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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-17
Knew His Wife.

A Frenchman whose wife deserted
him amused his neighbors by telling
how he got her back without trouble.
did 1 run after her and beg her to
come back?" he dramatically asked.
mo, did not run after her. I zhust
publish In re papaire Eat have drawn
$4,000 francs in Paris municipal bonds.
and she vas back much quicker. zan in,
no time"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-17

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We have vacant lots In any par = the
town and some bargains. Com be-
fore the rush starts.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-02-17
Give Me a Trial.
Application for Grnaing Permit

NOTICE is hereby given that all applica-
lions for permits to Craze cattle, horses and
sheep within the INDEPENDENCE NATION
AL FOREST during the season Of 1908, must
be filed in my office at Elko, Nevada, on or be-
fore March LIST. 1908 Full information nregard
to the grazing fees to be charged ana olank
forms to be used In making application, will
be furnished upon request.
c. SYDNEY TREMEANw Supervisor.
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r ONDON July 4-There are few to- day whose minds carry them back 'A to the dark days of Sebastopol. and yet 1t has taken many years to wipe out the prejudice In the British mind against the Russian, so deep was the wound in ficted by the sufferings which that ter rible campaign meant to us; but there are few in England, save those who do not grasp the importance of things which occur outside John Bulls little island, who did not rejoice at a meeting which is likely to cement the happy relations between that vast empire, which has great destines before 1t, and the free country reigned over by constitutional monarch.
 It must have been a new experience for the Car and Czarina, after their long imprisonment at Tsarskoe-Selo, to have once more made an appearance among their own people. outside the guarded palace precinct, and both, believe, were deeply affected by the cheers which greet ed them.
 Tn the midst of the stately line of battle ships, on the wide expanse of Reval bay, where the woods ripple gently down to the edge of the water, and the golden domes of the little town gleam against the cloudless sky, the imperial yachts met.
 Hundreds of boys and girls had been given a holiday, and the sound of cheer ing children's voices gave joy to the oc- cagion.
 The Czar walked, with a smiling face, across the platform, followed by the Elm press, with the little Czarevitch holding her hand, anxious for the moment when he should give the salute to his uncle
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went up fI6m every democratic throat, for it was Beverley L. Clarke, just from Glasgow, where he had spoken twice that day. Night had come, and Butcher, too.
 "Wlll you speak here or at the meet ing house. Lon?' asked Landlord Phil pott.
 q want dram first thing" was ths answer. Twenty willing hands seized him, and he was carried bodily Inside, where a julep as long as your arm and nectar fit for the gods was handed him. Then he announced he would speak from the front porch He spoke for more than an hour, and no man ever held his crowd better. Numberless are the speeches I have heard since. but have for 53 years believed that Beverley l.. Clarke's speech on that occasion was the best I ever heard. Akin was there to answer him, but left before Clarke closed. The local Know-nothing lodge lost 57 members at its next meeting owing to that speech.
 Moses Aikin was an extraordinary man. It was said of a celebrated English statesman-Sir William Yonge-that moth ing but such parts could buoy up such ]. character, and that nothing but such character could drag down such parts" The same might have been said of Moses Akin. He was a tremendous man physically, weighing above 300 pounds and yet symmetrically formed and grace ful in his movements. Physically he was a magnificent animal. He had a giant mind, but 1t was lamentably uncultivated He knew the bible from lid to lid, and was master of a few other books. He was possessed of a wonderful animal mag netism that rendered his oratory very effective on the stump or in the pulpit He had acquired that habit of sing song that characterized the pulpit of rural Kentucky the first half of the century, and, strange to say, In his case 1t enhanced the charm of his oratory The Hon. Webster Davis Is the only statesman I know who has that habit, but my advice to him is to get rid of 1t just as soon as possible. Had Moses Akin possessed the virtue of self-denial, and had he been properly educated. erily believe he would have been one Of the first Americans of the century But, alas, he could not resist Capua- Capua that destroyed the bravest army which Italy ever saw, flushed with con- Cuest and commanded by Hannibal" Few there are to overcome where Hannibal failed.
