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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-08-27

We occupied a room togetner-auo /.
was going out to get the candles when
I met Ruth at the door.
i've heard what you two have been
saving" she said. through the parti-
ton. and you're right Father doesn't
need but one extra hand this winter.
but be won't send away either of you
I'll go down and get the candles and
light them for you"
We we're both nightly pleased to
have her do this and waited patiently
till she came back with the candles.
would you choose for usf" we both
said at the same moment.
"If you wish me to-"
Placing a candle before each OF us,
she scratched a match In each hand
and lighted them at the same moment.
Then she left the Don without a
glance at either Of us. The candles
were short and would burn out in be-
tween one and two hours. Josh and l
played a good many games Of v
up. occasionally glancing at the can
dies with apparent unconcern, but real
ly with suppressed suspense. 1t was
not TIN they had burned down to with
In nm inch Of the socket that l noticed
a difference. Then / saw that my can
die was burning the slower. When
Josh's began to flicker there was still
three-eighths Of an inch of mine left
He blew it out and turned away to
conceal his feelings. / expected Ruth
to show enough interest In which OF
us was to remain, to ask before going
to sleep. but she didn't. "Well." / said
to myself, ut doesn't make any differ
ence, after all, which goes first. Wen
both 20 soon enough. She doesn't want
either Of u.s."
The next day Josh told the farmer
that he thought he'd look for work In
the city and left us. He had no sooner
gone than Ruth began to bestow upon
me little attentions. This was quite
enough to induce me to show my feel
ings, and I met with every encourage
ment. In less than a month after
Josh's departure l was engaged.
After our engagement I told Ruth
the story Of how Josh and l had both
secretly loved her and how we had set
tied by the burning candles which Of
Us was to have a clear field. I twitted
her on the fact that when lighting
them she was ignorant that she was
interested.
mot at ALL" she replied. 81 knew
that I was the object Of your test and
before bringing up the candles Pot
salt on the wick Of the I INTENDED
should be yours. Salt makes a candle
burn slower"
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A..ault.d Ely Husband

On returning to his home at Ely and
sodius two friends, Nick Rockwell and
q. Golovich drinking beer with his wiie
Jos Ko,onovich demonstrated with
,brm and finally ordered them from
his home. He claimed that they were
irving to ruin his wife and break up
his home. The two Austrisns. VINO
had been drinking with his wife, at
tackled him. They knocked him down
with a bottle and then beat him so
badly that he is now in a hospital. Inc
invaders Of his home were arrested n
NAV have to face charges OF assault
with intent to skill.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-08-27

Another chapter has been added to
the famous Pittsburg Silver Peak min
ing suit which has been in the courts
since 1894 and which involves the
title to the rich silver and gold mines
Of the Pittsburg Silver Peak Company
at Blair. The Supreme Court Of Ne
vsda has decided an appeal from the
District Court Of Reno and has sustain
ed Judge Pike by refusing to grant the
defendants. the Silver Peak Mines Com.
pany, a writ Of prohibition against the
District Court prohibiting the Court
from fixing o bond pending further
proceedings in the case or in granting
a writ Of assistance to the plaintiffs to
give them possession Of the property.
The case has been in the courts for
years and is one of the most important
mining suits ever tried in the Nevada
courts.
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Obe
Candle OeSf

BY r. A. mitchell.


