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The new North-west., 1897-04-09
Powerful Fond o. CLAIMS

There is resident Of Kent's Corners
In the town of Scltuate who is exceed
ingly fond of the succulent biyaIye
which has made Rhode Island so fo-
nous. Last Sunday morning he placed
a bag and a clam rake in a wheel
barrow which he trundled down
through the mud Of Hope and the val
ley villages to Riverpont and thence
via Apponaug to the frozen shores of
Cowesett Bay.
The ice covered the bay, and the Scit-
uate man was compelled to wheel his
barrow along the beach almost to War;
wick light before he found place
where he could dig. His quest was sue
cessful, however, for when he reached
Phenix on his return journey the bar-
row contained lag filled with a bGshel
OF as nice, big, juicy CLAIMS as the dig
ger aVerred he's ever sot eyes on"
He said he didn't mind the tromn
the day was fine" He wanted a mess
o. clans and went and dug 'em; that
wuz all"
Kent's Corners Is some sixteen or
seventeen miles from where the CLAIMS
were dug, and the distance covered
suggests that some folks in Scituate
are powerful fond o. ams."-Proyl-
dence Journal
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
Most Widely Copied Poets

The critics affect to look down unon
newspaper poetry, but after all the
newspaper versitier is the poet of the
people. The magazine poet never wins
such a close place in the hearts of the
great masses. The critics found fault
with Eugene Field, but the people
mourned his loss as that of few poets
has been mourned. After all, perhaps.
the people are right, and popularity Is
the true test of poetry, for the poets
mission is to touch the hearts of his
readers, and the greater the number
Of his readers the more nearly achieved
his aim. Judging by the extent to which
their verses are copied, the most popu
lar newspaper poets are Frank l.. Stan
ton, VIII Il. Hale and Frank Putnam.
Each writes a poem as his daily task
and each poem is reprinted in score
of newspapers, insuring an audience of
nearly a million for each one of his
verses. Such an edition is beyond the
widest dreams OF those who write
poems for magazines CT whose work
appears first in bookS.--Chicago Times
Herald.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
EngIand's Queer TOWN

Ihe most curious town in England is
NorthWich. There is not straight
street, nor, in fact a straight house, in
the place; every part of it has the ap-
pearance of having suffered from the
visitation of an earthquake. Northwich
Is the center of the salt industry. On
nearly all sides of the town are big salt
works, with their engines pumping hun
dreds of thousands of gallons of brine
every week. AT depth of 200 or 300
rect are immense subterranean lakes OF
brine, and as the contents of these are
pumped away the upper crust of earth
IS correspondingly weakened and the
result Is an occasional subsistence.
These subsidences have pulling, eff
feet on the nearest buildings, which
are drawn 'all ways" giving the town
an upside down appearance.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

pine flooring in laundry, pantry, china
closet, water closet and kitchen; re-
mainder Of flooring, soft wood. Ash
trim in first story, soft wood trim in re-
mainder. Ash staircase. Panels under
windows in library, parlor and dining
room. Wainscot in bathroom, laundry,
pantry, china closet and kitchen. In
terror woodwork finished in hard oil,
except attic, which is painted colors to
suit owner.
Colors: All clapboards and panels in
gables, olive drab. Trim, blinds, rain
conductors and gable columns, olive
green. Outside doors, dark green, with
olive green panels. Sashes. dark red,
Veranda floor and ceiling, vanished
Wall shingles oiled and stained little
darker than natural color of wood.
Roof shingles dipped and brush coated
in red stain.
Accommodations: The principal
rooms and their sizes, closets, ETC.. are
shown by the plans. Cellar, with con-
crete floor and inside and outside en-
trance, under whole house. Three bed
rooms finished in attic. Laundry under
kitchen. Sliding doors connect prin-
cipal rooms of first story. Four open
freplaces and set range Balconies in
second and attic story.
Cost: S4,S65, not including mantels.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
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EiRrCeEf of Rena.a

The black leopard is admitted to be
the most savage and intractable of all
quadrupeds. The horrible black leon.
ard Death, in Eugene Sues "Wanderins
JeW," who was followed about by a
loathsome Englishman, anxious to see
him eat his tanner, is declared not to be
scrap overdrawn. He hates the whole
world and wants to fight it. to gnaw it,
to tear it to rags and splinters: and he
is staring, dancing mad because he
can't get at the world to do 1t. He lies
there, black and deadly. his yellow ewes
ablaze, ready to pounce on you-if only
those bars suddenly melt away, But
they don't melt and you come no nearer,
Then he filings himself at the bars with
a yell and flies up and down over and
over about his cage like nothing but
black leopard with about 5000 seidlitz
powders, swallowed separately and
suddenly effervescing all together in.
side him.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
SCIENCE OF THE ANC,ENTs
FOOLS Found in Buried fsmpef1 the
Same as We Use To-day.


