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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
BOOKS FOR RAILWAY MEN.
Novel Scheme For Giving Street Car
Men Library Privileges


The board of managers of the public
library, st. Louis, are to inaugurate
system for the distribution of books to
street car employees and their families.
The plan involves the establishment of
library stations at the power houses of
the various street car lines in the city.
Captain Robert MoCulloch of the
Hamilton syndicate will be the first to
adopt the plan. He has been in confer
ence with the free library officials for
some time and is enthusiastic over the
scheme. At the power house or sheds of
each of his lines he will open public
library office, which will be in charge
of one of the employees of the company.
Books will be delivered by the library
wagons and the men and their families
will be supplied with all the reading
matter they want. Each will be issued
certificate Of membership, which will
also be given to the other readers Of the
mans home.
St Louis is the first city in the Unit
ed States to use such means of circu-
lating books. In speaking Of the idea
recently, one of the library attaches said
1--WE think this plan will be success
full. At present we rarely see a street
car man in the library. The reason is
patent Their hours are long and they
seldom get an opportunity to come down
town. Under this method the books
will be at their disposal in their very
workshops. Then, again. the scheme is
designed just as much to educate the
members of their families. Most of
these people are not blessed with bur-
densome lot of worldly goods, and the
item of 10 cents car fare means a great
deal to them. As nearly all the men
live within easy walking distance of the
power houses, the car fare expense will
be out of the question and the waste of
time going to and from the branches
will be very small. st. Louis Re-
public.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
Power of the Skin.

DIR. Juhl of Philadelphia has been
making experiments on the absorbent
power Of the human skin for fluids
an the form Of spray. The lower ex-
tremities, according to the Philadel-
pha Record, were isolated from the
rest Of the body by a partition, the
opening of which was carefully packed
with India rubber, so that no fluid
might pass to the rest of the body.
The spray was then made to play up-
ON the Isolated extremity, and only
normal skin was exposed to it, all
patches which We're mduly Redeemed
being covered with gutta-percha tissue
firmly fixed with chloroform.
The skin was carefully cleansed
with soap and water before the COM
mencement Of the experiment and
after the spraying, the superfluous
nuid was wiped off, the leg rubbed
with fat. and a close bandage apnlied
before the limp was removed from its
isolation. The drugs used were ferro-
cyanide OF potassium, salieyclic acid.
salicylate of soda, iodide of potassium
and tincture of iodine and all of them
We're found I'M greater or less oman
nity in the wastes of the body AL
coholic solutions were found to be all
sorDed more readily than the aoueous
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

The Dingley tariff bill has passed
the House.
A bill providing for the creation Of
a Department Of Public Health, the
head of which is 10 be a member Of
the Cabinet. has been introduced in
the Senate by Senator Mallory.
The order of President Cleveland
issued last February, reducing the
number of pension agencies in the
United States from Is to 9, will be re-
voked by President Mckinley within q
few days.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations has ordered favorable re-
port on the Hawaiian Annexation
treaty. No alteration has been made
in its terms. Action on the treaty
will not take place until the next ses-
sion If Congress.
The House refused by a vote Of 142
to 40 to raise the price to be paid for
plate higher than $500. The
Secretary of the Navy was directed, in
case he could not secure bids at that
figure, to construct a Government
srmor-plate plant.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations has reported favorably upon
resolution empowering the President
to take the necessary steps to secure
the release of the crew of the alleged
filibuster Competitor, who have been
imprisoned in Cuba since April, 1885,
At special meeting of the House
Rules Committee Tillman's request for
hearing ON the bill legalizing the
South Carolina dispensary during the
present session was refused. The com.
mittee decided that it was necessary to
allow the judiciary Committee to
further consider the masure.
Major-General Forsyth. U. s A,
retired, has presented a petition to the
House of Representatives, denouncing
the Sugar Trust, and asking that the
sugar schedule be stricken from the
tariff bill. He claims that the schedule
as it now stands will amount to pre-
senting the Trust with $4,000, 900,
not cent of which will ever reach the
Treasury.
The Senate has passed without de.
bate the resolution appropriating
$500, 900 for the United States exhibit
at the Paris exposition of 1900. The
resolution provides for the appoint.
ment of Director g General at salary
of $4,000 per year, with travelling
and personal expenses, for four years,
an Assistant Director General al
So, 900 per year for three years, numer
GUS other officials at proportionate
salaries.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05