ICopyright. 1909, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
Josh and I were fellow laborers
working for Farmer Bathgate. We
went to him when the crops were
ready to be taken In, and he liked us
so. well that when the harvest was
over he concluded to keep us for every
day work during the winter. In the
ummer Ruth Bathgate, his daughter,
used to bring us out cool drinks, II
we two young men soon became anx'
fous for some sign of preference-not
that either of us had any intentions
toward her; it was just an ordinary
rivalry. But Ruth was mighty particu
lar not to make the slightest differ
ence between us.
When the autumn came on, the fod-
der was In shock, the weather getting
cold, and the logs were blazing on the
hearth, the farmer and his family and
Josh and / used to sit around the
blaze, talking and telling yarns. That
was a happy winter for both Josh and
me. We didn't either of us suspect
that we were both dead gone on Ruth.
nor did we foresee what was to hap
pen to break up our pleasant circle.
That's the trouble with pleasant times
there's always something that makes
them pleasant, and. ten to one, it's the
very thing to break up the pleasure
Since it is all over l know that what
made our enjoyment so keen was Ruth,
and 1t was Ruth that spoiled 1t all
not Intentionally, for, as ! said. she IA
vored neither of us. She couldn't have
kept us two fellows from gradually
falling in love with her II she had
wanted to.
At first Josh and / used to speak
about little occurrences concerning her
with perfect freedom. Then we ceased
to say anything to each other that in
volved any relation with her, and final
ly we never mentioned her. A year
passed, the pleasantest | have ever
known, and when we'd filed the barns
and there was little to do one day Josh
said to me:
There's something I want to say to
you, Ben. The harvest Is ended, and 1t
doesn't seem just right for two strap
ping fellows like us to put Farmer
Bathgate to the expense Of keeping us
all winter. There's enough for n to
do, but not enough for two. It's my
opinion he'd let one Of US go, but
doesn't like to decide between us.
What do you say to playing a game Of
seven up to settle which shall get
outr'
81 reckon there's something In what
you say, JOSH" I replied In as melan-
choly a tone as his. Hes treated US
mighty well, and we ought to relieve
him Of the responsibility Of sending OF
u Of us. And you and !, too, have
been square to each other. don't ex-
actly like your plan Of playing a game
to find out which shall 60, for one
might have more skill than the other.
I think we'd better let something else
than cards decide between u.s. Mrs.
Bathgate was making candles this
morning. Now, what do you say to
your choosing a candle and choosing
one out Of the same mold and lighting
them at the same time? The q whose
candle goes out first is to 60"
sI think that would be a good way
to settle It."
We were u time
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SPRING. THE SWEET SPRING.

CPRJNG. the sweet spring. is the year
~ pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing; then maids lance
In a ring:
Cold doth not sting; the pretty birds dc
sing.
Cuckoo, jug-Jug, pu-we. to-witta-woo!
THE palm and may make country houses
gay.
Lambs frisk and play. the shepherds pipe
all day.
And we hear aye birds tune this merry
lay:
Cuckoo, jug-jug. pu-we. to-witta-woo!
r,HE nelds breathe sweet; the daisies
kiss our feet;
Young lovers mast; old wives Assuming
sit.
In every street these tunes our ears do
greet:
Cuckoo. jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
Spring. the sweet spring!
Thomas Nash.
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e.

YAST thou named all the birds
without a gun?
Loved the wood rose and left II
on 1t stalk?
At rich mems tables eaten bread
and pulse?
Unarmed faced danger with a heart OF
trust
And loved so well a high behavior
In man or maid that thou from speech
refrained.
Nobility more nobly to repay?
Oh, be my friend and teach me to be
thine
Emerson.
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One day a sympathetic old German
gentleman was leisurely strolling past
one of the big fire houses In a big CITY
when he was moved by the tears o
the captain.
Stopping to offer consolation. he SAID.
Say, for what you grief?'
ooh" replied the captain, with u
fresh gust of tears. my poor father Is
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Gems In Verse
TOO LATE.

TOO LATE.
TT you had lived I should have come
one day.
Perchance through many a rough and
thorny way,
Come. just my head upon your breast
TO lay,
To look into your eyes. With earnest
brow
l would AVE said:
II wronged you once. that day, now so
long past.
You looked for strength that should stand
firm and fast.
I gave you weakness. but am come at last
With something ~better"-but. alas. not
now,
0ncs you are deadl
Harriet Parker Kimball.
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slump Short Pie"
In a catalogue of out of the way
dishes a feast Of the Rev. R. H. Bar
ham may be included. The author CT
"~Ingoldsby Legends" his son relates.
on visiting one Of his pa%rishioners was
asked to dine and have some Jump
short pie" He did so and made .
hearty meal. "Its very nice-tastes
like lamb. Why the odd manner" he
asked. well, sir" said his host. 1T
Is lamb. You see. the young lambs in
the mesh try to get over the drains. A
good many Of 'em jump short, tumble
In and get drowned. Then we hooks
'em out and puts 'em into a pie. Have
another help, STRIP Barham declined.
London Taller.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
% EOLlXO Il DRE1S NlHcHI
mn WURY At n DA/Y(TA T
ZhiE 2RESLlIO"

