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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
An Apology.

A man who has reputation for being
very careless as to his toilet was elected
town clerk in one of the small towns III
his state some time ago, and the local
paper thought it would be good joke
to announce that
"Mr. Makeup will wash himself be-
fore he assumes the Office of town
clerk. F"
On reading the notice Mr. Makeup
was furious and demanded retraction,
which the paper accordingly made the
following day in this fashion:
"Mr. Makeup requests us to deny
that he will wash himself before he as
sumes the office of town clerk. =
And still Mr. Makeup was not
pleased. How hard it is to satisfy some
peoplel-Our Girls and Boys.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
TO OUR READERS.

We have received word that the Hercules
Gas Engine Works of San Francisco, have
perfected thoroughly reliable and econom-
ical Gas and Gasoline Engine, called the
Hercules, and are Offering IN actual horse
power Gas and Gasoline Engine, guaranteed,
for $3.50
Those of our readers who use or need
power for mining, hosting, pumping or
for any purposes, will be glad to know this,
as cheap, reliable power has been difficult
to obtain heretofore. We can vouch for the
responsibility of the Company offering this
Engine; in fact, they guarantee satisfaction
or to refund purchase price.
1t will pay those needing power to write
to the Hercules Gas Engine Works, San
Francisco, Cal, for particulars.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
500 REWARD. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased 10
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in ali It's Stages
and that is Catarrh Halls Catar, h Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity Catarth being constitutional dls-
ease, requires a constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith In its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that II
fails to cure. Send for list OF Testimonials
Address, ri CHENEY a. CO., Toledo, 0
E@~ Sold by Druggists, Toe.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
EUGENE FIELDS HOME.
a,. Many Queer Clocks and His Library
of Rare Books.

"a. Many Queer Clocks and His Library
of Rare Books.
One should not always judge a man
nv his house, but in the case Of Eugene
Field it seemed as if his house were
mart of him. 1t is an old fashioned two /
story farmhouse with a wide porch, TO !
which has been added a large circular
wing with an outside chimney such as
the southerners love- AS you enter the
hall YOU notice an deliberately orna-
mented old English tall clock of the
kind usually known in this country as /
"grandfather's clock. 1t N one OF
three such clocks in the house; a second
stands ON a stair landing, after the
manner of Longfellow's "Old Clock On
the Stair" and third was in Eugene
Fields sleeping room. The last one has
a gong in it like a country dinner bell
and clangs the hour with loud metallic
ring.
In the same room he had freak
clock" made entirely of wood, that ticks
like a hammer striking hard wood. In
the library there is quaint little one
made with a seesaw-a wee boy and
girl sitting upon log to regulate the
pendulum. This is a very well behaved
little piece of mechanism, as it makes
no noise and is really pretty. Conrasted
with it, standing near Fields writing
table, is a plain New England kitchen
clock such as our grandmothers used in
their light, airy kitchens. 1t is me-
dunn sized affair of mahogany with a
glass door, ON the lower half Of which
are painted impossible red roses and
forgetmenots. II is good old domestic
clock, and went ON faithfully ticking
away when the others were cranky and
would not keep the time regularly.
As you enter the house the library il
on the left hand. All around the walls
Of the room are bookcases. Suppose we
look at the case beyond the window,
which might be called the fairy corner.
Here are gathered books of fairy lore
from all parts of the world, for there
was hardly an old bookstore in London
Paris or Berlin which Mr.. Field did no
know we'll. In this wonderful fairy cor
ner are Cossack fairy tales, eastern fair.
tales, legends of the French provinces
legends of Ireland, Norway, Germany
Spain, New England and all the moder1
English fairy stories Mary j. Rel
and Henrietta Dexter Field in st. Mich
olaE
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
velocity OF Insects Wings In Flight.

E. J. Marcy of The Science Record
has been studying the fight of insects,
with the object in view of ascertaining
the wing strokes per second in the diff
ferent species. Those upon which the
record is complete are as follows: Wing
strokes per second in the house fly, $50;
drone bee, $40; working bee, 100; wasp.
ITO; hawk moth. ~; dragon fly, %, and
cabbage butterfly, 8.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
They Fear Nothing.

The followers of Menelek, king Of
Shoa, while not SO large as the fierce
Zulus of the south, are about the tough
est warriors in the world. They do not
know physical fear. have seen man
fab burnt stick several inches in his
flesh without winoing, declares writer
in the New York Press. This apparent
insensibility to pain is accompanied
with religious frenzy in battle that
renders the soldiers unconscious Of bod
lily harm. They have no fear Of death,
and their happiness is to kill.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Heat and Silver.

