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Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-11-08
BRIEF ITEMS OF
TOWN AND STATE

today.
w. S. Bacon has returned from
Montana.
Mrs. Tom Smith is visiting in Win
nemucca.
Ralph dollhouse was in from Fallon
Wednesday.
Mining location blanks at the Dis
PATCH office.
Constable Golding has returned from
San Francisco.
E. Grlswold will return TO San Fran
cisco tomorrow night.
Dave and Mamie Sanford of Still
water spent yesterday here.
Pyramid district. Washoe county.
employs about twenty miners.
A. R. Jeffrey and wife were among
Wednesdays visitors from Churchill
Herbert Austin and sister, Miss Jes-
sic, were visiting relatives here this
week.
DR.. w. L. Kistler returned from
Valleys Hot Springs considerable i'm
proved.
The fare from Reno to Sodaville by
roll is $l3.o5 and from Sodaville to
Tonopah So.
For SALE-A few pure blood
Plymouth Rock cockerels.
A. H. GRIswoLD.
T. V. Julien is quite i'll, He will
probably be taken to California and
placed in santarium
Ben Douglas spent few days in
town this week. He took fine new
carriage home with him.
In the District Court at Reno Judge
Jones handed down decision that irri-
CATION bitches are taxable property.
i With the Nevada fair four thousand
dollars behind and the Buffalo fair four
million behind st. Louis has cause to
hesitate.
DR.. E. A. Jackman returned from
Reno yesterday where he was the ex-
pert witness in the case Of Taylor VS..
MOO. Ry. Co.
A marriage license has been granted
10 Joseph E. Thornton Of Unionvllle
and Miss Lulu Brown Of Boyer,
N Churchill county.
Mrs. Holman wishes to announce to
the ladies' of Wadsworth that she will
do all kinds Of plain sewing. Call at
Hodge residence.
Fl The Reno schools will be closed dur
ing institute week in order that the
teachers may attend the county instl-
'ute at Wadsworth.
The Ladies Aid Aid Society will
Fesent the festival Of the seasons about
December 9th. Further announcement
Will be made later.
Joe Hill of Lovelock, J. H. Crum
and Bob Blossom of Battle Mountain,
each sold a carload Of mules last week
which were shipped TO Tennessee.
lhe Wadsworth Light g. Power Co.
u'S week paid their Indian laborers
VOW This money all stays in town.
u's oil trust would get It on kerosine.
henry Ritter will go into the manu-
'e'ure Of pig iron which will furnish
N0'ler industry for Reno, the Journal
'|S- We would sooner bank on Hen
- lat man who has bought lot OF
VIC lard down the canyon and is going
"0 the manufacture Of pigs.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-11-08
Kings Daughters Meeting.

The next Circle meeting Of the
Kings Daughters will be on November
18th BESSIE LINTON; President
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HER HEART WAS TOUCHED.
A South Dakota Mother and Her Lite
tie Girl Express Their Craft
tude In an Open Letter.

Folsom, Custer Co., South Dakota,
Dec. 81, 1900 (Specia).-Mrs. II. ID.
Hyde has given for publication letter
expressing her unbounded gratitude
to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double
cure of herself and little daughter.
Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with
pains in her heart for over three years,
and for long time her little girl suf-
fered from weak kidneys. The CRATE
full lady does not seem able to find
words strong enough to express her
gratitude. She has written the follow.
ing:
1 cannot say too much in praise Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the
greatest kidney and heart medicine !
ever used. had been troubled for over
three years with a severe pain in my
heart, which entirely disappeared after
had taken few doses of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. also gave them to my little
gin. whose kidneys had been weak.
and sho commenced to improve from
the very FIRST dose. Dodd's Kidney
Pills are eertainly a wonderful medi-
cine. I Would be pleased to have this,
my statement, published, as feel it
my duty to let others know just what
the Pills will do for them.
: MRS. n. d. HYDE.
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure. Soc.
q box. An dealers.
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500 reward 800.

The readers of this paper viii be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires q
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 cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials.
Address F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold, by Druggists, Csc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE LETTER.