The storm passed and there followed the sences,
weird, uncanny, Of dripping water, Of moving
things underfoot Ultimately she heard the splash
ing of kindly American boots, and looking outside
wet specimen of Private Sammy. marching
philosophically up and down on sentry go. She
called to him, half hysterical. and he answered
her with cheering words. Reassured, she waited
for her husbands appearance, wrapped in an
army blanket, chilled to the heart. Later, when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that she had been sitting opposite a window with
a lighted candle by her, offering a splendid mark
for the prowliDg Filipino sharpshooters.
This was an experience and one which the fat
gentleman in the bank had never imagined. To
the army this ignorance and narrowness is incom-
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat Of
hiding death had gripped him often that Pr
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class of work do not
realize that there particular horrors connected
with it, Being Of the army, he does not speak Of
them, but his gorge rises within him when fat
gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has
made respected
But he remembers the pursuit Of happiness
and the day comes when he is ordered home
Then 1t is that the army and it's women, gathered
aft, watch the walls Of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains, forming themselves into men,
cries, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo, of the perfume of the ihlang-hang and the
love lourishing while the constabulary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta.-
San Francisco Call
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

yellowest bloom at present known is the creamy
Clara Curtis
novelty in the form of a striped flower was
offered in the year 1897 by Mr.. James Carter, and
In the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
of the choice pcoteeedged varieties which are
so popular today. The latter was raised by Major
Trevor Clarke. 1t a fine white flower with
edging of blue, and Major Clarke scored a
double triumph, for his flower was also the
first sweet pea with blue coloring
The greatest revolution in the history Of the
sweet pea, however, was inaugurated on July %,
1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society's
first exhibition, held in the old Royal Aquarium
London, Mr. Silas Cole, Earl Speneer's gardener
at Althorp park displayed the famous Countess
Spencer, a beautiful pink variety with wavy
instead of The conventional smooth standard The
loneliness of the new form won the hearts of all
growers at once and during the last ten years so
great has been the increase Of wavy or frilIed va
reties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world
Some hybrdists are engaged particularly at
present in adding to the list Of marbled varieties
Of which the bue-veined Helen Pierce is so choice
an example, and it is possible that much more
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
to produce flowers with a striking and delicate
venation.
Just few figures In conclusion showing not
the least striking phase of the romance of the
sweet pea. The Sician monks ponderously
named plant has become about 500 different yari
eties grouped into 21 classes, according to color
Over the culture OF these flowers a national soe
ETY. numbering 9sS members and mebracing 101
afhliated societies watches.
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SIMPLY WORKED HIS ~cINcH"
Barber Had Monopoly, Knew It, and
Was Governed by His Own
Sweet VIII.

The man III a small town who has a
"cinch" on things in his own particu.
lar line often develops into more
complete monopolist than the big op-
orators elsewhere. Among the Lit
tie Stories of the Town" the Boston
Journal furnishes this amusing In.
stance: Inrthe town of Tamworth, N.
H., there Is but one barber and he
is extremely autocratic. He is a dis.
penser OF soda and confectionery, a
repairer of guns and shoes and, with
AL on Wednesday and Sunday morn
ings the towns only barber If he feels
like II. He would rather hunt and
fish, however, than do any of these
things. Some months ago a travel
ing salesman, becalmed in Tamworth
had the barber shop pointed out to
him and called to get shaved He in.
quired of the man who was there re.
pairing shoe If the barber was in
mo barber here; him gone" The
next day the salesman asked the same
question. mo barber here; him gone
fishing" The next day the sales.
man found the identical man he had
spoken to for three mornings pre-
vious, imperturbably shaving a vii
lager What in the dickens did YOU
mean by turning me down from get
ting shave all this timer be asked.
me no like your face. Good day"
was all the satisfaction be got.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
Romance of the Sweet Pea

