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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

where a IRE gave out a cheerful blaze.
An old woman was erOuehing In an
armchair beside the hearth. She turn
ed Der bind eyes searchingly toward
Them Lettie ran forward. and bend
Ing down greeted her tenderly.
As Armstrong took his seat at the
table. where the girl msle all haste to
lay supper, the young couple ex-i
changed a glance and a nod.
Granny" the seaman began. I've
brought you a bit O. news-strange
news what me and Lottie's just picked
up al sea-
Granny Sanderson's face became an
MATED. She Grained her neck toward
the speaker and said:
Good news. | reckon, It's in the
ring O. your voice. stephen. plain as
can be. What is't. my lad:"
Armstrong FASTENED TO relate the
Incident OF the black bottle. and then
he read the amazing document which
had come to light.
The woman listened intently. and
when he had concluded sat silent for a
while Al last she said:
Who knows o. thisf"
Nobody" said Armstrong. "cept us
three what are here together"
Nobody: Was you and Lottie alone
aboardG'
"Redshaw was aboard. o. course. But
he don't count said Armstrong;
sides. he was asleep. weren't he. Lot
tieg''
Granny Sanderson shook her head
shrewdly.
There's them what sleeps with one
eye open" said she. Il knows EN-"
What do you mean" retorted Arm
strong. My mate ar'n't one o that
sort. Whatever's put such n thought
into your head?'
'Ah, my lad. I've allus held as you
was too cOntding. It's in your natur'
Now. lookee here! II you takes my ad-
vice you'll not lose minute putting to
| sea. Why, bless me" said she. ''it
wouldn't surprise me If Redshaw were
there afore you. Mark mer'
Stephen Armstrong had pushed away
his plate while Mrs. Sanderson still
spoke. He now rose hastily and said:
I'm not afeer'd. I've a mind to take
Redshaw alonger me tonight. Why
not! Ill need q hand, I'm thinking"
Go alone said Granny Sanderson.
"Leastwise. don't you trust Redshaw
in this business. Steevie. II you hope
to steer back into Saltwin harbor
allves''
Armstrong turned angrily away and
put his hand upon the latch. Lottie
sprang toward him.
Let me come with your said she.
Mo- the woman nterposed. rising
and taking a step gropingly toward
them. Il forbid it, You stay alonger
| me-"
Armstrong went out enraged beyond
measure at the thought that his old
mate, with whom he had put to sea
almost daily, In fair weather and foul,
for ten years and more, should be sus.
pected OF treachery. He had always
put implicit trust in Redshaw, though
he could not deny that the man had
his faults. He was given to drinking
| at times more than was good for him
and his mates were not always the
men Armstrong would have chosen
Still he had never known Redshaw to
act in way that he could call under
handed, and he would not mistrust him
now.
He had reached the edge of the sand
dune, where he could gain a clear view
of the moonlit sea. He cast a glance
toward the harbor.
| WHAT the exclamation came like
a cry from his lips, and next moment
he was running in wild haste toward
the shore.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22
That Grand Air.

Papa, / want pug dog. They's SO
'Eistocratic lookin.
Bobby, what do you mean by aristo.
cratic looking?"
"W'y, they looks like they git hop
pin mad il they had ter git a quainted
with anybody. Brooklyn Life.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22
SWALLOWED A NEEDLE AND DIED

tailor in Chicago accidentally swallowed a
needle and died as result of the inhammati ton
set up by the small needle Little things fire.
quently have great power, as is seen in few
small doses OF the famous Hostetter's stomach
Bttters, which, however, has an entirely differ
ent effect from the needle in this notice. The
bttters make nervous, weak and sickly persons
strong and well again They are also good for
dyspepsia and constipation.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22
Color. Blindness Unknown,o wnm.