There is a magic in the refreshing
sleep of youth calculated to exercise
the megrims. When Sprague. arising
after a good nights rest, found the
world bathed in the sunshine of
crisp January day, he felt the physical
pleasure of living which comes from
supple muscles, from the coursing of
generous blood through the veins,
from the cravings of healthy appe-
tite.
He remembered the ''blue devils" of
the day before, and found it difficult to
account for them. He was in love, GER
tainly. But that In itself did not fur
nish q sufficient reason for desponden-
cy. It was rumored that the object OF
his affections was on the eve OF be-
trothal to another. But what depend
ence can be placed upon a public ru-
NOR? AS q matter of fact Miss Muir
dock wore no rings; in the absence OF
the badge of the betrothed woman,
was, he not justified in believing her
fancy free?
In that case, there was fair field
and no favor Why should not he have
as rood a chance of winning the prize
as another man? No man, Of course,
was worthy Of Agnes Murdoch. That
was the fnndaMenta1 axiom. But IN
love success does not perch only upon
the banner Of the worthy. Hitdid, the
human race would soon become ex-
tinct
So the young mans thoughts ran on,
while hope once more found . resting
Mace IN his heart.
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Chatham. who was growing more ana

Chatham. who was growing more ana
more excited. brought 4down his
clenched fist upon a table p&4r which he
stood, and with an evident effort re-
pressed the oath which roseEo his lips.
Miss Murdoch. startled and G wildered.
observed him in speeches assessment.
After momentaty strug&se, the ac-
countant suddenly broke fo1th in pite-
Gus pleading:
81 don't ask much now. Tell me only
one thing and shall go away content
for the present. Say that no other man
has any better chance with you than I
have. Say that you do not love anyone
else"
The young girl tried hard to avoid
his ardent gaze.
"Say it'll" he commanded, in sudden
sternness.
Agnes drew herself up proudly then.
Il don't know by what right you pre-
sumo to catechise or to command me-"
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she said, coldly, at the same time max;
ing a motion as if to touch the button
of the electric bell.
Chatham saw the motion and sprang
before her to intercept it.
"Ah! that is the way of it, is it ?" he
exclaimed, with passionate jealousy.
you are-in love-with another mani"
The words seemed to choke him in
the utterance. The blood rushed to his
head; the veins on his temples stood
out in purple vividness, and, as he
clutched spasmodically at his collar, a
wild light came into his eyes.
Agnes caught their mad glitter and
shrank back in sudden terror.
81 have been duped!" he shouted.
frantically. 81 have been a cat's-paw,
and now that have done all that was
wanted of me I am to be turned off
like dog, with kick. The dirty work
is done, is it? Well see about that;
we'll see what your father has to say.
But, at any rate, you can be sure of one
thing"
His voice sank to q hoarse whisper
and the words fell with impressive dis
tinctness:
eff 1 don't marry you, no one ever
shall!"
AS he spoke he leaned forward upon
the table which stood near him, and
his fingers closed nervously upon the
handle of jeweled paper knife. There
was murder in his eye'at that moment,
and the frightened girl quailed be-
fore it.
Suddenly her ear caught the sound of
footsteps in the hallway. She opened
her lips to cal. for help. but before she
could utter sound the door opened, re-
vealing the anxious face of the house.
maid, who had heard enough to realize
that it was time to interrupt the tete-
a-tete without further ceremony.
''Mr. Sprague, MISS" she an
nounced, with. a comforting nod at her
young mistress, whose pale face and
frightened eyes had not escaped her at
tention.
Sprague stood on the threshold in
evident embarrassment, looking from
Agnes to Chatham, and uncertain how
to act.
81 fear I am intruding, Miss MUIR
DOCK" he said at last; your maid
told me she thought you could re-
ceive me. Perhaps would better call
again"
mo, no, Mr.. Sprague," replied the
young girl, effusively, coming toward
him with outstretched hands,; 81 am
SO glad to see you." And then, observ-
ing his inquiring glance toward
Chatham, II think" she added, cold
~, ''that this gentleman has said all
that he has to say to me-"
Chatham's excitement had subsidized;
in the reaction, he seemed ILL and
weak and he nervously clenched his
tremulous right hand.
81 will wait to see DR.. Murdoch"
he said, doggedly, in a low voice.
"As you please" replied Agnes, aft
er slight hesitation. "Mary. show
Mr.. Chatham to the doctors study"
As the accountant followed the serv-
ant from the room, blank despair was
stamped in every feature, and it
seemed to Sprague, as the door closed,
that he heard something like aeon
vulsive sob.
ITO Be Continued.1
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my son." said the selfish parent.
"you take after your father" And he
helped himself first to the provender
which the free lunch man had
thoughtfully provided-Philadelphis
North American. =
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CHAPTER xIII.-CoNr1NuEn.

