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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

July 3. 1t will, of course, be impossi.
BILE to have the interior completed by
that time, but everything will be in APP
ple-pie order for convention purposes.
The stage will have a seating capacity
of 900. and on the arena floor will be
placed chairs for 5000 delegates, alter
mates, state committees and prom
inent party men. On either side and in
front of the stage will be the desks for
600 working newspa per men and ar
fists. For the other thousands who will
attend the convention great tiers o..
temporary seats will be built entirely
around the arena in circus fashion.
Col. Martin is confident that the new
hall will answer every reasonable re-
quirement and will be especially con-
venient as far as committee and retir-
ing rooms are concerned.
The headquarters of the democratic
national committee will be in the mag
nificent house of the Kansas City club,
a non-partisan organization, which
has placed all of its property and APP
purtenances at the disposal of Chair
man Jones and his colleagues. The
various candidates for the vice presi-
Dental nomination will have their
headquarters at the leading hotels.
Kansas City being a municipality OF
little more than 100000 people, fears
were entertained that it would be I'M
able to take care of the thousands OF
visitors who usually follow national
conventions. but assurance has been
given to Col. Martin that no one need
go without good food or comfortab BILE
shelter. The local committee, some
weeks ago. divided the city into IL dis
tricts. and each of these districts is di-
vided into 20 parts; and for each of the
subdivisions precinct captain was APP
pointed for the purpose of ascertaining
how many visitors could be enter
tanned by private families. The result
of this canvass demonstrated beyond
doubt the city's capacity for housing
and feeding more people than ever at
tended a national convention.
G. W. wEIPPIERT.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

HWlttenr ~ A ip ONE goes of t ieS ti Ess.
honored sayings of the
people of this section. The belief pre-
walls that ''only in those months in
which the letter r. is found should
oysters be eaten" Consequently the
oyster season every year begins with
September and ends with April. How
ever, at the seaside resorts oysters are
served at the hotels during the summer
months, but they are taken directly
from the salt water to the table.
With the departure of the oysters we
are accustomed to having crabs and
CLAIMS. Little neck CLANS are at the
top of the bill of fare in all first-class
hotels. We have clam chowder, and
clam broth. and clam patties, hashed
clans and stewed clans, and CLANS in
all styles. TO most people they are
palatable, and also almost indigestible;
that is, to most people in cities. But
by the jewellers along the seashore,
who take a great deal of physical eX-
ercise, they are regarded as an almost
indispensable article of summer diet,
and nobody complains that they are in
digestible.
But all of our people eat crabs, the
soft shell variety being exceptionally
popular. They furnish food to suit the
palate of the most fastdious of cpl
cures, and they are so delicate that
digestion is part of the pleasure of
their consumption. They are usually
served broiled, on toast. The hard
shell crabs are usually boiled, picked,
minced and served as deviled crabs.
The crabs caught and utilized to-day
are comparatively small, very few of
them being more than six inches in
length. If you get one foot long it
is a giant. And yet, in comparatively
modern times, about 2O.O0O,OOO years
ago, they used to attain great size. In
those days frogs used to be six feet
long, bigger than most men, and they
thought nothing of hopping two or
three blocks at single leap.
Calcareous mud covered the entire
continent of North America. once upon
a lime; say about 10000, 900 years ago.
This mud was at the bottom of the
sea. and when the mountain ranges
of the cast and west were volcanically
upheaved the muddy sea bottom be-
came dry land. There is an average of
$1,000 feet of thickness of the sea bot
tom deposits on this continent. The
lowest and oldest layer was the cal
careous mud, in which certain animals
were embedded as the hardening proc
ess went on. Consequently the scien-
fists of to-day find those animals her
metically sealed in the rocky layer
which was once muddy sea bottom.
In the Smithsonian institution there |
are many specimens of these ancestors
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