 Soon after the new courthouse was built at Edmonton, Aiken attended circuit
 court there. The late T. T. Alexander
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which he had been practicing so long, The children's cheering brought tears to the Empress eyes.
 The royal family of Russia have not lately been spoiled by the cheers of pop ulace.
 The British cruisers were soon in sight, and the royal yacht was outlined against the horizon, and amidst the deafening salutes of many guns It soon steamed into position, and then the royal families of England and Russia met. and the baby gravely saluted the King. who in turn in formed him that he had brought him many English toys.
 On board the royal yacht the suite of rooms assigned to the child of many hopes, consists of bed room and play room, and here his favorite toys are piled, toys of every description, kites, carts, horses and a supply of straws for blowing hubbles-a pastime of which. he Is specially fond.
 A Russian sailor named Derevenko has special charge of this little heir of all the Russias, and is told off to watch him and play with him.
 At the great banquets which followed, many speeches were made indicative Of n desire for peace, and 1t Is believed that the Czar will return the Kings visit and come to England within short time.
 A book, which has just been written. called "The Court of Russia in the Nine teenth Century" gives us many striking points as to the history of its recent rulers during the last hundred years. One of the most interesting features is to note how often the imperial children have been given to the charge of English nurses, and how strong has been the influence which they have exercised.
 Nicholas I. was watchsS oyer in child
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was then fudge of that judicial district, and Akin undertook to evangeize in that community. He got permission to preach in the courtroom one night, and no one who was present on that occasion will ever forget it. The cream of the bar of that circuit was there, some of thena very able men, and all of them were under the spell of his genius before the meeting closed Like Alcibiades, he seemed to have the audaoity of conscious superiority. His text was Revelation xv, .;
 And they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvellous are Thy works. Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways. Thou King of Saints"
 The sermon he preached was one of the most powerful I ever heard. He had evidently read the works of Thomas Dick, the Christian philosopher, and part of the sermon was a brief allusion to the solar system. l remember he cited that the world was moving through space at the rate of 14,000 miles an hour-I think that was the schedule; at any rate it was mighty rapid. When he got through with that statement he pointed his finger to- ward the audience. and In the most iln- pressive manner imaginable. and with a soemnity that was overlapping he said: At some point on this planets Journey you must die." Now one-ha1f of those he was addressing looked upon him as the devil in tub of holy water they had no confidence in him whatever; but every one there was thrilled by that tone and manner. I have never seen an audience not even in a theatre, so completely swayed as he swayed his hear CTS that night.
 The man was a powerful personality. He split some of the Baptist churches in that community. The second and last time heard him he was making confession. It was a grand sermon. He acknowledged all that had been charged against him. and declared that he had been worse than his bitterest foe ever dreamed he had been-that the half, the tenth part. had not been told. Then he spoke of the infinite mercies of God, and related how he had carried his burden of sin to the cross of Cav airy and there left 1t. There was m a dry eye in that audience, and closed with a pathos that was sublime. and besought his enemies to do for him what God had done for him. Only yes terday was reading a historical TO- nance in which Nell Gwynne is one of
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NEW FEELING TOWARD RUSSIA-By Lady Henry Somerset

n ood by Miss Lyon, determined Scotch woman. She had sole charge of tho Grand Duke, and the little heir used to call her his "lioness nurse"
 He was ardently devoted to her, and cherished love for her memory up to the very day of her death
 A story is told of Alexander II, who as a boy was mischievous and high spirited. He attended asreview on his sixth birth- day and the Emperor, Alexander I, al- lowed him to announce to the men The Eratuities they were to receive.