The large yields Of tobacco under
the most favorable conditions. together
with corresponding profits, have
created the impression that this crop is
generally more profitable than it really
is, says the American Cultivator. 1t
requires rich land to produce paying
crop. Then it must also have more
potash fertilizer than any other. After
these are supplied there are risks to
be run of destroying the crop by early
or late are frosts or of almost equal in
jury to it by hailstorms or winds and
heavy rains, which will tear and cut
the leaves. There are localities where
such storms come almost every season.
Such should be avoided by the to-
bacco-grower. Unless the crop is in
the very best condition buyers will
cry it down, and it is often sold fol
less than the same amount of skill and
forethought applied to some other crop
would produce. In toba eco growing
more than in most other crops the ex.
ira care to insure high quality pays
best.
The most common mistake of begin
ners in tobacco growing is making the
land rich with an excess of stable
manure. This in favorable seasons
will make an extra large leaf growth
but it is at the expense of the quality
of the leaf, If the season proves dry
the stable manure will dry up the soil
and do the crop little good. 1t will,
in fact, do injury, for as the soil is dry
its potash fertilizer will reveort to in,
soluble conditions. Manuring with
concentrated fertilizers, and those
chiefly mineral secures better crops
than does relying ON stable msnures.
And after all this expense for fertil.
izers, any one of dozen causes may
ruin the crop. 1t needs to pay heavily
some years to make up the inevitable
losses in Others. The most successful
tobacco-growers are those who grow
moderate quantities every year in
connection with other crops, SO that il
the tobacco crop proves failure some
other may help keep the balance OF
PAoho anu lOsS VI tD6 Ilkub slu6.
While there are many new tobacco.
growers each year, it is also true that
some of those who have grown most
largely each year drop out, or restrict
their production. This year, owing
to the expectation of better prices for
tobacco, may be an exception. But, as
rule, an expensive crop to grow as
tobacco is, and uncertain also as we'll
will continue to be grown permanently
only by those thoroughly apprenticed
in the business and who have by long
experience learned the requisites for
making crop of the best qualities. So
long as so many amateurs begin tobac-
co growing without understanding the
business, their inferior quality OF
tobacco will depress the price 50 that
neither they nor Others can make to-
bacco as profitable as this crop ought
to be.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
Farm Butter.

We doubt whether any publication
ever issued from the Department of
Agriculture has been of interest to
larger number of people than Farmers
Bulletin No. 81, which is devoted to
butter making on the farm. This
bulletin is sent free upon application
to the Secretary of Agriculture at
Washington. Butter is made on nearly
every farm, if only for home use. The
majority is very poor stuff Even if
respectable when first made, it will
not keep. 1t has little flavor. 1t is
good material spoiled. OF course, this
is not true of all families, and there
are even many communities in which
most of the butter made is good or
even excellent, but no one can travel
long in the average country district
without realizing that if he desires
fresh, good favored and sweet country
butter he must go to the city for it.
And he must not only go to the city,
but to rather expensive places there.
The reason is that nearly all the good
butter made is produced by those
whose main business is dairying, and
whose product, of course, finds its way
to the city.
The trouble with the farm butter
consumed on the farm is lack of clean
illness, by which we mean cleanliness
in the dairy sense, which is wonder
full and almost fearful cleanliness. 1t
involves the removal not only of all
that is offensive to any sense, but
everything however agreeable in itself,
which does not harmonize with milk
and butter. We do not think the
farm milking is usually we'll done.
Much of the mischief is done before
the milk reaches the housewife, who
must deal with product impaired
before she sees it. And very few of
the farmhouses outside the dairy dis
triots are arranged or fitted to enable
her to deal with it at all acceptably.
She tries her best and the butter is
not good. At the best il is merely
not disagreeable, but seldom has much
of that delicate flavor which induces
large consumption. The housewife
cannot control and can seldom even
know the temperature, nor can she set
her mill where no foreign odors do not
reach it. The Bulletin, prepared by an
expert in farm butter-making, tells
just where the troubles are and how to
remedy them. And it can be had for
the asking.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
LIFE IN A PENAL COLONY.
Delightful Place Where French Con
victs Are Chartered.

