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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13

Cascraets stimulate live kidneys
and bowels, Never sicksn, weaken
or grippe. 10c.
Grand opening and a fine display
of holiday goods will take place Sat-
urday next, December 4th, consisting
of large variety of toys, games, puz-
zles, magnificent dolls, silk and linen
handkerchief, pictures and many Of
the latest novelties at Alexander's.
Yourself and friends are cordially in.
vited to attend this opening.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has decided to extend for two
years the period within which the
railroads must comply with the Act
of Congress requiring all railroads to
be equipped with safety appliances
for the protection of the employees
and passengers. ....
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
An Ancctlonnte rnmilx.

The French minister of foreign af-
fairs, it is said, asked the king of Siam
why he did not leave his foreign minis
ter at home to take charge of things
Because he is my brother" returned
Chulalongkorn, with grim smile; 81
should probably have found him on my
throne when / got back to SIAM" "But
you have your other brother with you"
eyes, but his nature is even less benev-
olent. He would not only have seized
my throne, but cut off my head as
quickly as returned" ."You all seem
on excellent terms together, exclaimed
the astonished Frenchman. Exactly"
said the king, land as like to be on
good terms with them, always take
them along"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
"A GOOD PGAcrIoE
II You want Good Appetite and
Perfect Digestion.

Perfect Digestion.
After each meal dissolve one or
two OF Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in
the mouth and, m;nRling with the
food, they constitute perfect diges-
tive, absolutely safe for the most sen.
siiive stomach.
They digest the food before it has
time TO Je.1ae. i, thus preventing the
formation Of gas and keeping the
blood pure and free from the poison
GUS products of fermenteG, half.di-
gested food.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets make
the complexion clear by keeping the
blood pure.
They increase 6esb by digesting
fesh-forning foods.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the
only remedy designed especially for
the cure Of stomach trouble and
nothing else. One disease, one rem
edy, the successful physician of today
is the specialist, the successful medi-
cine is the medicine prepared espec-
tally for one disease.
A whole package taken at one time
would not hurt You, but would SIM
ply be waste Of good material.
Over six thousand men and women
IN the state of Michigan alone have
been cured of Indigestion and dys-
peps'a by the use of Stuart's Dss-
pepsia Tablets.
Sold by all druggists at so cents
for fun sized package.
Send for free book on stomach dis
eases to Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
BELIEVES IN sUFFocArIoN.

Russian Sect Which Thinks Martyr
dom Necessary to Reach Heaven.
Following upon the recentrevelations
concerning the self-immolating fanatics
in the district of Tiraspol, Russia, the
newspapers now report that there is
sect in the province of Kazan, the men,
bers of which advocate death by suffo-
cation, believing that Heaven can only
be gained by suffering martyrdom in
this life. Consequently, says the Lon
don Daily News, when any member of
the sect is supposed to be on the point of
death, a small cushion Is placed over
the sufferers mouth and held there I'M
til suffocation. ensues, the other mem
bers standing around and singing
psalms.
The work of suffocation is usually
performed by an old woman, who is
paid by the sect, and who is obliged
to attend at once when member is
dying. AS, however, it would be dam
gerous to carry on these practices in
dwelling houses, the person to be suf-
located is transported to secret rem
devious, and, after death, is buried in
some wood or ravine, all traces of the
grave being carefully obliterated.
The report was recently current at
Kazan that the police had discovered
one Of the meeting places of the sect,
burt no confrmat ion of this is obtain
able.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh tina
contain Mercury,

Beware OF Ointment for Catarrh that
contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense OF smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reput-
able physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
Con possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo o., contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mu-
cons surfaces Of the system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. It is taken inter-
nally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by
F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials
free.
Solo by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
A Houschoid.Nocossity

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the
most wonderful medical discovery Of
ne age. pleasant and refreshing TO
he taste, ecs geotly and positively
20 kidneys, liver and bowels, cleans
ng the entire system, dispel colds,
pnre headache, fever, habitual con-
tipation AID biliousnees. Please
puy and try a box Of @. O. O. today;
~, 70, 30 cents. Sold and guaranteed
|aOcure by all druggists.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
sALMAGIlNnI

