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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

The pioneer school for girls in China
has been started The Shanghai papers
of the gath of December contain the
plan Of organization and curious Let
of regulations which have been framed
for the government of this, the first in.
stitution for the education of women
founded and managed by natives. 1t is,
Of course, dedicated to Confucius, and
tablet to his honor will be erected in the
school for the girls to worship.
At the beginning only 40 girls, be-
tween the ages of and is, from the
upper classes, are to be received, but il
the experiment is success the number
will be enlarged as fast as circumstances
will justify. There are to be two teach
ers-Miss An Ngae Tch and Miss Chin
Mel Yu, both of whom have been edu-
Gated in the United States A board OF
IL lady (Chinese) managers, or trustees,
is to be elected by the votes of those
who contribute to the maintenance OF
the school, and an advisory board OF II
gentlemen, but neither the latter mol
any other men shall ever be admitted tc
the school. II they wish to consult with
the teachers, they must arrange to meet
them elsewhere. The tuition is 81 q
month, with 191a cents per month al
fees to the servants, this including
sleeping apartments, but meals fol
boarders are extra.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
A Mississippi Woman.

Mrs. Robert SomerTille of Greenville.
president of the Mississippi W. S. A,
is lady highly respected i'll her sec
ton. Indeed, most of the southern state
suffrage associations are thus fortunate
in their presidents. The Greenville
Times says: MRS. Somerville, the
president of the Mississippi organiza-
ton, is a woman of exceptional and
carefully cultured intellectual strength.
united to personality and social pres
tige which peculiarly fit her for the re-
sponsible position she holds. She is the
eldest daughter of the late William l..
Nugent of jackson and has inherited in
the highest degree the mental gifts pos
sessed by her distinguished father. The
work Of the association has made sur
prising progress i'll the south, notwith-
standing the predictions that the con-
servatism of this section would oppose
formidable barrier to its advance. F"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
Keeping Posted,

At least one morning in the week the
intellectual smart set in Washington
arises an hour earlier and is seen wend-
ing its way to the Wimodaughsis club,
where behind closed doors Miss Janet
Richards posts her fair hearers on all
the topics Of interest Of the day-politi-
cal, religious, social and literary-so
that when they take their departure
they are able to discuss intelligently
with priest, layman or politician sub
jects Of present interest. A large num-
Der of the official set are among her au-
5ience. One busy woman said; "You
do not know what relief it is to us,
for with all our social duties it would
be impossible for us to keep posted on
all the topics necessary for discussion in
official life. We are also instructed in
the literature of the day and learn what
to criticise. How could we keep read
up and have time for anything elsef'
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
sucoe.sful Cooperative Colony.

A Tennessee community living as one
big family has just established a col
lege at New Economy, the head OF
each household putting in a certain
sum for the purpose. The standard of
value In the settlement is an hours la
Dor: in its home commerce 1t has no
money and needs none-a certificate
that labor has been performed takes its
place. 4 pound OF tea costs eleven
hours work; seventy hours pay for q
pair of shoes; two and half for a
pound of crackers, and so on. Every
body works and all-men and women
ahke-receive the same wages. They
have heretofore worked ten hours a
day, but expect soon to reduce 1t to
eight. They have kindergarten and
adequate educational machinery, music
languages and limited technology be
ing taught In addition to the regular
branches. Numerous communities Of
the kind have been founded In THU
country, but only y few have lasted
decade. From present indications, how
ever, this one Is destined TO enjoy q
longer term Of existence.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

