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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
Xmas Dinner for the Children

Following their example of a year
age, Messrs. Casey & Arden of the
Merchants hotels of Tonopah and
Columbia, will give grand Christmas
dinner to tomorrow to children of
Nevada. The little ones should be on
hand at 2 p. m. Christmas day with
big appetites.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
Improving.

K. G, Vaughan, one OF the pro
prietGrs OF the Palace Hotel, who has
been dangerously i'll with pneumonia
for nearly three weeks, is able to be
about again, though still somewhat
weak.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
al Snan.

A nice Broom cottage we'll fur
nished, in the best neighborhood in
town. for $1,000. Fine cellar, pantry
and screen porch. Owner about to
leave town. Enquire at this office.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
BANKS Closed NIonday.

The Nye and Ormsby Co. Bank
and the State Bank & Trust Co. will
be closed Monday, Dec. 26, all day.
NYE & ORMsBY Co. BANK.
STATE BANK & TRUST Co.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
For club of Gentlemen.

Lady would like position as work
ing se-keeper for club of gentle
men. Excellent cook. Address
MRS. BEATRICE HUNTER,
1t Tonopah, New.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
Want Positions.

Wanted bv man and wife steady
positions. Woman good cook, mar
sober and industrious. Inquire at
this office.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24

try than anything else. This is not
the Bishop creek power project men
toned in the papers.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24
Read nd.

The Reno Journal OF Dec. 20, has
an article showing up Editor L. c.
Branson OF the Tonopah Sun in
in his true light. The BONANZA will
publish the artice in full next week.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24

Write d. G. Doubleday, Rialto
building, San Francisco, for sheet
showing PRICES on all ToNoPAH
sTocKs-actual market prices. It's
free. d3tf
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-24

Try aSANTONE and youwill smoke
nothing else. It's the top notch.
Goldfield is THE town.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-07
LIFE SAVED BY swAMP-RooT.
The Wonderful Kidney, Liver and Blad-
der Remedy.
SAMPLE BOTTLE SENT FREE BY
MAIL.

Swamp-Root, discovered by the
eminent kidney and bladder special
ist, promptly cures kidney, liver,
bladder and uric acid troubles.
Some of the early symptoms of
weak kidneys are pain or dull ache
in the back, rheumatism, dizziness,
headache, nervousness, catarrh of
the bladder, gravel or c~alculi, bloat-
ing, sallow complexion, puffy or dark
circles under the eyes, suppression
of urine, or compelled to pass water
often day and night.
The mild and extraordinary effect
of the world-famous kidney remedy,
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, is soon
realized. It stands the highest for
it's wonderful cures of the most dis
tressing cases. If you need a medi-
cine you should have the best.
Swamp-Root is not recommended
for everything, but if you have kid
ney, liver, bladder or uric acid trou-
BILE you will find it just the remedy
you need.
Sold by druggists in ffty-cent and
one-dollar sizes. You may have a
sample bottle of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root and a pamphlet that
tells all about it, including many
of the thousands of letters received
from sufferers cured, both sent free
by mail. Write DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, and please be
sure to mention that you read this
generous offer in The Progressive
Farmer. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp
Root, DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and
the address, Binghamton, N. Y, on
every bottle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-07

Mr.. G. H.. Jones, Creedmore, N. c.,
writes: II see that Mr.. ID. Lane, of
Craven County in a letter to The P.
F. of May 10th very highly recon-
mends the Garfield Knapsack Spray
err. If you know where this sprayer
can be bought, will you please let
me know by personal letter or
through your paper? If not, / will
greatly appreciate your sending me
Mr.. Lanes address" This sprayer is
for sale by the Field Force Pump
Co., 229 18th street, Elmira, n. Y,
and is regularly advertised in The
Progressive Farmer. The same thing
is true of the Watson Potato Spray
err mentioned by Mr.. Franklin Sher-
man in his letter this week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-07