Full line Of rubber goods at Alex
Inder's.
Reinhart has a full line Of Christ
mas goods.
Mrs. J. f. Henry came in from
Mound Valley this afternoon,
The celebrated Buckingham &
Hecht boot at Alexander's.
Mr.. w. T. Crane is in towo with a
big load of Nye county apples.
JUST try a lOc. box OF Cascarets
he finest liver and bowel regulator
made.
The annual taxes of the world ag-
kregate the enormous sum Of 1850
100000.
WHEN bilious or costive. eat a
Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guar
hnteed. 10c. 25c.
John Hlbbets circulated one OF Col.
Meor's petitions today. Everybody
10 town to whom it was presented
bigued it.
Mr.. e. T. Edwards of Mineral Hill
passed through yeshaday on his way
10 Massachusetts,, where he is called
by the death of his wife, who was on
> visit to her relatives.
Lodgings can be had at the Silver
Brick Lodging house, kept by Mrs.
81. McAdams, for so cents a night.
The rooms are finely furnished and
ln new brick building in the rear Of
a lexander's store. =
While you are LOOKING for a change
I'm the weather. examine the latest
patterns in wall paper at the PostoE
flee. All goods first class and at the
lowest living prices. Call in and ex-
anime my stock, No trouble to show
goods. l.. ". Sherwood.
There viii be social dance at Har-
fis' Hall, Friday evening December
18th. Fine music has been engaged
And good time is assured to all who
attend. A general invitation is ex-
Fended to the public. Tickets admit
ting gentleman and ladies Sl.O0-
DR.. j. Hood, assisted by DR.. w. II.
Hood, Of Battle Mountain, DIR. Ohm
stead Of Wells, Dr.. G. N. Gardner
and Walter Henderson, performed a
surtical operation on Mrs. Landon
yesterday and removed a large tamor
The patient stood the operation well
and is resting comfortably today. She
will soon recover je no unforeseen
complications arise,
Mothers Praise Hoods Sarsapar-
FILA, because, by it's great blood en-.
riching qualities, it gives rosy cheeks
and vigorous appetites to pale and
puny children.
HOODS PILLS are the favorite
Family catbartic and liver medicine
Price 25c.
Arthur Matthewson and his two
Pons arrived today from Omaha
where they had been with q ship
nent Of cattle. While they were
aging at Grand junction one night,
pm the way East, Mr.. Matthewson's
oldest son walked OF the top Of
|reight car in the dark and fell on the
rack. His ankles were badly
bprained, but luckily he was not
otherwise injured. He is all right
now. Mr.. Matthewson and the boys
struck out for their home at Hamil-
H.. A
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13

The longest stretch Of straight
railroad line in America is on the
Lake Shore railway, beginning at a
point three miles west Of Toledo, o.,
and running 80 miles without a
curve.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
wOMACK & RODGERS.
Tickets:

All haskers ......... so cents each
All Spectators. so cents each
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-13
MUSIC BY

GRAND MARCH AT s.so sHARp.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
John Wanamaker


Sir John Waters, says the author of
English Eccentrics." was the most
admirable spy ever attached to an army.
In the peninsular war he gave Lord
Wellington the most accurate and valu-
able information about the Spaniards
and their movements. On one occasion
he was taken prisoner by a company az
Spanish dragons while still clad in
the English uniform. He was supposed
to be a stupid Britisher who could not
understand a word of French or Span
ish, and his captors conversed freely be-
fore him.
He learned from his guards while
riding between them that they were 60
ing to kill and rob him at an old mill
where the company was to stop for din
ner. They would pretend that they shot
him because of his attempt to escape.
On reaching the mill the dragons
dismounted and went into the house,
leaving their prisoner outside in the
hope that he would attempt to escape.
The instant they were out of sight
Waters threw his cloak upon a neigh
boring olive bush and mounted his
cooked hat on top. Some empty flour
sacks lay on the ground, and into one
of them he crawled. A moment later
the dragons came out, fired their car
bines at the supposed prisoner and gall
Hoped off, intending to return later to
rifle the body.
A horse, loaded with sacks of -four,
stood near the door. and Sir John, still
enveloped i'll the sack, managed to
throw himself on the horse's back, as
if he were part of the load. The owner
at length came out, mounted and rode
away. without detecting the peculiar
contents of one of the sacks.
When far enough away for safety, Wa
tiers, finding his position most uncomfort-
able, managed to free himself from the
sack and sat up The horseman, chano-
ing to look around, beheld the man
covered with -four and took him to be a
ghost perched behind him. Terrified at
the sight. be fell over in a swoon, and
the supposed ghost thrust him to the
ground and galloped off
Sir John reached the English camp
without further adventure and was
warmly greeted by Wellington.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
The Japs Did Likewise.

