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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26

a jolly Time.

A free dance was given to the volnn-
teers last evening by the members of the
oand. Although it was decidedly an
lnpromptu affair, a large attendance was
on hand and a jolly night was spent bv
the boys in blue.
In the afternoon the ladies of the Re
oekah lodge gave the boys a big spread
in the Arnnory Hall. and it made a very
pussy ana merry day for the volunteers.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26
Carson Drummer Goy.

Meta Bramhlla, the Carson drummer
boy, had a lively time with the flrewells
OF the fair sex as he left for Manila ON
N"hday. The Call thus describes his ex-
pcriences:
The drum of n company was actually
Sliehced tor a space. The drummer was
captured by an army of young women
VINO Kissed him till he hlu~hoI rosy red
ana went on his way embarrassed but
'II~sfol, timing his taps to his heart
Leafs and giving a sample OF double
quick time. And thus they went bv.
oWered with good wishes, laden with
gifts, knowing they went from a city
loved them we'll.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26
Still DELAYED,

h volunteers did not leave last even
ing as was expected for two reasons
lhey mad not received their rations from
san francisco and no provisions had
been made for their transportation. As
as these matters are settled thew
will take their departure.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26
Card Of Thanks

The Ladies of the Red Cross So.;o.u
ueSlfe 10 publicly thank the merchants of
carson Tor their prompt aud generous
response to the call of the Society on be-
half OF the Nevada volunteers.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26
ALL SORTS.

NtStldDltS dl DdhSTS.
More showers are expected.
Governor Sadler came up from Reno
yesterday.
The volunteers leave this morning be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock.
For Sale-A ladies bicycle, in good re-
pair, cheap. Inquire at this office.
The warm weather is livening up the
sod" fountain and ice cream business.
The wife of Fred Wilder. the ice man
presented him with a girl yesterday.
1t is thought the Orphans Home inves-
tigation will take place about Saturday.
Raspberries, Strawberries and cherries
at Riggs.
Henry David and Chad. Milligan had a
scrap on Main street yesterday.
Remember the Band social at Armorv
Hall Saturday night.
George lamy c~Ontemplates starting a
paper in Gardnerville some time in June
The Boston" gentleman's carriers for
sale at Joe Platt's.
Hon. Fielding LENNON, a member of
the legislature, died in Reno Thursday.
Captain Linscott arrived yesterday and
took command of the volunteers.
Gardening done and lawns attended to
for private families. Inquire of J.. Kelly
Il Co.
A young son of L. Smith, Of Washoe.
was seriously injured Monday by falling
off a horse near his home.
Tn Washoe Valley ranchers are very
short of water and expect short crops
this year.
1t is said that Mrs. Gregory. who killed
Hugh Williams in AIameda, was for
mcrly a resident of Nevada.
The Red Cross Society will need all
financial aid they can get. Everybody
ought to patronize this sale at Days.
DIR. Leonard, the Reno dentist. is SPEND
ing a few days in this city on professional
business.
NeiiltihbtF lhal Joe IIatt makes suits
to order and the tit always pleaseS. If
II don't. you don't nave to take the suit
but they always do please. !
Jim Yerington has presented the vol
unteers with the big painted seal of Ne
Vada used at the Worlds Fair. II will
be hung on the outside of the car.
The Red Cross Society wishes every-
body to know that +. w. Days store is
run by them on Thursday and Friday
and expects all patriotic citizens to helm
swell their sale.
l announce herewith that l will sell
bedroom sets complete at S22 so. SD OO.
81 80, $50 90, SO 90 and $40 OO. DoubIe
spelng and top mattresses from 81 30 to
$40 90. Single lounges $40 90 and Sl2 co.
Bed lounges Sl4 90 to $50 90. all other
articles reduced in proportion, and will
assure anyone that takes the trouble to
call that the goods are all new and up to
date. No furniture store can make or
dlnary expenses at the above prices, but
l don't expect tie make money these
t1heS. my aim is in cOmmOn with the
other merchants of Carson to leave no
excuse for parties sending out Of town
for goods. GEO. w. KIrzMEYER.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-26

If You wan to help the bows in bl,a
paIrohize the sale of the Red Cross
Society at Days Thursday and Friday.
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The Appointments

n following are the non-commission-
ed officers appointed by Captain Cox for
the first volunteers that are now at Chew
enue:
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Eastern advertising Agent 23O-234 Tenn
pie Court Building, New York City, E.
katz, Agent.
The times., 1898-11-28
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE,
Born Jan. 81, 1890,
Died Jan. q, 1893.

