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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-05-19
WHAT A TRlLLION Is.

Under our Republican (part.) gov
ermmeut. billr'nair II not an &C
tn Il fact, is not an In,possIbIil!, but
thanks tO the inventor Of arithmetic.
trillinn ,ire is. People often talk OF
. triiiinn as possible numIer. The
fact is. no. trillIOn of serUnd5 has
clap sed since the creation Of Adam,
nor will that nu nber have clap rtl
until February LIST M tie. year Of onr
] or 25.S25; for M 81 irillion "f sec
On'is the are 3 ,697 wear, 81 days, l
hour, 46 minutes and } se'nnds.
By tile saIne figuring d man w0nld
Il We Ia make Il dollar IL second for
more than 25,825 years before he
could he ciass-d ~ Il millionaire. As
the Republican Tarty, with rts trust
protection systeu. IN not likely to
last that IeTgCh az ti'ue, the chances
are that this terreIt al sphere will
never he hunorrd by Tie presence of
M "air.." with uretix of thirteen
nuntral-.-Reno Journal.
Bro. Dennis should not veX his
mental ma :hInery III liguring ont
such tcho".b ~ problems. If a man
wants I" m come Il millionaire, no OBJ
STAGES, such us the journal centuries
up. shuull he put M path. Med.
lcal scIen - may yet overcome uld
uge ANA man may live tor huUnIreds
OF thousands of years l thus ehould
c"une T." p ISIS ii mali who lied i'll his
25,8!3th year would he noChlng but Il
kl WhaI then w"nld become of
the Journals figures?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-05-19
Legal Antiquities.

Punishment in eftigy was legally
practiced ~ France and with preat
sJie unity up til the time of the first
rev"'u non, says the G.een Bag. IL
the man condemned escapei, a
dummy was put up N lis e., apd
the entire routine Of the law allowed
To take its course. The warrant WINS
read /" it ana on the day appointed it
was conducted to the scafruid III :he
presence OF all the legal functio,aries
aud with all the circumstance OF Tie
law. Sometimes the same person
was executed ID etfigy sim ultancou. ~
in several cities, hut that did not *.
eml him from actual punishment
houid he be afterwards caught.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-05-19
You Can't Get IspstPd

Because That IT red Feri,ng is not
the result of ex 'rtion. 1t is due Ia
the unhealthy rondi.ion Of your
blood. This vital flu, should
give n"urshment to every orpnn.
nerve and muscle. But it cannot
do this unless it is ri ID and pure.
That is what yon want to cure that
tired f"rling-pure. rich blood.
Hoods Sar' aparllla will help yon
eye rested" II will give You pure.
rich blon give you vi or and vital.
1ty and brace you up so that ynn
NAV leel well all through the CON
ma summer Ii YOU have never
tried Holds SarsapaIilla, do so
no., and sea hoY 1t enerslzes and
Vlt"l'zes your whole system.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-05-19
DO YOU K.OW

I consumption is Preven'abie? Science
ma proven thai, uni also that neglect
IL >uic'dai. LIE worse cold or cough
can ne cur IT with Smmh'e Cough
ANA Con -Imptluu ur- Sol on uus.
it'Ve g!'aran.err for over fifty years.
l. or salc 10y Elko rbg>o.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-05-19
ChiHcHr CciccflNca.

The Chinese detective force il n sc
cret body, and the best organized in he
world. They have au &C." U,on every
man. woman OF child. foreign or m.
tive. In China. and. in addition, watch
each other.
The evening times., 1899-08-14
MONDAY, AUGUST IL 1899.
Afflicted Porto Rico.

1t is the same thing as providential that
we have q strong. resourceful, cool-headei
man NJ the head OF the War Department
just now, in view of many things. and, lot
least among them the terrible situation in
Porto Rico. The problem OF relief there
presented is a stupendous one. According
10 the rough estimate of Governor General
Davis one-fifth of the houses on the islam /
have been destroyed and one hundred
thousand or more people are shelterles5
and without the means of obtaining fool,
since all their fruit trees and vegetable
patches have been wiped out of existeale.
The conditions are such that it Will be
hard 20 prevent a famine and equally diff
ncult TO avert d pestilence. Thousands OF
decaying animal carcasses already taint III
sir in a hundred places. The debris of the
hurricane and accompanying food hides
and holds the basis of dozen yellow fever
epidemics, and that menace to life and
business in our Southern States as well a:
in the Antilles must be counted with and
met
Mr. Root is handling the situation with
characteristic vigor and confidence. he
has appealed to the cities, through their
b mayors, for relief, and excellent results
are beginning to show. He will probably.
today, ask the States to aid, through a
circular to their governors.
The work OF succor will have to be
national in it's scope. 1t ought to be. be-
cause Porto Rico is the common property
OF all the States and people of the Union
In the present circumstances it will have
TO be, since the Federal authorities are
without means to handle so enormous a
calamity. The general charity of the
country necessarily is depended on for
the money, provisions, medicines, and
clothing which will be required to allie
viate the awful distress that inevitably
will follow this summers frightful vista
tion in Porto Rico.
The evening times., 1899-08-14
The Campaign in Luzon.