Even those who desire to be strictly
accurate sometimes erect their story
from a single instance as a geologist
conceives the framework of a long ex-
tinct animal from one bone. The fall
lacy of SO doing is we'll illustrated by
the following story told to the writer
by one of the participants:
A few years ago two Japanese gentle
men of high standing were travelling in
the United States, and, among other
places, visited a large and widely known
manufactory. They were afterward in
vited by the senior member of the firm
to lunch with him. Colonel M. was
also of the party. 1t happened that the
first food placed ON the table was a dish
OF fried potatoes, and as the manufac-
turer enthusiastically explained his
business to his guests he unthinkingly
took a piece of potato from the dish
with his fingers and ate it. A second
and third piece followed. The Japanese
listened politely, but Colonel M. OBJ
served that they were closely watching
their hosts method of eating. The col
onel has a keen sense of humor, and he
at once decided that he would follow
his friends example and see what the
others would do. He did so, and in
stantly both japanese made a dive for
the dish, and thus they sat eating pota-
toes with their fingers, presenting, it is
to befeared, the appearance of four men
who had had nothing to eat for a long
while and expected never to get any
thing again.
Will it be surprising if in a future
Japanese book on America this breach
of good manners shall find q place as
an American custom?-American Kitch-
~ Magazine. /.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
Canton,

The Canton W. G. T. U. held theil
annual meeting for election of officers on
Wednesday, Sept. LIST. at the home Of
Mrs. Emma Shrimp. The reports of the
Superintendent of the departments were
read, showing the work had grown in
interest and this Union is to-day, although
only having been organized since
January, one of the most active in the
county. The message of temperance has
been given by three of the State officers
and a lecture in song by the Bsveridges,
which were heartily responded to by good
audiences. The officers for the new year
are: Mrs. Anna L. Myers, President;
Miss. Mary CARL. Corresponding Score
tary; Mrs. Rosa Fogg, Recording Secre-
tary; Mrs. Lizzie Dubois, Treasurer.
This young Union. only seven months
old and situated so remotely, is in a
healthy growing condition. and We have
great hopes for the future of Canton
Union. The Secretary reported the
reception of three new members at the
previous meeting, and another to be
received at the next meeting, TO be held
Sept. 9th, at Mrs. E. Smiths.
PRESS SUPERINTENDENT.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10

Sweet potatoes are still falling in price
ana dealers were only paying $l.lO and $l.I5
per barrel on Thursday. over production
and under consumption seems to be the
trouble Just now.
Rev. Geo. l.. Barker, who some time since
was elected secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Associate on OF Des Moines, la.
left last week to take up the duties of the
position. His family will join him in
October.
A valuable dark nav blue cape of fine
storm serge was lost on w ednesday of last
week near the residence of Alfred Brad
shaw, on the turnpike. If the finder Will
kindly leave 1t with Thomas Pike, news
dealer, a reward will be paid.
A number of veterans and their families
attended the soldiers reunion at Pitman
Grove on last Saturday. and greatly enjoyed
the day. 1hey speak in high Terms of the
welcome accorded them by the W. c. I. u.
and in fact by the whole Pitman contin-
gent.
The Swedesboroi Glass Works went into
bid st on Monday with encouraging pros
poets for the coming year. The company
decided 10 employ none but union men
and, as a consequence, nearly all the hired
blowers employed last year have had tC
seek employment elsewhere, while severa
new families have moved in
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of Woodstown W.
q. L. U. was held in Library Parlor
Fourthday afternoon, 1st inst, at 8
O'Clock. The president. Elizabeth Brad.
way, occupied the chair and conducted
the devotional exercises. The song from
the White Ribbon Hymnal, selected by
Izetta B. Allen, was "Home of the Soul"
in which the Union Joined. Miss Rhoda
M. Coles played the accompaniment.
Psalm AZ was the Scripture lessons read
by the president. Elizabeth F. Smell
baker made the audible prayer, which
surely strengthened and lifted the
hearts of the workers to press on in the
soul building work ''for God, for home,
for humanity" and for humanity's
needs of "sweeter manners, purer laws"
After the reading and adoption of the
minutes, reports of special committees,
etc., the annual reports of superinten-
dents were continued from the previous
week. The superintendent of Parlor
Meetings, Health and Heredity. Mothers
Meetings, Narcotics and Colored Work
all gave reports of creditable work &C.
complished. The superintendent of
narcotics having placed copies of the
anti-cigarette law in the hands of all
who deal in the sale of the filthy weed"
in Woodstown. The department of
colored work we hope to have reported
in full in Gleanlngs.
The recording secretary's report
showed that A regul ar meetings of the
Union had been held during the year,
with an average attendance of 1874. A
showing of which our full list of q MEM
bership of eighty should be ashamed.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
The New York Herald furnishes indis.