GIVE quit her." said Gritty as he
smoked good night cigar with his
chum. "Its all off, Henceforth it will
be like the memory Of dream; what
the novelists call passing romance.
"But thought you were engngedy"
$50 we were. had seven warm en-
counters with the old gentleman before
| gained his consent. She wears my
ring, and I'm paying for it on the in
stallment plan.
whats gone wrong, them"
Its her superstition. She's bright
and cultured, but she's the most super.
stitious girl that ever came within my
experience. wouldn't believe 1t, you
know; couldn't at first. ] proposed to
/ her on Friday. A fellow in love is lucky
4 to know the year, to say nothing of the
day of the week. Nothing must do but
we break off SO as to escape the bao
luck. We happened to make this shift
on the 18th, and I'll be blowed If We
didn't have to break off again in ordel
to kill down the hoodoo. Yes, sir, en-
gagged three times and never had quar-
rel. 1t breaks the record.
1--WE never started any place yet tina
she didn't forget something. Do you
know that girl would always go to tn
end of block before she would turf
back? Did it every pop; all'superstiti
ton. Iraked up my whole pile TO tax
her to the musical event of the season
Passing into the theater she stubbed he
toe. That settled it. She must get RICH
home to avoid catastrophe. Had
hire coupe and the driver carries nj
watch yet.
Il looked my record up and got wor
to her that ] was born on Friday, IN tn
dark of the moon, and with an unluck
star in the ascendant. She prompt
: called the engagement off, aud that
what was after. detroit Free Pres
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One Can Away. Give himself.

One of tine pleasantest of day dreams
Is to imagine how charitable you would
be if you had plenty of money. The role
of a bountiful master or mistress is q
delightful one, and it is easy to imagine
how, ii you had a command of for
tune, You would make people happy
and with what grace you would receive
their gratitude. OF course few persons
can venture to indulge the hope that
they will be rich, but while we are
dreaming these dreams it is we'll enough
TO think whether we are showing our
selves charitable in the use Of what is
really within our command. Take, for
instance. ones thoughts. 1t is natural
enough to put a hard and bitter con-
struction upon the actions of others.
Possibly, from a superficial point Of
view, their conduct warrants it. But a
thoroughly charitable person-one who
would use money beneficently if he had
twill certainly make allowances for
others and only reluctantly come to the
severe judgment 1t is a mistake also
to suppose that money can do every
thing. There are good many persons
who would not if you were as rich as a
Barnato take penny from you. They
do not want your money, even though
they arc not rich themselves, but they
would prize constituencies, sympathy
and fellowship. If we withhold these
things that are surely within our pow
er, probably we should not be so very
generous if we had plenty of money
Philadelphia Ledger.
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H,n,ioo Cruelty.

The correspondent who sends the fol-
lowing to the Calcutta Asian states that
his information came to him on unim-
peachable authority. During a royal
hunt in one of the Rajpoot states an ex-
cepiopally fine tiger was caught-net'
ted. no doubt-and lured into cage.
His captors then proceeded TO moose his
feet and draw them through boles bored
in the floor of the cage, and black
smith was directed to draw his claws.
The tigers legs having been secured by
ropes, the royal sportsmea bad a sliding
door in the cage opened, and when the
captive put his head out they shut the
door down on his neck while the black
smith, with mallst and chisel, broke Oh
his teeth. Preparations were concluded
by muzzling the poor brute With strong
wire in some jnhuman fashion. The
tiger was then released, TO be baited by
dogs. and, despite his manned eondi
ton, he killed several before tbs
"sportsmen" wearied Of the game ane
shot him.
If this story is true, and the informa
ton is said to have come from an eye
witness-and there is nothing impossi
BILE in the crippling part of the bushes
-one would dearly like to take each 0
those Rajpoot royalties in turn and rea
him q lesson with q cutting WHIP
London Sketch.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