Delightful Place Where French Con-
victs Are Chartered.
ssThe island OF New Caledonia, where
I have lived for the past ten years, Is
a French penal colony" said c. O..
Freeman, an English gentleman. Il
Went there for my health, expecting TO
stay only a short time. but went into
the business OF raising coffee, for
which that country is well adapted.
and finally concluded TO stay perma-
mently. New Caledonia is 1000 miles
east of AUsi...l. and. although within
the tropics, has a delightful climate
for ten months in the year. During
January and February the weather is
so excessively hot that one cannot live
in comfort. 1t is forty miles wide by
400 long.
There are between 5000 and 5000
convicts on the island, and perhaps an
equal number of ticket Of leave men
that is. men who have served out their
terms Of Imprisonment, but who are
forbidden to leave. and have to report
" lut uuluoIiNits ANiNN ~ s'eAs hNs
are miserable. spiritless lot, these
ticket OF leave fellows, who work just
enough to keep from starvation, and
whose highest ambition is TO get mon
ey enough for debauch. The convicts
are treated very humanely by the
French officials, and | doubt If there
is a penal settlement in the world
where the men have the same care and
consideration shown them.
'The coffee plantations are worked
largely by negroes, who come from the
New Hebrides under contract TO stay
two or three years, the local labor be-
ing very unreliable. The pay of the
laborers is 81 month and ratlons. rice
being the principal article of food. This
cheapness of labor is the explanation
of the profit In eultivating coffee. If
We had to pay the wages current in
the United States there would be no
money in its production. We export TO
France and are allowed a rebate Of
one-half of the entry duties, which is n
considerable bonus.
There are few Englishmen in New
Caledonia, but no Americans, believe,
outside of the consul. The French are
very jealous of foreigners and discour-
age all outsiders from coming there
Washington Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
Fluids with Meals.

The arguments presented by many
writers seem to prove that the moder-
ate taking of fluids with the food at
meals IS not without benefit But the
Importance Of the thorough mastica-
ton of food before ii is presented to
the stomach must never be overlooked.
If this is interfered with in any way
by the use Of liquids, we must prompt.
ly prohibit their Indulgence.
Fluids may be taken ad libitum
during meals by those whose digestive
powers will allow it, but such persons
should keep in mind that the strongest
stomach may be abused too far. while
those whose stomachs are already I'M
equal to a severe strain should be es-
pecially careful as to the quantity of
fluid imbibed with the food.
The saliva Is the best lubrlcator for
the food while 1t is in the mouth, both
because of It's starch-digesting powers
and because It's alkallnity serves to
stimulate copious flow of the acid
secretion of the stomach.
Any habit, therefore, which permits
the entrance Of food into the stomach
before 1t is thoroughly Incorporated
with saliva must be pronounced per-
ndcious in the extreme.
Ii we cannot afford the time neces-
sary for mastlcating our food properly
and Incorporating 1t thoroughly with
saliva, 1t would be better to take moth
ing but broths and similar foods. The
use Of water and other LIQUIDS as
lubricators is not to be tolerated.
On the other hand, If we bear in
mind the whole mechanism of diges-
ton, 1t will readily be seen that in
cases OF weakness or want of tone ON
the part Of the muscles of the stomach.
when every part of the food cannot
be properly presented to the action of
the digestive juices, the introduction
into the stomach of a moderate amount
OF water may be of no slight benefit.
The mass Of food will become more
pliable, and so more easily operated
upon by the weakened muscles.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05