CHAPTER XII.-CoNrNUEp.
II asked to see DR.. Henderson" he
continued, "at which the sleepy clerk
stared at me in open-mouthed amaze
ment. DIR. Henderson was not IN; it
was quite uncertain when he would
be in. Indeed, as far as was able
10 Judge, DIR. Henderson appears to be
q rather mysterious parsonage. No
one knows much about him. Even his
clerk admits that he has seen him
only once or twice in the 10 months
during which he has had charge of
the Office. The doctor attends to the
manufacturing part of the business
himself; his laboratory, which is
down in the cellar, is q most jealousy
guarded place. No one is ever adj
mitted to it under any pretext. He is
evidently afraid that some one may
discover the secret Of his valuable
remedies"
= "You say that as if your words were
meant to convey some unexpressed
meaning" said Dunlap, studying the
reporters face.
: NO." Sturgis answered, thought
fully, "but I am trying to attach
some Interior significance to the
facts. There is certainly something
mysterious about DR.. Henderson and
the Manhattan Chemical company;
but whether the mystery is legitimate
or not, and if not, whether it is in any
way connected with the Arbogast
case, is more than I am at present
able to determine"
After short pause he continued:
when found that there was no
chance of seeing DR.. Henderson him
self, 1 inquired at a venture for the
manager. For an instant puzzled
look lent expression to the otherwise
vacuous features of the young man.
Then sudden inspiration seemed to
come to him. OH! ali! yes he ex-
claimed, you mean Mr.. Smith Yes
said I, catching at a straw. We'll, but
Mr.. Smith is not in, either offered
to wait for Mr.. Smith, and started to-
ward the door of the private office in
the rear, because it bore in prominent
letters the inscription: NO ADMIT
TANCE.' 1 had turned the knob be-
fore the clerk could stop me; but the
door was locked. Mr.. Smith, it seems.
comes to the Office only once week to
receive the clerks report and to pay
him his salary. tried to make spe
cial appointment to meet Mr.. Smith, on
the plea of important business. I left
a fictitious name and address SO that
Mr.. Smiths answer might be sent to
me. That was all was able to do for
the time being; but thought it worth
while to keep an eye open on the Man
haitian Chemical company; so have
engaged private detectives to watch it
for me night and day until further no
tice. And there the matter stands"
Dunlap rose YEARLY from his chair.
He looked anxious and careworn.
''Mr. Sturgis," he said, eff you can
find any part of that $250,000, good
share of whatever you can recover
for the bank is yours"
The reporter flushed and bit his lip;
but he answered quietly:
"You mistake me for detective. Mr..
Dunlap; 1 am only a reporter. shall
be paid by the Tempest for any work I
may do on this case. You would bet
ter offer your reward to the police"
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Little Left to stand On.

the Gulf stream is myth. If science con-
tinues its devastating way we shall soon
have nothing left to cling to but esoteric
Buddhism and the significance of cat tracks.
IN. Y. Press.
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When a visitor announces that he is only
stopping over between trains, his host at
once becomes more ~cordial.-Atchison
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The average girl thinks that getting a
letter with sealing wax stamp and. an in
itial on it, is next to getting letter bearing
q coatsof-arms.-Atchison Globe.
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The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is q bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
iCHiLL Tonic. tits simply iron and euininein
u tasteless form. No cure mo pay. Price, SOC.
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Courtesy is a duty public servants owe tc
the humblest member of pubic.-Lord Lyt
ton. a-t
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Miss Newrich-"I know nothing about
the world" Mrs. Chaperon-"That is inn
material. Does the world know anything
about you?"-Indianapoli News.
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\ Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
psed for all affections of the throat and
Nungs-Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind
Feb. 10, 1900.
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ger? It was about half a mile to the
nearest district messenger Office. The
Murdocks' house was not much further.
Why not deliver the letter himself?
Why not. indeed? The human heart
has unfathomable depths. Why should
a hopeless lover pine for mere sight
of the woman whose presence only adds
to his misery? Explain that who can.
Sprague carefully placed the letter
in his breast pocket and started of
again, this time directing his steps
toward the Murdocks' home.
CHAPTER XIV.
TWO LOVERS.
Miss Murdoch was seated at the piano
in the drawing-room. her shapely I'm
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Tour OF Puerto Rico.