The fighting on the railway which con-
stitutes MacArthur's line Of communica
ton with Manila, reported this morning.
would be unimportant if it did not disclose
Aguinaldo's purpose to cut our northern
forces off from Manila. Perhaps this move
ment, which has taken the form of attacks
upon the railway at three points between
the capital and San Fernando, is explanato
ry of the sudden military activity which
has been noticeable during the past week
or ten days.
We have repeatedly wondered why = line
thirty or forty miles long traversing the
enemy's country and inadequately de-
Tended, TO say the most for it, has not been
made the chief object of attack by the
rebels. Their obvious tactics would be to
destroy the railway and SO render juno
tion Of MacArthur's division with the
southern wing of the army next to i'm
possible until the end of the rainy season.
1t is probable that this furnishes key
to the erratic maneuvres which have been
in progress with San Fernando as their TO-
Gus, and which, no doubt have been made
more mysterious than need be by the blue
pencil of the censor at Manila It looks
very much as if Macarthur had been en-
gagged in a desperate effort to prevent a
bottling-up process at his expense, and we
hope he may have been successful; but
the latest indications are that the Tagals
have decided to make the railway line
impracticable for our purposes and so de-
prive the northern division of supplies
How feasible that plan may be we are not
well enough informed regarding the sit
uation to say. The suggestions of the
past few days make it seem possible that
there is some danger that it might be sue
cessful.
The American public, being absolutely
without confidence in the general who is
directing operations from the vice regal
palace in Manila, are prone to suspicion
and rather pessimistic as to the progress
of affairs in Luzon. no matter how cheer
fully they NAV be cOlored
The evening times., 1899-08-14
0Enke ReaIism.v

CFrom the New Orleans Times-Democratl
''Apropos of this beashy hot weather. said
a fat man between gasps. "didy' ever notice
how confoundedly easy it is for people in novels
to reduce their temperature2 The facility with
which they do 1t is perfectly maddening to a
fellow who is trying to dodge apoplexy with the
thermometer at 81 in the shade. i was reading
popular romance last night and took the trou-
BILE to jot dowa a few passages bearing on the
subject. Here they are:
"a Footsteps sounded in the corridor, and
turned cold with apprehension
:" She frcze with a look. "Sir." she
cried
90 The bare thought chilled with horror
Il opened the door and an icy shock passed
through my veins
50 Mabel received me coolly; evidently she
knew all
''When I struck that last passage, the one
about the naughty Mabel got mad and chucked
the book through the window. Emotions have
no such effect on me. / never turn cold
with apprehension; the contrary, it makes me
sweat. Horror doesn't chill me worth cent;
it simply wits my collar. I'm thinking of writ
ing protest against fake realism in American
literature"
The evening times., 1899-08-14
LIFE GUARDS KEPT BUSY.
Many Persons Rescued From Drown
ing mt Atlantic City Yesterday.

Many Persons Rescued From Drown
ing at Atlantic City Yesterday.
Atlantis City n. j., Aug. 1.-THE larg-
est crowd of bathers in the history OF this
resort went into the sea yesterday. Cliff
ton C. Ham, son of Councilman Ham, o,
this city, and his two friends. Timothy and
Harry Allen, of Philadelphia, decided to
bathe by moonlight just for the nove.ty.
They entered the surf about midnight Sat
urday and after disporting about in shall
low water they decided to go out further.
Three minutes later the three screamed
Tor help, having been caught in the cur
rent which was rapidly carrying them to
sea Strollers on the boardwalk heard the
cali and a lifehoat nearby was manned by
amateurs, headed by Chapman DeWolf, OF
Philadelphia and after a struggle with the
breakers reached the youths. All thres
were landed safely. Timothy Allen was
taken to a drug store for treatment, but
soon recovered.
The life guards were kept busy all day
and thirty persons who were in danger
were rescued Those whose names are
known are Capt. John Mclaughlin, OF Nor
ristown; T. ]. Spaulding, of I'LL Arctic
Avenue, this city; Alexander Patterson,
William Cunningham, William White, AMI
Frank Phillips, of Philadelphia The res
cue of White and Phillips was very excit-
ing. The lifeboats were all in service and
the guards had to swim quite distance
before the men were reached. Capt Jonn
Mclaughlin was seized with cramps while
in the surf near Maryland Avenue, and
after the guards brought him in he remain
ed unconscious for three hours. He was
taken to his hotel, where he is now in the
care of doctors.
The evening times., 1899-08-14
FLOOD STARTED BY A RAT.
The Rodent Gnawed Through
Water Pipe.