 The childs shrill voice called out the sum, each captain repeating the words to the company, who returned thanks In chorus
 This ceremony so pleased the young grand duke that he repeated 1t over and over again, proclaiming the rewards and receiving vociferous thanks.
 He had at last to be checked and a though his uncle gave the full amount which the mischievous child had prom 1sed, when the youngster returned to his n orne he administered so severe a pun fshment that a Spartan need not have been ashamed of the caning he received.
 Alexander II was of such simple tastes that his rooms in the great palaces were positively comfof tless. 6es
 The study Tn which he died served him as bed room and dressing room and work room. a
 The present Czar, the author tells us (and, indeed. he is right is by no means the insignificant man he Is often DOT trayed He has a sensitive face, full of expression, of sincerity and steadfastness, a nd no man is more beloved by his pei sonal attendants. None has simpler tastes for himself or greater consideration for those in his family circle
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Now, assuming that we have not over rated the value of a good name. let us ask ourselves, how many men we can trust to give a fair estimate of the char acter of one whom they do not happen to like?
 This scribe was once passing by vil- 1age hotel and saw a knot of men loafing on the porch. gentleman whose tenn perate habits and whose business capac- ity were well known was passing by. One of the loafers said: 'There goes the meanest man that ever comes to this town. As often as he comes here. l don't believe he ever spent four-pence-half- penny (6A cents) in whisky" (N. B. The loafer aforesaid kept a grog shop)
 A friend of mine, a member of the Virginia legislature, in the days before the constitution of 1850, once saw a stranger enter the hall of the house of delegates. Turning to the member who occupied the next seat, he asked: Who is that gentleman" Why that Is Cor bin," was the reply. "He is the grandest rascal in the United States. He came all
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other things and commented on what they saw just as chums might do. It seemed to give O piquant flavor to the prosaic- and it was so charmingly true that they were really chums even if they were also really husband and wife. Once or twice tonight Leighton asked her if she didn't feel well, when she had little lapses into a strange silence, but the question each time set her off into an excited torrent of recital. Once he asked her en passant: "I suppose you sent my shirt to the laundry?" And she answered evasively, You'll have 1t tonight" She meant to take it off the hook the moment she got in the house.
 And, after all, he was ahead of her. He had been whistling when he went into the room-how she prayed he would not go to that closetl The whistle stopped he had, then She could feel the silence before he said:
 "Alicer'
 She waited for no questions, even if he had meant to ask them.
 'Oh couldn't help it--indeed, indeed l meant to remember. thought of nothing else, until It was only because Mary telephoned, and hadn't seen her for so long, and Land I-Leighton, don't look at me like that. I'll hate you If you dol What difference does 1t make about that old shirt? You've got dozens of others I don't see why you expect me to look after your clothes, anyway. Didn't you look after them yourself be- fore we were married? Yes, you did; your sister said so. Then why can't you look after them now? Why do you blame me for everything that happens?'
 She was striving to suppress an hyster- ical sob.
 For goodness sake, Alice, don't let's have a scene" said MT. Chanler coldly. "All right I won't ask you to look after anything if you don't want to. It doesn't seem any use to ask you, anyway-you don't look after things I had imagined you cared little for my comfort, but it seems that I was mistaken. It makes no difference. I'll try and not expect any,
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the characters, and the author makes her say:
 You're all so ready to call on God to forgivei Is forgiveness Gods only? none of you forgive for yourselves? Or are you so righteous that you cant do what God must?"
 The words recalled to my mind Ak in's confession and his appeal. It was under his preaching that Thomas E. Bramlette made a profession of relig ion. It was by Akin that Brumlette was baptized, and had he been virtuous he would have been the foremost di- vine the Baptist church of Kentucky ever knew.
