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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
ma l LOCOMOTIVE ENoINEER
He Tells a story which Sounds Like
q Book.


q Book.
A locomotive engineer should be one
OF the most truthful OF men. That's
why this little story of a Southern en-
gineer should be believed implicitly.
You may talk as you please about
q group OF listeners. among whom was
STAR reporter. but a red-headed
woman saved my life and established a
home for herself all at once. was IS
then and was running a freight on the
@. 4 o. in the West Virginia noun.
tains, where 1t took talent TO run an
engine. My division ended at Hinton.
aud there was a red-headed girl lived
about six miles 10 the east, where there
was a siding near a big cut and ill.
and 1t was bad place, as the road was
new.
The girls name was Maggie Conroy,
and she had the reddest head l ever
saw on a human beings she l4iers out
side OF torchlight procession. But
didn't care for that, and did care for
Maggie. One sunshiny day was COM
ing down track with a stock train load
ed with some extra fine cattle and
sheep, and l had In the caboose three
OF the owners. II had been raining
and washouts were looked for, but
hadn't seen any and was bowling along
at good speed when all of sudden at
the curve | thought | saw a red light
rising just over the track. 1t seemed
to shine like blaze In the track, and
before took time for a thought had
shut on the steam, NAistled down the
brakes and was doing my best to stop.
Right then my fireman give me the
haw haw In a way to chill the blood In
the veins Of a man who can't stand
teasing, and l took look forward and
found that the red light thought saw
was only Maggles head OF red hair
sticking up In advance as she pulled
herself up the steep embankment to
get onto the track. With an oath |
opened everything again. but as did
so Maggie threw up her hands and
dropped In dead faint by the track
and stopped Off everything again. for
felt sure that something was wrong.
! had half an hour or so leeway be
tween trains, and shook Maggie III
as quickly as l could to find out what
was the matter. She came around
mighty soon, because she had only
tainted from overexertion, and she told
me how big bowlder had fallen on ths
track in curve near her house that
wouldn't have seen till IT was too late
TO stop for, and she had run across the
spur of the mountain to stop me IL
time If she could
That's what she was trying to d,
when her red head shone like a danger
signal and stopped me. Later the own
ers OF the stock gave her money enough
to buy nice little house at Hinton ant
six months later ! moved In. View,
got the house yet, but we don't live II
It," concluded the engineer. "for 1
wasn't big enough for family OF 81,
children, and not red-headed one II
the lot. "-Washington Star.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

the fry liberated IN the Penobscot
kennebec, Merrimac. Hudson. Della
ware and Susquehanna Rivers. At
tentlOn has also been paid 70 incress.
Ing the output Of Atlantic and land
locked salmon at the Maine station,
and indications point TO Il large in
crease over previous years. Lake trout
eggs collected viii aggregate ls.OoO,00O
or 2O.0o0.00O. The cod work viii sur.
pass all previous seasons. and 225. 900.
700 eggs are expected Eastern oysters
and Holsters We're planted In Califor.
MIA and Oregon waters in October. and
diamond-baek terrapin In San Francis
co bay. Eggs of the steel-head trout
California game fish. have beer
planted in streams tributary to Lake,
Superior and Huron and the Penobsco
River.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
CLEO'S THRIFTY MOTHER.
Washed and Ironcd the Dancers Clothes
and Walked Miles For Twenty Cents.