Same as We Use To-day.
Pror. Goodman says the thing that
most impressed him, when visiting
Pompeii, was the resemblance between
many of the implements of 1900 wears
ago and those of to-day. On looking at
the iron tools grouped together in an
Old Factory there, he could almost i'm
agine he was gazing into modern tool
shop, except for the fact that there was
a neavy coating of rust on the iron.
slckles, bill-hooks, rakes, forks. axes,
spades, blacksmith's tongs, hammers,
soldering irons, planes, shovels. etc.
are nluch like those used to-day, but the
most marvellous instruments found are
those for surgery, beautifully executed.
ana OF design exactly similar to those
recently patented and reinvented. In
erealoie as 1t may appear, Pompeiians
nau wire ropes of perfect construction.
lheir oronzes reveal great skill and ar
ustic talent. The bronze brazier and
Kitchener had boilers at the side. and
Taps for running off the hot water.
hWels and urns have been discovered
WIN interior tubes, and furnaces pre-
clsely like the arrangement now in
vogue In steam boilers. Metal safes
,iaa substantial locks. Many of the
lochs ana keys are most ingenious, and
some very complex. The water supplv
OF Pompeli was distributed by means
VI lead pipes laid under the streets.
I"efe We're many public drinking
fountains, and most Of the large houses
were provided with fountains, many
d them being of very beautiful design.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
"A Pearl r.. ,.;,,.

here Is only one pearl farm in the
world. 1t is in the Torres Strait, at the
northern extremity of Australia, and
belongs to James Clark, of Queensland.
Mr.. Clark, who is known as ''the king
or the pearl-fishers," originally stocked
1t with hundred and fifty thousand
pearl oysters. Now 1,5G0 men-2OO of
whom are divers-and 250 vessels are
employed in harvesting the crop.
Il have been fifteen years enga god in
pearl-hshing, Mr. Clark told a CORE
spondent of the Melbourne Age. 81
began in small way, and have given
the fisheries my close attention during
al this time. My experience has led
me to the belief that, with proper intel
ngence IN the selection of a place. one
can raise pearls and pearl shells as
easily as one can raise oysters.
L started my farm three years ago,
and have stocked it with shells which !
obtained, in many Instances, far out
at sea. To grow shells successfully.
however, according to my experience
thus far. the water must not be foo
deep.
My pearl-shell farm covers 5,OS9
square miles. Over most of it the wa
ter Is shallow. In shallow water shells
attain the greatest size; and besides It
Is hard on the divers to go down deep
for them.
Il ship my pearls to London in my
own vessels. The catch each year
runs, roughly speaking. from 100000
worth up to almost five times that
amount"
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
Captured the Gang.

w hen l first went to New Mexico. u
SAID the capitalist. who owns gener.
GUS slice of the beef trust, 81 was q
young adyenturer looking for anything
sood ffom gold mine to soft official
position. At Albuquerque | happened
TO rall IN with the Sheriff just when he
badly needed some help in arresting a
couple of desperadoes, and lent n
mana. de took me right under his
wing as a tenderfoot who had sand,
OUT needed protection. Through asso-
clatlon his admiration grew till he
urged me to become a deputy and try
TO ferret out a gang of counterfeiters
ABOUT fifty miles south. They knew
him, but | was stranger.
The Job suited me at that time. and
Within month I had so ingra tiated
myself with the chief of the gang that
ne made me member of good stand.
ing. There were ten of them when /
joined, and they had a fine layout in a
cave that could only be discovered by
accident. 1t would have been an easy
matter to communicate with the Sheriff
ana nave him send out big posse but
l was recklessly ambitious to capture
the whole outfit and enjoy the attend
ant glory. The only person | took into
my confidence was young doctor. who
was an Fastener like myself, and bent
on Wrestling fortune from the chances
then SO abundant in the West. He
mixed me up some powders that |
imagine were prepared from the same
formula as are the knockout drops now
IN use.
"One evening when the men were all
ousy | walked into the cave with big
Jug of whisky diluted with the doctors
powders. | told the fellows that I
wanted to pay my Initiation fee. In a
snort time they were all lost to the |
world. | tied them hand and loot, and
hen made chain gang of them with n
couple of tough lassoes. When
marched them into Albuquerque the
own went wild and the Sheriff issued
verbal proclamation prohibiting any
male citizen from going
o bed that night. Never was there a
leeper red or more coats OF 1t put on a
own. L was good for all l wanted at
he hands of the people, and there |
lld the foundation Of my fortune."-
Detroit Free Press.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