70 read the inscription ON a silver
coin which by much wear has become
wholly obliterated put a poker i'll the
fire. When redhot, place the coin upon
it, and the inscription will plainly APP
pear Of a greenish hue, but will disap-
pear as the coin cools. This method
was formerly practiced at the mint to
discover the genuine coin when silver
was called i'll.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Gludness Comes

With better understanding of the
w transient nature of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper ef-
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge that so many forms OF
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to constipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrupof Figs, prompt
| ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed SO highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes Internal
cleanliness, without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. It's therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to note when you pur-
chase, that you have the genuine article,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep
utable druggists.
II in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, then Taxa
tives or other remedies are not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, one
NAV be commended to the most slSillful
physicians, but if in need of laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrup OF
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

What man does with his wealth de-
ponds upon his idea of happiness. Those
who draw prizes in life are apt to spend
tastelessly, if not viciously, not know
ing that it requires as much talent to
spend as to make.-E. p. Whipple.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
The Jeer Of 3 PIebeIan.

Laura-Miss Backdate is awfully
proud of being eligible to membership
in the Daughters of the Revolution.
Flora-She has right to be proud.
Just think how narrowly she escapes
being old enough to be sister instead
of daughter. Enquirer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

Miss Prettie-Mr. Ryder Is so enter
tanning! He seems to have come in
contact with so many people. Mr..
Wheeler (viciously)-You should watch
him on his blke.-New York Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

Men spend their lives in anticipations
In determining to be vastly happy at
some period or other when they have
time But the present time has one ad
vantage over every other. 1t is our own
-Colton
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Not Dangerous.

Judge-You are accused of carrying
razor.
Prisoner--But, yo' honah, it war er
safety razyah. Washington Times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

The human soul is like a bird that is
born in cage Nothing can deprive 1t
Of its natural longings or obliterate the
mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
--Epes Sargent.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

Moses Brown of Boston has the credit
of making the first deposit Of gold bull
lion to be coined. In 1895 he deposited
&2,276.72.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

uMy son-in-law hadn't cent of debts when
he married my daughter" linen ne mus
have married out of pune bravado.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
you ARE NOT SHAKEN BEFORE
TAKEN"

with malarial disease but with prodigious
violence afterwards, If you neglect immediate
measure of relief. The surest preventive and
remedial form of medication is Hostetters
stomach Bitters, the potency OF which as an
antidofe to miasmatic poison has been dem
onstrated for over forty years past, The liver
when disordered and congested, the bowels Il
constpated, and the kidneys II inactive; are
nromptly aided by it, and 1t is invaluable fol
dyspepsia, nervous debility and rheumatism
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

know that my life was saved by Pisos
Cure for Consumption.-Joh A. Mller,
Au Sable, Michigan, April 81, 1895.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
NOT SATISFIED.

No Enthusiast in Havana Over the Pro-
posed Reforms-Cubans Believe They
Will Have No Effect in Stopping the War.
HAVANA, Feb. 6.-NewS Of the pro-
posed reforms, contained in the long
cable dispa tches from Madrid to La
Lucia and the Diario de la Marina,
has not produced great enthusiasm,
because no one here believes that the
reforms will have any eff
feet in stopping the war. The
only persons who appear satisfied
are few Spaniards of the old reform
list party, the officials and half dozen
autonomists VINO follow the marquis
of Montoro. The thoughtful element
of all classes is very much disappoint-
ed. The Cubans see in the scheme
merely rehash of the futile A barzuza
law of 1895, without any real conces-
sions to the colony.
Those who are interested in tariff
reforms say that the plan of Senior
Canovas can have no practical benefit
for Cuba, inasmuch as it leaves un-
touched the unjust commercial priv
ileges of Catalonia and other northern
provinces of Spain.
They do not see, furthermore, in
what degree the general budget of the
island will be reduced. as the council
Of administration will be merely con-
sultative body, and the final decision
on all financial matters will depend on
Spain. The debt also is ageneral topic
of comment, for the new plan does
not redeem Cuba in the least
from the awful burden. Havana is
full of sensational rumors.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
DUTY on Tin Plates,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The ways and
means committee have not yet reached
definite conclusion as to the rates of
duty on tin plates in the new tariff
bill. The chances are that the rate
will be finally placed at a point be-
tween the present rate and that in the
Mckinley tariff, the republicans be-
lieving that the tin plate industry in
this country does not require the pro-
lection now that was given to it under
the Mckinley bill, as it is now no in
FAINT industry.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
Edward j. Ivory in New York.

