass bowl, and dissolve one
third of a box of gelatine in half-cupfuL
of hot water and stir briskly into the
syrup, first taking off the fire. Then
strain it over the apples. When cold,
heap whipped cream over it. This
makes very presentable dish for tea
or Observation-Disclosures.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

men are engaged. sobriety on the part
of all employees is essential to the con-
duct of business. The clerks and
statesmen in the great stores of our
cities must always be sober men. In
every pursuit of our times, in all the
professions, intemperance is barrier
to success. The man of drinking hab-
its, the tippler, is pretty sure to be
'blacklisted" wherever he goes. Even
employers WI o drink on occasions
themselves will not employ men who
have the habit.
The industrial world has been entire
ly revolutionized in so years. 1t is
under which the chief industries have
been organized within a generation,
largely through the uses of mechanism,
that we can best account for the
lessening of the drinking habit. We
do not overlook the influence of ath-
letics or bicycling, much less that of
the moral agencies; but above any
other influence, we reckon that of the
new industrial forces and systems.
To bring the matter down to it's last
anal. is, it is just like this: When you
touch a mans pocket, you in effect
touch the nerve which controls his ap-
petites. When men understand that
the line of advancement to prosperity
and wealth is along the path of sobri-
ETY., they will eschew the drink habit.
The modern revolution in industry,
the dawning of the mechanical age, is
a business factor which is lending eff
ficient aid to pulverize the rum power.
-Toledo Blade
The Republican., 1896-01-02
DON'T READ THE NEWSPAPERS.
Men Who Don't Care for Things of Con-
temporaneous Interest.

tempOraneOuS Interest,"
It NAV seem strange, but it is fact,
nevertheless, that you occasionally ma
a man who, by his own admission, never
reads the newspapers-not because ne
doesn't know how, nor of dimness ol
eyesight, but for the simple reason that
he has no desire TO. If an observing
student of human nature will study the
mental qualities of such men he Will
with few exceptions lind them 10 De
arrow-minded in the extreme. Ihe
horizon of their ideas is often circum-
scribed by their own dooryard, and sell
dom extends beyond the limits OF the
immediate community in which they
live. Ask such man what the distance
is from Harvard to Chicago, or what
| state borders Illinois on the south,
questions that the average schoolDoy
can answer, and the prospects are he
has forgotten, if he ever did know. Why
| I have in mind person in Harvard who
thinks himself mighty heavy weight
| Il mean intellectually who was heard
to ask the question a few years ago
| upon hearing a commercial salesman
recount some of the daring deeds of the
great confederate leader, Gen. Lee, il
the war, "if the critter was still living.
This is no fairy tale, but an absolute
fact. The idea 1 wish to convey in thu
strongest possible language in this con
nection is that to deprive an enlight
ened man of his newspaper, whether i
be the most obscure weekly m the stat
or the ablest metropolitan daily in th
land, is to take away his mental foot
and he is in torment until it is restore'
to him. If"ignorance is bliss" the mai
who never reads may be as happy a
the one who does, but the latter viii
find no pleasure in the formers society
for the reason that he finds it Difficult
; to confine his ideas within the narroN
J scope of the man who never reads
ewspaper.-Harvard Herald.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
Drink Bill of Victoria.

The Victorian drink bill for 1894 was
e3,739,0 900 for population of 1,174,ooo.
These figures formed the text of an adj
dress recently delivered in Melbourne
by Mr.. Justice Hodges. The learned
Judge stated that, putting aside from
the calculation women and children,
who did not consume any considerable
proportion of liquor, and reckoning the
adult males of the colony at about one
in five of the population, he found that
each adult male, exclusive of professed
Rechabites, consumed drink to the
value of 6 16 per annum. This would
give each adult male SO gallons of beer
% bottles of wine and is bottles OF
spirits per annum.-Belfast Witness.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT,