The New York Herald furnishes indis'
putable proofs of the return of prosperity
in the publication of a table of estimates
furnished by various trade unions 10
New York city, which show a great
increase in the number of men now at
work over those employed n year ago.
Of157, 900 workmen on the rolls of these
unions, 1872, $50 are now earning wages,
while one year ago but LOG. 200 of the
number was employed, This shows that
upward of 81, 900 men have resumed
work as a result of better times, and is
the most convincing statement that the
long. promised prosperity is here that
could be made. 1t is to be noted that the
heads of the unions furnishing these
figures frankly avow their belief that
good times are already here. and that
even better ones may be expected in the
near future. The important desideratum
may here be observed that there is great
confidence in the future. This is all that
is needed. With confidence restored, the
working man may look forward to a long
period of happiness and prosperity.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10

Mayor Charles Il. Richman, of Woods
town, has announced himself as a candi-
date for Surrogate, subject to the action
of the Republican County Convention.
Mayor Richman has been a Republican
all his life, and for thirty.five years has
worked in season and out for the success
of his party, believing that it was the
best exponent of true American princi-
pies, and would the most wisely and
judiciously administer the affairs OF
government. He has been an indefati-
gable worker in his W township in
every campaign during all these years,
and not an election has passed that has
not found him at the polls on election
day to look after the interests of those
whom the party had made its standard
bearers, and a history of the elections
would reveal the fact that Pilesgrove,
with its large floating vote, has always
stood like q Gibraltar for the Republican
ticket. This has been no small task and
the elections have not been allowed to
take care of themselves. For this work
Mayor Richman has never asked any of
the honors or emoluments from the Re-
publican party, and he has never held q
county office and he only enters the field
now in a friendly rivalry with others for
this position, submitting bis claims to
the aFbitrament of the county convention
to abide, as a loyal Republican, the de-
cision their rendered by the party repre-
ssntatives. As to his competency for the
position. nothing needs to be said.
Those who know him will readily
recognize his peculiar a~daptability for
the delicate and often intricate duties of
the Office. AS a Citizen of Pilesgrove, of
course his friends here wish him every
success, because he is both capable and
worthy,
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
ONE OF TWO WAYS.

The bladder was created for one pnr
pose, namely, a receptacle for the urine,
and as such it is not liable to any form oi
disease except by one of two ways. Tn.
first way is from imperfect action of III.
kidneys. The second way is from car.
less local treatment of other diseases.
chief Cause.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid
neys is the chief cause of bladder troubles
So the womb, like the bladder, was GREAT.
ed for one purpose, and If not dootored
too much ia not liable to weakness q,
disease, except in rare cases. 1t is situa
ted back of and very close to the bladder
therefore any pain, disease Or moon
venience manifested in the kidneys. back
bladder or urinary passage Is often, BY
mistake, attributed to female weakness
or womb trouble of GONE sort. The error
is easily made aud may be as easily
avoided. To find out correctly, set
your urine aside for twenty four hours:
q sediment or settling indicates kidney
or bladder trouble. The mild and the
extraordinary effect of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root. the great kidney, and
bladder remedy is oon realized. If
you need a medicine yon should have the
best. At druggists fifty cents and one
dollar. You may have q sample bottle
and phamphlet, both sem free by mail.
Mention R.REGIsTER and send
your address to DIR. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton. N. Y. The proprietor of this
paper guarantees the g~enuineness of this
offer.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10