The late Montagu Williams. in his
Leaves Of a Life. relates how be was
engaged with Sir Hardinge Giffard-
now Lord Halsbury lin an important
election petition at Shrewsbury. At
their lodgings Mr.. Williams began to
smoke. Sir Hardinge protested. He said
be never smoked and eventually his
eminent Junior had to put ON mackin-
tosh aud smoke his cigar in a snow
storm. Mr.. Montagu Williams did not
have to wait long for an opportunity to
tetaliate. Sir Hardinge carried his habit
Of punctuality 10 height that was only
equaled by his politeness. He would
have breakfast ready TO a moment.
but would never commence without his
junior. That morning Mr.. Montagu
Williams tarried so long over his toilet
that he did not enter the breakfast room
until three minutes before the hour at
which the court sat He writes:
II found Giffard seated in an arm
chair before an enormous fire. The
breakfast-grilled fish and other delica.
cies-was placed ON the fender. The tea
had not yet been brewed. My leader
looked in rage. He must only have
been acting, however, for in all my life
never saw him seriously out of TEN
per. knew he declared, just as we'll a
he did, what his rules were. knew
that he had been waiting breakfast TO
me. 1t was my duty to be down in tim
and make the tea, and in consequence
Of my laziness he would have to 20
court without any breakfast at all
But, casually remarked, i never ca
breakfast. l don't care about it.
We'll, he rejoined, you are, think
the most selfish fellow ever cam
across. oh, dear, no. said, you fol
get the smoking yesterday. You don
smoke. don't see the difference H
burst out laughing, and We proceeded
court. That night / remained by til
fire when the meal was over and smoke
my cigar st. James Gazette.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

One bright Holyoke woman, who ID
among tue Oldest OF the Mount Holyoke
graduates, is thoroughly in sympathy
with all the advancing steps made there.
She says that Mary Lyon was in her day
most progressive and in advance of the
times, and if she were living today she
would not be only in sympathy with all
the new work. but would be even more
advanced. She even has private theory
Of her own that Mary Lyon set the OLD
seminary building on fire to make way
for the new college requirements. =
Holyoke Transcript.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

The selection Of New York as q place
Of residence by Mrs. Jefferson Davis is
thus explained by friend in the Ma
con Telegraph: "Mrs. Davis told me
that the plantation at Beauvoir did not
afford living for herself and daughter,
ON account of freshets, floods, the low
price of cotton, ETC., and that it was
necessary for her 10 work for living.
The best work suited 10 both Of them is
Of literary character. and when they
began to look for purchasers Of their
productions they only found them in
the north. They have made repeated
efforts to dispose Of their work to south
ern purchasers, but have found the de-
aand very small for il, there being
practically no market for high class lit.
erary work in the south, all Of the big
publishers and newspapers that are able
TO pay for it being in the north. Conse
quently il became necessary to move t
one of the large cities, and they selected
New York. There they find a ready
market for all their productions, anC
the income thus derived, together will
the small income from the Beauvoi
plantation, affords them comfortably
living"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

when the water was flowing over the
deck
Bill Anthony, as the cool-headed
marine is popularity known in the navy,
has spent many years in Uncle Sans
service, as soldier and marine. He saw
some hard service in the army, and has
fought Indians in the West. Ten years
ago he enlisted in the navy, and there
he has since remained. Standing six
feet two, built in proportion. and with
handsome features, he is soldier every
inch of him and would long ago have
been promoted but for one weakness
love of the bottle. While he never
drank on duty, and has always been a
model on board ship, his conduct when
on land has kept him below the grade
of a non-commissioned officer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
CHICAGO cHAPERoNS.
Society Editors Instruct Youths As
Their Uses.