Half dozen workmen took the stone out
to Oak Hill Saturday afternoon and in
driving snow storm placed it at the
head of the greet statesman's last resi-
ing place. There were no ceremonies and
the work was quickly done. The bleak
hillside on which the foremost Repub-
lican of the last quarter of a century
had stood and sadly contemplated the dis
appointments of lifetime looked all the
colder for the addition of the straight,
white shaft.
The spot is an unusually pretty one in
Summer. The view is beautiful, over
looking one of the most attractive por-
tions of the city Within its range lie
Sheridan Circle and Kalorama Heights,
and many handsome residences.
Mr. Blaine died In the old mansion at
No. II Madison Avenue, on the site OF
which the Lafayette Square Opera House
now stands. He was i'll about two months
with heart trouble, and during that time
his life was almost daily despaired OF.
His funeral was as transformations as II
was possible to make it. He always had
a great repugnance 70 public exhibitions
of sorrow, and in accordance with his
oft expressed opinions the funeral was
private
The times., 1898-11-28
MARKING BLAINE'S GRAVE
Stone Block Takes the Place
of a Shattered Oak.
THE WORK QUIETLY DONE
Simple Monument Set In Place Amid
Snow and Rain-NO Ceremony In
the Great COmmOner-COId, Bleak
Scene on the Banks of Rock Creek.

The shattered oak which, for about SIX
years marked the z; grave OF James G..
Blaine in Oak Hiil Cemetery, has been
replaced by simply inscribed headstone'
Duplicate of one which. was placed over
the grave of Walker Blaine, the great
statesmans favorite son. The work was
done Saturday, quickly and without cere-
mony.
In 1890, after the sad death of Walker
Blaine, and while the body was still lying
in the historic old mansion in Madison
Place. Mr.. Blaine, accompanied by a
friend, went to Oak Hill Cemetery to Sc
lect a lot. The sad duty intensified the
grief which the death of his son had
caused, and he talked in melancholy
strain of the tricks of fate which had
checked his ambition and deprived him of
the hope of perpetvatlng his name.
In the eastern part of the cemetery,
half way down the terrace on the west
ern bank of Rock Creek, was lot, with
a picturesque view 10 the northeast and.
in the center. "a gnarled and twisted oak
tree, blasted and dead. Mr.. Blaine point
ed out the tree. with its lifeless branches
and remarked that it aptly represented
his own blasted hopes. He took the lot
and asked that nothing but the solitary
tree should mark his own grave.
The remains of Walker Blaine We're
buried in the lot, and later it received
the body of Mrs. Coppinger, wife of Gen.
Coppinger and daughter of Mr.. Blaine
Simple headstones marked their graves,
and the space by the tree was reserved
for the body, of the Maine statesman
During his Illness. which began in No
vember 1892. Mr.. Blaine Anticipating the
end. again made the request that his
body be laid beside the tree, with no other
mark to indicate his last resting place.
His wish was faithfully observed, and
after his death. in January. 1898, mis- re-
mains were quietly conveyed TO the ceme-
terry and privately inferred, with the
stricken tree for gloomy sentinel.
The old tree stood until last Winter,
when, during a heavy storm, ii was so
badly shattered as to deprive IL of its
melancholy beauty. The friends of Mr..
Blaine We're anxious that some suita-
bic memorial be placed at the head OF
the grave. and, after carefully consider
ing the matter Mrs. Blaine decided about
six months ago to have duplicate made
of the headstone which marked the grave
of Walker Blaine.
With great care a suitable block of
Vermont marble was selected and the
monument completed last week. 1t Is eight
feet high and of the simplest design. 1t
Is devoid OF any ornamentation and
bears the simple Inscription:
The times., 1898-11-28
witch Doctors.
From the Birmingham POs,.)

