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The Child of q Village.

All the scenes and atmosphere of
ones native village-if one is fortunate
enough to have been born in such a To-
cality-lie around the memory like the
horizon line, unreachable, impossible.
Even q so-called cosmopolitan man has
never seemed to me a very happy being,
and a cosmopolitan child is above all
things to be pitied. To be identified in
early memories with some limited and
therefore Characteristic region, that IS
happiness. No child is old enough to be
a citizen of the world. What denation
allied Americans hasten to stamp as
provincial is for children, at least,
saving grace. You do not call a nest
provincial. All this is particularly true
of those marked out by temperament
for a literary career. Literature needs
for its material only men, nature and
books. and of these the first two are
everywhere and the last are easily
tranSportable, since you can pile the
few supreme authors of the world in q
little corner of the smallest log cabin.
The Cambridge of my boyhood afford
ed me all that human heart could ask
for its elementary training. Those who
doubt ii might, perchance, have been
gamers if they shared it. 'IIe despises
me-" said Ben Jonson. because l live
in an alley."-Atlantic Monthly.
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THERE HAD BEEN NO MURDER,
But Few r1en Had Died Suddenly in
the Camp.

Il spent few weeks in Black Hawk,
Mont, remarked Treasury clerk to a
Washington Star reporter 1T is
typical frontier Western town. and by
the time l had been there a week three
men were killed. l asked my host if
it was not hvelier than usual
Livelier? How?' he asked.
Amt there more murders than COM
roon?'
Murders? I have lived here sence
the camp opened, two years come mex
month, an l nev yet to hear of muir
der. Black Hawks as quiet as a New
England village
Three men have been killed the
past week
Yes. The fust one called q feller
liar, so you can call theit suicide. The
secon' one tried to tell the barkeeper
low to run his business, which war a
straight case of bein' locoed, and 'tother
fciler danced with a gal he knew was
bespoke, which showed he wanted to
die. None of them was murders. AS /
said. thar hain't been a murder in the
camp, but some hev died sudden"
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HIS EXTRAVAGANT HABIT.
The Trials of a Devoted Wife With a
ThOughtIess Husband.

The white haired veteran had very
shamefaced look when his wife came
I'D TO where he was sitting in front of
the general store. The floor around him
was covered with whittlings. He folded
up a big jack-knife and turned his head
to avoid the reproving glances of his
helpnate, says the Washington Star.
Il was too late. want I?' she eX-
claimed in a tone of Giscouragement.
Taking a pine shingle from under her
shawl she threw it down and said: We
driv the cattle an I've plowed land. but
keepin' track of man is Wuss' n any
thing / ever tried yit.'
Il rely didn't think" he said, apollo
getically.
Il knowed We wouldn't think. When a
man gifts inter the way o Whittlin' he
les quits doin' ev'ything else, seems ter
me. Soon's he once tastes the joys o
whittlin' he's satisfied ter go ahead. /
put that shingle out on the porch an
toll yer exackly where twas. An yet
We come off without it,
"It does seem kinder ongrateful in
me-" he answered.
'Taint the ongratitude as moves me.
Ye don't think l hurried down here
weth that shingle OWN ter fear thet
ye'd git ongrateful, do ye? l knowed
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PEACOCK FARMING PAYS.
The Raising of Ornamental Birds is a
Lucrative Business.