Society Editors Instruct Youths rs to
Their Uses.
The society editor was humming a
line that ran something like this:
"Oh, the queer things we do and the
queer things we say.
"What are some of them?" demand
ed the man who does little of every
thing.
"Well, )" replied the society editor,
to-day young man came in to get
society item in the paper. 1t was about
q theater party or something of that
sort, and he had it all nicely written
out, and down at the bottom of the page
was the statement that the party would
be chaperoned by Miss Blank. "
"Well?' said the man who does lit
tie of everything, but who is neverthe-
less not posted on society matters.
WELL" explained the society edi-
tor, "of course there is no law, written
or unwritten, that says party OF young
people may not be chaperoned by an
unmarried woman, although it is not
usual, for she is supposed under such
circumstances to be of mature age and
considerable experience.
This Miss Blank is not a young
lady, suggested, and he was angry IL
minute.
"'Whc says she isn't?' he demanded
Then he added, i happen to know thai
she is just 10 years old.
She can't very well chaperon the
party, then, said.
Who says she can't?' he demanded
again. She's just as good rs any of th'
swells on the Lake Shore drive, anC
don't you forget it.
II explained to him very CAREFUL.
that u chaperon should be matron O
a woman of matlre years, and he quiet
ed down
"'Well, he said, of course we've go
to have chaperon SOS to be in style
The girls are all set on doing the thin
right and proper, and we boys have un
dertaken to see it through. Maybe Mis-
Jones would do for chaperon. She
22 years old.
Hardly, replied. If You fee
that you must have chaperon. tn
thing for you to do is to invite som
matron to accompany you.
"'Well, guess not, he answered
with emphasis. Why, that would spo
half the fun, and besides we'd have
put up for her ticket. If one of the CIR
can be the chaperon, you can just Gro;
that part of it out y
Then the society editor again bega
l to hum:
"Oh, the queer things we say and tt
!. queer things we do. Chicago Post.
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The Joke ON the Joker.

A good story, of which Mr.. John
Kendrick Bangs, the humorist, is the
hero, has leaked out. Some time ago
Mr.. Bangs received the following letter
from city in one of the Pacific states:
Mr.. John X. Bangs
DEAR SRI have been asked to respond to
toast at our board of trades annual dinner
next month, and write to inquire what would
be your lowest terms for preparing good,
rafting, funny speech for me to deliver on
that occasion. A prompt reply will oblige.
Yours very truly, - -.
To which Mr.. Bangs Immediately sat
dcgn and penned the following reply:
DEAR SRI am in receipt of your esteemed
favor of the - inst, and in reply would say
that my regular rate for after dinner speeches
is $500 per speech. have not as yet, how
ever, opened up this line of goods in the west,
and as am anxious 10 secure custom in that
part of the country will offer you special
terms-namely, $3.50 for such an address as you
describe, the amount to be paid as soon as
shipment is made. If the terms proposed are
satisfactory, kindly let me know at once but
in that case would request you not TO men
ton the matter to Chauncey Depew or General
Horace Porter as should not like them &c
know that am cutting rates Truly yours
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
This letter was duly sent, and on the
day when it reached its destination Mr.
RangS received the following telegram
YoaI setter Just received II Chauncey De
news speeches are written by you. then
don't want one.
New York Post.
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CONSOLATION AND COMFORT,

Who is it that does not wish to be out in
the open air or alive in some field of sport,
whether it be with the bat, rod or gun I;
whether we go coasting over the hills and
wales on the wheel or sailing over rough
waves or into serene coves, it Is all sport,
and the spriDging muscles seem TO need it.
1t is bound TO happen that some mishap
will occur. Thus il is that we have sprains
in abundance. Light sprains, sprains that
cripple. sprains that give great pain, sprains
that rob us of sleep, but sportsmen of all
kinds have come to know that there is
nothing better than the old reliable ST.
Jacobs Oil. Have it with you for use, you
may rely on its cure of the worst sprain and
restoration to the comforts of life.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.

We are asserting in the courts our right TO the
exclusive use OF the word CASrORIA," and
PITCHERS CASTORIA," as our Trade Marx.
l. DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of " PITCHERS CASroRIA,"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
fac-simile signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original PITCHERS
CASToRIA" which has been used in the homes
of the mothers of America for over thirty years
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that I IS
NE Kind yon hare alaUays bought, cp3 mas the
signature of cHAS. H. FLETCIER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The Centaur Company Of which
Chas. II. Fletcher is President.
March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, MD
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
HERO OF rHE MAINE.
"BilI" Anthony, Who Informed HE
Captain the Ship Was Sinking.