Scientific Explanation of Brain Defects
Caused by Inebriety.
A certain class of inebriates have
arrested cerebral development and mall
formations. Certain organs and brain
centers have stopped growing before
maturity and left this part of the brain
in childhood and imbecile stage. If
this arrest of growth is limited to the
higher cerebral centers, abnormalities
of conduct and character follow.
Faults of judgment, of instincts, of
consciousness, of the relations of right
and wrong exist. Surroundin. 8 and
conditions of life may conceal the real
condition, but when they fail the i'm
becility appears. Often these forces
are noted in quiet hygienic living, re-
moved from mental excitement and
strain; or from the influence of wife,
or parent, or friend who directs the
higher mental activities. When these
are withdrawn they are without power
of control and suffer from irritative
excitement, which finds relief in alco-
hol. The use of spirits is continuous
and the inebriety is of low imbecile
type. The increased action of the heart
from spirits is fitful, and followed by
depression and sudden violent impulses.
particularly where the lower animal
instincts are disturbed. The attempt
to rouse person in this state for any
purpose is repelled with violence, be-
cause it breaks up the calm of the pres
ent. Obstacles to the qualification of
his present wants are overcome, in a
wild unreasoning way; ignoring all
other considerations except the imme-
diate object of his impulses, he is at
once most certain and dangerous in
his acts. The brain in such cases is not
only undeveloped, but is incapable of
receiving impressions of duty or obliga-
ton, and particularly from acting from
outside impressions, unless directed by
others. In recent case the following
facts appeared: A, born of neurotic
parents, suffered from a severe attack
OF scarlatina at seven years of age, was
a strange, impulsive boy, both stupid
and unreliable. At 10 he married, and
for the next ten years was quiet,
steady workingman of low intellect,
1ut inoffensive, temperate and living
normally His wife died, and very
soon he became an inebriate, drinking
at all times and places to great excess.
Ue was violent when disturbed or op~
posed, ard resisted arrest, and at
tempted to run away when in the court
room. He was sent to Jail for drink
ing and assault many times; finally he
killed a man who resisted his attempt
to steal dinner-pail. He was hanged as
sane man, who deliberately and will
fully gave himself over to evil I'M
pulses. The defense Of inebriety from
arrested development and inherited
neurosis, which broke out ut the death
of his wife, was treated with contempt
Physical signs of degeneration eX-
ternally, and the insane conduct and
unusual acts, coming on suddenly, were
ignored by the jury. These cases are
not uncommon, but it is remarkable
that they should not be recognized in
the courtroom of Inebriety.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
ONE VICTIM MORE.

He was our gifted one; alas for him;
Our noblest and our best;
False pleasure filled her chalice to the
brim-
You know the rest.
The dear old story told, and told again.
Folly's alluring arts,
A cruel record writ with fiery pen
On broken hearts.
All that we had-we could have given all,
Nor deemed the loss amiss
or worldly treasure, great as well as
small
But oh! not this
A wrecked young life; hopes trampled in
the DUST
Sorrows that burn and rend:
Peace, and faith, and love, and manhood
crushed,
And then-the end.
o parents tears! o piteous orphan waili
o human lives undone!
In your strong misery, shall you not pre-
vail
AS time rolls on?
-Cushin Crowther, in Rams Horn.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
A TOUCHING LETTER.
Tender Appeal of Father to q Way.
ward Son.


ward Son.
MY DEAR Son: Whatshould you think
of yourselfifyou should come to our bed
side every night, and, waking us, tell
lis that you would not allow us to
sleep any more? That is just what
you are doing, and that is why 1 am
up here little after midnight writ
ing to you. Your mother is nearly
worn out and dying because you won't
let her sleep-that mother who nursed
you in your infancy, toiled for you in
your childhood, and looked upon you
with pride and joy when you were
growing up to manhood, as she count
ed on the comfort and support you
would give her in her declining years.
We read of a most barbarous manner
in which one of the oriental nations
Furnishes some of it's criminals. 1t is
by cutting the flesh from the limbs,
beginning with the fingers and toes,
one joint at time, till the wretched
victim dies. That is just what you
are doing; you are killing your mother
by inches. You have planted many of
the white hairs now appearing so thick
ly on her head before the time. Your
cruel hand is drawing the lines of sor-
row on her face, making her look pre-
maturely old. You might as well stick
your knife into her body every time
you come near her, for your conduct is
stabbing her to the heart. You might
us well bring her coffin and force her
into it, for you are pressing her to-
ward it with very rapid steps. Would
you tread on her body if prostrated
On the floor? And yet with ungrate-
full foot you are treading on her heart
and crushing os.s@A-a.------------- ~
no, 1 needn't say "joy," for that Is
word we have long ceased to use' pe-
cause you have taken it from us. VI
course we have to meet our friends
with smiles, but they little know of the
bitterness within.
You have taken all the roses out of
your sisters pathway, and scattered
thorns instead, and from the pain they
inflict scalding tears are often seen
coursing down her cheeks. Thus you
are blighting her life as we'll as ours.
And what can you promise yourself
for the future? Look at the miserable,
bloated, ragged wretches that you see
every day on the streets, and behold in
them an "exact picture" of what you
are fast coming to, and will be in q
few years hence. Then in the end y
6runkard's grave and o drunkard's
doom. For the Bible says that no
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of
God Where, then, will you be, if not
in the kingdom of God? Will not these
considerations induce you to reform at
once? And may God help you in the
effort Your atfectionate, but sorrow
stricken Father.-Selected.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
DECREASE OF DRINKING.
Forces at Work to Bring About This De-
sirable Condition of Affairs.