In the course of an interesting discus.
sion which followed the reading of a
paper on eolor-blindness the other day.
a most curious statement was an
nounced-to the effect that, after long
research, not single case OF woman
suffering from this defect could be dis
covered.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22
THE SKIPPER OF :
THE PHANTOM TUG.
DARK EYED

DARK EYED
girl was stand
ing on the star
board side OF a
cutter rugged
smack. H Z +
gaze was fixed
upon a small
b | a c K object
that danced on
the choppy wa
ters u boats
length ahead.
A young sea
man was sta
toned at the
helm. He was
- -
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

The entire area of the United States
is placed at |, s35, OF, 500 acres, of
which TAI, 7O2 1865 acres are now owned
by individuals or by corporations OF
states or have passed out Of the control
Of the general government.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

1t is estimated that there are no fewer
than 10000, 900 Europeans who wear
wooden shoes. Eastwood is ordinarily
employed for sabots, but willow is the
best material
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

When a girl announces that she has
a girl visiting at her house, she usually
adds, you ought to hear her play" No,
we don't want to.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Send for Free Circular showing how to get
BIG DlSCOUN rs on Prices OF any San Fran
cisco or Pacific Coast Cash Store or Supply
Company. We are reliable been in business In
San Francisco thirty years and can save you
money on everything you buy. Address Gill
BERT CLEMENTS SONS, 2ls California Street,
San Francisco, Cal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

In 10 years Russia has sent 624, 900
persons to Siberia, fully 100, 900 rela-
tives Of prisoners having accompanied
the exiles Of their own free will.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Fellows, you wouldn't take me to be a mem
Der of millionaire's family, would your"
" Frankly, we would not" Neither would
the millionaire; l asked him last night"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Old people cannot act cute. and they
should not try 1t.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Etc Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness
ittV after first days of DIR. Kline Great
Nerve kestorer. Send for FRkk 81 90 trial bot
tie and treatise. DIR. r. H. KLINE Ltd, $50 Arch
ST. Philadelphia, PA.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22
10 MRS. PINKHAM
From Mrs. Walter n. Hudd, Of pat-
chogues New York.

Mrs. BUDD. in the following letter
tells familiar story Of weakness ana
suffering, and thanks Mrs. Pintham
for complete relief:
"DRAR Mrs. PIxKHAM:-I thinls "A 4.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Sayages, on the whole, live longer
than civilized people.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only
medicine for coughs and colds.-Mrs. G.
Beltz, 439 8th ave-, Denver, Col, Nov. 8, '95.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

ed me terribly. l could not sleep for
the pain. Plasters would help for .
while, but as soon as taken off, the pain
would be just as bad as ever. Doctors
prescribed medicine, but it gave me no
relief.
Now / feel SO well and strong.
have no more headaches, and no
pain in side, and 1t is all owing to
your Compound. l cannot praise 1t
enough. 1t is wonderful medicine.
| recommend it to every woman /
know"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20

been four years under free trade, the
value of New iEngfand's manufactures
was 2S3 millions, giving a per capita CT
$lo4' and forty years later the per
capita was 1913, while the per capita of
Sill in Great Britain in 1850 had increas-
ed to only s1f5g: C9hditions in the lat
ter country were normal; in the former
made abnormaI by protection. The saw
ings banks DEPOSITS, while not given for
the two periods! so as to show compare
tive increase, are given for the several
states, two of which, Maine and Yer
mont, are ddstinctively agricultural
while Massachusetts,. Rhode Island and
connecticut are asfdistinctively manu-
featuring. In j1S94i.s the average per
capita deposits OF, savings were for
Maine $S1, and for Vermont 1884, For
Rhode Island they were $19S; for Con-
necticut $176. and for Massachusetts
$I|S. The farmer has been as fully con-
fidenced by the home market in New
England as he has been elsewhere.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20

without information whether it's use
is valid ground of challenge. An
other question to one was: could you
understand a legal argument-a long
speech on points Of law?" and to an
other: eff man should make a speech
two hours long could you understand
him." To the latter the talesman an
swered, very pertinently, we think,
that 81 could stand him." and, on adj
hitting that he thought he could COM
prehend him, was accepted. Another
one, asked the same question, who re-
sponded: II don't think 1 could stand
it at ALL" was excused.
Here, then, we have a new qualifica-
ton. Not only must the juror grasp
the testimony, analyze 1T, weigh it, de-
tect the false in 1t, square it with the
learned courts instruction in the law,
and thus arrive at verify, but he must
be able to comprehend everything all
the lawyers may say to him in sum-
ming up, no matter how many there
are of them, how contradictory of each
other they are, nor how long they talk,
for clearly there can be no time limit.
comparatively, also, it opens another
loophole for escape from an irksome
duty by admitting inability to under
stand such a lingo.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
THE BOAT RACE.

