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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-13
BITS OF MiRTh.

Miss Passe--"1Iow do you like my
new photograph" Little Girl-"It's
perfectly lovely. Did you really sit for
it yourself?''- ?''-Tit-Bits.
bridget, why didn't you heat my
room better? It's only so degrees"
"Oh, 1 thought that for such a small
room so degrees would be enough
Fliegende Blaetter.
A Criticism.-"I don't like her sing
ing. Her notes come from her chest" "
"Well, ought they not?" "No. indeed.
They ought to stay here."-Indian-
apolis Journal.
"Ebryting an all right in its place" l."
said Uncle Eben. Ger sha'p razzer
meks er man good bahber one minute,
an terrible tough citizen de nex'."--
Washington Star.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES makes you wom-
en- kiss when you meet?" cit is q sort
of apology in advance for whit we
mean to say about each other after we
part. rt."-Indianapolis Journal.
Excuse me, SIR" said Barker to a
boorish traveller, "but what is your
business?" 81 am a gentleman, sir.
1HdU b my DuSlIleSS. All, SdlQ bar-
ker. 81 see. You are taking a vaca-
tion."-Harper's Bazar.
what did you see in America, un
cle?" cried the boys. ooh, L saw the
Catsltill mountains" said Uncle Peter,
jocosely. "I expect 1t was one of those
mountains that brought forth the
MOUSE" said Jock, thoughtfully.-
Household Words.
Always Moving.-"John," said the
frightened wife in the middle of the
night, there's something moving down
cellar, I'm sure" John listened intent.
ly. "Oh, it's nothing but the gas meter
pegging away" he said with sigh OF
relief.-Harlem Life.
"Really," said Mrs. De Porque, "it's
very distressing to see how common
things are getting" EYES," replied her
husband; "luXuries are good deal
cheaper than they were" Its posi-
lively shameful. Why, it's getting 81
that anybody con afford q diamond
robbery nowadays" - Washington
Star.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-13
PetersOn's
EEEII OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Tailor System.

Why pay $40 for n system and
waste three weeks in learning, when
you can buy one thoroughly reliable
for $3.50, which You can learn in Il
single dayP This is WoMAN's GREAT.
Isr FRIEND, therefore Il boon to hu.
mauity. The most sc ar ing criticism
invited. 1t is no "fake" but GOOD,
HONEST SYSTEM OF DRtss CUTTING
Mothers, teach your daughters to be
self.supporting. Any woman can
learn it. tn, sc charts can be had OF
Mrs. j. Lang, Elko. Nevada. Send
$3.50 and get one. Full irstrut tioi +
with every chart. jy19f.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-13

When you are III need of letter
heads, bill he ads, note heads, envel.
opes, statements, ETC., remember that
you can have them printed at the In.
DEPENDENT cflice at prices. with in the
reach of all.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-13

To dream that you are attending
church means that you will have n law
suit ending to your advantage.
A dream about the devil means that
YOU will have many dangers, but that
YOU will overcome them oil.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-13
WEEKLY lNDEPcNDeNT...

Published every Sunday and sent TO any ad-
dress, (postage paid) at the following rates,
payable in advance.
On esr.........- ..-'.......-......-... ..L.A w
FAX months. ......-~-...... .......-...-..... oO
For any period under six months. fifty cents
per month.
Entered ut the Elko, Nevada, Postofics for
transmission through the mails as second
;lass nail matter.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by NOR promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, viii attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presentir1sI
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
eists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well Informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

what has gone, but only the good Lord
knows what is comm next. And it is
all right and proper, l reckon, that lie
won't tell us nothin concernin the
things that are yet to be.
Beyond the gold of evenin We must
meet the dusk OF night. There are
roses here and snow banks right out
yonder. You jest simply can't some
times always tell where the mixtry will
hit you the next time. You maybe
mought play the tray for low whilst
the other man holds the t~o,spot. But
at any rates, takin the years together
as they come and 60 they bring forth
nothin but what is right and best
best for you and best for lne and best
for everybody else. Naturally of course
there be some things that don't look
right and don't feel right on the first
blush, but they will work out that way
sometime and somewheres down the
line.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
BRIEF AND INTERESTING.