Forces at Work to Bring About This De-
sirabIe Condition of Affairs.
The statement was made by Miss
Frances L. Willard, in her address be-
fore the Baltimore convention of the
w. C. Il. U., that men who drink liquor
drink less of it, and more men do not
drink at all, than in any previous year."
And her statement is literally true; for
it is fact that the consumption of
spirituous liquors has not, for years
past, increased proportionately with
the increase in the population OF the
United States.
Miss Wizards summary of the rea-
sons for this proportional decrease in
drinking is interesting. She says that
"=team and electricity, machinery and
invention, have put level heads at
premium. In the widening field of
athletics alcoholic stimulation is dis
countenanced. The bicycle is the most
influential temperance reformer of the
age. The science, civilization and re-
ligion of the times check the drinking
habit in our country"
All of which is correct; and Miss Will
lard has placed the most potent agency
first. OF all factors promoting clear
heads and strong brains in the present
generation, those related to our indus
trial organization may be put fore
most. We believe that there are not
far from 100000 men in the employ
ment of the railroad corporations OF
the United States. and a large portion
Of them hold places of responsibility
involving duties which can be per
formed only by men of steady sobriety
An incorporate man in any of these
places might at any time destroy life
and property, and the railroad corpora
ton that had many such men in its
service would inevitably be ruined.
But it is not the railroads alone
which require sobriety and intelligence
among employees. In the other grea
modern industries in which machinery
is used, in factories. mills, foundries
printing offices, the building trades
electric works. water navigation, ant
many more, in all OF which millions o
The Republican., 1896-01-02

Mrs. Upton-My dear, one servant is
not enough in the kitchen now. We
must have two.
Mr.. Upton-Good lands! We have
three daughters, and only yesterday l
paid big bill for their tuition in q
cooking school.
Mrs. Upton-Yes, that's what's the
matter. They are all assisting at the
cooking, and Bridget says she must
have additional help to clean up the
muss.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

"Ten years ago." said the contempla-
tive gentleman. 81 was bachelor and
hustIng for wife"
"And now?"
"And now 1 am not only hustling for
my wife but for her mother and two of
her aunts."
He sighed.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Republican., 1896-01-02
knowledge Is Poverty.

The conversation was running on the
proper method of disposing of the dead
when Mr.. Oakmont observed:
"When l die L want to be cremated.
Then my ashes can be kept on the sit
ting-room mantel in an urn labeled
"Papa."
"Yes," added the precocious child OF
the family, land when mamma marries
second time my stepfather will fire
papa again. ."-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

"Mamma, can Iplay ogre?"
"Yes, my dear, if you wish"
."All right. Give me piece of cake"
"Cake?"
"Yes; you have to have piece of
cckc to play ogre. You see, I'm 10 be the
ogre, and the cake is the boy that gets
ate up."-Harper's Round Table.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

-Oersted, the chemist, in 1919 ex-
tracted the active principle of pepper
and gave a description of it and the
processes he employed.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

Mace is the covering of the nutmeg
seed. After the fruit has been removed
the mace dries around the seed and is
subsequently taken of.
The Republican., 1896-01-02

Alice-What is Jacks occupution2 !
Lucy-He is consulting engineer.
Alice-I see. II he should get any
business he would consult another en7
rineer.-Puck.