be 800 doorkeepere. 1900 assistant ser.
geants-at-arms, 500 ushers, $50 pages,
eco messengers and eco janitors and
housecleaners. The Philadelphia city
government will, in addition. furnish
500 police officers to assist in preserv-
ing order without and within the build
ing.
The supplying of badges is another
onerous task incumbent upon the SER
geant-at-arms. According 70 Mr.. Wis
well the delegates and alternates'
badges of this year are things Of
beauty. They are medals, on one side
of which there appear the profiles of
Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley. On tho
other side is engraved the Liberty hell
and independence hall. The medals
will be suspended by broad ribbon
from pin attached to the coat. The
badges of the employees will be quite
plain and inexpensive. Admission to
the convention hall will be by ticket
only, whether the person be delegate,
guest or employee. This ruling necessi-
tated the printing of an enormous
quantity of tickets, delicate duty to
which Mr.. Wiswell gave his personal
attention.
Col. John l. Martin, of St. Louis, will
be sergeant-at-arms of the national
democratic convention which is called
to convene at Kansas City, Mo-, July
A. The colonel is an experienced hand
at managing big gatherings, having
served as sergeant-at-arms for num-
Der of state conventions and for the
democratic convention of 1896. He be-
gan his labors before February and
had made considerable progress to-
ward getting the big construction hall
in order for the nations democracy
when the fire of April destroyed the
building completely. For a day or
two it looked as though the convention
would have to be held elsewhere, but,
with characteristic western enterprise,
the people of Kansas City concluded to
rebuild the hall in bigger, better and
handsomer fashion, and assured Col.
Martin that it should be finished by
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

the deep. The largest lobster found in
recent years weighed IS pounds, and
its skeleton has been preserved. II
is very ugly looking beast, and
would have been able to clasp a
mans body in one of it's claws and
crush it in two. The claws of the
average sized crab of to-day are
sharp enough and strong enough to
bite off your fingers.
Along the Atlantic coast the bust
ness of catching crabs and Holsters
has increased during the past 25
years to such an extent that almost
all of the big ones have been taken
and eaten. But there are specimens
here from the Pacific coasts of Asia
which are of enormous size. There
is one preserved Japanese crab which
has II spread of IL feet with his
claws. That fellow could have taken
two men, in the water, and killed
them at once. So long as those fell
lows are in those waters, it is fair
to presume that the japanese ladies
and gentlemen will not disport them
selves in the surf, as hundreds of thou
sands of our people do at the famous
coast resorts of this country.
In four gallon jar, tightly slowed
away, there is what is called cocoa
nut crab. This fellow, with his
was in the habit of going
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

larged to accommodate 10000 dele
gates and visitors. Desks and seats in
abundance had to be rented, telegraph
instruments and telephones installed,
and provision made for GOO newspaper
correspondents and artists. IN addi-
ton, Mr.. Wiswell is responsible for all
the funds collected for convention pur-
poses, including 100000 subscribed by
the city of Philadelphia.
A week or more before the conven-
ton assemblies, the sergeant-at-arms
has to be oil hand to instruct deputies
in their respective duties. Upon his
aides will fall the responsibility of Sc
Letting the lesser employees, but should
any Of them fail to perform their du-
ties the blame will be laid at the chiefs
door. To handle the crowds at Phil
adelphia will require two shifts Of as
sistants, one for the day, the other for
the night sessions. the total number
forming good-sized army. There will
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

The Golden Rule In Texas.
When men learn to do unto others as they
would have others do unto them, horse trad
ing will have become one of the lost arts
Galveston News.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

Kansas City voters defeated "a can
didate for the school board because
he smoked cigarettes.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
rs NOT A SINECURE.
What It Means to Manage a Big
Political Gathering.
The Philadelphia and Kansas City
COnventiOnS-Duties That Have
to Be Performed by the Ser
geant-at-Arms.
Especial Carrespondence.l
4 AING arrangements for a big
political convention is not

M political convention is not
child's play. 1t requires exec
utive ability of the highest order and
the exercise of unlimited patience anG
gracious courtesy. For these and other
reasons it is sometimes difficult for the
national committees of the two great
parties to find the right men to whom
may be safely intrusted the manage
ment of their conventions. The gener-
al impression that the chairman and
secretary of the national committee
are in charge of the convention is err
roneous. This duty devolves upon the
sergeant-at-arms, an official who Is
chosen by the national committee as
soon as the location of the convention
has been decided upon.
The sergeant-at-arms has sometimes
been called the general business man
ager of convention, and the title is
not as exaggerated as it might seem.
He is responsible for the proper ar
rangement of the convention hall, pro-
vides accommodations for delegates
and distinguished visitors, secures re-
duced fares for the public from rail-
road and steamship companies, at
tends to the demands of the press, has
absolute control over admissions and
doors, to say nothing of the ticklish
privilege of appointing about so as
sistants out of an army of perhaps
] 900, the claims of each one of whom is
urged by some prominent politician.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