cause nave some opposition In q
to develop the best that is latent in
them. Any creed, party or order
grows impure after years of rule I'M
less there is a determined opposition
hat compells them to go straight
and true. But this opposition should
develop from without, and in the open
should m~anfully fight for the mas
terry. There is nothing that Injuries
anything SO much as brother fighting
brother, knight fighting knight, all
under the same banners, clad in the
same garbs, wearing the same badges
and bound for the same goal.
Politically speaking, we need two
opposing forces to get the best re-
suits. The South since the Civil
War has been greatly retarded in it's
onward march of civilization and re-
construction by reason of the fact
that politically it was a solid South,
and there did not exist an aggressive
organization to oppose the sovereign
power. The great power and wealth
and Importance of a State like New
York, for instance, comes partially
from the fact that she is a doubtful
State, and that each party is COM
PEELED to fight for her suffrage. A
voter there has an individual import
ance that must be recognized. A
thousand or ten thousand voters in
the South count for naught-the
solid South wipes out every vestige
of the individuality of the voter.
If our conditions are to remain as
at present, it would seem that the
only way by which a mans vote in the
South could be put on a par with
a mans vote in the North would be to
do away with the electoral college
and let every man vote directly for
the man of his choice for President,
and let him who gets a majority of
the popular votes be declared the
winner. This would equalize popular
suffrage all over the country and take
the premium from off the voters of a
few States, and it would make every
party fight for the mastery in the
South as we'll as in the North and
West. And in doing this our people
could hear the ablest speakers of all
parties and read their campaign lit
erature, and be, in a measure at
least, educated on the political issues
of the day. This would, also, con-
vince each voter that he was a part
and parcel Of this great nation, and
that upon his conviction and vote de-
pended to a certain extent the poll
cies and principles that should gov
ern our great Commonwealth. And
this would, also, build up here an
opposition party of responsibility
such as would tend to make purer
laws and a higher type of citizen
ship, and which might eradicate the
deleterious factional fights that now
are in vogue among all parties.
@. ED. KESTLER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-07
fractional Fighting and How 1t Has Re
tarded Southern Progress.
Editors Progressive Farmer:

half so diabolical as the fractional
contests that are ever on in the
church, in the political arena, in the
press and, in fact, in every sphere
of life. 1t seems to be a fundamental
principle of natural law that we
should hate our brethren, whose ideas
do not coincide with ours in every
particular, far worse than we hate
toto. History, sacred and profane,
is stored with thousands of illustra-
tions which prove Enthusiastically the
tendency of human nature to foster
fractional fights in every realm of
thought and endeavor. And every
newspaper each day records the dis
cord. the strenuous chickering's, the
excessive rivalry that characterize al
most every political, ecclesiastical,
educational or philanthropic conven-
ton that convenes.
Then, the question arises whether
this extreme f1ctional rivalry that is
so evident in every avenue of life
acts for the brtterment of these
varied organizations and creeds, or
does it injure- their usefulness? Is
brotherly love a lost art? And, if so,
should it stay lost? Macaulay y
GAS we wax hot in faction
In battle we wax cold"
The bullets we shoot at our friends
do not injure our enemies in the
least-we aid them thereby. We all
realize the fact that no two thinking
men can agree exactly on any 40
struse proposition or on any extend
ed line of reasoning. Every human
mind, and wisely so, too, sees things
different from every other mind. The
viewpoints of a man generally gov
ern his opinions about matters. An
ancient king once spent a great part
of his life endeavoring to get a
number of clocks all to strike exactly
at one time, but finally gave up the
task, being convinced that this was
an impossibility. So with people
their minds strike on different keys
at different times. But it does seem
the height of folly for the members
of one church or one party or one
order-people who have a like inter
est, a like hope, a like ideal, a like
destiny-to hate each other and viii
fly each other far worse than they
would an enemy. There ought to be
at least a little of the community-of-
interest idea inherent among like ele-
ments that would prevent and dis
countenance the fractional ~unpleas-
antness that ever and amor arises to
mar the Joy and usefulness of these
institutions.
We need more charity and toler-
ance. The Puritan fathers will ever
have their memory soiled and tainted
on account of their intolerance, bigo-
try and self-righteousness. And
John Calvin's name-illustrious as it
iS-hiS deeds olOriOuS on histOrV'S
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-07