Almost the only monument OF tho
Roman dominion in Egypt, the fortress
IF Babylon, at Old Cairo, is being torn
down to make way for modern build
ings.
The latest story of the kind is of a
needle which a woman in South Surry,
Me-, swallowed ~ years ago, and which
prodded its way out of her elbow q
week or two ago.
Beverage is the suggestive, appro-
pirate, but noncommittal name OF the
man elected president of a temperance
society in North Haven, Me-, q few,
Gays ago.
Eighty varieties Of microbes, some en-
tircly new, have been discovered by
NJ. Van de Steen in Ams%sagdam drink
ing water. None of them n cholera
bacilli.
A German antarctic expedition has
been decided upon and 100000 marks
allotted to it. It will consist Of two
vessels, will last three years and will
start south from Kerguelen island.
Kildare Il WICKLOW nave heen JUST
ly termed the garden of Ireland, for no
where is nature more profuse in her
display of the picturesque and the
beautiful.
The nettle is put to q useful purpose
in some parts of Europe by being con-
| verted into various textile fabrics. In
Dresden a thread from it has been pro.
| duced so fine and silky that "a length
of 60 miles weighs only 40 ounces.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms
where daylight appears, the eyes OF a
fish get bigger and bigger. Beyond
that depth snall-eyed forms set in
with long feelers developed to supple
ment the eyes.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
..Jest to Keep the Busgers OFF,"

"Ocbt " nccP JIG Auk&CES o"'
When people used to sometimer ask
Aunt Liza what in the round world she
wanted with SO many boys around the
place, she would always say, jest to
keep the Burgers off and tend to the
stock" Then she would most in gen.
orally run on to say:
Somehow cE somehow else, / ruther
like the boys-particlar them that has
been left without a mother and without
a home. They are SO much company to
! a body, and there is room enough right
here on this place for every boy in the
settlement. Tell the boys to drop in
and see a body-conae when they feel
like it, and stay as long as they please"
/ know full we'll If the youngsters
around in the Panther Creek country
could of but only had their way, Aunt
Liza Raiborn would Of lived on forever
and q few days over. In her day and
generation there was n place where
the boys could always hang up their
hats and make themselves at home.
And if they took up a notion to have q
Christmas tree or a candy pullin, or go
out and hire a fiddler and fetch the
girls and jump some jigs and run off a
few reels, it was perfectly all right
lover to old Aunt Liza's." She was
considerably of a church woman at that,
but she never had went crazy in regards
to religion, and nothin in the world
would do her more good, it seems like,
than Jest to 'let the young folks have
their way oncst in q WHILE" as She
used to put it.
Now l reckon some folks would Won
der how it come to pass that Aunt Liza
never did trade herself off as the wife Of
some sorry white man, but, exceptir
MY Aunt Nancy Newton, she was the
one onlyest old maid I ever saw without
feelin sorry she didn't git married. J
reckon it was best for her-and l know
it was best for a whole passle Of boys
that the right man never did come along
at the right time. She was a mother to
the motherless and a help to the help
ers and a hope to the hopeless, and her
home was a home to the homeless.
People that ought to know tell mo
that when Aunt Liza was sinkin and
droopin into the last long sleep she was
talkin out OF her head, and carryin or
with herself constant about her orphant
boys. Tell the boys to como over and
drop in and see a body now and them
says she.
And when the evenin bells was riugin
in the glad Now Year there was
funeral goin on lover to old Aunt
Liza's.' RUFUS SANDERS.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
NOTES OF VENEZUELA.

Liberty of worship is guaranteed by
law.
The standing army consists of a little
over 3,GO0 men.
The republic claims an area Of 622.-
S07 square miles.
the United States.
The emancipation of slaves took place
on March "a, 1854.
The national militia consists Of all
males between the ages of Is and As.
From 1850 untilearly in this century
the country was under Spanish donlin-
ion.
The coast Of Venezuela was the first
4 part of the American mainland sighted
by Columbus.
The monetary system Of Venezuela is
that Of the Latin convention, the franc
being represented by the bolivar.
Don Guzman Blanco was dictator
from 1870 until February 20, 1878,
when he was elected constitutional
president.
It was not until 1s45 that the indie
| pendence of the republic recognized
by Spain in the treaty of Madrid.
In 1910 Venezuela rose against the
Spanish yoke. and in the following year
| the independence of the territory was
| proclaimed.
The pure white population is less
than three Per cent. The vast majority
Of the people are negroes, Indians, ru-
| lattoes and zanbos.
Elementary education is we'll pro-
| vided for under the law. There are two
universities, 10 federal colleges and va
riaus other public and private institu-
| tions for higher education.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
EARLIEST ONIONS PAY.