 The last time I saw Akin he was a prisoner in charge of a United Stales deputy marshall on board a railroad train speeding to Louisville to be tried in the federal court for making moonshins whisky There Is a tradition that he as tonished the bench and bar when his case came on. He conducted his own de- Tense; and, more lenient to him than to Judge George W. Craddock. Judge Bal lard permitted him to attack the consti- tutionality of the internal revenue laws. He made a masterly argument that eiec- trifed the bar if it did not move the court. He was then about fourscore years old. Not a great while after he was summoned before the eternal bar
 
 It was not the first time Akin had been arrested. He was a southern sym pathizer, and spent a winter at Camp Chase. While there he addressed a cul- ious letter to his old political friend, George D. Prentice who printed it in the Journal, and commented on 1t in characteristic style that occasioned much Inirth In prison with Akin was Shelton FTarrs of Barren county. Farris was too old to join the army, but he was an in- tense southern man, and one day he took his gun and started out to kill or cripple the whole Yankee army. then encamped at Munfordvlle. He landed in prison, and he and Akin found themselves friends after an enmity of many years. There never were two men less alike, though both were exceedingly strong characters.
 What a pity it is that there Is no oio- graphical encyclopedia of Kentucky that tells us of those the poet Gray had in mind in the couplet:
 Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial
 fire.
 Copyright 1sos by p. W. Newman)
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bride, one of her dearest friends. To think that she and Mary were both really married-it seemer absurd and unbeliey- able She had just a little feeling of patronage about Mary's married venture when she thought of Mary's William by the side of Leighton! She could stay un- til nearly O oclock-the whole day. She and Leighton only had breakfast in the apartment; they took their dinners out.
 Until nearly o'clock As she was en- tering her rooms again, after most ab- sorbing day, in which she and Mary had nearly talked themselves blind-as she was entering her rooms something struck her stiff and dumb-an awful paralyzIng thought. She had never sent that shirt to the laundry! She could hardly believe that she hadn't; it was impossible that destiny had dealt with her as hardly as that. She went to the closet to know that it had gone, that she had given it to the janitor's boy-not just dreamed 1t. And it hung there before her, damniag proof of her incompetency. Oh, why un- der the sun had Leighton, who had so many shirts set his mind continually on this onel She wished he had never bought it in London; she was sick of hearing dDOuI il-lI was hldSouS ehihSt oAiS
 way. Why-oh, that didn't help mattersl She knew, as sure as she stood there shivering in her blue cloth walking dress and feathers-she knew that she could never brace herself to tell the truth to Leighton. He would thinlz-what wouldn't he think? What could she do? She had no more idea of how to do up shirt than she had of balloon manufacture-but in some way it would have to be done up. The janitors wife, perhaps would do 1t if she went to her after dinner She didn't care how much she paid for it.
 Leighton was very lively and very af- fectionate when he came home. It was little fiction that when they went out to- gether to their dinner they weren't hus- band and wife, because most of the hus- bands and wives they met dining to- gether seemed so untalkative and bored they were Just chums-and they told each
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my several preaching appointments, and so have not so much time for study as I used to have. Why do you ask?" eBe- cause this young man Grlmsley IS preach ing mighty well and folks are beginning to say that he can beat you preaching. And last Sunday, when you both preached at Gourdvine church, the people said he beat you then; and the fact is, Brother Broaddus, he did beat you, but denied it."
 Now, this brother evidently allowed his spirit as a partisan to get the better of his veracity and in this direction he has a very large following among those who are usually regarded as excellent Chris tian men.
 One of the most valuable of all earthly possessions is a good name. The wise man says it is rather to be chosen than great riches. If you are tempted to doubt this statement. as applied to people gen. erally, in our materialistic age, ask your self what millionaire could pay you to become the object of universal execration among your nelghbors?
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thing of you any more-after this"
 She had left the room--he could hear her steps going down the long uncar- peted floor of the apartment.