Mr.. B. M. Lashley bought his second
Berkshires Tuesday. His first SOW has
paid him SI5o.
We sell these "Mortgage-1ifters /" at
$500. Try one.
Fl. Fl. WILLIAMS,
Chapel Hill, n. c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

peated before ladies' Croker toia LORD f-'ies-
mere that he had aseef'4ihed ti't me D4Ae'
while a suh'nieFn, played me Vi''''' 'I'
dropped The instrument "h'h ne 'e'''''e "e'U
officer. ana ever after 'llSiAri any ''sii'.''
OF ihe eir'unsian.r Ar''i'7 OK p'''I''''S %.
Wellington "e Ai' ''ia ''Al me- was INNS,
mulh pleased "''A '.'SAs 7.'''~'..7 '-' '7
was loot always ri'e'.i' 2" i'~@' i-"''e'S-
He CIV 'EtterIy very tn1..t...t ~ any F@i-'.'
80 t.. Ll s... .. rl.-r l-,5 rr
arr-.ah -.r Tire -.1.star - "a foreign s"y~-. IGN
" ~. -E .
"a r.r ID 7ert .t- 1- -aI#. 0ay .lHt t..t
~. --- rsa a..
,a- .zt...s. .~.. ra-. 81. -.t t..a. a.4s- e.er
A-.-- -..-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

may have been addressed, adopts the conclusion
that Henry, the third Earl OF Southampton, was
the man. his lie and character alone she
says provide al the essential desiderata," and
works out her contention plausialy enough
Abiding = TIE Dark Lady" Mrs. Slopes has
this 10 say:
Il seems evident that under the depressing in
flences q the plague year during long seiara-
ton from MS friend. the poet had himself been
tempted by a vision Of Venus. under tae E-ise ~
a cark-eyed witch. MARI &c woman t--l r caq1et-
tsh w!.es- There IS no cie@ 70 ne llrItiy ~ me
lady. Most probably she Vas not a -4cy II ~, u
court sense but one Of the rich citizens wives.
fa-bo-s M 10 the level % the culture Il the tine
r. at ana music. woman wso mad been married
into her leisured Ece and desire Tor new con-
quests steal into her vain Soul. -,
very house e must have e-teC- DO
not low anything about the moral principles OF
Hrs Jacqueline Field. and 90 not formulate q
charge against her. But such a one f1-aLled al
was a F>renckuonan and therefore likely 70 have
dark eyes sa--oH cpflpieA-oi a. "a
woman might very wei have ignored young Shake
brie; but when she found he was making his way
among the arlstocTacy, HllslI s-I-ti--y LL'e
tuned her sweetest music 10 his tastes. while she
20 t1j-,tiC1 - ..ys-Is and Adoris'' she seems
10 have achieved her desire met Shakespeare s
patron. and entanEled Inn Tor short time IN a
heart While LETT out in the cold prey 70 heTri1Ie
doubts and fears Shakespeare lea!lea 20 Cis -
Euish the false from ne ue IN SIehs-'a 80. CO
on fge yoke OF l-le eva 1'4i
triumphant over jea 'ousy and passion and t4ltil
10 the love given 10 his friend rose 70 The height
- sci f-rertr citation Then the tragedy was over
tFera had been no treacAery no cruelty the tAo-elt
o, rivalry had been but fantas,lf. u was a! a
n stake a comedy Of errors. The ecno q the
rir-gaf5Or rings through Shakespeare's plays-TTs-
7rse-StarGinrs distress. eNUlauatiODs-SLch as be
feII betV-esr Antonio and the youth Sebastian who
had beWltchec him
This edition Is very attractiFeIy MADE me
little volume before Us is printed with taste on
good paper; Il has for frontspiece reproduc-
ION o, the portrait Of Southampton at Welbeck
Abbey. and il IS bound in blue gray boards,
with q white back and ! label title.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
PREHISTORIC INITIATION.

From The PAL Mall Gazette. with apologies to
Horace.
Dear friend. you Snow I've lately been and got
another wife
a friendly megatherium cut short my last ones
EfeJ
So. Just by way Of cave warming. wish you'd
come and dine.
Quite quietly-you need not dress-Gints viii be
laid 1t nine.
The first thing on the m'nu stone 0he dinners
only lighD
VIII be triceratops- tail soup, 20 tempt your ap-
petite.
Next. just TO show my missus' skill. there'u be.
by way OF fish,
IchthyosaurUs tIeted-a very dainty dish
For entree thereu be fricasste Of dinosaur to
come;
For piece de resistance rib Of dinotherium;
Lastly a luscious savory although I mustn't
boasO
OF fresh laid best selected. pterodactyrs eggs
toast
A word OF warning: Don't forget your stoutest
club to bring,
Your sharpest lInted arrOwheads, your bough
with toughest string;
Then, II atlantosaurus should intrude his ugly
With base intent to sup on US. wen sup on him
instead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
THE IRON DUKE.
RecoLections of Him by His Friend,
the First Earl of EHeSmere.