Washed and Ironcd the Dancers Clothes
and Walked Miles For Twenty Cents.
The parsimony of foreign celebrities
who come to this country has been fire.
quently amusing TO Americans. There
have been some very striking instances
OF 1t III recent years, but the mother Of
Mile. Cleo de Merode seems to have car
ried off the palm in this respect. Sal
vini, it is said, was so penurious that he
bought sandwich ON the street for 8
cents rather than pay for his supper at
a hotel, and one of the stories told about
him on his last visit to this country was
that once in Philadelphia he gave the
porter of hotel II penny and told him
to buy him three tacks. The actor had
discovered that his trunk was damaged,
and he wanted to repair it himself
Tamaqua was notorious here for his
stinginess. 1t was said that he sold the
tickets sent to him in view of his artist s
privilege and hired his own brother as
valet because he could be got at cheap
figure. Then he used TO make him roll
his trunks around on truck at the for
eign custom houses rather than pay the
porters fee for the work. Herr Van
Biene marked as u curiosity and sent
back to England hotel bill of fare ON
which he had marked the price, 81. So
for tenderloin steak as one of the won
ders OF an extravaganza and youthful
| country. 1t may have been nothing
more than good business Judgment
which prompted Mile Calve to look for
business manager while she was here
and then express the greatest astonish-
ment that such an assistant of the most
capable kind could not be hired for $40
week.
These are some of the stories told
about the highly paid foreigners who
come to exhibit themselves here. But
Cleo's mother holds the record. 1t is
said that she astonished the servants al
the Imperial hotel by washing bel
daughter clothes in the bathtub and
ironing them herself. On the day before
they returned to Europe the ballerina
and her mother We're seen on lower
Broadway. They had gone down to ont
of the exchange offices in order to gel
500 in French money. 1t was raining
An acquaintance met the two just al
they We're coming out of the Office
why, that wretch inside,' ex
claimed the mother Indignantly. want,
to give me only 517 francs for 800.
Then Mime. la Mere de Cleo de Merod'
put up her umbrella with mighty EN-
phasis aud stepped out on TO the side
walk. Why, man offered me 5lS NJ
town. But / thought could get 52i
down here. Now we shall have to wall
up town, for otherwise there will be n,
profit left for us. +" Then Cleo and he
mother started to trudge up town. Tn
dancer received 80, for her appear
ances here New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Firty-two Feet of Whiskers.

The statistican, who had been busS
with his pencil, looked up at the man
who hates figures and said.
Didn't have anything TO do and
thought I'd figure little. You know
that If ! were east on desert island
with bundle Of lead pencils and
plenty Of paper | wouldn't care cenS
whether sail hove In sight or not.
saw that you needed a shave and that
set me to thinking. Why do you shave,
anyhow? l never do. Look here:
wen suppose that you began shay
ing at IS years Of age and that you
keep it up until you are TO- That makes
ffty-two years. You have heavy
beard. Wen suppose that you shave
twice week. That costs Is cents a
shave and you get rid of one-eighth OF
an inch of hair. That will be quar-
ter of an inch week, or one inch q
month. To get rid of that inch you
pay $l.20. An inch month Is twelve
Inches year, costing you S14.40
Now" and the statistican drew a LONG
breath.
Twelve inches year for tifty-twc
years is 624 inches, or fifty-two feet. II
will cost you S74S.S0 to get that amount
of whiskers out of your system"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Apple Tree Eighty Years Old.

The oldest. first planted and largest
apple tree in Porter County, Indiana,
has become defunct after seventy
years of continuous fruit bearing. 1t
Is the last landmark of pioneer days in
the county.
When Valparaiso was yet in its in
fancy and known to the early settlers
IF Porter County as Portersyille. three
good-looking apple trees were planted
In the southwestern part of what was
once the original site of Valparaiso. In
the course of events two of them We're
taken away. For forty years Mrs
Lucinda Brewer has reaped rich har.
vest of the fine apples borne by the
other every year.
Recently an angry gale handled Its
aged stature too roughly, broke Its sill
very, heavy loaded branches, and
snatched off its massive trunk about
ten feet from the ground. Il measur
ed seven feet in circumference anG
was nearly so years old. 1t Is estimat
ed that it has yielded about 900 bush
els OF apples.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
PLANTS THAT ear MEAT.