Raising peacOckS and pheaSants is a
new business in this country. To sup
ply their wants a number of million
aires are importing birds and eggs from
England.
George Vanderbilt is among the num-
Der; he has already a lot of peacocks,
of the breed curiously called Jap
paned." Perhaps because their feathers
have a metallic, lacquer-lil1e glittering
they are often wrongly spoken of as
the Japanese or Japan peacock. Theo-
dore Havemeyer has recently imported
a lot of pheasant eggs Of the choicest
breed. He sent them to mis- model farm,
Mahwak, n. j., and then invited a COM
pany of bantam hens to hatch out the
young birds.
Peacocks, although not common
sight in this country, are occasionly
seen; pheasantS are even more rare
but, as already said, a demand has
arisen for them and a lucrative busi-
ness should be carried on in dealing
with both the eggs and the birds.
In Suffolk, England, there is a pleas
ant news upon one estate more than
100000 eggs are sold annually To visit
Warwick Castle is to see peacocks In all
their glory; indeed the place is famous
for these birds, of which the handsom-
est are white
Having become possessed of a pair of
peafowls, they require very little man
agement, but must be carefully fed If
kept in confinement they pick UP a pret-
~ substantial living themselves; it
must be seen to that they have plenty
of water and grain and occasionly fresh
vegetables. In winter they must have
sheltered home. In summer they avail
themselves Of the sheltered trees, and
In some secluded nook the nest is made
The hen should be left to her own med-
tations and not interfered with while
she is on the nest Matching the eggs.
A peafowl allowed to make her own
nest in large hedge always brings out
stronger and better brood than one
that has a nest in a house When
Matched the young Lrood should not be
removed until the next day, feeding not
being required The first food should
be egg and milk, equal parts, beaten to-
gether and heated until it gets into
soft mass. This is given with a little
millet or wheat. When one adds suf-
ficiently to ones stock to sell eggs as
well as birds, ones bank account should
assume healthy proportions.
Bringing up pheasants by hand is an
extensive industry in England, and
there Is no reason it should not thrive
here. The eggs are collected from birds
Kept in NEW and are placed under
domestic hens. Care on the part of the
keeper must be exercised after the
brood is old enough to wander about,
lest, falling victims to heredity, they
wander off and take to u wild life. In
deed, they can only be kept from wan
derlng In every direction by being plen-
TRULY supplied with food, which must
be scattered in the places where it is de-
sired they should stay.-Boston Globe.
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and other places came with bands, and
a number OF prominent politicians
spoke.
A Los Angeles dispatch says the over
throw of the White-Cator combination
has brought into prominence the candi-
dacy of Governor Budd for Whites seat
in the Senate two years hence, as
Whites action has made him many en-
emies among California Democrats,
who will rally to the support of Budd.
Queen Lillian Davis dispersed her
subjects at midnight Saturday and sur
rendered the city of Auburn into the
hands of the civil authorities after the
three days chrysanthemum fiesta.
The crowd was larger than on the pre-
viouS two days and the fiesta was
success, realizing a neat sum for St
Luke's Episcopal Church.
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". C. T. U. CONVENTION.
PREACH IN SIXTY.
EIGHT ST. LOUIS CHURCHES.
Hiss Frances E. Willard PreSideS at
the Armenian Relief Mass
Meeting.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15.-The pulpits of
sixty-eight churches in this city were
occupied to-day by delegates to the W.
c. 7. u. Convention. In some of them
both morning and evening services
were conducted by the ladies. A full
attendance was brought out and deep
interest manifested Missionary work
and aid for the Armenian Christians
were the leading topics discoursed upon
The regular programme of the day be-
gan at 10 a. m, with services in the
Union Methodist Church, conducted by
Miss Frances Z. Willard. AT l o'clock
in the Exposition Music Hall devotional
exercises We're conducted by Miss
Agnes E. Slack of England, Worlds
Secretary of the w. c. T. U. Mrs.
Elizabeth w. Greenwood, Worlds and
National Superintendent of the w. c. T.
u, preached the annual sermon. AT .
p. m. the Armenian relief mass meet
.i:S assembled, Miss Willard presiding.
In presenting the case Of the Arme
nian Christians and the demand for inn
mediate and liberal relief, Miss Willard
became dramatically eloquent and the
audience was stirred by deep emotion.
She was followed by Miss Rebecca
Krikorian, native Armenian mission
airy, dressed in the costume of her
country, whose recital from personal
knowledge of outrages committed by
the oppressors of Armenian Christians
was a graphic picture of Kurdish fe-
rocity.
Addresses were also made by Rev.
F. d. Greene, Secretary of the Arme-
nian Relief Committee, New York; Miss
Margaret Leitch. Ceylon; Rev. w H.
Palmore, ST. Louis. The exercises We're
interspersed by appropriate vocal and
instrumental music. The best result of
the mass meeting was the formation of
a local Relief Committee to supplement
the work of the General Committee at
New York
The subcommittee of the Executive
Committee of the National w. G. T. u.
having the finances in charge reported
last night in favor of leaving the plan
practically as it is, requiring 81 q year
from each society, in addition to the
dues. Nothing was done in regard to
the financial agent, but it is presumed
that she will continue her work for a
time at least. A regulation has been
made however, to the effect that no
solicitor of the General Committee can
go into the country to ask contribu
tons from the unions without the con-
sent of the general officers of that
State.
The appointment of organizers and
evangelists was left to the general
officers.
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ADVICE TO MEN.
Don't Wear Long Hair and an Air of
DiShabille.