(From the Birmingham Post.)
Son setshre is probably the most superstitious
county in England. case just heard by the
Wells magistrates affords an amazing insight into
the kingly power welded by the witch doctor,
male or female, in the west country villages A
Mr. Blackburn, OF Mortlake, 10 have
launched crusade against this survival OF the
dark ages. During a sojourn in Wells he visited
the witch doctor, Chambers, alias Elliott. the
result OF which prosecution ending in a
eommittal for two months toT imposing Mr.
Blackburn by subtle craft The police discov-
cred that hundreds of people from all parts of
the country wrote to or visited Chambers for the
purpose of having devils cast OUT of either
their sick children their cattle. The witch's
fee was los I'd. and it was shown that the simple
country people paid almost worship 10 their
witch. always addressing him as sir and i'm
plicity following his quaint directions.
Among the letters one from a farmer
thanking the witch for curing his cows and
mare, who had been i'll from the evil wishes of
an enemy. Another letter asked .how to make
love-" another if the writer was likely soon TO
become a widow. Another indicated that a cler-
gyman had been writing for illumination on the
black magic art. The prisoner pretended to
consult instrument and several odd volumes
in cipher, and said he effected his cures by burn
ing various drugs at midnight. curious fact
was that, thought the police have vainly endeav-
ored for years TO get conviction, the man has
all the time obtained his drugs of an alderman
of the CITY.
The times., 1898-11-28

you go out whenever you wish ana II
seems to be clear all the time.
The daughters Of the governor came out
Of a house,
"See, If those young ladies would walt
half a minute that cloud will have passed.
But what's the difference? 1t will rain
four time on them between here and the
castle, but it will clear up four times too
So they take 1t as 1t comes
Good afternoon, ladies', he said, lift-
ing his hat. Let me present Lieut.. =.
commandant of the post He isn't dead
yet. Thinks it's wet day.
"Why we were tust remarking what
a lovely day it is. Andsit isn't raining, Is
it?"
NO." said the lieutenant. SIT has stop
ped"
They passed on. 1t began to rain again
Aren't the cold effects magnificent?
said the officer.
They were, and the doctor said so.
When they got well out in the woods the
doctor asked the lieutenant not to ask
his sergeant to drill his men in front of
the doctors house.
Hes hopeless, that sergeant. He's
been here two years. and he's as strict
regular, straight and energetic as ] was
when / left here. He ought to have been
sent away, for he'll shame you out of self
own this country. but what's the use of
spelling Sitka? Let's have Russian
bath
The lieutenant promised to keep the
sergeant away from the doctors house.
The times., 1898-11-28
LIGHTNING.
The Chance for Being Killed by 1t
In Slim.

C'rom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
According to an investigation recently
made into the causes of individual human
fear 1t would appear that more persons
are afraid of lightning than any other one
thing. The number of persons killed by
lightning in this country is nearly the
same year by year Last year there were
1862 people killed in the United States,
which is twenty-one in excess of the
number for the preceding year. Looking
over the records for succession of years
it was found that any period of three
successive years gave a little over 1000
deaths. This, of course. does not include
cases where persons have been struck and
recovered.
The figures for the past year are above
the average, but even with these 1t would
appear that person in this country
stands only one chance in 600 of being
killed by lightning, which is about so per
cent less than that of dying by the kick
of a horse. The investigations of the
weather bureau also show that only one
in three of those struck by lightning die
from the stroke, the other two recovering
The probability of being struck by light
ming is less in cities than in the country,
the average person in rural districts be-
ing in five times greater danger from
this cause than is the resident OF city.
The deaths from lightning In this country
nearly all occur between April and Sep
tember the highest rate being in June
and July. .f
Taking any ten-year period the destruc-
tion OF property in the United States by
lightning is in the neighborhood of 700
dwellings. $500 barns and 10 churches,
with a total of $500 fires causing loss of
SIG. 600. 00o
In connection with its statistics of light
ning's destructive work the weather bu-
reau advises people that It is wise, when
person is struck by lightning, to use
every effort for an hour or two after the
occurrence to stimulate breathing and the
circulation OF the blood 1t happens very
often that thunderbolt renders a per-
son unconscious and apparently dead, but
resuscitation may be accomplished.
The times., 1898-11-28
A BoEnS French,nan.
CFum the Chicago News.)

