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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28

Three years ago Joseph Plante was in
Carson City. While here he met a
friend who told him his mother was
dead, says the Carson News.
Naturally he accepted the statement
as a fact, and from that time to this his
mother, who is alive and living in Los
Angeles, has not heard from him. This
comes near being a domestic tragedy,
which possibly the newspapers of Ne
vada can avert by giving this notice
publicity.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
I'm afraid of the nigs

I'm afraid of the nigs
And the plutes and the prigs
| stuff with protectionist manna."
Twice he grazed OF political clover,
This adipose person called G.,
But a low-tariff worm
Will not catch a third term
| fear that his chances are over.
His hand on the trigger was steady,
For wild cats and sich he was ready;
But he shot at a Trust,
For which he's been cussed
By Wall Street-Look out Mr.. T
Who's that in the corner there cryin'
Cause there amt any use OF his tryin'
To extract much more fun
Out o. sixteen-to-one?
His face | forgot; his names B
Who's thisY Well, he's surely no barber
Perhaps he's the horse that Is darker,
We all know that the still
Little pig gets the ssill-
The weight Of the proverbs with P
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
EarIy-Day Methods Applied.

The methods of the placer miner were
used by the Chicago police in recovering
valuables lost in the Iroquois Theater
disaster. Three big wagon loads of dirt
and ashes were taken from the theatre
floor and were conveyed under police
guard to the basement of a store near by
A placer mining outfit, including selves
and pans, was erected, and City Gus
todian Greiger started a search for val
uables among the rubbish.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
Gan Open Winter"

This season promised to be numbered
among the "open winters" of this sec.
ton, of which We have had several in
the past few years. We can say that we
have had a very mild winter SO far, but
we can not tell what there may be in
store for us IN the way of storms yet TO
come. We are informed that the cattle
on the ranges up to the present time
have done unusually well, and the ma
jority are 10 fine condition for this sea-
son Of the year. There is yet plenty of
time to receive a few good snow storms,
but a reasonable amount of snow and
wet from this on will be for the general
benefit.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
To Act as a Policeman.

Charles r. Higley assumed his duties
as a policeman of Reno Monday evening.
Charlie is well. known in this county
being at one time sheriff of Lander
county. He is a man well qualified to
perform the work required of him, as he
has tn reputation Of being a fearless
officer.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28

The stage running to Dean has been
discontiLu ed, making its last trip Satur
day, January 23d, and it is said that it
may not run again until the LIST of April.
No doubt the reason for discontinuing
running the stage to this place is that
there is not enough business at the
present time to justify it, as there are
only two men now at the Dean mine.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28

The turntable for the roundhouse at
Hartman is the largest turntable in the
United States. 1t is eight feet in di-
ameter aud will turn any engine on the
Southern Pacific or any other system.
The Troy laundry at Reno was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night. The
loss is placed At $4,000. The origin Of
the fire is moi Known, but 1t is supposed
to be the worsi Of an incendiary.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28

wANTED-FAITHFUL PERSON TO TRAv-
for we'll established house in a few count
les, calling ON retail merchants and agents.
Local territory. Salary 5000 per week with
expenses additional, all payable In cash each
week. Money for expenses advanced. Position
permanent. Business successful aud rushing.
Standard House, $50 Dearborn St., Chicago.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
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The following table gives the arrival and
departure of passenger trains at Battle
Mountain.
wEsTBoUND
ARRIVES DEPARTS
No.3 400, p. m. Al p. m.
Mo- II 10. a. In. III III, a. IN.
EAsTBoUND
No. 515. a. D.. 5;16. a. m.
MOI 4:40, D. IN AL, p. IN.
Local freight leaves Carlin at 7 a. m.
Local freight leaves Winnemucca at ! a. m.
daily arrives at Battle Mountain about 9 a. m.
The Nevada Contra Railroad leaves Battle
Mountain Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 80 A. NJ.
returning the same day at 6 90 P. NJ.
W. 7. ONYON, Agent.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-01-28
Presidential Possibilities.

There once was a portly banana
Who said. whats the matter with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
KANSAS HELPED BY FLOODS.
Several Kinds of Vermin Exterminated
in the Kaw Valley.