When the big Three get the word
to go at Poughkeepsie this week, and
the college Fights start away with the
strokes approved by Cook, Courtney
and Lehman, respectively, the whole
country, so far as it approves Of manly
sport, will be interested in the result.
1t will be not only a test of the merit
of strokes and coaches, but upon the
outcome will depend in large measure
the future of college boat racing. For
Cornell the race is case of do or die.
If the Cornell eight crosses the line at
the finish first, Harvard and Yale can
not we'll refuse a race next year. If,
on the other hand, the Crimson or the
Blue pilots the procession in, Cornell
will drop out Of the concert of the col
lege powers and fall back into the sec
ond rank, compelled to content ambi-
ton with trials of skill with Pennsyl-
vania and Columbia, while Harvard
and Yale indulge in a dual alliance.
For Harvard the race is hardly less
momentous. The Crimson crew this
year has followed new gods All the
traditions and uses Of old Harvard
have been flung to the winds in a haz-
ard Of new fortunes. If Harvard wins,
we'll and good. If Harvard loses. the
future is more or Tess vague. There
will Of course be move races with Yale,
and Harvard will undoubtedly cling to
some Of the practices introduced by
Lehman, the English coach, but de-
feat will bring up many unpleasant
questions, that cannot well be disposed
of without much waste Of talk and
temper
Yale has much the best of the stu
alton, with not much of anything but
the race itself to lose and with some
of the. prestige left at Henley to re-
gain. For Yale, the bitterest pang of de-
feat, in the event that Cornell is victor,
would be the necessity Of a recogni-
ton Of the Ithaca men as rivals on
the water
All IN all, 1t is certain to be race
contested on it's merits, and one which
the best rowing science will win. Yale,
Harvard or Cornell, there will be album
dant cheers for the victor and not
even national pride will belittle the tri-
umph if the Crimson crew finishes first
after the methods of an English anna
teur. Amateur sport is seen at it's best
among the college men, and there is
no reason why it should not present
itself in it's highest type in the tri-
angular contest on the Hudson.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
LITERARY KLEPTOMANIA

The question Of literary theft is not
new one. but the industry of late
seems to have taken on a new activity
Apparently the minor magazine is, to
a greater or less degree, to blame It
is the exception rather than the rule
TO pick up any of the so-called popular
periodicals without finding an apology
for some poem, story or picture, ac-
copied and printed as original, which
has proved to be stolen property. One
OF the most prominent of these maya
zines. within the last few months, pub
hshed a poem which is to be found in
volume that commanded a wide sale
and attracted considerable attention in
recent years. For this no apology has
yet been offered, and the theft has
probably not been called to the atten-
ton of the editor. The minor magazines
are not, of course, willing receivers of
stolen goods, but it cannot be denied
that for some cause they are in a sense
accessories both before and after the
fact
Men stole each others ideas and Ian
guage before the number of monthly
and weekly periodicals had been swell
ed by dozens of minor literary ventures;
but cases then were comparatively rare
and the punishment more certain and
effective. With dozens of new maya
zines demanding good fiction and
verse for their tables of contents, and
perhaps little less careful editing
than was the vogue when the older
periodicals held the field, the tempta-
ton to borrow material which might
command a sale was a natural result
So long as there is receiver of the
plumber there will always be literary
footpads, and in proportion as the mar
ket widens, the. more open will be the
thieves. AS the editor of one of the
popular monthlies stated, in apologize
ing for the publication of stolen story,
until there are editors who have read
everything published and remembered
ket his wares. The host of magazines
certainly makes tt more difficult to read
everything, and it puts remembering
all entirely out of the question.
The moral side Of the matter does
not enter into the question. 1t would
probably be too much to charge even
contributory negligence, to say nothing
of criminal carelessness. 1t is oppor-
tunity which is offered, and human ma
ture is so unfortunately constituted
that opportunity is what makes thieves
Of normally honest men Monthly ad-
missions of deception are almost an
invitation to enter the literary green
goods business. 1t is not unfair to say
that, while the minor magazine -four
ishes, the literary kleptomaniac will be
domiciled amid the fragrant clover.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20