wants are engaged or instructed, where
tenants are received, or where the hun
dred and one odds Of business, apper-
tanning to every household, are trans
acted. There are comparatively few
men of leisure in this country, and
many details that the English gentle
man Is compelled to look after In his
own home are here cared for at the
regular place of business of the head
OF the household. But still much re-
mains to be done at home, and the va
r1ous cases and troublements are met
and conquered in the library" or if
the householder Is blessed with such a
room, in what we have designated with
very questionable taste, the masters
den" In many cases the word may
be appropriate enough, but 1t has too
much suggestion of the brute creation.
"of11ce'' is infinitely better, being more
significant of the uses of the room, as
Well as more euphonious.
But whether we risk the charge of
Anglo-mania, or stick to the thorough
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

the person of William p. st. John AT
MS nome In New York City. He took
very prominent part in the last Pres
ldential campaign and gained national
fenoWn. His death will be a great loss
to the free silver party.
William P. st. John was born in Mo-
bile, Ala, in 1919. After having re.
celYed a common school education in
MS native city he went with relatives
to England, where he continued his
studies. Thence he went to Berlin.
"hefe ne attended one of the gym
nasiums, and subsequently went to
Massachusetts. There his education
received its finishing touches. In 1867
ne removed to New York City. For
several years he had charge of the
credits and prices of Hayemeyer g.
Elder, which became the nucleus of the
American Sugar Refining Company. At
the time of the formation of the com
pany Mr.. st. John was secured bv
George w. Perkins, who had Just been
elected President of the Mercantile
Bank. He selected Mr.. st. John az
cashier of the Mercantile.
MT. St. John gave an Immense
amount of satisfaction to the direct.
ofs OF the bank, and when Mr.. Perkins
died, in 1888, he was made President
IN his place. The Institution became
very successful under Mr.. st. Johns
He became n stockhold
ef III the Mercantile Bank and became
a director of the Hamilton National
Bank of Harlem and of the Second M.
uonal Bank. He was an elder In tba
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
and was one of the organizers of the
southern Society. Last summer. feel
ing that his position on the question
'f free silver was not compatible with
ais office of bank president, he resign
ed and thenceforward devoted his en-
ire time and attention to the cause he
lad espoused.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

ly American "den," the thing itself is
assuming marked Importance in ou1
architecture. Almost every house that
is bullt with more pretentions than a
cottage contains den" and while the
room Is generally small, it frequently
occupies one of the choicest and most
prominent places in the house. Not un-
commonly great deal of care and ex-
pense is layished upon the finishing and
furnishing OF the den" 1t Is felt that
this corner of the house should reflect
the taste of the masculine element even
though all the rest be given over to the
Feminine influence. For this reason the
den sometimes degenerates into a mere
smoking room, and blazes with all of
the barbaric colors of the Orient
The design illustrating this article
clearly defines the English idea of the
office room. The den is shown connect
ing with library, the "evening'' room of
the house, with outside entrance from
rear porch.
A brief description of this design we
give as follows:
General Dimensions: Extreme width
including veranda, SO feet 2 inches:
depth, including veranda, 4s feet.
Heights of Stories: Cellar, Z feet:
first story, feet inches; second story
8 feet: attic, feet.
Exterior Materials: Foundation.
stone; first story, clapboards; second
story, gables and roof, shingles. Out
side blinds to all windows except those
of the cellar and bays.
Interior Finish: Hard white plaster:
plaster corn1ces and centers in main
nail Chrst and second story and par
lor, library and dining-room. Hard
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
MAHOGANY,
For Every Tree Cut Two Others Are
Planted to Keep Up the Supply,