From the Topeka Capital.
The greatest disaster which visited
Topeka was the food of last summer. Oc-
casionally some one discovers that the flood
resulted in some good. One thing which is
a fact, however, and which is blessing to
the people of the valley Is that the mice,
rats moles, gophers and rabbits have not
bothered the district which was flooded.
Prior to the flood the stores factories,
dwellings,, granaries and all buildings in the
valley were overrun with rats and mice.
Now it is so seldom that the people who
live in the district which was flooded see a
mouse or rat that the fact is commented
upon.
When the water got into the buildings
along the valley the rats and mice tried to
get away. Some of them succeeded, but
most of them were drowned Many of the
rodents got into the upper stories of the
houses, but they could get nothing to eat.
and in their efforts to Ind food they were
drowned. After the flood the ground was
covered with soft mud for months. The
rodents attempted to get out of the places
of safety they had found during the food.
and went to seek something to eat. They
died in the soft mud.
The driving out of the rats and mice was
a blessing but that was nothing compared
to the benefit the farmers all along the
Kaw valley received by the death of the
moles and gophers. 1t Is said that there Is
not a mole or gopher in the valley, where
The strange part of it is that the gophers
did not come back after the flood.
Tracts of land that We're honeycombed
with gopher and mole holes are now as
solid as piece of land that had been Gull
tivated every year. In fact, there is
not gopher or mole in the district which
was flooded. This is the opinion of the
men who live in the flooded district. 1t
may seem like hunting mighty hard for
benefits from disaster, but this relief the
farmers have experienced from the alb
sence of the moles and gophers has been
of enough Importance to cause general
comment. In the past fields have been al
most ruined by the pests. and many horses
have been crippled by stepping in the holes
in the fields.
The people in the western part of the
state have been asking for years for some
way to get rid of the prairie dogs. The
farmers in the eastern part of the state
have also asked for some method of clean
ing out the gophers. 1t appears that the
only effective method is to have flood,
which will keep the pests under water for
three four days. The remedy is severe,
but it is effective.
Another thing that the people in the
flooded district have to be thankful for is
the driving out of the rabbits from the
valley 1t would be supposed that the rab
bits would have run away from the flood,
but they did not. Many of them were
drowned. Strange as it may seem, the rab-
bits did not come back after the flood.
Why this should be no one can tell, but it
is the truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
THEIR FAvoRITE DISHES.
What Some Famous People Liked Best
to Eat.
From What to Eat

From What to Eat
Queen Victoria is said to have given NUT
ton the preference in the line of meats and
was nowise offended if offered 1.-The cold
shoulder aa41
Queen Elizabeth was very fond of roast
goose. She was dining on this when the
good news was brought to her on Michael
mas day that the Spanish fleet had been
driven back. And ever since that fowl
has been to the English feast of St Michael
what the turkey is to our Thanksgiving
day. Henry VIII was extremely fond of
beans, and imported a Dutch gardener to
raise them. as in his day they were only
used by the upper classes-"a dish to set
before the king" Napoleon's favorite dish
was bean salad. much cheaper in his time
but equally good. Louis XIV was lex
travagantly'' fond of a dish made of the
eggs of various birds. which cost 500.
George Eliot, while at Brooks used
frequently to walk to the farm where she
bought her vegetables. and chat with the
farmers wife on gardening and butter MAX
ing, who was somewhat surprised at the
great novelists conversation on such home
ly topics and afterward remarked: ut were
wonderful, just wonderful the sight O.
green peas that send.down to that gentle
man and woman every week" This was
the summer "Middlemarch'' was written.
George Sand not only liked sauces but
eXceled in making them. Lincoln, in the
Gays When ne dld MS own marketing, OFTEN
stopped at certain shop for his favorite-
gingerbread. He used to say, 1T swells up
and makes me feel as if 1 had had some
thing" Stonewall Jackson delighted In
buckwheat cakes-in season and out of sea-
son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was fond Of pie,
especially that made of plums. which he
called the fruit of Paradise. DR.. Holmes,
on the contrary said of the peach, when
Nature has delivered it to us, in it's per-
lection, we forget all the lesser fruits. and
If not found by the river of life, an earth
born spirit might be forgiven for miss
ing it,
Charles Summers private secretary tells
of the statesman's sweet tooth for choco-
late creams Andrew Jackson surrendered
To ice cream at first taste, when it was
introduced into Washington, and swore his
usual oath-"By the EternaP'-he would
have it at the White House and he dld-at
the next reception. Washington was noted
for his fondness for hickory nuts and the
amount he could consume.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Use Of Clubs.
From the Kansas City Journal.


Country clubs are now feature of So
cia1 life in almost every city and town.
Country or golf clubs, although chiefly
supported by men, are almost universally
open TO the feminine relatives of their
members. 1t is true that there are many
women SO Jealous in their pursuit of
mental development as facilitated by dis
tinctively women's organizations that
they would not yield to the attractions of
a club devoted entirely to the comfort
women might be willing to sacrifice some
thing for the good of humanity.
Men join the clubs mainly to enjoy
themselves away from the worry of busi-
ness exactionS. Women, with the wear
ing cares of household duties, might make
the same concession to health and social
obligations. If there is a tendency to
separation between men and women in
their club relationship it is because of
the difference in interests which take
them from their hearthstones. The mod
ern system of living makes it manda tory
upon both sexes to get away from work
and worry as often as possible. The mas
culine idea, carried to its fulfllment asks
why canont men and women meet upon a
common ground of healthy enjoyment,
where neither business nor culture can
have predominating place In this way
women's clubs need not be given up or
jeopardized, but their demands would be
for only temperate exertions on the part
of their members. Perhaps, also, the reg
ular city clubs would throw open their
doors at formal hours to women under
limitations suggested by social forms and
proper discretion, and thus there would
be a solution of the drifting apart
tendency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
AN OBJECT LESSON
IN A RESTAURANT.