An interesting addition to the mass OF Wei
lingtoniana that has recently been getting itself
printed has appeared in the shape Of 4 volume
entitled Personal "reminiscences OF the Duke
OF wellington" CE2 p. DUtton & COZ. by Francis,
First Earl Of Ellesuere. Il IS brief collection
Of Impressions and anecdotes. edited with
memoir Of Lord Ellesmere By his daughter
the Countess Of STAFFORD. The author who
first met Wellington probably IN 1913. enjoyed
about as intimate relations with the great man
as were possible in view Of the latter's reserved
nature Lord EIlesmere spent his honeymoon
al StrathheIdsaye, a fact which alone suggests
how friendly their intercourse must have been
In many matters" he says, even OF pro-
cessional nature, he honored me with his con-
adence. Il was with his appreciation
and assistance that 7 drew up for The Quar-
terly' the retutation OF Alison's nonsense on the
.uhiect Of Waterloo. Hs coursed with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

those foreigners VINO came 70 The assistance OF
the patriot cause The latter cannot Justly be
dismissed as having formed an Incubus Oar
tng as he was, Wayne was not the whole Amer
ican army. one relying solely upon Mr..
Spears would be tempted to believe. OF wayne's
early days the period OF his development this
biograPher has all too little 10 say, as he has
OF bis later career in times Of peace Here we
see only the fighter, and only much OF him
can be perceived through the smoke OF the
battles that have been much better described
elsewhere Too often the author INDUCES in
free and easy coIoquialisuls, out OF keeping with
the dignity OF the theme and inducing the belief
that he has g2Iloped through his task much as
hls hero gaIloped through the ranks Of the foe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

tusH. shot WITH him, hunted with him. and on
one occasion played tennis with him. He notes
that when the duke went out for a days par
fridge shooting he always took his umbrella
with him In the hunting field he rode good
and safe horses" and, says Lord EIlesmere. 'I
have seen him take good fences when needfuL"
In the country he drove 4 curricle the front Of
which was closed with a glass window in rainy
weather the reins being passed through a small
hole-a risky enough arrangement
Lord Ellesmere speaks Of the dukes cleanli-
ness not only in physical but in other relations
4 DO not remember" he says, that in his So
cety ever heard from any one, still less from
him, anything which might not have been re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
MIR. J4MES'S THRILLING STORY"
From The London Chronicle.

Fr0ul The LODcDn LfFDIltIt.
How Nj Henry James received his hrst les
son in discrimination We yesterday recoraea on
his own telling. and be has been the UNCONSCIOUS
means Of giving Z lady who went 10 4 great
library the other day a somewhat analogous
grounding in the art q differentiation: 49,
manded The Wings OF the Dover cooeo ne
attendant mo, not' cried the client Inc
Sacred Fount"7 gurgled the clerk 10. 10
b5s .doulle-you doubIe-you story. which
friend OF mine Is recommending. Ihen tie
clerk had his turn -Oh, that Is q biography
madam, Of w. W. StorZ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
SH1KESPE4RES SONNETS.
Bfrs. Charlotte c. Slopes on the
Identity Of the DARK Ladu.7

From Alexander Moring. The De Ia More
Press. London We have received volume OF
'Ihe Kings Shakespeare" published by him.
THIS volume contains the sonrets. with an in
PRODUCTION and notes by Charlotte Carmichael
Slopes The latter, addressing herself 10 the
question as 10 the person 70 whom he sonnets
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
LITERARY NOTES.

The forthcoming large paper issue OF the col
leCted edition of Mr.. SUinbGrne's POEMS VIII
be limited 20 a hundred sets None arp available,
all Of them having been taken Up at cnce IL
England.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