Not long ago there appeared in London q man
who told wonderful tales of his adventures among
the savagcs of Australia and the South sea Isl.
ands. According TO his story he was one Louis
de Rougemcnt, Frenchman. who had lived for
thirty years in region where no white man had
ever set foot. He told wild tales of adventures;
how he had fshed for pearls In strange waters
long ago and had found among other gems three
priceless black pearls; how he WAS wrecked and
saved only his pearls and his dog; how he fell
in with cannibals, learned their language. and
married cannibal girl; how he ate snakes and
tree worms and met wonderful giants, and owned
trained sea turtles, on which he rode, and peli.
cans to fish for him, and pigeons as large as tur-
keys and other stories equally strange These
stories were printed in a London magazine; the
hero of them was interviewed by the newspapers,
and finally De Rougement was honcred by an in.
vitation from the British Association for the Adj
vancement OF Science to deliver two lectures be-
fore the body OF savants. Sir George Newnes
then took up the and was about to fit cut
an expedition, at cost of 100000, to recover
the three priceless black pearls and other treas
rres. when the London Chronicle exposed De
Rougement as an imposter. whose real name was
Henry Louis Grin, Grein, or Green. His nat
ual history had been gathered in the British
museum; his tales OF adventure in the grogshops
OF Sydney.
The times., 1898-11-28
To Marry a waitress.
(From the New York Herald.)


Within few days Miss Olga Larson, of this
city, will become the bride OF Mr. Erick Brink,
OF Sweden. A Spanish official has won a bride,
and Mrs. l.. Latin Kellogg has lost neat and
pretty waitress ever tripped across a pol
ished dining room floor. MIR. Brink is a subject
OF King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, but was
educated in France. He speaks fuently the Scan
dinavian tongues, English, German, Russian.
Dutch, Spanish, French. and Italian and has trav-
eled all over Europe and the greater part of
America. His father, Victor Brink, was for
years French consul general in Helsingborg
Sweden, and the son is Spanish vice consul hon
oraire in the same city.
He holds his commission for life. Miss Ebeth
Brink, his sister. recently married to the
young Swedish poet Count Birger Morner, an at
tache of the department of foreign affairs in
Stockholm. She has been presented at court.
Mr.. Brink is square shouldered young man.
with blonde hair and blue eyes, matched more
delicately by his fancee's. lie came 10 America
last February and went to Havana on personal
business He left the Cuban capital in March,
and since then has spent his time in New York
and Washington.
Miss Larson he met at the home of his sister.
Mrs. Ebba de La Nee. They are both natives
OF Helsingborg
The times., 1898-11-28
How Russians. sen Bcor-.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
. 4 Hulme Beaman, tells this curious method Of
the Russian peasants in selling bears: The Gus
tom is for the peasants to seek out the winter
laiIs of the bears, and having made sure, or be-
lieving they have done so, 10 come into Peters
burg and offer their bear for sale. This sounds
rather d-blooded and comcal, but the bar
gain after all is entirely in favor of the peasant
and the bear. According TO the size of the foot
prints and the width of the stride the weight
is guessed. and contract is made, usually at
the rate of about sovereign pood OF thirty
eight pounds. Besides the price of the bear
ITSELF there will be four or five pounds for the
beaters and traekers, and what with sledges and
lodging, etc, bear of twelve poods will cost
nearer eighteen than fifteen pounds. The SELL
ers undertake 10 drive the bear out within shoot
ing distance of the guns, and as it is always in
deep snow there never be any dispute over
this question. II the buyer misses he has to pay
as il the had killsd-in fact, he bets fifteen
pounds or SO to nothing that he drops the bear,
for unless he does there is very little chance OF
his ever seeing it again. Even if the bear is
wounded and has not gone far the peasants will.
unless youi own keeper is with you, conceal his
whereabouts in the hope OF being able to resell
him again to somebody else.
The times., 1898-11-28
Fierce Mr. Cnrnerie.

tFrom the Philadelphia North American.)
Andrew Carnegie, of Scotland is up in arms
against expansion and there is no telling when
the Massachusetts, Anti-lmperialism League may
announce that its fund TO outwit fate has grown
To 500, for the angry spirit OF Mr.. Carnegie has
risen, and in his desperation he is apt to do most
anything-even TO add 500 TO the Massachusetts
fund. And when it is told that Carl Schurz, of
Germany. is heroically backing up Carnegie with
all the power OF his vocabulary. the case appears
in all its awful seriousness. Mr.. Carnegie was
particularly ierocous the other day. ''If Ameri-
cans attempt 10 take the Philippines" said he.
81 hope the insurgents will shoot them down"
Vain hopes! II all our soldiers were like Schurz
and Carnegie might feel bit nervous about
the Philippine, but troops over there are
Americans, and there are more Just like them
ready TO go to Manila Oh a minutes notice
They know something about shooting themselves
and when the firing begins fancy some of Mr.
carnegie's hopes will be blasted. But il is
hardly likely that any trouble Of this character
will be encountered. Our navy and army boys
have made a reputation at shooting over at
Manila which the Filipinos doubt hold prom-
nently in their minds.
The times., 1898-11-28
THEY STAND THE TEST
Eclipse Bicycles,
FOURTEENTH AND H SITS.
THE TUATARA LIZARD.
The Oldest of Its Kind of Curious
Reptiles.