ashore. climbing cocaoanut trees,
tearing off the outer husks with his
tremendous claws, then knocking in
the shell at one of the eyes, and
drinking the milk. Then it would
crush the shell and scoop out the
meat. it has long pair of pinchers.
created manifestly for this very pur
pose. The cocoanut crabs inhabit
the waters and islands of the Indian
ocean. They pick the fibers of cocoa
nuts and make beds for themselves.
Almost all crabs are fighting an
irlals, ready for battle at all times,
and with all kinds of sea dwellers.
But there are varieties which will not
fight if they can avoid it, and nature
has provided them with Quaker hab-
it's so that they can avoid trouble. One
specimen looks as though it was COW
cred with whitish moss, which is
something part animal and part vege-
table. Another kind is covered with
growing sponge, all but its eyes and
the tips of its claws. So covered, the
crab hides in crevices where sponge
is growing. and he becomes as much
like the sponge as he can. There is
a California crab who has beautiful
snutf box beneath his body, for car
rying eggs. This box closes with a
snap, exactly like a manufactured
snuff box.
THE messmate" is a little bit of
crab which is usually found inside of
the shell of an oyster. Epcures re-
gard these as great delicacies. The |
men of knowledge who study these
and all other crabs say that the |
"messmate" does not feed upon the |
oyster, but simply makes its home in |
the oysters shell, and eats a part of |
whatever the oyster finds to eat. Oy- |
sters have been appropriately termed |
by some good people as the "scaven-
gers of the sea-" and on that ac-
count they will not eat oysters. These |
little "messmates" are similar scav-
engers.
Cows Chew the cud" and are called |
Illuminating animals. In one respect
crabs are like unto them. They have
ten legs. eight pairs of jaws. a heart
in the middle of the back and teeth
in the stomach. With his jaws the
crab catches and kills his food. and di.
gests it while chewing it in the stom-
ach. Originally crabs had tails, but
they have learned to dispense with
caudal appendages by evolutions
which have required centurines.
In order to keep pace with the de-
mand, thousands of men have for
many years made crab and lobster
catching "A regular business Their
success has been so great that the
Atlantic coast has been drcdged and
trapped almost to depletion. For the
past II years the fish commission has
been artificially Matching and plant
ing along the coast countless millions
of little fellows; and majority of
them are gohbled down by varieties
of fish having tastes as epicurean as
that of man. Besides. the little fell
lows are cannibal-like. and will kill
each other off. the stronger feeding
upon the weaker. Ii fakes a year or
two for young crabs TO attain sufIi-
cient size and strength to defend
themselves OF hide away from their
enemies. Hence the fish commission
IS confronted with difficulties which
are disheartening. SMITH d. FRY.
Kansas City voters defeated can
Iidate for the school board because
..rsr.l-s.I
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
TALK ABOUT CRABS.
They Have Longer Pedigree Than
Any Other Creature.
Once They Used to Eat Everything
That Came Within Reach of
Their Claws, Now They Are
Hunted to he Eaten.
Especial Washington letter.

CCVII1TH April goes the oys-
w ter" is one of the time
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
His Atmosphere.

"Ah, yes" sighed the girl, he
works in an atmosphere of art"
Il should think from the smell Of
his Clothes" her mother answered,
that he works in an atmosphere of
tobacco smoke."-Chicago Times-Her-
aid
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

Wife-rm tired to death. Been hav-
ing the baby's picture taken by the
instantaneous process.
Husband-How long did il take?
Wife-About four hours.-N. Y.
Weekly.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
The
Pinkhan1
Remedies

For disorders of the
feminine organs have
gained their great s'en0WB
and enormous sale be-
cause of tho permanent
good they have done and
are doing for the women
of this country
F all aifisg or suffer-
Ina women could be made
to understand how alb
s0IufeIy true are the
statements about L Lydia e.
PinkhaHs's Vegetable
Compound, their suffer-
ings would end.
Mrs. PinklhaSs1 c0sxnseIS
women free of charge.
Her address is Lynn,
Mass. The advice she
gives is practical and
honest. You can write
freely to herr she Is a w0-
man.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
Compact Apnrtment..