The Sundew One of the Most Interest
ing Insectivora.
Godeys Magazine has this TO say
about plants that eat meat: eone of
the most interesting of the insectiyora
is the sundew. The five or six small
leaves lay close TO the ground, and
each of them bore crown of dew
drops. which sparkled in the sunshine
like rubies and diamonds. A slender
scape sprsng from the rosette of leaves
and from one side of II dropped some
small white flowers.
Sundew Is the poetic name given 1t
because of the CLEANS of the gemlike
drops on the leaf surfaces, but In spite
of its beauty 1t is a little savage of
vegetable life. Most plants absorb
nourishment from the soil and atmos-
phere, but the sundew will drink milk
and eat beef and mutton and hard
boiled eggs, If they are fed to 1t. 1t
does not keep cook, however, SO 1t
catches Its own dinner. Each leaf is
covered with number of tiny reddish
tentacles, and at the end of each ten
tacle is little gland, to which adj
heres drop of sticky fluid.
While watching the sundew we saw
a gay little fly in gauzy draw near.
lowering over the leaf he lightly pois-
ed above 1t and prepared 10 sip the Wis.
cid drops. In moment his feet were
entangled and he was prisoner.
THE second the feet of the insect
press ever so lightly the glands-the
motor impulse. as it is called--fiies with
unimaginable rapidlty down through
the tentacles, communicating with al
upon the leaf and they at once bend
in the direction of the exciting object
tho fly. In this ease
''AS soon as the feet of the fly touch
Ell the tentacles. that wonderful change
| in them. which Is called aggregation
began. The purplish protoplasm. which
| flows increasingly in their cells. separ
ated into tiny masses Of purple matter
! floating in clear liquid. The fly had
of the center, and the tentacles neares
him naturally bent first and deposited
upon the next, and so on until he wat
gradually rolled to the center.
Meanwhile every gland secreted ,
digestive fluid which Is strongly acid
and is, so far as can be ascertained
Identical with the digestive fluid of ami
mails. This fluid poured over the fly
drowning him, the tentacles bent clos
er, and the leaf followed itself Ike ;
cup and closed, when, after severa
days. 1t should expand, all traces o
the insect will have disappeared, di
| the plant"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

Scott was all gold. and even the
nuggets are not enough; the gravel
ought to be sifted and the gold dust
gathered in, for Scott had such an affiu
ence Of knowledge, legend and poetry
that he did not write by measure, but
put his hand into his pocket and threw
out money that any might pick it mp.
What one is afraid Of is that Scott is
being raised 10 the elevation OF classic,
and that is the same thing as taking a
imam out Of the house of commons, where
be is an active figure, and placing him
in the stately seclusion Of the house OF
lords l do not know a single page OF
Srott that is not readable, and | do not
know single page that would shake a
man S faith or bring blush to q WON
ans cheek. Why do not people read
Scott as they ought TO? Some say that be
is not interesting, and others object &c
( his style. Why, Carlyle himself brought
the charge against Scott that be wa,
amusing. Amusing! One of the grand
est functions of fiction is to be amusing
in the right sense-that of lifting M
the weight and care of daily life from
mems minds by leading them into re
gions OF sentiment and romance. -
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

On the day following a Chinese we'd
ding. at least in certain provinces, the
brides youngest brother goes to in
quire after her and to take present
from her mother of bottle of hair
oil This Is custom so ancient that
none know the origin thereof. No fur
Their communications take place be-
tween the bride and her family for
three months, when her mother sends
a sedan chair and an invitation to visit
her. If there has been neither birth
nor death in her husbands or In her
mothers house for 100 days she goes
and makes a short stay at her old
home. This visit over, she cannot see
her mother again until after her first
child is born, and not then, should the
child be girl. Even then, If there
has been a death in either family the
visit cannot be made, and there have
been many instances where mother
ana daughter living very near each
other have not met for years.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06


Against the probability or possibility OF
n,ischsnce or accident We can never be too
,urs. But If We should stop to consider
how great is the chance of sudden DEATH
We would be made too timid and unhappy.
Canton is needed not TO be foolhardy. and
precaution to know what is best 20 DO when
An accident happens. One day this winter
Two men were walking, and one said
Were too timid in treading on slippery
places. / tread firmly and never think
ABOUT them, and 50 escape fall. Never
BE- too sure" said the other, Iii Is that
that throws you OF and makes the fall the
harder Just then they came upon place
covered with thin snow, where kids had
bten sliding The first speaker slipped, and
came down with his foot turned, and badly
spralned his ankle. he Was cripple on
clutches until q short time ago, having used
many things without henelt Up TO that
time he had not used ST. Jacobs Oil, which
when IL ed, cured him completely, 50 thai
he walks as usual. There is prota Hility
that for the res of the Sc ison be will wall
cautiously. with the preeaution of having
this great remedy ready for use.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Archaeological Discoveries.