New YORK, Feb. 5.-Edward ]. Ivo-
ry. the young Irishman who was ac-
cused by the Scotland Yard detectives
with being in a dynamite conspiracy
with p. j. P. lyman, the supposed no.
torious ''No l." and others, to destroy
life and property in the British king
dom, and whose trial in London two
weeks ago resulted in miserable fas-
co for the English authorities arrived
here Thursday on the steamer Males
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
A FAMINE.
Thousands of People in Northwestern
Louisiana Destitute
The People Have No Money, No Credit
and No Provsions-A Train Load OF
Seed Corn Distributed Among the
Farmers-Many Cattle Dying.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb 5.-The en-
tire state has been aroused by stories
of the famine, and in every hamlet
where prosperity exists funds and food
are being collected for the north Lou
isiana sufferers.
The famine is spread over the par
ishes of Winn, Catahoula. Union,
Grant, Lincoln, East and West Car.
roll, Vernon and Webster, and over
parts of Natchitoches and Rapides par
ishes.
The lowest estimate placed on the
number in absolute need of immediate
relief is $4,000. Besides rations, it is
necessary to furnish the poverty
stricken farmers with seed to make a
crop this year and to avoid another
famine.
A train load of corn was distributed
Thursday in the destitute country.
The drought which caused the pres
ent suffering began in April, and last
ed until November. Crops on the most
fertile soil could not have survived.
Cattle died for want of forage.
Those saved are dying now of starva-
tion.
A blizzard swept the country Janu-
airy 25. This was followed by week
of freezing weather, killing small
crops of vegetables. The intense cold
weather adds to the suffering of the
stricken.
A correspondent who has Travelled
over Vernon parish sends the follow
ing specimen cases Of poverty:
II saw one farmer OF 73 and his aged
wife. The husband is helpless. The
family had no meat: the man and wife
have been living on corn bread. They
have lost 40 head of hogs out of 49,
Their cows will die. There was nc
coffee, sugar or molasses in the house.
They had no money and no credit.
Zone widow has been living fol-
weeks on scalded salad, consisting Of
boiled mustard and turnip greens. She
had no meat and no corn bread.
"a husband, wife and four children
were found barefooted. There wa:
some bread in the house, but it wa:
nearly gone.
''In another poor farmhouse a nus
band, wife and two young girls had NJ
shoes, no meat, no bread, not even MO
lasseS. which is one of the staples"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
A PROPOSAL
TO Stop the Presidential Canvass-Con.
gresham Murray Says South Carolina'a
Vote Ia Fraudulent.

CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-The Tribune's
Washington special Friday night says:
President-elect McKinley's right to his
seat may not be officially declared next
week
Complications have arisen which
may furnish dramatic interruption
to the counting of the electoral votes
next Wednesday. Representative
George Washington Murray, the only
colored member of the house, who rep
resents the Charleston district, will be
sode.
He has just returned from South
Carolina, where he was in consultation
with the leading republicans of the
Palmetto state. He is armed with a
monster petition, signed by thousands
of republicans of the state, protesting
against the counting of the electoral
vote and asking for an investigation of
the election laws and the state cOnSti-
tuition.
The claim is made that the election
laws and the state constitution upon
which they are based are not in accord
with the federal constitution.
While the dispute over the vote OF
South Carolina can not in any way af-
feet the final result, it may give rise to
complication of a serious nature. The
best authorities agree that the petition
can not be ignored, and the investiga'
ton of the precedents shows that
when such protest is entered the
count must Immediately stop until the
| question is settled.
Whatever the immediate result OF
this attempt to discredit South Caro-.
lina's vote may be, there is no doubt
that the programme which is to be
thus inaugurated is part Of gigan'
tic scheme on the part of southern re-
publicans to overthrow the registra
ton and election laws in various
southern states where the Negro pre-
dominates, but his vote is not factor,
1t is proposed by the promoters OF
this big political scheme to secure
either the republican domination
In these southern states or reduce
the democratic representation in con
gress.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
sDowN ON TOBACCO NOW.
He Went Up with Il, However, When tn
Stock Rose.

He Went Up with It, However, When the
Stock Rose.
Nicotine" said the mSralist, accord
ing to the Washington Star, ''is ter
rible drug"
81 sometimes think that it doesn't
hurt person who INDUCES in modera-
tion," responded the Star reporter, who
was smoking cigar.
That's the danger of it. 1t is the
more pernicious because of its many
insidious phases. If had my way I'd
abolish every leaf of tobacco from the
markets. It's a constant temptation
to waste, and l am thankful that never
squandered my resources in any such
way"
"Youheyer'smoked?
Never"
Nor chewed?"
Certainly not"
Nor used snuff?'
"The idea is preposterous!"
81 suppose you must have saved a
great deal of money, then? These
small expenses count up very rapidly
But, of course, a man must invest his
money to get as comfortable an income
as you appear to enjoy. A friend OF
mine was telling me about how you
laid the foundation for your fortune.
1t was a small speculation, was il
not?'
'Um-yes, it was"
would you mind telling me just how
you managed it?"
Why, you see, friend of mine who
knows all about the market gave me
tip and I bought some stock in the
| tobacco trust
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
HOw'S This I?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by HALLS Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimo malls
free
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
QUEENS ANNIVERSARY.
A Fund to Be Called the Prince of Wales
Hospital Fund TO Be Raised.