Stubb-Is Mr.. Winters fiat small7
Penn-SmGll? Why, every time one
Of his children wants TO sneeze they
have to rush out in the hsllway.-Chi-
cago Daily NewA
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
lirno's Tough Characters.

According to The following from the
Journal, Reno is infested with n class
of mch That should be given a short
Shirt out OF the world. Such char
acters are n disgrace to humanity:
y delegation Of solid citizens Of Re.
no called ut tho Office Of the journal
last evening. 1hoy had a vigorous
kick coming. Read the article and
SEQ il you car blame them:
Our city is at present infested with
half Il score or possibly one OF two
less, Of moral lepers. The fellows in
question dress we'll, il somewhat
Hastily. They came unnnnounced
and without recommendation. A lit
tie hobnobing with come Of the boys
and they were 500 introduced into
the social world. Tho advantage was
followed up, and now these eight or
ten Objectionable persons know md
are known by Il host Of young ladies
OF good character aud refinement.
They attend p~artice mud enjoy drives
and promcnadc8 with them.
When our young heroes find their
pocket money running low they have
no difficulty in replenishing it, It
Requires merely n visit 10 tho tender.
loin, where tho women who accom-.
pany them and who paid their faro to
Reno, sell their bodice aud their souls
that the young ladies Of tho upper
world may have neatly dressed gal.
lania.
This 10 Il pretty dirk picture TO look
Mt isn't itH But there 10 another OF
even more sOmber coloring, TO be
seen:
Tho nilOr.mado touts md b%ruiscrs
hayc in several instances gained tho
confidence OF their ucqunintanccs TO
tho extent that wiue suppers md
cumming parties OF two arc next In
order.
Then IN tile laudanum bottle.
Some morning VIC hope to SEQ That
tho iron bridge has been used again
MS u means OF crossing tho river-tho
river from whose farther shore the
betrayed OF the weak and conlldiDR
mover return.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
Killed ISy tho Cars.

Coroner Morgan returned from
Fenlon last night, where he had been
10 hold an inquest on tho remains of
a man found dead by the side OF the
railroad track early Thursday morn
ing. From him We learn that the re-.
mains were found about 3 o'clock
Thursday morning by an Italian acc
ton man who had been sent along
the trac6 to look after a broken rail.
The man had been run over by the
cars and his body cut in two, the legs
and hips being found about fifty
yards west OF where the remainder
OF the body was lying. Tho decensed
was dressed in n soldiers uniform aud
appeared to be 90 or 81 years old. He
had no beard. a memorandum book
was found in his pocket from which
it appears he had been in Loyelock,
rs Bert Mc1ntosh's name appeared in
the book. As near rs it could be as
certained the name Of the deceased
was Charles Asseline. The only evi.
dence adduced ut the inquest was the
finding OF the body. The verdict Of
the jury was that the remains were
those OF Charles Asseline, aged 20 or
OF q years and that he was killed by
the cars. Coroner Morgan has writ.
ten Bert Mcintosh Mt Lvvelock and
hopes to learn something further ro-
garding the dead man.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
500 Reward 500.

The readers Of this paper will he
pleased TO learn hat there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages
md that Is Caiarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure il the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease. re-
quircs n constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
nnlly. acting directly upon tho blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system
thereby destroying the foundation OF
tho disease. and giving the patient
strength 10y building up the cOnstitu-
ton aud assisting MIXTURE IN doing its
work. Tho proprictOrs have so much
faith IN it's curative powers. that they
offer Ono Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails TO cure. Send for
list OF testimonials.
L. j. CHENEY & CO. Props..
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold 10y Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are tho best.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
British Losses.

According to q report issued by tho
Britiph War Olico on the 10Th, tho
total British casualties in Soutl,
Africa up to April 7th wcrc Killed
in action. I'll officers and 1890 men;
died Of wounds. 80 officers md iG5
incn; missing md prisoners, iG3 Ollie.
crs md 3,725 mon; died Of disease, ~
officers and 1876 men, accidental
deaths, , officers and 81 mon; ropat.
rated involids. 2SS officers mud 1891
men. Total 1886, exclusive Of the
sick and wounded now in hospitals.
To tho War ONCE returns Of cas.
ualtics must be nddcd the losses OF
the last week md the wounded, ag.
grogatmg about 10000 men, making
n grand total Of upwards $4,000 onlc-
era and mon pat out Of action.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
Beef n Scarce Article.