For Every Tree Cut Two Others Are
Fianted to Keep Up the Supply.
1t Will undoubtedly be news to many
that the vast mahogany forests of Me
aragua are controlled in Boston, The
cutting and shipping of the immense
exports from that country is a great
enterprise in itself, to say nothing of
bringing 1t here and manufacturing it
into lumber. One steamer plies regu-
larly between this port and Central
america engaged in this trade. AT
present she Is on her way out from this
port. Five hundred thousand to 7OO.-
ooo feet Is her usual cargo While the
steamer Is now on her way to the lum-
Der ports, there are somewhere on the
seas bound to Boston four schooners
laden with mahogany logs. Their car
goes are each about 25O,OOO to 100000
feet. Employed in Nicaragua and the
United States of Colombia by Mr. En-
ory are from 1000 to 1900 native work
men and lumbermen. These are under
American bosses. The trees from which
mahogany furniture is made vary in
aye ana size. When cut they range in
age from twenty-five to thirty wears.
ana some of them are even seventy-five
years old. They average twenty-five
inches or more in diameter and run as
large as forty inches, and even more.
for every mahogany tree that is cut
TWO others are planted. and thus the
forests are practically inexhaustbIe.
From the time that the tree is fc,led
tbnt
steamer ut the Chelsea docks is an
eventful life for the mahogany log. The
Tree is cut into the proper lengths and
then comes the tedious journey to the
coast, where it is taken on board the
vessels bound for this port. The great
ef part OF the cutting is done during
the dry season, which in the United
States of Colombia begins about the 1st
OF December. The natives of this coun.
'ry seem to make better loggers and
are better adapted to numbering than
lhe Nlcaraguans. In Nicaragua the
season IS more Irregular and for lum-
berlng is less to be depended upon.
After the tree Is cut it is hauled to the
nearest waterway and RATED to the
COAST. Ihe logs are hauled by teams of
oxen from one to six miles in Nicara
sEa, but often the distance is very
much greater, the Journey sometimes
taking two days. The roads consist of
oa tbs through the forest that are moth
ns more than swamps and morasses,
through which the oxen and horses
founder along. Only animals trained
o this kind of work would ever make
lny progress, and American beasts
would wallow about perfectly helpless.
Transcript.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
MY LITTLE GIRL,

Last night there flew to let me in
My little brown-eyed daughter,
She searched my pockets every one
To see what / had brought her;
She kissed me sweet on brow and cheel
And called me dear old fellowp
The saucy, merry little scamp,
With flying curls so yellow.
She perched upon my knee and told,
With comment quaint and pretty,
Of all the happenings at home
While I was in the city.
She wound ME round her finger small,
Just as she has done ever
My little girl! I'd keep her thus
Forever and forever!
That was last night. Tonight there came
Into the room demurely
And sat upon the window seat
prim young stranger grille.
She cannot be my little lass,
Who used to meet me daily,
With laugh, and kiss, and merry speech
And feet that skipped so gaily!
why must she grow young-ladyfied
And step in longer dresses?
Why did they braid and tie, and prink
Her tossing yellow tresses?
Why should they change her spring heeled
boots
For trotters 50 old-maidy?
o where, 0 where's my little girl
And who is that young lady?
j sadly gazed in silence; she
Sat meek, and unreplying
A little sob-and then there came
A burst of childish crying.
She crept to me and hid her face;
My eyes grew strangely hazy;
her fathers arms had caught her close
My little one-my Gracie.'
Il do not want to be grown up!
III be your little grille!
Ia rather wear my dresses short
And let my hair hang curly
l raised her face-her loving tears
Repaid the kiss l gave her.
II don't care if l am fourteen!
IN papa's pet forever"
lou shan't be grown up, love" cried,
but stay my own and darling,
q rather have the dresses short,
ana see your tresses curlingt
III speak to mamma! !"-and | will
Let fashion wait my pleasure
At least another year I'll keep
My households childhood treasure,
My little girl! My little Grace!
Come, now! romp together,
10 clear the shadows from your face
AND bring the sunshine weather
Dear heart! the years too fast will 60
In spite of our endeavor,
But you will always be my child,
My little girl forever.
Francene Crocker, in George
town Herald.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
MODERN ARCHITECTURE.
Its Tendency to English Ideas-Its
Uti1itarinnism.

There Is one feature common to many
English private houses that Is seldom
found in American residences, at least
under the same name. This Is the "of-
fee" One frequently finds mention of
this in descriptions of English resi-
dences, even in the stately country
houses, and the term often confounds
the uninitiated. The word office has
large latitude in America, and is gen
orally applied indiscrminately to any
place where business is transacted, do
Ing duty equally for the English "cham-
ber' and "shop." But the one use it
never has in this country is that cor
responding to it's use in the English
private room Of the master or the mis-
tress OF the house, where business let
ters. are written and filed, where ser
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
Different Grades of Gold.