There's a market gardener in
Minnesota. He is prosperous, makes
his money on earliest vegetables,
gets his seeds from Salzer, fol-
lows Salzer's instructions how to groy
1000 bu. per acre and sells Salzer's
King of the Earliest onion already in
July and gets $3.50 a bu.! Catalogue
tells all about it and of lots of other
seed for garden and farm! IS packages
earliest vegetables S1.00.
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND sen
it with 12c. stamps to John y. Salzer,
La Crosse, Wis, you will get free his
catalogue and a package of yellow wa
termelon sensation. (K.)
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
One Terrible EatIn Scrape.

I will recollect to my dyin day how
old Aunt Liza's one time when I was a
boy. Hit was in tho dead of winter,
and the weather was tremendous cold,
and maybe you mought know what that
means in regards to a yearlin boys ap-
petite. When dinner got ready that
day there was good old country sausage
and chitlins and sauce, and backbone
and spareribs, and cracklin bread with
the cracklins in it; then sweet things
from the big house to the kitchen and
with. So consequentialiy I lit in, | did,
and stuck my knife and fork and spoon
into every dish that come around. l
was like a fool drinkin good whisky
couldn't tell when l got enough-and
along about midway of the evenin l was
about the sickest white boy you ever
heard tell of perhaps. It looked to me
like the world was turnin bottom side
upwards, whilst l was turnin wrong side
outwards. Man, sir, l was mighty nigh
past thinkin, but the first thing that
popped into my mind was the kind and
gentle and patient face Of old Aunt
Liza. I lowed to myself if there was
anybody in this wide and wicked world
which could pull a boy through such a
scrape as that alive, Aunt Liza was that
body. So I worried along till I got
myself back to the house, though I was
monstrous tired totin what 1 had ct, and
laid down two or three times on the
way, hopin maybe somebody mought
come along presently with a wagon and
haul it back for me.
When / got back to the house and
Aunt Liza found put what was the mat
ter with me, she sailed out and few
around a few minnits and come in the
house with somethin which she said
would make me git we'll. I have now
forgot exactly what sort of name she
had for the dost she give me, but that
| is neither here nor there. 1t would OF
done as we'll without any name at all, as
for that. got there all the same, and
| inside of fifteen m:anlts it had fetched
| up everything bat my dirty socks and
had them fstin mighty lecse. Aunt
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
.AYnt Lisa She Is Deal

Right In the middle Of the Christmas
and New Year publications we heard
some sad and terrible news from down
in the cid Panther Creek Settlement.
Aunt Liza Raiborn she is dead and
gone. She died about - o'clock on the
night before New Year. 1t would seem
like as If there was a general closin out
over to Aunt L;za's house that night
tho close OF the day, the close Of the
month, the close of the year., and the
c,ose of a long and useful and busy and
beautiful life. For a common thing 1t
takes a heap to make NE solemcholy
and put me on the mourner's bench.
Mother maintains that l wouldn't look
serious if l was tarred and ~feathered
and set on fire q mile from water. But
l have been creepin around and mopln
and droopin a right sharp little bit ever
since we got the bad news from down in
the old settlement. Not to say that
am the least ways in trouble as to
where Aunt Liza went, or how she is
comm on these days, but mostly on &C
count of how they'll miss her around in
the settlement. So far as l know she
didn't have nothin in particlar to make
her want to linger any longer around
down here below. Ali of her W folks
had went on ahead years and years ago,
and for a long time she had jest simply
been "loolin along and piddlin about"
as she were won't to put it, aud "waitln
for tho cat to die" And yet at the
same time Aunt Liza had her place in
this world-not a big place or a high
place to be certainly, but a bright place
and her right place-and she flied it
clean put to the edges.
So whilst the iddlin and feastin, and
~frolicin and dancin, and weddins and
ouiltins, and house raisins and log
rollins, and shindiggin and foot slingins
went on as usual, if not more SO, | have
been layin around home considerable
and keepin up a tremendous big pile OF
thinkin.
l reckon Aunt Liza Raiborn must OF
been knockin along tolerable clost to a
hundred years old before she was gath
cred I'D to her fathers. I am no spring
chicken myself, and there amt no colts
teeth in my mouth to speak OF, but it
has been 'old Aunt Liza from way
back yonder as far as my remembrance
runs. So far as we can hear tell OF
there want anything particlar the mat
| ter with Aunt Liza when b died.
From the general experiments, and
from what the neighbors say, 1t looks
like as if she had jest simply lived her
| life out and then fell to sleep-sorter
| dried up on the stem and blowed away,
| as it were.
When 1 first come to know Aunt Liza
| rale we'll she was Twin there on the old
| place and runnin it as best she could,
single-handed and alone. The neigh
| bors would call by and drop in now and
| then, first one and then another, to see
| that she didn't git sick and lonesome,
and there want . day or night that
| come but what somebody was there to
pass the time with her.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
HISTORY REPEATED.