other manner their destiny, by any
European power, in any other light than
as the manifestation of an unfrendly
disposition toward the United States"
Neither ignorance nor insincerity can
twist these principles or their applica-
ton into a justification of the anneXa-
ton of a group of islands thousands of
miles away in the Pacific in whose
government no power except the United
States has ever interfered and where
there is no probability that any ever
will. Partisans among politicians and
newspapers are voluble in arguments
to support unWise positions, and reck-
less alike of facts and of the nations
future where party interest leads and
the corrupt schemes of great vested in
terests put their shoulders to the wheel.
Let those who believe in the American
system and in the future OF this ma
ton band together unitedly to resist
and defeat what is the most dangerous
attack upon our institutions in the his
tory of the republic.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
LEGITIMATE GAIN In BUSINESS IN
Dictated BY THE REGULAR
WEEKLY STATEMENT,
AN INCREASE IN THE LOANS,
Ills ITEM HAS BEEN LARGER
ONLY ONCE IN SOME FOUR
YEARS
MONEY COMING IN FROM ,xrEprop
Indicates an Incraas
ing Demand for Money to Re
Used for Commercial Purposes.

NEW YORK, June 19-The Financier
says: For the first time in nearly a
month the statement of the associated
banks of New York city shows a Ie
climate expansion in the different TO-
tails Aside from the fact that one
pank out OF the sixty-six seems to have
made 90 per cent of all the loan in
crease, the figures indicate a general
distribution Of increased bust less.
among the various banks The loans
OF the banks for the week Just ended
are 1882, 100 heavier than reported
June II, and the total, $518, $50, 800, is the
largest in the history of the clearing
mousse with the exception Of Sept. IA.
Ao'o' When loans reached $522, 500 900 In
the last month the increase has been
doouC $14,OOO,O 900. At no time. however
with the loans approximating this fig
ure, mas the reserve been anything like
that now reported. The total denosi+s
Of the banks ale now in excess of s5o2
OOO'OoO; a sum that has not been equal
led since November 1894. The denosits
or the banks are STA, 900, 900 in excess of
lhe loans' Which, while a. very high
Hgure does not equal the record made
IL IAlC 1dII OL 1854, When deposits OK
ceeded loans by nearly 500, 900 900. The
large expansion in loans reported last
week is to be attributed of course TO
the speculation in the stock market
put the demand for commercial paper
is heavier, and rediscounting has set in
from the South and Southwest. There
is no sign of a cessation of the interior
movement toward this center, and
bankers do not look for anything like
trmer market for some time to come.
The crop movement will REQUIRE some
OF the surplus money now lying in the
New York banks-how much it is diff
hcult to estimate-but taking the 1895
movement as normal, it is interesting
to note between June IS and Sept. IA
that year, the expansion in loans was
no less than $15,OOO,OOO A similar in
crease this year, it is unnecessary to
say, would make the loan of the New
York banks by far the largest ever
known. AS the prospects are much
better than at that time, it would
not be surprising if this proved to be
the case
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
THE HOME MARKET AT HOME