Tess-"Jack tried to kiss me last night"
JessE"Indeed? Of course you resisted"
Tess" Certainly; every time."-PhIa-
delphia Press
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The powers showed disposition to for.
give China in return for certain commercial
concessions. - That Is to say" observed
Chix, sagely, "the open door lets me out!"
Detroit Journal.
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1t the Door-"Hey, little boy, I'll give
you ten cents to shovel off the snow" On
the Sidewalk-"Ye will, will ye?. An wot'n
yer gimme not ter swipe ye wild snow
ball "-Indianapolis News.
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-FOUR OF AL.L MExIco

in Pullman's finest Compartment Drawing
Room, Library, Observation and Dining
Cars-all Vestibuled-with the celebrated
Open Top Car "Chililtli" for Observation in
the Mountains and Canons and Dining Car
in the Tropics.
"A delightful trip of 80 days with Three.
Circle Tours in the Tropics of the South of
Mexico and Visit to the Ruined Cities.
All exclusive features of these itineraries
of leisurely travel and long stopslThe Spe-
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Chicago.
Tour OF Puerto Rico.
Special Pullman Cars leave Chicago Thurs
day, January II, and Thursday, February Il,
at $50 a. M, conneatlng with the splendid
new steamships Pence and San Juan. sailing
from New FORK the second day following.
Individual Tickets sold for other sailing
dates, alternate Saturdays.
Tickets Include All Expenses Every.
where.
These select limited parties will be under
the special escort and management of The
American Tourist Association. Reau Camp
bell, General Manager, 1923 Marquette
Building, Chicago.
itineraries, Maps and Tickets can be had
on application to Agents of the Chicago,
Milwaukee St. Paul R'y.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-04

Roehr, providing for constitutional
amendment permitting the legislature
to pass general banking law, passed
without opposition.
In the assembly a bill was passed
which provides that when prisoners
escape, when re-captured, the time
they are away from prison shall not
be counted as part of their term of
sentence The bill raising the penalty
for stated felonies from five to twenty
years in prison was also passed. The
Thomas bill, providing for two more
dairy and food inspectors at $1,000 a
year each was opposed by Mr.. Dodge
as a needless extravaganza. Final ac-
ton on it was deferred. The Stevens
bill forbidding unlicensed persons to
hawk drugs around was killed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-04

| Hercules. The most recent inVesti-
cations of Newcomb, published only
few months ago, have, on the whole,
verified HerscheFs conclusions. Later
investigators have increased the pre-
cision of our knowledge. until we can
now say that the present direction of
the solar motion is known within very
narrow limits. A tiny circle might be
drawn on the sky, to which an astron-
omer might point his hand and say:
Yonder little circle contains the goal
toward which the sun and planets are
Fastening today. Even the speed of
this motion has been subjected to
measurement and found to be about
ten miles per second
The objective point and the rate of
motion thus stated exact science holds
her peace. Here genuine knowledge
stops, and we can proceed farther only
by the aid of that imagination which
men of science need to curb at every
moment
But let no one think that the sun
will ever reach the so-called apex. To
do so would mean cosm1c motion on a
straight line, while every considera-
ton of celestial mechanics points to
motion on a curve. When shall we
turn sufficiently upon that curve to de-
tect it's bending? 1t is a problem that
we must leave as rich heritage to
generations that are to follow us. The
visionary theorists notion of a great
central sun, controlling our own suns
way in space, must be dismissed as
far too daring. But for such central
sun we may substitute central center
of gravity, belonging to great system
of which our sun is but an insignif-
cant member. Then we reach a con-
ception that has lost nothing in the
grandeur of it's simplicity and is yet in
accord with the probabilities OF sober
mechanical science. We cease to be
lonely world and stretch out the
bonds of common relationship to
yonder stars within the armament
Popular Science Monthly.
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DESTINATION OF THE SUN.
Point Toward Which 1t and the Plan
cts are Moving.