Twenty-four carat gold is all gold
% carat gold has % parts of gold, 1 ol
silver and of copper; IS carat gold has
Is parts of gold and 8 each of silye,
and copper; II carat gold is half gold
and has 81 parts of silver and 81. OF
copper. Its specific gravity is about
15; pure gold is 10.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

sosI d u1l the American citizen whose
he OF phladeha dental college which
h that ne decided become
a h was vng with his wife and children
Inc charge which the
aever with the Cnban His associates
he was charged aided
ha ry m train short distance outside of
sho" OF inquiry they would
ior 5ne doctor to have been present the
at 10 o'clock to home Three Spanish him. and
the
o:o clock that night impossible
ng he lett the United States DR.
which
The of
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

recentIyo
10 De the thing its in rooms
are SO
in
Nndone and
Ior Whh was created The the
style The finished white
limestone generally the
are perhaps the gallery
o oionzs an exceptionally
OF oak which are
finished
" exhibition
lo he works OF American
hea
capacity of 25O, School Art N'As
The new North-west., 1897-04-09
In the Wholesale Line,

Distinguished Chinese Guest-TIow
many times have you been married?
Average American Woman-Tbree
times.
ID. G. G.-And how many times hive
You been engaged to be married?
A. A. W.-Oh, thirty or more, l guess,
u. @. G.-And how many times were
you born2-New York Journal.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

Every woman looks upon herself as
an ant, and Is indignant with some
man because of his admiration for but.
terhies.
The new North-west., 1897-04-09

NO man can become great, unless tho
'eople exaggerate his best points.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-17
Like a Bicycle.

Latest improvement in sewing
machines. The new rotary motion
b .li bearing Wheeler & Wilson. See
the Cahinnt and other styles just re-
ceived by Caywin. & Noteware
agents for Carson and vicinity
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-17
AY MORNING. NOVEMBER Y. 1907.

Monday morning. in Sen Francisco
William Austin, a Barbary Coast
rouUuer, ahbed James Fannon,
alias Tanning, another rounder and
ex-convict, to death in Coast saloon.
A third man, George Follmer, was
also badly cut in the scrimmage,
which was over a woman of that Gi
trict.
1t is reported that the sum of SIS
600 has been stolen from the DeLamar
Company through the product of the
press room. just what time it was
taken cannot be determined and the
suspicion lies on employees that had
been discharged from the works some
time ago. De Lamar Lode
After all the Pullman twins are to
will cut them off with mere $4,000
year, but each was engaged to d
young woman who seems promptly to
have deman freedom when this
FGdD Et vi lOIluIH DPCHUlt' Known. IL
gratitude for escape from TWO girls
who appreciate their own value and
do not propose TO sell to any one not
able to bid high, the boys ought to
bless the thoughtfulness of the late
milllOnaire.-Call.
The marriage of Henry Pate and
! Miss Laura Stackhouse two well
known residents of Vir-inia, is an
nouoced to take place on next We'd
| nesday.
When everything that you have tried
! Is to give yOu relief call on p. n. Han
sen and order Vita Gro, the great natural
remedy for all ailings,
| T. n. Stone. commissioner of Deeds
| for California, and Notary Public for
"rm =" by county. Office: Capitol Build
g.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-17
Mark TWain's New Book.
JONATHAN DOANE
Clerk Of the Board.

This world of ours as seen by Mark
Twain. forty thousand miles of fun 10y
sea and land. Through the Pacific,
Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon
Fiji Islands. India, Indian Ocean. South
Africa, etc. Puddinhead5 Wilson's new
Calendar maXims, acute observations,
humorous stories, droll anecdotes, char
acteristic descriptions of countries. in
cidents, adventures, strange people, Gus
toms, things, etc. by Americas greatest
humOrist, Mark Twain.
p. y. Hansen. sole agent.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-17


+ arson tNchalIge
- c:'.&s. unds riheman-
tG~IlI:Ht OF i. Ci1cc.
ana affords excellent
ACCOMMODATIONS tor the
public.
The best OF Wines Liquors
and Cigars at the bar.
The table is secon | to none
in the State.
Meals rs Ce@is.
Rooms rs and SO Certs
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-11-17
:. e. KitZlneyer.

HAS, after vacation of >hree
years again assumed control
of the business d. the I'D
stand, No. 30 South Carson
street, and invites all who are
In want Of goods or work in
his line to give him a trial
He promises to furnish a good
quality of goods, and do good
work at the very lowest prices.
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