A paper usually as intelligent as our
Minneapolis contemporary, the Journal.
recently apologized for the Dingley-
Aldrich-Jones bill with it's gauze of
farm protection, with a repetition of
that hoary old fiction of the home
market, which gave, in increase of con-
sumption, and therefore Of price, COM
pensation for the admitted increase in
the cost of manufactured articles
bought by farmers. Threadbare as is
this contention, the figures presented
by Mr.. Mulhall in his disinterested and
dispassionate inquiry into the progress
IN wealth of the several groups of
states and Of the component industrial
classes Of the states, strip the assump-
ton of even the shreds of plausibility. It
is worth while, at a time when farmers
are again being "soft-soaped." to take
from MulhalPs article in the May issue
or the North American Review his
figures showing the wealth, and its in
crease, Of the various industries.
If the home market theory Of COM
pensating returns should appear any,
where in the country, it is in New Eng
land; for, during these thirty-ive wears
Of ultra protection, that region has
been the focus Of manufacturing and
its resulting wealth. There the factory
was next the farm, and there factory
operatives and urban population large
ly outnumbered the agricultural. There
demand was excessive, supply deficient,
so much so that the entire produce of
New England farms would not suffice
to give sustenance to Connecticut alone.
Under these exceptionally favorable cir
cumstances what return has the homo
market given the farmer? In the in
crease of wealth what has been his
share? Have the compensations made
his increase proportional with that of
the others? If so, the home market
theory is sustained; if not, it falls.
In 1850 the estimated wealth of the
farms of New England was, stated in
millions of dollars, 435; in 1890 it was
per cent. In 1850 the value of manu-
features was 283 millions; in 1890. 400
millions, an increase of 1,216 millions or
43O per cent. One dollar invested in
farms had increased "a cents in forty
years; while 81 invested in manufac-
lures had increased $4.30 in the same
time. The rate Of increase in the lat
ter was thirteen times as great as in
the former. The land in cultivation has
fallen off 100000 acres in this time. and
the average size Of the farms fallen
from sixty-seven to fifty-six acres.
Fifteen years before New England
began to get the benefits of our foster
ing policy Great Britain had discarded
it forever. Four years prior to our
venture, and when Great Britain had
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
INCLUDE MINNESOTA.


The New York Evening Post quotes
from the Portland Oregonian a descrip-
ton of the lamentable condition into
which the state universities of Wash
ington and Oregon have fallen as a
consequence of their relation to the pol
itics of those states. 1.-The worst fea-
ture Of the state universities" says
the Post, sis their utter dependence
upon the will of legislative majorities."
Wherever the lawmakers of the state
condition their appropriation for insti-
tutions Of learning upon the political
complexion of instructors, and wher-
ever the regents or other governing
bodies of the great universities are Sc
lected and appointed for political rea-
sons, there is nothing too bad to hap
pen. 1t would be far better for the peo-
pie of such communities were their sys-
tenn for higher education wiped off the
face of the earth and the people left
to provide by personal initiative, out of
their own resources, for the educational
needs of their children. Summing I'D
the general situation, the Post says:
MANY struggles with successive gem
erations of politicians, who want to
work it for the benefit of the partv
appear to be necessary before such an
institution can achieve the measure of
independence now enjoyed by the state
universities of Michigan and Wiscon-
sin"
We indorse every word that the Post
says in this connection, but suggest
that 1T should add to the universities
of Wisconsin and Michigan, which re-
ceive it's we'll deserved praise, the Uni
versity Of Minnesota. This is another
great center of learning in the West
that has escaped the blight and mildew
Of political control. 1t has enjoyed a
success altogether unprecedented, when
it's growth is measured by the short
lapse of time since it had it's feeble be-
ginning. 1t is now one Of the mighty
universities Of this country, the lust
pride and peculiar care Of the neonle
of this state. 1t has never fallen under
political control, and neither the per-
| sonnet nor the opinion of it's instructors
has ever been determined by a party
test
1t is under the charge Of a president
who is one Of the great educators and
forceful men Of his time, whose un-
bounded energy and executive ability
have been spent for years in making
this university what it is. With all
| this, there is no university president in
the United States today more absolute
ly free from personal or political OBJ
| legation than President Northrop
Throughout the changes of administra-
| ton in Minnesota the appointments to
| positions on the board Of regents of
| the university have been determined
by personal fitness, without regard to
political relations The men who have
acted as regents have had a clear sense
of their high duty, and have discharg-
ed it as citizens and not as partisans.