From the date OF the creation to that
Of the food, the Hebrew version cal
culates 1856 years; the Septuagint
2,2es; the difference being eoe years.
Dishes of gold and silver used in Ia
Bile service in 900 B. c., were found at
Troy by DR.. Schlieuiann. One of these
was about the size now employed.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh that

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never De
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, man
utActured by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo,
O., contains no mercury, and is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally, and made
timonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

triumphs and
trib | ations
the good as we'll
as the bad, the
daylight nd the
dark. We are
glad y%esterda y
and sad today,
and tomorrow
there amt no
tellin which.
We know what
has come and
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
The Greatest Place for Boys.

To me it locks plum natural and
right for Aunt Liza to of passed away
from amongst the shiftin scenes OF this
vain and feetin world without any pain
and sufferin, and without havin any.
thing in particlar the matter with her.
She was most in generally always we'll
both in mind and body-in good health
and spirits-and she made everybody
around her feel the same sort of blessins.
The greatest place for boys anywheres
in the Par her Creek country was lover
to old AuAs Liza's," as we youngsters
use to say. She was livin then where
she always lived and where she died, at
the old Raiborn place on the Jackson
Trail road over on the other side OF
Panther Creek. Aunt Liza W did
have any folks that / can remember OF,
but I. have heard my grandfather say
that oncst upon a time there was a big
family of the Raiborns in the old set
Element. From time to time l found
ont from Aunt Liza that her father and
mother had both died when she want
nothin but . spring pullet, whilst he1
brothers had all got killed Of ] 2 big
war with the Indians. ! also learnt
from some OF the old heads in the set
element that the first, last and onlyest
sweetheart she ever had got shut out OF
the game in the same way.
Aunt Liza was a powerful hand to
pick up all The orphant boys that got
left IN them regions. She was what
ron moughs esn an orphant her Own
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
Ghosts Are Pale and Shadowv,

Say those who profess to have interviewed
them. Whether spooks are tallow-faced or
not, mortals are whose blood is thin and
watery in consequence of imperfect assimi-
lation. When invalids resort to Hostetter's
Stomach Bi tiers, and use that unequalled
tonic persistently, they soon ''pick up" in
strength, flesh and color. 1t should be
used also to prevent malarial, rheumatic
and kidney complaints, Inc to remedy CON
stipation, sick headache and nervousness.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

"YEssR," said Farmer Corntossel,
we're goin' to have d genuine novelty in
our township next year" What will it
be-" Were goin' ter hev a county fair
wethout any Midway Plizzance into it,
Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
toast bread

and keep it dry. Therel be no danger of its moldlng'
- = short time it is covered with mold. , 1t is just so
" with &c Consumption. Its germs will nos grow in the
lungs unless everything is suitable to them. Weak
ness, poor blood, loss Of appetite coughs and eolds
germs of consumption. To destroy germ-hfe the sys-
tenn must be kept in a well-nourished condition.: DO
not lose flesh. Take SCOTS Emulsion,
a preventive. 1t furnishes the reinforcernents neces-
sary for the body to conquer in the easiest possible
form. The Gil is in a state quickly taken up ana rap
idly trausto1 med into the organs and tissues.
When you Gk for SCOTS Emulsion and your druggist gives
you a snImonconred package with the picture OF q mn ad
Dish ~ t-yov can trust thatn Fan with your pseslipdonsI
oas..aa "a 10. SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