New York, Aug. 14.-Charles Walsh,
shivering. awoke from a dream that he
was being carried over Niagara Falls at 3
O'Clock Saturday morning Mr.. Walsh
lives on the first floor Of No. 2331 Seventh
Avenue. one of the Bedford flats which
Oscar Hammerstein built. Awakening,
Mr.. Walsh found that if he had slept with
his mouth open he surely would have been
drowned. for a stream falling from the
ceiling struck him full in the face. His
couch was as damp as the bed of the sea;
the room was flooded
Naturally surprised, Mr.. Walsh awoke
the janitor who found hole IN lead
water pipe that runs through the ceiling
above Mr. Walsh's bed. And by the hole
in the pipe the ianitor found large gray
rat The hole in the pipe showed the
mark of the rats teeth.
So the wise janitor at once concluded
that the rat had partaken Of poison,
which made him as thirsty as Tantalus-
The rat heard the water running through
the lead pipe and, having gnawed the
hole in the pipe tried 10 satisfy his thirst
and died.
OF course the rat could not drink all
the water that ran through the pipe. said
the ianitor, apoiogetically to Mr.. Walsh.
so some fell on you"
"Some!" muttered Mr.. Walsh, sulphur
ously. as he turned in on the parior sofa
The evening times., 1899-08-14
Our Subject, the Sultan.

How wonderful are the ways OF our
peace diplomacy II was not long ago
that a certain civilian peace apostle TO
the Philippines visited the Island Of Cebu.
and there found all the natives singing.
We'll rally round the flag, boys" and
eager to have star spangled blue coats
and red and white breeches to wear. a
few DAYS afterward these same Cebuties
made a vicious attack upon an American
landing party.
We seem 10 remember, also. that
peace commissioner made a visit TO the
agreeable Sultan of Sulu, and reported
that potentate as too friendly TO mention
Later Brigadier general Bates was de-
spatched with ten thousand dollars in
shining gold pieces to complete deal of
amity and subsidy; principally the latter.
we fear, in view of subsequent develop
ments-
Now il appears that while his sultanic
majesty is quite willing to take the money
down. and a regular salary for his good
Offices. he is only prepared to permit
American occupation of the single town
of Jolo, retaining all the rest Of the ter
ritory under his titular sway as his own.
OF course there is a way out of this dif-
fculty. Like other Oriental despots, Abb
dul Hanna-or whatever mis- name may be
has chiefs who do not like him, and who
would eagerly grasp chance 10 have a
little native amusement at his expense
The biggest CT them, Yokanine, by name
and fine healthy fellow. offers TO force
the Sultan to the American terms. He
should be allowed the opportunity. The
English way CT getting possession Of a
group like the Sulu archipelago would be
to set the different native factions at each
other and let nature take her course. '
We trust that neither General Bates nor
bis superiors viii shut their eyes to the
advantages of the plan.
The evening times., 1899-08-14
STARTLED THE CONGREGATION
A Minister Gives His Solution of the
Race Question.


New York. Aug. 14.-Not In its history
has the congregstion OF the Hanson Place
Methodist Church been SO startled as it
was last night by the Rev. DR.. Brough-
ton, of Atlanta.
He chose for his text the words of St
Paul: whether therefore We eat or drink
or whatsoever ye do. do al to the glo.y o.
God"
When this principle is adopted. Dr.
Broughton declared, there would be rebel
lion among the business men. in the social
world and, most Of all. among the politf-
clans. all of whom. he said, would be out
of a Job" He declared that he was tired
of the politicians and bosses, whom he
called lot of stupendous frauds, but with
power enough to keep many good men from
being Christian citizens. The devil has
got the world, and he has got lots of US
preachers and church folk, too" Dr.
Broughton said.
What are we going to do with the Phil
ippines?" he asked. Il am going 10 do my
best to keep them, and the man who at
tempts to pull down Old Glory there will
be the most helpless imbec.le on earth.
"Lynching and other crimes in the South
are the outcome of politics. DR.. Broughton
said. The greatest enemy of the coiored
man is the politician. The negro has no
political conscience. He is absolutely for
sale. Every two years the politician re-
sorts to the negroes and arrays black
against white.
The time will never come when the
white man of the South will allow the ne
gro to rule him. The solution is the elimi-
nation of the negro from politics. The only
place where the negro is prosperous AMI
happy in the South is in South Carolina,
where he is not allowed to vote
The evening times., 1899-08-14
Perturbation i'm Pretoria.