 Was she crying? Well, she ought to cryl
 She did not come back. He sat down by the lamp in the large, comfortable Morris chair and took up a book and lighted his pipe. He felt dreary and alone-witho1t oompanionship or sympathy. Alice was very sweet very lovely, but after all, she was a toy girl-and one cannot a1- ways feel like playing with a toy. He had a curious, leaden sense of loss-l1fe stretched out before him as sort Of hard, ney-making pathway. He had given her twice as much money as she had asked for the day before-though he had to slimp little himself to do it-be- cause he hated to think he had to limit her in any way; he could work for her, but at the suggestion of her doing the least thing for him. He had never thought that she would be 80 willful, so perversely unkind. He didn't mind about the shirt-what was that anyway? But she didn't care enough for him to want to remember-Alice didn't care.
 So long he sat there yet she did not callf n&cli. 50 long he sat there; yet she did not come. It was not like her to hold out like this. After their little guar res she always came creeping back to him, with her soft arms ready to meet around his neck-sweet Alice, with hair so brown! She must be hurt indeed, if she did not come back again. to be smiled at, after he had frowned. But he was hurt too. Something that had been beau tiful seemed broken.
 So long he sat tn ere; still she did not come. At last he got up, and pipe in hand walked half reluctantly through the hall, looking in at the different rooms for her. She wasn't in any of tn em. "Alice" he called, but she did not answer. There were sounds In the kitchen; he went on there, wondering.
 Alice was bending over an ironing board-an ironing board on which was
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ON SOME POPULAR VIEWS AND TESTS OF TRUHB C. Hden D.

If you are at all sensitive, and feel un- comfortable when the most abominabls crimes are freely and falsely laid to your charge. and even proved @ against you. then don't become a candidate for the Presidency, nor for any office of any considerable dignity. The popular tests of truth-and even what are called tests of speculative truth-are by no means usually safe. or trustworthy. Indeed. many of these so-called tests do not real ly test anything. Many man who thinks that he abhors "rationalism" will at once reject a proposition which he calls 'Inconceivable': and he will not hesitate to reason @ out of existence any fact that he regards as "inconceiv- able" But did anybody ever conceive how the universe was made out of noth- ing? Or can any one conceive how 1t was made out of uncredited matter? And If neither of those propositions Is con ceivable, then 1t is unconceivable that it was made at all. Still, here 1t is, and 1t must have had an origin, or else we must somehow conceive that it always
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"A '!as% 'qs.. s...r
 4 Mrs. Chanler, in very becom- ing negligee, then came obediently into the room at her husbands voice. He cer- tainly did not look becoming. His hair, which was always of rather pompadour variety, stood up more than ever on his head; his shirt was open at the collar and his eyes sought her in frantic ap- peal-testifed to as of utmost need by the open, disarranged drawers of the chffonier, and glimpse of equal disor- der in the closet beyond.
 She braced herself for the next ques- tion. In the six months of her welded life she had heard it more than once, and always with dazed feeling of ut ter Responsibility for something regard ing which she ought to feel responsible,
 ''Where is my laundry? I thought you said yesterday that 1t came home"
 "Yes, 1t did come home. If l said SO, then 1t did''-Mrs. Chanler took heart of grace, as she became certain of her facts, though she knew her answer wasn't go- ing to be satisfactory; there was always something back of 1t that she couldn't answer "Of course it came home; it was ycSLciody Poe sAio hiAAi6o away myself in those drawers, just be- fore I went out to lunoh."
 "Then where's that blue and white shirt with the square cuffs-the one bought in London?"
 Isn't it there?"
 Isn't 1t therer" MT. Chanler looked for a moment as if he had reached the limit of endurance; he waited for mo- ment to recover decent self-control If 1t was I wouldn't have asked you where it was, would I? I've had every single thing out of those drawers and 1t isn't in them.
 'Well, I put every single thing that came from the laundry in that chiffonier,' D said his wife convincingly.
 Then 1t didn't come from the laundry. Of all the abominable careiessnessl You're sure you sent 1t, Alice?''
 "Oh, yes I'm sure I sent it." said