CoAL-DEALER (anxiouslD Hold on!
That load hasn't been weighed. 1t looks to
me rather large for a ton." Drirer-",Taint
intended for a ton. It's two tons" Dealer
Beg pardon. &c ahead.'-TitBits.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

AHd-D PART.-He-"I understand your
part in the new play is very difficult" She
Yes. II have to change my costume
thirteen tiules."-Brooklyn Life.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

"HAvE you seen that portrait Of Miss
Dawkins hy Marulous Boran! 1t looks just
like an old MASTER" "Do you think sol /
thought it looked more like all old maid."-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

MAY-'"Thcy tell me your engagement
with Charley Gumphleigh is broken. How
did it %happen!" Carrie.-'1t is no great
mystery. The fact is, he was too fresh to
keep; that all. n-Boston Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

Could anything be heater than the old
iarky's reply to q beautiful young lady
whom he offered to lift over the gutter, and
who insisted that she was too heavyl ''Lor',
nissus,' said he, Use used to lifting bur-
rels of sugar."-Excbange.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25

AFTER physicians had given me up, l was
saved by Piso's Cure.-RALPH ERIEG, Will
Transport, Pa, Nov. -, 1898.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-25
She Had the boys Down Fine.


'Over to old Aunt Liza's," if only a
boy went there oncst, was a place he
never could forget. There was a big
old dingy-lookin brown house, without
any ligh.nin rods or bay windows or
fancy trimmins on it. There was big
oak trees out in the yard, which made
the coolest and most bulliest place in
the world for boys to hang swings and
build frog houses and play marbles. 1t
was always cool and sLady-like and
pleasant there. Out in the garden
there was a plum wilderness of flowers,
and down back OF the garden you would
find the best and biggest orchard for
miles and miles around.
But the mainest thing hat made IT
such a fine old place for boys was nothia
but Aunt Liza. She knowed a boy,
with all of his fanlts and ~failins, better
thRn most any grown-up woman l have
ever had acquaintance with. She al
ways would give US plenty of elbow
ro5m and a little slack in the rope to
play with. She ruther liked young
company and she didn't KIND the fuss.
She never got hot a9d flew of at the
handle If we boys went wrong and
somsthin got broke. She wouldn't fuss
with nobody about notbin. When she
went singin and laughin aud talkin she
would be humnin soft and lively and
pattin with her foot. She always talked
with the sane voice-low and kind and
gentle like-but yet she was plain and
blunt and prompt a.d straight as a
shingie in her business. She had as
much sense about r)unnins a farm and
keepin the place up as any ran in the
settlement, ana a blame sight more
than a whole lot of them. -Of course
Aunt Liza couldn't take holt with her
own hands and lay a fence worm or
drive a six-mule team, but SIP could
beat the whole discovered worlC standin
in the back door and has1n it done.
The general crops that growed on the
old Raiborn place couldn't be beat no
where's on Panther Creek, and there
was corn in the crib, and meat in the
smokehouse and meal in the tub and
lard in the gourd from one year into the
other. Aunt Liza must of been some
kin to me to the general extent that
she always did believe in feedin, and
she forever had plenty around her, and
that which was good.
But more than all of that, Aunt Liza
could beat the created world fixin ul
things to please a boy and meet the
common wants OF his appetite. She
could make the best and biggest bis
cults, and bake the best custards, and
pies, and puddins, and dumplins, and
tarts, and fritters, and flapjacks, and
the most of them, of any old lady
aver yet have saw. You couldn't pass
along by her pantry no t~ime-summe'
nor winter-without smellin the grea'
raft Of good things she had cooked W
and put away, and it it come to pass
that you was a little boy you wouldn'1
have to wait SO very long before you
could climb up on the outside of your
share.