Rather new aspect is given to the cri-
sis in the Transvaal by this mornings de-
spatches, which seem to show that the
Boer leaders are falling out among them
selves. Members of the Volksraad are
beginning to blame President Kruger for
the present position of affairs, and to say
that they do not want war 1t is also
stated that a distinctly anti-war senti-
ment is developing among the burghers
Nothing will be done by way of answer
to Mr.. Chamberlain's franchise note, until
the arrival at Pretoria of the Bloemfon-
tein ministers and the Boer Junta from
Cape Town, whose joint advice will be re-
ceiyed and perhaps acted on.
The ultimatum contained in the Queens
speech has evidently frightened the Beers
into something approximating a sense of
their real situation. Nevertheless, while
they are badly ratified and hesitatiug be-
tween two stools, their war preparations
go on, railway contract for the mobili-
cation OF volunteers and the transporta-
tion OF artillery having been let
There is a little encouragement for those
who hope for peace in the apparent family
al hIuStI, no OOuDI,
is initially responsible for many of the
things that have led to the present dilemma
in which the South African Republic finds
itself. He has been a most active and
successful promoter of schemes to oppress
and loot the 0utlanders, and, IL he is not
slandered, has always managed to pocket a
handsome share of the resultant plunder
But, in the nature of things he has been
Obliged to accomplish his purposes through
the media OF Sound business methods" and
good politics. which, as We know only too
Well in this country. means dividing with
party leaders, both in and outside of the
legislature. II is beyond much question
that the people who are blaming him now
are the same who have been the benefciar-
les of his practices. Now that IL is plain
10 even the dullest of dull Bosr perceptions
that the game is up. and that no matter
what else happens, England will not here
after tolerate the cold-b -blooded robbery of
its citizens in the Rand, these practical
politicians are under no further obligation
10 back the hand of loom Paul." whom We
do not doubt they have been continually
pressing forward to new and increasingly
dangerous aggressions for mutual profit for
many years past.
Their detection or obstruction may COM
pei pause. Whether it will inlly avert
war is another question. The Yolksraad
is made up of members who do not yet,
and never may. believe that they cannot
save moiety OF their privilege TO pick
Outlanders' pockets. until 1t is too late for
repentance. What is demanded OF them,
they will have to yield. Their only choice
ts between yielding to diplomacy and
The evening times., 1899-08-14
TWO HEARTS IN ONE BODY.
A Physician Surprised by an Ana
tomical Freak.

A Physician Surprised by nm Ana-
tomical Freak.
New York, Aug. 14.-Dr. John II. Law
renee, Of 347 Jay Street, Brooklyn, had
visitor day or so ago who astonished
him. The visitor, the doctor declared, was
a man with two hearts. He was William
King. a negro, eighty years of age, whose
home is in Boston. DR.. Lawrence says
that the case is the most remarkable one
that has ever come to his notice and that
he has never read or heard Of one exactly
like it.
King is staying in this city and called
upon the physician to be treated for some
slight ailment. While the doctor was pre-
scribing for him the aged negro told him
that he had two hearts. Il am not jok-
ing" said King, lust put your ear to
my chest" DR.. Lawrence did as he was
requested, and distinctly heard the beat
ing OF Kings heart on the left side. Then
the negro asked him to put his ear to the
right side. There apparently was another
heart beating as actively as the first one.
Then King, by some peculiar contraction
of his muscles, moved one OF his hearts
down in his body while he held the other
one in its normal place. Finally he re-
versed the positions of the organs. DR..
Lawrence in each case, he says, distinctly
heard the beating OF what he believed to
be Kings two hearts. King told the ply
sician that he had exhibited himself in
museums on several occasions. The doc
tor intends to secure an x-ray picture OF
!"the tWo-hearted man."
The evening times., 1899-08-14
TroubIe Beginnfng i'm France.