In seeking to win the affection and
friendship of women, dear boys, you
will find dress an important thing to
be considered, says a woman writer IN
the New York World.
Although I will not go as far as to
say that woman's heart has ever been
broken by badly brushed hat, l have
known a woman to look at a bulging
shirt bosom and decide that even ii
she could ever consent to pillow her
head upon such an uncomfortable
looking spot the loud vivacity OF the
waistcoat beneath would make rest
there quite impossible. / am not going
to toll you what to wear. That is the
work of mightier intellects than mine.
And there are the young lady male
impersonatorS of the variety stage to
copy. These represent the woman S
ideal of mems clothing. l may, how
ever, prove myself useful in telling you
what not to wear. To begin with, there
is one rule you should have written
on your mirrors. 1t is this:
Do not dress like a genius, even if
you are one.
The average woman has a strong
who-because laurel wreaths have gone
out of fashion-substitutes for them
long hair, short trousers, decollete
shirts and a generally carefully ar
ranged dishabille.
The average woman is a silly little
thing, you know, and she would rather
that you looked commonplace and well
grOomed than that everybody should be
able to tell that she is walking with an
intellectual giant.
AS for the woman above the average
well, she knows that you're not a
genius anyhow. You can't fool her
with freak neckties and doorknob
studs.
Remember that | am directing your
doings to meet the tastes of the ma
jority of women. There are ladies who
go riding on tandem bicycles with gem
tlemen who wear red suits, and some
women love the society of a necktie or
vest that almost barks.
The ring, watchchain and bric7 7a-brac
habit is popular with young ladies who
stand on the other side of the footlights
and have a taste for anything that
gltters even if it isn't eighteen carat.
BY this class of lady you may be
loved for your scarfpin, but large
percentage of the weaker sex prefer
to do all the glittering that is to be
done themselves.
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Notable Pennsylvania Springs.

pennsylvania possesses a number of
remarkable springs. The big spring of
Bellefonte, the beautiful Fount," from
which the town derives it's name, and
which pours forth 2S0,00O gallons per
minute, has had its story repeatedly
told. But almost within the limits of
Bellefonte is another spring never men
toned, almost unknown because of it's
rival in the borough, which for purity
and outpOur, is as large as the one in
town. A pure crystal stream of water
two feet deep and ten wide gushes forth
all the year round and the temperature
varies but two degrees, being that much
warmer in the winter than in the sum-
mer. Then there is the spring at Axe
Mann, another very large one; but
among the marvellous springs in this
section is the famous Rock Spring.
There the water gushes forth from a
cave in the rock, fully ten feet high and
twenty feet wide, with a clearness that
rivals even the crystal No rain has
ever been severe enough to even make
the water of murky color. From out
or the depth of the cavernous rock
come various specimens of the finest
hsh, among them being the delicious
mountain trout, and although they can
De seen coming out. no one has ever
been able to see a single fish swim into
the cave. Whether they are bred un-
der ground, or where they come from
Is mystery that has never been faith
Omed.
Another remarkable spring is in Hun
tlngdon County, near the old furnace
by that name. There the cavern which
is the outlet of the spring is of such di-
mensions that a team of horses can be
driven into it for a considerable dis
tance. Ten rods from it's source the
spring gives stream of sufficient
power to run large grist mill, and it
was never known to be too low for this
use. Then there is the Blue Spring.
in Bald Eagle Valley, named so because
when looked into the water seems as
blue as indigo. This is because of its
great depth, a matter which, to this
Gay, is an unsettled question. The
spring, which, in appearance, is like
wen, about four feet in diameter. has
been sounded to depth of several hum
dred feet without finding any bottom.
me water is near enough to the TOP so
that man can lie down and drink
from the spring.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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what was gointer ter happen. l knowed
thet eff ye didn't hev nothin' else handy
ye'd do whut We did before, regardless
of expense. That's the third wooden leg
we've whitfield up in the last three
months I don't altogether blame ye
fur whittlin', fur ez l said before, when
the habit once takes hold it's wuss than
fever and ager fur stickin' to man.
But | must say thet when he's got
wife thet's wililn' ter run roun after
i'm an keep i'm supplied weth material
ez don't cost nothin', fur him ter cut up
three wooden legs, everyone of 'em
store bought. in three months. is down
right shiftlesS."
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Fer man kin keep ergoin' an ergoin'
an, maxim bluffs er long time" re-
marked Erastus Pinkley, but some
body's gwine ter call i'm sooner or
later"
Who's de tex oh dis here sermon?'
"Razzer Joe. He wah goin' roun' Of
ferin' ter bet ten dollahs on anything
dat dab was spoht in. He had 'em all
skyaht. He was jis fiourishin' dat ten
dollars aroun' an a walkin' grand, an
talkin loud, an shakin' de crap dice
by way er aggravating, an de fus'
thing he knew
Somebody done took i'm up?"
''Yas indeed. An de 'portant paht or
If is dat twas er policeman. w wash
inoton Star
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Sonoma County viii try the expert
ment of shipping dried fruits to Austria
liza, and has sent out an agent to nego-
tiate consignments.
One Of the largest crowds ever assem-
bled in Woodland took part in parade
Saturday night to celebrate the cleo
ton of Mckinley and Hobart Crowds
from Blacks. Yolo, Winters. Davisville
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A Difficult Contract