An Idaho beef buyer tells a pcndle.
ton reporter That he In unable TO 80
cure my cattle in that part OF Ore.
gon. "No matter what price is offer.
ed" h" said. "atockmcn shake thor
heads and refuse To sell. IA nearly
ma | n judge. tho bulk of stock in
condition for beef was mostly bought
up here lust iall. There appears Ia
bc plenty OF range stock, but III my
opinion. from tho chances | have Of
observing the conditions, beef IN Il
very scarce article. Then the stock.
mon have been put 10 comparatively
little expense in wintcrinR, tho ma.
jority not having TO feed Mt all, con.
e%cqucntly they arc in n position ia
hold for later markets aud they car
we'll afford to take tho chance"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13
tFROM FRIDAYS DAILY.J
SALNIAGUSDI,
Good Friday.

Good Friday.
a big hail storm this afternoon.
Henley and Ossie Miller are down
with the grippe.
MIR. Fitzgerald returned from Reno
this morning.
\ glorious storm OF rain and snow
visited this section last night.
One-half interest in foreign patents
on school desk attachment for sale.
Address Nesse and Loring, Elko
Nevada. y
The editor OF the INDEPENDENT
will leave for Reno tonight to attend
the meeting Of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
Tho Sierra Photo Co. will leave
here on the first OF April. Those
wanting work in their line should
call before that time. y
Mrs. Ellie Campbell has bought
Mrs. Henley's store and stock OF
goods. Mrs. Henley las something
to say to the people elsewhere.
To sccure the original witch hazel
salve, ask for DeWitt'sW Witch Hazel
Salye, well known rs q certain cure
for piles and skin diseases. Beware
OF worthless counterfeits. They are
dangerous. Elko Drug Co.
In the list OF Census Enumerators
for Elko county appears the name Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Stinson OF Eureka.
Will Mr.Tremont tell us why this lady
il given preference over applicants
from this county.
n. p. Guldagger. at Jones' old
stand, is prepared To do blacksmith.
ing in ali OF it's branches at m to
SUIT the times. Horse shoeing and
wagon work a specially. All work
guaranteed. Take your work to Mr..
Guldagger's shop IL you wnnt II done
we'll and Mt reasonable prices. =
W. f. Aull arrived last night from
Lexington, Missouri, OH n visit TO his
uncle, j. NJ. Matter. This is Mr..
Aulrs first trip TO Nevada and no is
a~grocably surprised ut the enterprise
OF tho people. lilo snys everything is
up to date.
Charley Keith will count tho peo.
pie in Elko, Carlin, Lamoille
and Pleasant vullnys; Hurry Mayer in
Huntington, Mound, Railroad md
South Fork; Mrs. Stinson in Ruby,
North Ruby. S]prucemont aud Butte
Valley: John s. Winter in Bryan,
Columbia. Island Mountain, Mount.
ain aud White Rock; Mrs. Petty in
Glover valley, O'Ncils, Salmon River
md Wells; Jos. @. Z. Stephens in
Camp llallock, lIallock. Mardis, Starr
valley and all tho raucl,ee cast OF
Starr valley, between Starr and
Wells; A. L. Snyder, in Jack Crook,
North Fork, puscarora and Wei.
land'e; John G. Brogan in Tccoma
and Touno.
Wm.Orr. Nowa5k,O o. ,says."Wo never
feel safo without Ono Minute Cough
Cure in tho house. 1t saved my littlo
boys lie when no had the pneu
!nonia. We think Il is tho best med.
icino made" 1t curer coughe and
all lung disensso. Pleasant TO take.
harmless and givos immediate results.
Elko Drug Company.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-04-13

DR.. L. A. Birch, n graduate ego
specialist has located in Elko for a
few months. He has an office nc tho
Alexander building, where no will DO
pleased to examine the eyes Of ell
who may call, FREQ OF charge. 10
Will also visit residences and examine
oycs without expense and will not
ask you to purchase glasses. Ite will
examine your eyes aud toll you the
condition OF tbom and what you
need and leave the rest to you.
TholsDErESDEST has no hesitation
III recommending DR.. Birtch to- all
who need his services. lilo thorough.
ly understands his business and guar.
antces his work.