Bill" Anthony, Who Informed HE
Captain the Ship Was Sinking.
On the fateful evening Of Feb. 10.
when the United States cruiser Maine
was lying peacefully at anchor in the
harbor OF Havana, William Anthony,
private of marines, was doing duty
as sentry on the port deck Of the war
ship. He passed up and down before
the cabin of Capt. Sigsbee, whose or
derby he was. The captain was inside
writing letter TO his wife.
Suddenly there came that fearful ex-
plosion, whose echoes will linger long in
the hearts of the American people. The
great snip was lifted bodily out Of the
water for moment. Then as she sank
the decks were torn open and death and
destruction were scattered all around
Anthony stood at his post, rife In hand
during the trying ordeal. AT the nrs'
explosion Capt. Sigsbee rushed out OF
his cabin, and as he. did so he wal
struck In the cheek by a flying missile
He stumbled against Anthony. Tha
brave marine, as steady as II he wer'
on parade, saluted the captain and thel
made this simple speech, which ha
since made his name known from tn
Atlantic to the Pacific:
Excuse me, sir, but l have to inform
you that the ship is blown up and sink
ing"
The captain ordered Anthony to e
out the boats and save his comrades
The brave fellow was one of the las
10 leave the doomed ship and left onl
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

Social Student Il presume, with
your abundant leisure, that you are in
terested in the most important question
of the day?
Perry Patettic-You bet your life /
am. An wit me, same as anybody else.
the most important questions Of the day,
when all is sifted down, is eats and
sleeps. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Mothers Congress.

The national congress OF mothers VIII
hold it's second convention in Washing
ton the first week in May, and the pros
poets are that the attendance Will De
even larger than last year. The names
of many notable men and women VIII
appear upon the programme. The ses-
sions will last for six days, and among
those who will deliver addresses are Dr..
Stanley Hall, Professor Charles Thur
her, DR.. Minot ]. Savage, MIS-. Mary T.
IMumford, Miss Harriet Neil, Booker 1.
Washington, DIR. Martin Barr and
Ralph Waldo Time.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
A Chean Trick,

To manufacture a cheap kalsomine,
stuck on the wall with glue. claiming
it to be the same thing" or Just as
good" as the durable Alabastine, or to
buy and sell such goods on such rep
reservations, would seem cheap trick.
Some resort to it. To be safe, buy
Alabastine only in packages and prop
erly labeled.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

81 am tender hearted man. said
Colonel Stilwell, land as a rule don t
care much fob spoht, but there is one
exception to my rule-I enjoy fishing "
Doesn't it seem rather cruel to
you?'
"No, sub. When l think of saving
those creatures from having to pass a
lifetime in all that watah, regard my
self as benefactor. sub, and human
itarian. Washington Star.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

covered with layers of molding flour paste
and to absorb the moisture of respiration,
and an animal glue culture ground on its
face for disease germs; this having strong
colors added like colored shirt, to hide
the dirt; then think of ''the nasty practice"
of repeating this papering. without remoy-
ing the old, and a number of times, at that,
as many do. Then think of room coated
with pure, porous, permanent Alabastine,
which is retinted with but little trouble or
expense, and is purifying and sweet-smell-
ing and fills cracks. Wan paper free would
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28
Women In Postal Positions.

The new woman is very much in evil
dence in Uncle Sans offices, for in the
postoffices she prevails to the extent of
1870, and in the various departments
of the postal service at Washington and
throughout the country the oath of office
has been administered to over 80,
women to qualify them for service in
handling, distributing or otherwise
dealing with the mails. christian Ad
vocate.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-28

Spanish and French women of the
higher class are usually expert swords
women. They are taught to fence as
carefully and accurately as their broth
ers, and there are numerous schools in
the two countries where young women
are taught not only to fence, but to
handle the broadsword.
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