A Yankee, upon eating his first meal
of frogs legs, asked the hotel proprietor
how he accounted for the high price.
He was told 1t was on account of the
scarcity of the product. Not at al,s
said the Yankee; Il can get you MILL
ion." "A million?" gasped the Boni-
face; II should like to engage to find
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you profitable market if you can pro-
duce them" why. l can get them to-
day surely" At night the Yank came
back with eight pairs, and declared the
trick off. Il thought you said you knew
where you could get a million" said
Boniface We'll. to tell the truth"
explained the other, Il formed my
Judgment of the number by the noise" :"
-Argonaut.
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Irene Cat the party)-Miss CARING
some is the best dressed young woman
here.
AIabel-Yes. never saw the dear girl
looking quite 50 well as she does this
evening If she would file her elbows
off little she would look almost plump
Chicago Tribune.
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A Carlyle Relic.

There is to be sold by Messrs. Sothebv.
Wilkinson & Hodge, on the 2Oth instant.
curious Carlyle relic. It is described
as pane of glass taken from Carlvle's
lodgings when a student in 3 Moray
street, Edinburgh. On the glass is
scratched by him the following stanza: ::
Little did my mother think
Ihat day she cradled me-
What land / was to travel in.
Or what death / should dee
Oh, foolish thee
A full account of this interesting relic
Is given by John Shelton in Black
woods Edinburgh Magazine January.
1893. Mr.. Froude wrote Of it: Il have
not the smallest doubt that the lines
on the window were scratched by Car
lyle, and some means ought to be used
to preserve so precious relic"-West-
minister Gazette.
A woman's first baby is usually the
crossest thing in the world, in addition
to the fact that she doesn't know how
to take care of it.
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,%a6@yduhgxY" ("

We are making a greater effort
than ever before to place before
the eyes of our customers values i'll
RELIABLE STYLES OF
DRESS GOODS.
We know that every inducement
offered is encouragement to
further interest and success TO
this Grand Department of which
we are justly proud. We quote
few leaders as partial list of our
big offerings for this week, COM
mencing
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Sterling Values in our
MatChleSS Black Dress
Goods Department.
Items From the Brightness
of Our Silk Stock Display.

Lightweight Corduroy for shirt
waists and vestings. in navy, mode,
myrtle, emerald, bluette and brown,
p inches wide.
Soc yard.
New line of Stylish Silks for waists.
in mottied designs, with stripes of
black satin: also, many pretty new
designs for waists or an entire dress.
81 yard.
New Silks for dress skirts, in large
and small designs; also, in the new
Moire Facone Brocades. FROM
ST to ST IS yard.
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1ONDAY FORMING.