1Oh Huu lduit.
Don't contradict people, even if
you're sure you are right.
Don't be inquisitive about the affairs
Of even your most intimate friend.
Don't underrate anything becau-S
you don't possess it.
Don't believe that everybody else in
the world is happier than you.
Don't conclude that you have never
had any opportunities in your life.
Don't believe all the evil you hear.
Don't repeat gossip, even If it does In.
terest a crowd.
Don't go untidy ON the plea that ev-
erybody knows you.
Don't be rude to your interiors in So
cial position.
Don't over or under dress.
Don't express positive opinion I'M
less you perfectly understand what you
are talking about.
Don't jeer at anybody's religious be
lief
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
The "Cbarm /. of sernents-


Any popular so-called prejudice II
ong continued, probably is founded up
IN some matter of fact, although this
may not have been demonstrated,
writes DR.. Henry Lee, in the London
Lancet. That some animals have the
power of paralyzing others which they
prey upon is matter of direct observa-
hon. A rabbit will remain perfectly
motionless in the presence of a stoat
and without moving will allow a hole
to be made through the skull at the
back Of the head. We may suppose
that the power of feeling, as of motion,
Is for the time gone. DIR. Livingstone
felt no pain when seized by a tiger. I
have seen a mouse remain perfectly
motionless under the gaze of cat.
When excited the eats pupils become
dilated. On one occasion in the even
ing | saw cat in an excited state re-
tire to shady place where it cauld no
longer be seen, but presently l saw two
small red globes fixed upon me. l once
saw the same, less defined, In the eyes
Of a kitten, but it is very difficult to get
their eyes fixed when near.
A general officer who has seen long
service in India informed me that on
one occasion serpent had got into
house and taken refuge in cellar. Be-
ing soldier it was suggested that he
was the proper person to dislodge the
intruder He took a spear and looked
through a hole in the wall of the cellar,
but saw no serpent. Presently two
small red globes were fixed upon him.
These he supposed to be the serpents
eyes and thrust his spear, as he
thought, between them. The spear
caught the serpent just behind the head
and killed If
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05

iaT with conditions surrounding the
fruit-grower here. He states that
upon certain morning a week OF two
since the price Of California fruits in
his market were as follows:
Cherries ..... q cents per pound
ApricOts ....-...... ..-... 10 cents a dozen
prfches ......... .... % cents n dozen
Orange ...-.. 3 cents dozen
All fruit was in good condition
that is, there was no signs of decay
but all the peaches Of a greenish. gel
low tinge, suggestive Of doctors bills
and the undertaken. The apricots. as
a rule, looked better, but probably
half Of these were green on one side,
and the best in the box was a bitter
disappointment 10 one who longed for
the delicate flavor of the apIicots
grown on the sunny slopes of the Santa
Cruz mountains. The cherries, how
ever, were a credit to the State; they
looked as bright and fresh as if they
had just come from the tree, and the
flavor was excellent.
All this fruit was packed in layers
and in reasonably small packages,
which adds greatly to its appearance;
the layers of cherries look especially
tempting to people who are accustomed
to buying cherries in bulk. The
oranges looked well. of course. Cali
fornia oranges are a staple here, and
no other fruit wholly takes their place
| have never seen any one buying this
fruit, although considerabe:is sold. but
almost everyone prices it, especially
the cherries. and when asked How
much for the box?' (it was probably
ten pound box the dealer answered
49," with an unmistakable air of
WEAKNESS. / didn't buy the box.
took Strawberries instead, box OF
homegrown berries picked that same
morning, bright, ripe and clean, at 10
cents for quart box. Most of the
people in the place took either straw
berries or bananas. The latter are es-
pecially fine and sell for 8 and 20
cents dozen, according to the size and
appearance. Pineapples are also plen-
tiful at 10 cents each. This gives an
idea Of the competition which Cali
fornia fruit has to meet.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05