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The prince of Wales
has issued to the press lengthy COM
munication in which he projects the
creation of fund TO be called the prince
of Wales hospital fund, for London, to
commemorate the Goth anniversary of
the queens accession to the throne.
The object is to secure about $50, 900
pounds annually by subscriptions of a
shilling and upwards to meet the we'll
known needs of the hospitals which
are not met by existing funds, with
which the proposed fund is not intend
ed to interfere. The communication
states that a council will be appointed,
of which the prince of Wales will be
president and Baron Rothschilds treas
urer
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
WANTS A DIVORCE
Because Her Husband Shut Her Up In a
Folding Bed.

Because Her Husband Shut Her Up In a
Folding Bed.
CHICAGO, Feb.5.-MrS Annie Krusch,
in divorce bill filed in the superior
court, complains that her husband,
August C.. Krusch, shut her up in a
folding bed and nearly smothered her.
She says she was married in 1886 and
lived with her hus band until last July,
when she was compelled to leave
him. In the summer of 1894, she al
leges, her husband seized her by the
hair and dragged her into a bedroom,
in which was folding bed. He threw
her violently down on the bed, which
Immediately closed on her and before
she could get out she was nearly suffo-
Gated and badly bruised. The wife
asks for the custody of her children.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
Immipration Bill Denounced.

New YORK, Feb. Ga mass meeting
was held in Cooper Union Friday night
under the auspices of the United He
brew trades to denounce the Lodge
immigration bill. Emil Kirschner
presided. Prof Daniel d. Myer, Lon
don, and others spoke. Resolutions
were adopted declaring the Lodge bill
was demogogic and fraudulent in it's
face and should be relegated to tho
waste basket.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
Homeseekers' Excursion Tickets.

On February 18th and 10th, March 1st, End,
18th and 10th, April 5th, 9th, 18th and Goth,
May Bird, 4th, nth and 18th, 1897, Home
seekers excursion tickets will be sold by
the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus R'y., to
nearly every point in the West, North and
Northwest, South and Southwest at rates OF
about one fare for the round trip.
Parties contemplating a trip will do well
to see or write to any G. A. & G.. R'y. agent
for rates of fare, limits of tickets and full
information, or to the undersigned, G. F.
DAILY, General Passenger Agent, Cleve-
land, o.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
The Pope Has Another Painting Spell

The Pope Has Another Painting Spell.
ROME, Feb. 5.-Dr. Lepponi, the
pope's personal physician, was hastily
summoned to his holiness bedside at
$50 o'clock Thursday morning and
found that the pontiff had fallen into
a fainting fit from which, however, he
soon recovered. DIR. Lepponi has as
sured inquirers that the faintness of
the pope is not serious matter as lat
terly, in consequence of his advanced
age he has frequently had such spells.
Nevertheless the doctor has forbidden
that his holiness hold any receptions
for the present.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
French and Siamese Fighting.

PARIS, Feb. 6.-The Echo de Paris
asserts that fighting has begun on the
Siamese frontier between the natives
under French protection and the
Siamese. The date of the fighting is
not given, no details are furnished and
confirmation of the report is not OBJ
kaina HE
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
Will Furnish the Bible.

XENIA, O., Feb. 5.-The African M.
+. church of this city, has been grant
ed the honor of furnishing the Bible
on which President Mckinley is to
take the oath of Office, and Bishop
Arnett of Wilberforce is in Cincinnati
to procure suitable volume. A hand.
some case will be made for if.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
Pitcher Radburn Dead.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Feb. 6.-At p.
m. Friday occurred the death of Chas.
Radburn, who for many years was the
pitcher for Providence and Boston
teams of the National league. Death
was caused by paresis.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
..EvIDENCEs of CONSUMPTION are

''EvIDENCEs of consumption are found in
the throat OF larynx at period long before
the discovery of equally well-marked symp-
toms in the lungs, is fact which the daily
observation of those engaged in laryngeal
practice establishes as incontrovertible. :"
Such is the opinion of DR.. Thos. M. Stewart
after several years of study of the disease
in his own city, Cincinnati.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-09
The Decree 81
"Buckyo Lee in Luck.

BELLEFoNTAINE, o., Feb. s. 'Bucky"
Lee, of this city, is said to have fallen
heir to 1900 acres of land and sos, 600
Lee was recently released from Jail,
where he was serving a sentence be-
cause he could not pay his fine for vio-
iating the local option ordinance, his
family being in want.