THE WOMAN WITH THE FAN Ry Robert
Company
Mr.. Autcl els salient merit as a novelist is
that he avoids without effort that air Of pro-
fessionalisn which is encountered so frequently
II current fiction. He has an original motive
10 develop in The Villa Claudia" and he de-
veloPs It in simple. natural fashion. making Us
feel that he does not take himself either too
seriously OF too carelessly, but is content to
tel a pretty story and leave effects TO look
after themselves The scene Of the book IS an
old italian villa, the history Of which reaches
back 20 the time OF Horace. The author OBJ
viously knows vel the landscape around TivolL
lie gives rs vivid glimPses Of il, and, 10 make
his story, he plants amid all that loneliness =
grim and apparently iusoluhIe mystery. II
would be unfair 70 the reader to let him know
IN just what the mystery consists. L IS suf-
acieat 10 tel him that the pretty American
girl who lives with her mother at the villa
Claudia is betrothed 20 IN Italian and IS max
ing preparations for her wedding when the in
evttable rival appears. He is IN despair over
the approaching marriage, and presently leaves
FOR home. But he reckons without the mystery
aforesaid. That has begun to play a part n
his destiny even before he has left the villa,
and ultimately it is Of very substantial use to
him The Villa Claudia" is we'll invented. i
~ @N4'ios [Neis' anu 'i-e '1EIc s'Edi' IL Il -
HsNNei-eo - Tue piay Oh . 1ei'ea'e' AoDOrus''e
-, &c - Is ----S'' A1-Oi-s 11I i--u'H
- '--e ~----- - "a 80 - SUI >
a Night with Alessancro" is \ slilfullv CON
tr,ved bit Of comedy = tale so entertaining, .hat
we ran easily FORGIVE the s,-,f, ,,-- IT. rr-s
upon our cretulity. Mr. Cleveland thinks moth
ing OF landing his hero in Florence on "A Terilous
mission. whisking him of 10 riotous festivities
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

There is a rnournful exhibition OF an ncapacity
to write poetry in the current Pail Mall Maya
zine" The poem is called a Summer Even
ing" and its author is King Oscar of Sweden
and Norway This is the first verse:
The wind grows calm its force abates and dies
away far of in space:
Against the mast the white sail. wearied by tbs
fray. Clings with soft grace.
And this IS the last.
o fair night. 0 Charmer. wrap round with thv
breeze from the far West
And tired Of love and Joy. the calm waters AZ
ease take thou thy rest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

The new series Of Half Forgotten Books
promises to really justify its name II IS TO IN
"Oroonoko" and Mrs. Radclife's Romance OF
the Forest" Another forthcoming novel or the
series is Sarah FIeIdIns's Adventures OF lawn
Sirnnie''-a book which in her time aroused con-
siderable admiration. We are told that at least
one rash person thought that the author shovel
more knowledge OF human nature than her L.
nous brother could be credited withal-
Thomas AmoTy's Life of John Buncle'-a hert
who IS represented as marrying and ouryiHS
seven V-ives-is also TO be added 10 this series.
probably in n much abridged form. u is an &C.
centric and confused story which Leslie stephen
has termed the light headed rankings Of de-
lirium" Amory has been called The English
RaJeIais.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

kLULsAlns Company.
NIGHT WITH ALESSANDRO. An Episode in
FLORENCE Under Her Last Medici. By Tread
Vel cleveland. jr. With Three Views in Color
~ Eliot Keen Emo PIP. lSS Henry Holt x
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
FICTION.
THO Good Stories of Life in Italy.

LIE VILLA CLAUDIA BY John Arnes Mitchell
Illustrations by A D. BlashfeId by the Author
and from Ancient Sources. LIMO, pp. 3O6 Life
Publishing Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

More than 81, 500 was paid in London the other
day for 4 collection OF letters and accounts from
the pen OF Gilbert White. The letters were adj
dressed to his brother and his niece and much OF
the matter therein has never been printed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

George ROmney's pictures in the Duke &c Suth-
erland's collection at Trentham are little known.
and this fact VIII make doubly interesting Lord
Ronald Sutherland Covers forthcoming book on
the artist and his works. number Of repro
auctions in photOgravure and halftOne Of these
Trentham pictures Will appear in the volume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

THE WOMAN WITH THE FAN BY Robert
Company.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-25
ENGINEERS STIRRED UP.
Grievance Committee Busy Preparing
 Propositions to Submit to Co.

The grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is considering the several changes and reductions made in their ranks on the different branches of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad dur ing the past few weeks and the de crease of regular runs which is caused by the substitution Of the schedule, which went into effect last night.
 They will present their complaints to Superintendent Hibbitts of the me- chanical department of the road nrst, and from him appeal will be maue to the higher officials of the company if satisfaction is not received,
 The committee has not quite com pleted its proposition which will prob abbly be made ready early this week. It is understood that any attempt to reduce their wage scale will be met with strong opposition. Many of them will be obliged to change their location when they get settled after the shape up in schedules which has just been made, and a number of similar griev- ances are now being borne with con- siderable fortitude as the men expect to reach an amicable agreement with the company.