The reason why potatoes grow waxy
is usually owing to some injury to the
foliage which thus prevents it from
changing the juices of the tuber into
starch. says g. r. Houlton. But in
seasons when there is much rain and
very little sunshine the potatoes are
sometime affected the same way
though the leaves be uninjured. In
such case it is still owing to the failure
of the potato leaves to fulfill their
proper work as the leaves only change
juices into starch when they are DIV
and exposed to sunlight. In Ireland
where the weather during the growing
sea son is mostly cloudy, and often
rainy, the potatoes are always waxy,
and to the American taste they are I'M.
eatable. Yet the people of the British
islands prefer the waxy potato to the
more srtarohy one that this country
supplies. They have possibly larger
proportion of heterogeneous nutrition
than our potatoes, though this is partly,
at least, due to the fact that they have
less starch. We would not advise
planting these waxy potatoes. Our
experience with them has only been
with such as were injured by potato
Larvae eating the foliage. New pota-
toes, grown rapidly and not ripened
make good seed If kept until spring
But the potatoes whose vines have
been injured. and whose tubers have
lain in the hot soil without ripening
during August and September, have
had their vitality injured and produce
only thin. spindling plants. The
most mealy potatoes. which are also
those fully ripened, are best both for
eating and planting.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
Our Frui, In The Eat

An Eastern correspondent writes to
the S. +. Chronicle as follows, in re.
gard to California fruit as it appears
to the actual consumer, after having
run its gauntlet of buyers, packers,
commission men, transportation com.
panies, refrigerating societies, auction
houses, jobhers and local RAILROADS. and
offered for sale by the retailer in in.
terror Eastern towns. Onr correspon.
dent is Californian who has him.
self picked and packed many box of
California fruit, but is now resident
OF the East, and writes from the stand.
point or one buying at retail, at that
end OF the line, and yet entirely famil.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-05
THOUGHT THE BEAR A CALF.
Adventure that Might Have Had +.
Very Unpleasant Eudiu~-

Adventure that Might Have Had q
Very Unpleasant Ending.
when / was at college" said our
host of the evening, Il thought l knew
everything, but time changed my ford
opinion Of myself. and it does me good
% recall some Of the occasions when
was tumbled down without much cere-
nOny from my high altitude.
Zone of those was when was
spending my vacation at home with a
college mate who was as premature as
myself. We We're in that dreadful mi
iatory state when We addressed each
other in the dead languages and made
ife burden to everybody by the long
words of our colloquies.
MY father generously placed cou-
pie of horses at our disposal, perhaps
in the hope that We would break our
foolish necks, and one evening when
We mounted after sunset for our even
ng ride, he asked us to look up a stray
,alf which had escaped from pasture
near the house.
It's black critter, said my faith
ar. and as frisky as they make 'em,
You can jest run him in an not give
him time to get the turn on you, an I'll
be down to open an shet the gate
We had our ride, and we found the
talf. By that time it was dark-not
Egyptian darkness, but the dusk of a
starlit summer sky. The calf was
browsing on the edge of lonely piece
Of woods and at first paid no attention
to our attempts to start it homeward.
Our horses SHE'D at the animal, and it
was all we could do to manage them.
My friend suggested that one Of us dis
mount and drive the bovine
Excuse me- l answered, 4 never
lad any love for farm amusements, Of
which driving unwieldy calves is the
east enticing. If we can't drive Mr..
Calf with our present force We'll leave
aim in the lureh. / am strongly inclin-
ID to do that as it is
Don't be disagreeable. Tom said
my friend, its the first favor the gov
arnor has asked of us. Let him see
that We mean WELL
With that he whipped up his horse
and ! followed suit, so the calf had to
move on or be run over, and snorting
Indignantly he trotted on ahead, but
with so many diversions after sweet
spots of clover and other delicacies
that we thought We had an all-night
| job.
AT last We sighted the gate, and as
we reached it We closed up on the calf
IN such way that we run him through
It and past the old man before he had
A chance for one of his clumsy double
and twisted jumps in another and op-
posite direction.
But what was our surprise to see
the governor take to his heels with the
agility of boy and go sprinting up
the lane to the house like prize run
ner, getting inside of the porch and
pulling the door closed after him.
Who is going to put the calf in the
pastureF | shouted after him.
Calf! he roared out of the porch
window, calf, you internal fool-that's
a big bleck bear, and he'll chew YOU
INTO sausage meat if you stay out
therer
1t was fact, and the bear story
getting out, We college boys got such
a roasting that we shortened our va
cation and went back to the halls of
learning, where they didn't know any
better than we the difference between
A bear and a calf."-Chicago Times
Herald.