More than century ago Sir Will
liam Herschel was able to fix roughly
what we call the apex of the suns
way in space, or the point among the
stars toward which that way is di-
rected Herschel found that COM
parison of old stellar observations
seemed to indicate that the stars in a
certain part of the sky were opening
out, as it were, and that the constel-
lations in the opposite part of the
heavens seemed to be drawing in, or
becoming smaller. There can be but
one reasonable explanation of this.
We must be moving toward that part
of the sky where the stars are separat-
ing Just so a man watching a reg
iment of soldiers approaching will see
at first only confused body of men.
But as they come nearer the individual
soldiers will seem to separate, until
at length each one is seen distinct
from all the others.
Herschel fixed the position of the
apex at point in the constellation
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-04
THOUGHT 1T A BUNko GAME.
Tom Nolan Was Suspicious About the

Tom Nolan Was Suspicious About the
Kansas City Convention.
Counselor Nolan, one of the most
picturesque characters of this city,
who is thought to be dying from pa
ralysis in ST. Francis hospital, is
| unique even in that weird organiza-
| ton, Tammany hail. To every Tam
many politician, lawyer and man
about town Nolan is known as the
Irish barrister." He has always
been noted for his wit. quaint retOrts
and dignifed absurdity.
He received his legal training in
| Ireland. and when he came here
score of years ago he endeavored to
adapt his Irish ideas to America and
the result was amusing. He got a
minor place in the corporation coun-
sells office in 1898. It is reported that
the following conversation took place
between him and Richard Croker.
Nolan had applied for a $1,000 place.
Mr.. Croker said:
Tom, the best can give you is a
| 81 200 place.
"Shure," said Nolan, 81 heard that
you were goin' to offer me thot measly
place, and me frinds advise ne not to
accept it."
well, 'Tom,'" said Mr. Croker, sI
am sorry that you feel that way about
it.
Here Nolan broke in emphatically
and said
"But l am not going to take me
frinds' advice"
Nolan is exceedingly tall, ample of
girth, impressive of countenance and
always arrayed in the most bewilder-
ing manner. His favorite dress was a
long frock coat, low-cut waistcoat,
huge gold anchors in his shirt, tan
shoes, rusty silk hat and high col
lar and white lawn necktie. His
voice was deep and resonant and his
brogue broad. The counselor" was
most happy when denouncing Great
Britain with cyclonic force. He often
quoted the classics, but with inaccu-
rate and mixed metaphor. His audi
ence, as rule, however. knew moth
ing of the classics and he "got away
with it." to use a Tammany express
sion.
Nolan attended the Kansas City
convention. He sat down in the head
quarters of the New York delegation,
mopped his brow and said:
'Be heavens, believe have been
bunkoed. I could have twice as much
fun at Coney Island for half the
money"
John Whalen once took him to task
sharply about something and Nolan
retorted, with whitening scorn, II met
some frinds of your late lamented
father last noight and they tell me he
was foine man." with an accent on
she"
No one ever saw Nolan rufled,
whatever his provocation. He was in
court one day to argue case after he
had eaten not wisely but too well with
the opposing counsel, who also
showed it's effects. The judge raped
sharply with his gavel after one
glance at them and announced:
This case is portponed until tomor-
row. Neither of the counsel is in con-
dition to argue it."
Nolan rose, shook himself, and, bow
ing low, said:
'Your honor, | have known you
twenty years beyond the bench and
want to say this is the first correct de-
cision I've ever known you to give. -
New York Tribune.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-04

After a hard struggle the Kansas
Legislature has decided that five
cents is a sufficient charge for shin
ing . pair of shoes. This has been
fixed as the maximum price for the
representative hall shoe shining
stand. The democrats and populists
wanted maximum fee of 10 cents,
but the republicans outvoted them in
the cause of economy.