We publish in another column, by re-
quest, an article taken from the National
Bimetallist Of Washington, purporting to
give the connection between silver and
wheat in the markets of the world in re-
lation to the prices of the metal and the
cereal. The article is somewhat of an
advance on the arguments used Dy free
silver advocates a year ago, in that it
admits that the prices of silver and wheat
are both regulated by the universal law
of supply and demand, but says that
"when silver was shut out of the mints of
Europe and America, its gold price at
once began to fall.' Certainly. Why
not? If the demand was less, the price
would of necessity fall. Prices thus f1uc-
tuate, but under the present system of a
single standard, this remains unchanged.
The Government tried to create an artif-
oial demand Cor silver by large purchase s
OF the metal, but finally gave up the IN
dertaking as %ruinous. The only demand
that can cause a general rise in the prices
of products of a healthy nature must be
created by the worlds necessities. Any
other demand must be transient and I'M
stable. The Philadelphia Ledger, in an
editorial along this line, has this to say !:
1.-THE only thing one has need to remem-
Der in this discussion of the fluctuations
in the prices of commodities is that the
s~tandard-the gold standard -remains
unchanged. Mr.. Bryan and other silver
advocates have c%ontented, and now con-
tend. that the gold standard is RESPONSE
BILE for falling prices; that, in fact, the
standard itself is approaching in value
the yard stick growing longer. He says
in this letter that the choice sis between
falling prices indefinitely continued and a
return to the bimetalic level" The rise
In the price of wheat is one refutation of
this theory. Wheat may fall again in
price. and NO doubt will, under the
operation of the law of supply and
demand; but its fluctuations, while the
standard remains unchanged. is proof
that there is no such necessary relation
between the gold standard and falling
prices as formed the basis of MI. Bryan's
arguments last November. His political
hopes depend upon a return of hard times,
and he is, therefore, a pessimist: but,
happily for the American people, he is
doomed to disappointment, prosperity
having returned for a season, at least
long enough to refute his sophistries."
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10
Blankets

* n
tWenty-one years of
blanket selling we find no record of
values such as we're giving now.
Nor should we. The blanket chief
has been working the stocks nearer
and nearer to mercantile perfection
which means dependable goods,
as handsome as may be, at least
prices.
Conditions favored him last Win
ter and spring. The dark hours be-
fore the dawn of better times drove
prices lowest.
If we s%peculated, we'd ask a third
more for our blankets. Comparison
shows that we are alone in giving
full benefit to the consumer of the
prices we got. Or else, others bought
blankets late or poorly. Nobody is
charging more than blankets are
worth. WI are charging a fourth
to a third less than today's worth.
All the lists printed this week are
good. These items were among
them
S1,5O a pair-The "ChipIey"-A good,
Serviceable Blanket; size 57x76 in,
weight 4 lbs.
So a pair-The "Chipley"-Heavy large
size white Blankets; size 70x79 in,
weight 5 lbs.
So rs a pair-The Golden Gate"-Fine,
soft, white blankets, pink, blue or red
borders; size 70x80 in, weight 5 lbs.
the "Physician's Favorite" are made to
our order in special sizes and weights.
Pure wool filling on light spool cotton
warp
60x80 inches, AZ lbs. weight, So 25 a pair.
72xS4 inches, 6 lbs. weight, So. Is a pair.
Extra large size, 76xS6 inches, X lbs.
weight, $500 a pair.
The "Sierra Valley" Blankets are
a product of California. Pure wool
both ways strictly, handsomely fin
ished; pink, blue, red or yellow
borders
62x7S inches, weight 4 lbs, S. 90 a pair.
72xSO inches, weight 5 lbs, Sc. 90 a pair.
BxS6 inches, weight 7 lbs, ST. so a pair.
84x9O inches, weight 8 lbs, SO. 90 a pair.
90x100 inches, weight 9 lbs, $40 a pair.
81 a pair-The "Wissahickon" Scarlet
Blankets-Well made all wool scarlet
blankets; size 70xSO in., weight 5 lbs.
John Wanamaker