G'rom the London Daily Mail.)
For the last two years Prof. Dendy, Of
Canterbury College, New Zealand, has
been minutely investigating the develop
ment of the tuatara lizard. declared TO
be the most remarkable reptile now living
in New Zealand and detailed account OF
the results of his researches has just ar
rived in England and will shortly be pub
lished. Although the lizard in question
is said TO be the oldest existing type of
reptile up to the present time. little has
been konwn of its life history, as II Is
very rare and shy and retiring in its hab-
its.
The tuatara lizard was first mentioned
in a diary kept by MIR. Anderson. the
companion of Capt. Cook: but the first
really detailed account of the reptile was
given by Diffenbach in 1873 when he said:
Il had been apprised of the existence of
a large lizard which the natives call tua-
tara, or narara. and of which they are
much afraid .--r
Owing to the rarity of the tuatard lizard.
the New Zealand government passed an
act to prohibit the taking or staying of
the reptile, but. as usual, forgot one of
the most important points-namely. the in
sertion of a clause forbidding the collect
ing of the eggs
Fortunately for the tuatars, however.
p. Henaghan, the principal keeper on
Stephens Island. appears at present to
be the only man who knows where to
look for them. although It is stated that
two German collectors have been lately
making vigorous but vain efforts to OBJ
tain specimens of the eggs
Prof Dendy had permission granted
him by the government to collect both
eggs and adults, and with the help of
Mr.. Henaghan he has been so successful
in his Investigations of the life history
| of this interesting reptile that many new
| and important facts will now be made
known to the scientific world.
The adult animal has spotted skin
and Il crust of seperate white. fiat, sharp
| spines, and is possessed of three sets of
! teeth.
On Stephens Island the eggs of the liz
| ard are found to be laid in November.
and the embryo passes the winter in a
state of Information unknown to any 9TH
er vertebrate embryo, and do not emef ge
| from the egg until nearly thirteen
| months have elapsed. One curious fact
| that has come to light Is that in the
| latter stages of its development the skin
| of the young animal has a strongly
marked pattern of longitudinal and
| transverse stripes, which disappear be-
| fore Matching. giving place to the spotted
| skin of the adult animal.
| This lizard is particularly interesting.
| owing to the fact of its being allied to
the extinct reptiles of the Triassic Age.
The times., 1898-11-28
Evolution of n Paris Gown.
(From Scribner's.)

The Paris gown, that bursts full blown on the
eve Of the client, is not. as the public believes,
a creation of the great drcssmaker himself nor
is the great dressinaker responsible for the
fashion. This model gown is the result of an
almost infinite collaboration. Up in the garrets
of the criss-cr1ss streets live n modest class OF
artists that make projects. They get their in
spiration from old portraits at the Louvre, at
Versailles from elegant women in the driveways
of the Bois, or from some hazard. They modify,
develop, combine, following a drift which they
do not control, till they have produced novel
idea that the public is likely TO accept, and that
is therefore. saable. Their projects are fixed
in sketches, and they known as marchands
de croquos. Others of these specialists make up
their projects in cloth, and are known as march
snds de modeles. These occupy n more i'm
portant rank than the first, since the models
form a demonstration that the ideas can be
realized. The model merchant is in relation with
the manufacturers, who provide her with the new
materials they have imagined and whose interest
il is have their truck presented 10 the great
dressmaking houses and so launched the mar
ket
The times., 1898-11-28
Pingree to the ,Rescue.
(From the Detroit Free Press \


Senator Burrows has Jared so Handsomely Mt the
hands of the Republicans Of Michigan, and his
contributions TO constructive legislation have
been SO unimportant. it was to have been ex-
pected that his ambition TO remain in the senate
would meet with opposition from other aspirants,
baslng their candidacy on stronger qualifications
and fair division Of party honors. In such a
contest Senator Burrows-a man without much
breadth or magnetism-would have been COM
pelied TO look well 10 his laurels. But the pug.
nacions Mr.. Pinsree has come to his rescue and
given him unexpected Importance in the con.
test, spurrinS his supporters and attracting new
adherents to his standard the representative
Of regular Republicanism.