Wholesale archaeological discoveries
have been made at Martres Tolosane.
In the Pyrenees, near the banks of the
Garonne. Seventeen Roman statues
and the bust of woman, with many
other fragments, pieces of mural dec
grafton, glassware, and locksmith' s
work were found while digging the
foundations for house. 1t was at
Martres that Venus was discovered
many years ago, whose head was taken
as the model for the standard bust of
the republic, which now adorns all
French town halls.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
SAFETY IN BUYING SEEDS.

There is no other way TO measure the value
OF seed than by the value Of the crop. good
crop simply cannot come from poor seed
Sc ond-iate seeds viii waste good land. good
fertilizer, and good Labor, and the crop Wont
say expenses. Now, the practical ( rmel
cannot afford to waste time testing seeds to
md out whether they ar- true to name sound
and clean. 1t stsnas Ia reason that the only
ne way to buy seeds Is to seek tie prott etioH
of a name that has stood for reliability in the
past The great seed house of II, Nj. Ferry 4
Co, Detroit. Mich. has Slid seeds ali ovel
the United State aud Canada for the last
forty-two years aud the It ady growth Of
the business IS a sure indication that Ferry
seeds have given satisfaction. Ferris =, ed
Annual for 1898, a standard gui ie for farm
ers aud gardeners, containing mach valuable
information, Is sent free 10 persons writing
for
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Water Wound the Watch.

Several travelling men were swapping
yarns In "A Chestnut street cafe In com
petition for drinks. This story won for
it's narrator round Of drinks from
each of the other raconteurs;
When ! was up In the lumber dis
trict of Pennsylvania this summer"
said he, Il met a lumberman who said
he had come from Maine to get his
watch. Where is your watchY /
asked. In soak, said he, Now he
continued, you think | mean that it's
in pawn, but 1t isn't. It's really In soak
up the river here apiece I'm going up
to get It; do you want to go along?
Il went with him, and on the way he
told how he came TO leave his watch in
the river. Last winter while working
on log jam. he dropped his watch,
which was of the screw -bevel. dust
proof and waterproof type, into the
water. The river was only six feet
deep there and he could see the watch
very plainly as 1t lay on the bottom,
face up.
There was a freeze coming on, how
ever, and he hadn't time to stop and
get 1t then. Shortly after he was called
away to Maine, but he took the pre-
caution before going to mark the spot
where the watch lay, Well, we found
the place all right, and peering down
into the clear water we saw the watch
shining among the pebbles. We had
1t up in jiffy, and, strange to say II
was still running.
In fact, 1t hadn't lost five minutes
in all those five months. You see the
current of the river was running In
and out there all the time, and the &C
ton of the current on the stem of the
watch kept the timepiece wound up. ?
Philadelphia Record.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
viii stop the torture and restore eour-
age. All such pains come from de-
ranged uterus Trouble in the womb
blota out the light of the sun at mid
day to vast number of women. You
should procure Mrs. Pinkham's Com
pound ct once and obtain relief.
Mrs. F. M. Knapp. 56s Wentworth
Ave-, Milwaukee, Wis, says: i" I suf-
fered with congestion of the ovarios
and Inflammation of the womb. Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
cured me as 1t will others"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
FISH CULTURE.
Work Done In the United States Dur
ing the Year 1896,