Although it cannot be said that there Is
any certainty of revolution In Paris. it
is as plain as pikestaff that the condi-
tions in the French capital are revolu-
tionary in the extreme. The attempted,
and perhaps it may prove successful, as
sassination of Maitre Labori, chief counsel
for Dreyfus, at Rennes yesterday, is as
cribed to a plot to murder the prisoner
and the leading people connected with his
defence. There is little doubt OF the ex-
istence of some such conspiracy, or that
the sudden arrest of revolutionary agita-
tors by the government had direct refer
ence to ii.
1t is both significant and very French
that the officers OF the anti-Semitfc league
have fortified and garrisoned their head
quarters in the Rue de Chabroi, and defy
the police to arrest the president Of the
league for whom warrant is out. That
is challenge to grim old General Gallifet
which he will not be slow in accepting.
The police are, in fact, unable to take the
position, but our latest news is that a
company of infantry will undertake the
task, and then whatever is behind the
curtain in the way of revolution will de-
yelop at once. Indeed ii is not improbable
that before night there may be an emeute
of grave proportions in Paris II not, by
that time the chances are that the authori-
ties will have the anti-Semites, the League
OF Patriots, the Youths Of France, and all
the other absinthine factions-or their
bellwethers, at any rate-under lock and
key.
A crisis OF the most dangerous descrip-
tion has been gathering force for weeks,
and it is fast approaching climax. Amer
leans will appreciate the imminence Of
bloodshed on observing that Count"
Bony Castellane took good care some days
ago to get out Of the country on his wife's
Yacht
The evening times., 1899-08-14
A Severe British Criticism,

There is small section of the English
press which still remains frankly inimical
to the United States, and which always ex-
presses delight, more or less politely,
whenever anything happens or is suggest
ed that seems TO promise trouble for us.
We may say that journals of the type
alluded to are generally such as hear of
Indian atrocities on the Hudson River,
which, they are convinced, flows into Hud-
sons Bay, and always refer to Indiana as
a town in the Indian Territory.
OF these the London Saturday Review
is shining example With decorous glee
it fails to see anything improbable in the
report that South American alliance
against US is contemplated. 1t says:
The United States has absorbed Cuba and
Porto Rico, is hungering for Santo Domingo,
and hopes shortly TO see the English excluded
from orinoco, and their own client, Venezuela,
at Barima Point, Nicaragua is threatened, and
there is every ground for the larger South Amer
lean States to be forearmed. The Americans
though they pose as their protectors, far
from popular among their Latin proteges, and
they have not yet in any sense absorbed the
Texans.
Now, we wonder what kind of people
the Saturday Review" imagines the
Texans to be! And in what sense has
The evening times., 1899-08-14
MovEMENTs OF cRuIsERs.

The North Atiantic Fleet Sails Again
sfor Newport.
The folloTing1 movements of naval yes-
GELS were announced by the Navigation
Bureau today:
The New Orleans arrived at Santo Do
mingo. August 10; Michigan reached Chi
cago yesterday. and the Montgomery sail
ed yesterday sfr4m Montevideo to Rio.
The following movements took place
yesterday: The Essex reached Plymouth;
the Princeton arrived at Shanghai, and
the Machias returned to Santo Domingo
The New York, Massachusetts, Brooklyn.
and Indiana, of the North Atlantic squad
ron. under Admiral Sampson, sailed from
Bar Harbor for Newport. The Alexander
left Norfolk this morning for Lambert's
Point The Badger departed this morning
from San Francisco for Mare Island. Aft
er coaling the Badger will proceed to
Portland to take the Oregon Naval Mill
tia on practice cruise. The Celtic left
sydney for Manila and will stop at Bris-
bane. The Texas has gone to Belfast to
spend the 10th, and will leave there the
next day and join the squadron at New
The evening times., 1899-08-14
PROPOSED STEAMSHIP LINE.
The New Caledonia Council Discusses
the Question of Subsidy.

The New Caledonia Council Discusses
the Question of Subsidy.
The following, dated Noumea, July a.
1899, has been received by the State De-
partments from Commercial Agent Wolf:
At recent meeing of the provincial
council of New Caledonia, the question of
granting subsidy for steamers to run at
regular intervals between Tahiti and Ton
kim via New Zealand and New Caledo-
MIA, was discussed. Propositions from a
French and New Zealand company were
considered. United States trade would be
promoted by steamship service between
San Francisco and Tonkin. via Honolulu.
Tahiti, New Caledonia, and the Philippine
Islands The subsidy asked for by the
steamship company of New Zealand from
the New Caledonian council is 250, 600 francs
(SiS, ,250.) 1t is probable that at least $780,,
600 francs (S2S.950l would be granted by
Tahiti, and 100000 francs 1896. 5000 by the
Government of Tonkin. Four steamers of
1000 tons each, two OF which could be fur
nished by firm of Noumea, would be sutfi-
cient for the service.