a physician puts the query: Have you never
noticed in any large restaurant at lunch dinner
time the large number of hearty, vigorous old men
at the tables; men whose ages from sixty to
eighty years; many Of them bald and all perhaps
gray. but none of them feeble or senile?
Perhaps the spectacle is to have
escaped your observation or comment. but never
theless 1t is object lesson which means some-
thing.
If you will notice what these hearty old fellows
eating. You will observe that. they are not
munching bran crackers gingerly picking their
way through menu card Of Dew-fangled health
foods; the contrary. they seem to prefer juicy
roast of beef, properly turned loin OF mutton
and the deadly broiled lobster is not Alto
gether ignored.
The point of all this is that a vigorous old age
depends upon good digestion and plenty OF whole
some food and not upon dieting and an endeavor
To live upon bran crackers.
There is a certain class of food cranks who seem
to believe that meat. coffee and many other good
things rank poison, but these eadaverous,
sckly looking individuals walking condemna-
ton of their own theories.
The matter in a nutshell is that if the stomach
secretes the natural digestive juices In sufficient
quantity. any wholesome food will be promptly
digcsted; If the stomach does do and certain
foods cause distress. two OF Stuarts Dys-
pcpsia Tablets after each meal Will remove all
difficulty because they supply Just what every
weak stomach lacks. pepsn, hydro-chloric acid.
diastese and
sStuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do not act upon tie
bowels and. In fact. are not strictly medicine,
as'they act almost entirely upon the food eaten,
dgesting 1t thoroughly and thus giving the stom-
ach much-needed rest and an appetite for the
next meal.
OF people who travel. nine out OF ten use
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, knowing them 10 be
perfectly safe to at any time and also having
found out by experience that they are a safeguard
against indigestion in any form. and eating as
they have to. at all hours and all kinds OF food,
the travelling public for years have pinned their
fsith to Stuart's Tablets.
All druggists sell them at 90 cents for funsized
packages and any druggist from Maine to Cali
fornia. II his opinion asked. will say that
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets 10 the most popular
and successful remedy for any stomach trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Life on a Skyscraper.
From the Pilgrim.