43 pieces 40-inch Illuminated Suit
ings, changeable colorings combined in
black and blue, black and red, black
and green, black and browns, making
a strikingly rich and modest costume.
REGULAR WORTH, soc. AT
25c yard.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-09-05

one pound of gold, or nearly twice
as much as in 1894.
May Is, 1896, pure silver was
worth 68 cents an ounce in New
York, making the commercial value
of the silver dollar, when measured
with the gold dollar only 81 cents.
If the business ofthe country should
be shifted from the gold dollar to
the silver dollar, the "dollar" would
have purchasing power of 81
100ths only of the dollar now used
as measure of value.
Fifty-two one -hundredths of 1884,
321 is 143,047 Divide that by 81
and we have 6,956 as the average
number of pounds of staple pro-
ducts purchasable at the present
time with 16 pounds of silver.
TABLE NO. 3.
Value of silver and gold in 1874
and 1896 compared:
SILVER.
Value OF 16 lbs silver in farm pro-
ducts in 1874 7347
Value of 16 lbs silver in farm pro-
ducts In 1896. 1856
Depreciation of silver 391
GOLD.
Value OF ID gold in farm pro-
ducts in 1876. Is ,37S
Value of ID gold in farm pro-
duets in 1874. 7,s47
Appreciation of gold 6,O31
Thus we see that with all the
demonetization of silver that has
taken place in Europe and America,
and the alleged overproduction, sill
yer has not materially deprecated,
but has remained stationary in
value, and that gold has appreciat-
ed in value over 80 per cent.
The gold dollar of today, there
fore, is scientifically, mathematical
ly and financially nearer a 200-cent
dollar than a silver dollar is to a
50-cent dollar, and the creditor
classes in insisting on being paid
almost two for one.
Will the American people submit
to this form of robbery much longer
and if they do submit to it, how
much longer can they stand it with
out general impoverishment?-Net
York Financial Record.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-09-05

the money lenders have not faxed
the silver dollar demonstrates that
its currency and value cannot be
destroyed.
The reason for the violent oppo-
sition to the free coinage of silver is
not fear of SO cent dollars, but a
well grounded fear that it will so
increase the money of the country
as to release labor and the producers
of the country from the grip of the
syndicates and trusts and the debt
or from the bloody knife of Shylock.
HENRY T. NILES.
Toledo, Aug. 20, 1896.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-09-05
Lyon County.
NEWSPAPER LAW.

Subscribers aoho do not gioe cypress notice to
the contrary are considered WiShing to continue
their subscription.
If subscribers order the discentinuGnce of their
periodicals the publisher may continue to send
hem until all arrears are paid
If subscribers neglect refuse to take their pc
riodicaLs from the Office to UIich they directed
they held responsible till they haze settled their
bill and ord red their paper discontinued.
1 If subscribers naeUe to other places a0ithout
formiag the publisher, and the paper is sent to the
former direction, they are held responsible.
5 The courts haze decided that refusing to take
them ncGIEed for prinsG fGcie evidence of imte-
tiOnGI fraud
6. Any person a0ho recetUeS a newspaper and
makes of it, lchether he has subscribed for 1t
not, is held in laao as subscriber.
z. The Postmaster 1oho ncGlects to give the legal
notice of the neglect of person tot0ke from the Of
fce the newspaper addressed to him liable to the
publisher for the subscription price
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-09-05
GOOD Dog-Good Name,

A drummer took a seat beside a
goodlooking young lady on an over
land train the other day, although
there were several other vacant
seats. She had little dog on her
lap, and of course he Immediately
became interested in the dog.
"Nice little dog you have there"
he remarked.
eyes"
"Um. What kind Of a dog is it?"
Fox terrier
eyes; nice dog. What do you call
him?"
Drummer"
The commercial man started and
looked suspicious, but the young
lady's face betrayed no knowledge
of his vocation.
"Ah; good name. Why do you
call him DrummerW
Because he is always making u
nuisance of himself or chasing chip
pies"
He changed his seat.