Work Done In the 0n1teu states buF-
ing the Year 1896,
The annual report ut Washington of
.ohn j. Buce, Commissioner of Fish
and Fisheries. states that 100000
shad eggs were collected, and from
these 93000,000 fry We're planted in
streams emptying into the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The
increase in shad eggs collected was 80
0O0, 600 ever the previous year. and II
bill now before Congress Is enacted
into law auxiliary stations will be
established on most of the important
rivers of the Atlantic coast and will
result In immense increase In the out
put of this species. The output Of lob
ster fry was 97,000,000, against 72,000,-
900 for the previous year, and Commits
sloner Brice says there is little doubt
that the output in another year will be
increased more than 500 per cent.
While the attempt to keep up the
constantly decreasing supply of mack
erel along the New England coast was
more or less experimental, 100000
eggs were collected. Thirty-one mill
ion tautog clam eggs were collected In
Buzzard's Bay. and 100000 fry We're
| liberated from them. Great increases
in results at large saving of expense
were accomplished in salmon Matching
on the Pacific coast The total take of
| 100000 salmon eggs amounted to
| three times as many as We're ever col
! lected before in the United States in
any one season. 1t is proposed TO ex-
tend over the entire country perma-
nent and economical system Of main
talning the central hatcherles, auxili-
airy egg-collecting stations, to be oper,
ated only during the spawning season.
Another effort will be made to intro
duce Pacific salmon IL Eastern waters.
Five million eggs will be transferred
from the California stations to stations
N New York, Vermont and Maine. and
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided not take an appeal to the
courts from the recent decision of the
Board of General Appraisers in which
it was held that calfskins. under the
new tariff act, should not be classified
as hides, but as skins. Under this
ruling calfskins will be admitted free
of duty.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Antiquity OF. Mirrors.

Mirrors are known to have been in
Use as far back as 1919. Before glass
was invented horn and metal were
used. Anglo-Saxon women carried
small ones slung to their girdles, and
beauties in the time of James /. and
Elizabeth had them In the center Of
their fans
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

The citizen who is determined t.
take care of himself alone is Of YER
little use to community, and few tear
are shed when he takes his final d,
parture. Birmingham Age Herald
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

To reeklessIy experiment upon hi nself with
hone of relief is the dyspeptie. Yet the nos
trams for this malady are as the sands OF the
sea- ana, presumably, about as etficacious.
Indigestion, that obstinate malady, even II OF
long pe-petuity, is eventually overcome with
Hostetters Stomach Bilters, all appetiztng
tonic and slterative which cures constipation,
fever and ague, bilious remittent, rheumatism
kidney complaint aud feebleness.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

Diggs--I see by the paper this morn
ing there was a "tie-up" ON one of the
Western trunk lines yesterday.
Biggs-That so! What was the
cause?
Diggs-Oh, silly couple thought it
would be romantic to get married in a
parlor car.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Swallows and Pigeons.

Some time ago the experiment was
made of letting loose at Compiegne
swallow belonging to Antwerp in COM
pany with a number of pigeons. The
swallow Immediately made bee line
for home, and arrived there in one
hour, while the pigeons required three
bn1tpS
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
One woman,s wisdom.

Widow-Haye you read the will?
Lawyer-I have tried TO, but it is in
your late husbands handwriting ami l
can't make anything out of it.
Widow-Well, If you can't make any
thing out of 1t there can be but little In
II for any one else.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

The PACIFIC CoAsT JOCKEY CLUB is to
be congratulated on the su cess it ha
achieved on the merits OF the races the,
have given to the public by furnishing good
honest sport and square deal to all con-
testants. Country visitors to this city
should not forget to pass pleasant after
noon at the Ingleside Race Course.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

Some people win reputation for
being good-humored because they lack
the backbone to fight when they are
Imposed upon.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
IT'S NOT EXPENSIVE.

It's the Equality that's high in TEA GARDEN
DRIPs. ToBoG6AN MAPLE SYRUP and PELICAN
LOUISIANA MoLAssEs. For sale By frstclass
grocers in cans only. Money refunded II goods
are not 50 satisfactory, Don't accept an imitation
See that the manufacturers name is litho
THE Pacific COAST SYRUP co.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
Britain aud Mining.

Britain occupies very high place In
mining of all kinds. More than 600,00
of her people are employed Mt the In.
dustry, and they produce over $4,000
900 worth of minerals annually
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

Most men have two objects in life;
one is to become rich, the other is to be
come richer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

When popular society gives an anna
teur entertainment, there is one thing
sure: you must take part, or buy a
ticket.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06
STATE OF ONO, Cry OF ToLEoo,l

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of f. j. CHE
NEY & Co., doing business in the City oil
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, an6
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ever,
case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use of Halls CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence this 9Th day Of December, A.D.1SB