From the Pilgrim.
The tops of some of the big skyscrapers
are broad enough to accommodate game
of base ball, and one may often see repre-
sentatives of the younger generation or
roof dwellers indulgng in the delights Of
one. two old-cat. For hide and seek and
tag and score of other games dear to the
childish heart the opportunities afforded by
the chimneys and pipes and columns of the
broad roof could not be excelled. 1t is odd
to see little girls giving their doll parties
here in mid-air above the busiest part of
one of the busiest streets in the world.
Some of the roofs have hammocks and
swings and croquet grounds and all the
other equipment of thorough outdoor
playground. s8B
To the older folks, too, the roof offers as
many seductive attractions as it does to the
children. The women have tea here out of
DOORS unmndfult of the hubbub that pre-
walls below them in Broadway. The men
smoke their evening pipes and chat with
visiting friends in, calm secusion when the
pulsng life of the busy streets has Gained
to silence and the moon Is hanging high
above the Brooklyn bridge. A deserted viii
lage is hardly more9quiet than lower New
York in the evening and night hours, and
the roof-dwellers are far less likely to have
their slumbers disturbed than are the resi-
dents of uptown streets and avenues.
Not all the dwellers of New York's cloud
kissing heights are janitors and superin-
tendents of big buildings There are a num-
Der OF OlneF cases WHcTG Otl6f ClllZenS nave
learned the advantages of these lofty dwell
ing places and have1adopted them as their
homes. The great square tower of the pro-
duce exchange building houses several fam
lilies; number of well-known New Workers
have found the Madison Square Garden
tower a pleasant abiding place, and in va
rious spots about the city others have set
up Lares and Penates on the roofs, fifteen
or twenty stories above the street Mr. Os-
borne, writer Of prominence. has for many
years held a loft in the tower of Madison
Square Garden, where all his best-knoWvn
works of fiction have been produced. Mr..
Richard lie Gallienne is another author who
has learned the use to which a roof may
be put by literary man who requires quiet,
and all this summer he has virtually lived
upon the roof Of New York hotel. ION
my roof" he says. Il have been in the
midst of the city's activity, though not of
it. The roar of the streets reaches the
roof jewellers as subdued note, and. be-
sides, one is freer of callers. for man de-
sres to visit a man very much to Chamber
to a roof to see him him" This up-to-date
toric civilization adds one more to the
many unique features of modern city life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
SPIDER BITES.
They Are Said to Be Far Less Danger
GUS Than is Supposed.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
When in doubt, charge it to a spider.
That slight creature has been held respon-
s1ble for deaths and illnesses wherewith
she had nothing more to do than the United
States has to do with brigandage in Moroc-
co. Yet the familiar newspaper announce
ment, KILLED by spider" is before us
again, and we read how the suffering Mrs.
wilson or Knoxville died in twenty-four
hours as result of a spider bite her body
being swollen to twice it's normal size he
lore she resigned consciousness If we are
to believe the chronological authorities in
Washington, who are paid bv the govern
ment to know, We have only one kind of
spider that is really poisonous enough To
hurt, and that is little fellow. marked
with red and black, and not all black as
the Knoxville alarmists declare Until last
year the total number of deaths actually
traceable to spider bites in this country was
one. Possibly it may now be enlarged to
two.
We cling to our superstitions, and that of
the deadliness of spider venom is one of
them. A spider has enough of this acrid
chemlcal to XIII a fly, when the web is not
strong enough to hold it, but the human
subject has on various occasions-some-
times without knowing it-been subject to
her surgery without other result than an ir-
Iltation considerably less than is inflicted
by a mosquito. When death results from
so slight cause it does not signify that
the spider is dangerous. 1t means that the
subject was in SO perilious a condition of
health that pin scratch would have serv-
ed as well to end life as the spiders triflng
wound has done. Not many years ago the
tarantula was regarded as sure and sudden
death The southwestern miner who turn
ed In without his boots and who found that
half dozen of these giant spiders had got
into bed before him made his will on be-
coming cognizant of this fact Now he
merely brushes them off, uses a little lam
guage and goes to sleep again. Even the
rattlesnake has his apologists.
And 1t is well to know these facts, not
merely because we permit some useful ami
mails to live who are doing their share to
rid us of insect pests. but because we can
amble about the world with freer mind
than our fathers could who suspected death
In every moving form to which they were
not accustomed. The spider has killed, we
Will say, two out of the many millions of
human creatures that have inhabit this
country, and has destroyed countless hosts
Of flies and mosquitoes, bearers of germs,
which, but for her interference, might have
poisoned 100000 of us. Observe the spider.
then, with equanimity. She will not harm
enough to hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09

1t pays to read the want columns OF The
star Hundreds of situations are filled
through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
SUN BURNS UP MILLINERY
And All Because Women Don't Carry
Parasols to Protect Hats.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Let the inquiring husband who pays mill
lnery bills go far enough into the shop
ping district to take Just one glance at the
sunny side of State street on any of these
August or September afternoons. With the
hint given the other day by pretty
French woman he will know something
about why it is that so much of his money
fades away in millinery and that such n
large and particular part of it is demanded
every year at this time for a between sea-
sons" hat
1t was the French woman's first visit to
America and she was asked what she no.
uced particularly about the Chicago wo-
men. The way they disregard their hats
they have no parasols or zen tout cas-"
she answered, a the same time deity rails
ing her own small umbrella over a pretty
Paris toque, as she did at every turn that
brought her for minute under the suns
rays.
That the Chicago woman, especially she
who stays in town. recklessly lets the sun
burn up thousands of dollars worth of
dainty millinery CONNECTIONS every summer
which might otherwise still be things of
joy at least until late into the fall is a
matter of comment in the stores. as well
as among strangers. Parasols are bought
in profusion by the gay set that spends
the summers away from Chicago There
are also lavish regular customers among
some OF the wealthy and gay travellers from
neighboring cities. French. English and
eastern travellers come to the parasol de-
partment of a large Chicago store and ask
invariably for the small sun umbrella
which they designate prettily as zen tout
cas-"
But not so with the Chicago maiden.
So great is her disregard of this snail
favorte of the more conventional dressers
that In several of the State street shops
it is not even carried in stock. 1.-The Chi
cago woman never asks for anything but
a large umbrella, so what is the use?'
say the saleSpeople. In the meantime 1t
is said in the millinery departments that
with the Chicago woman the between
seasons. or midsummer. hat is especially
a favorite and that 1t is put on earlier
here than elsewhere in the country II
is also said that the particular kind of
millinery which has been worn this sum-
mer is more than usually susceptible to
the suns rays, which shine disastrously
upon cool days as upon warm. 1.-THE browns
that we have this year simply can't stand
the sum-" said one milliner. 1T robs them
of all their brightness. 1t is fatal to all
kinds of flowers, 1t discolors all light
straws, and tulle hat will sometimes
lose all it's color with one wearing"