The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual in Canadian gardens of today no matter
where in this aowerloving country the garden be,
or whether it belong to cottager or man of means,
toing clerk or parkownng municipality, the
sweet pea first to us from the Sicilian nuns.
Franciscus Cupani, a monk, who was also
botanist sent the first seeds to England In the
year 1899, consigned to an Enfield schoolmaster
named DR.. Uvedale The old Middlesex dominic
was both a botanist and horticulturist and he
grew the first sweet peas ever in England.
Cupani called the plant Lathyrus distoplaty-
phyllus hrsutis, mollis ct odorus-an unwieldy
name, out of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to its present form of Lathy-
rus odoratus
DR.. Uvedale found the seeds produced plant
with purple flowers, and here we have the
color of the original sweet pea.
The stock gradually multiplied, and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber, Kensing-
sale.
Progress In the production of new varieties
was slow in those remote days, and 1t was not
Cupanis consignment of seeds) that any new col.
ever, catalogue was issued which described
black, scarlet and white varieties
What became of the black and scarlet Sorts II
they ever existed In those true colors Is not
known The black must have been deep purple.
The blacklist bloom is stu the dark purple Tom
Bolton. In this connection, seeing that for years
past hybridists have been trying to produce a
pure yellow sweet pea, 1t may be said that the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
An Amy OFFICERS WIFE

Her husband came in for dinner and rushed
away again whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked
all the nnery OF the days that had been.
81 found a dress which had worn at a dance
at the Preside the last time she said. and /
cried and I cried"
Before leaving, the husband had pushed chest
against the door, locking her in completely, this
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav-
ing he had to crawl through the window, and as
he hung on the window sill she bent forward and
kissed him. Then she heard him drop with
splash into the disease infested pools below. Alto
gether it was as nice spot for the pursuit Of hap
piness as could be found
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried The wind whipped
the banana palms against the house. the rain
slashed down, she heard the lizards scudding
around and a big one outside, in a mango tree
called "tuck-coo" so that she jumped up in fear
and alarm waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

tor husband TO Manila.
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma
Mia. The natives, you
see, had a habit Of throw
ing the bodies OF victims
Of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells. thereby
making life most I'M
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports Of
the press.
OF course the wife
could have remained be.
hind, but she did not
She was possessed with
the archaic belief com.
mon TO the army that
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

lessly. Pools were under the house and cholera
unusually on the rampage The rain came
down in such gusts that she had to tasten down
the windows thereby making the house too dark
for reading purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about through mud and
rain with chlorodyne in hand, she peered through
the Stats, gazing at the bamboo palmtrees whip
ping TO and fro before the fury of the storm. AT
the appointed time she prepared dinner. She pro
duced her row of cans. In her girlhood days
there was household joke, What we cannot eat
We can" Now she gazed at the canned milk,
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered If she could eat all they can. Some
how or other the fieeting thought of the girlhood
days made her choke. You it the rain
and the storm and the centipedes and things
which got on her nerves.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
A Perennial Mystery.

Average Man-These Sunday papers
Just make me sick! Nothing in them
but commonplace personal items
about lot of nobodies no one ever
heard of.
Friend-I saw little mention of
you In the Sunday Cannon.
Average Man (half an hour later, to
messenger boy)-Here, rush around to
the Cannon office and get me forty
copies of the Sunday edition.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

also for washing.
There was so much
cholera" she explained.
The meals were served
with wire MEETINGS over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
cholera. There were
other delights. The Moros
we're out. A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
in torrents.
There came a night
when the very soul Of her
was tried to it's uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

Mike-shure, OF feel very queer,
Dan. OF have sich a feel av fullness
after me meals. Do yes know RIM
Idly fur thot?
Dan-Oi do, me bhoy. Whin yez sit
down to ate a meal, don't ate ony.
Mike-But thin Oh shud be full av
amptiness!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
The Difference.

II don't see any difference between
you and a trained nurse except the
uniform" said her sick husband
"And the salary" she added.
thoughtfully.- Bazaar.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27
Consider This Advica.

Duck, MINI.
Consider This Advice.
No woman should submit to a s,lrpi-
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham'5
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
~ from roots and herbs, a fair trial
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and invigorator of
the female organism. Women resil-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
.. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant, buoyant female health. If you
are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give IL trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is FREQ,
and always helpful
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

When it comes to facing an enemy
some men show their retiring disposi-
lions.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-10-27

could not do any Ct
my homework. ny
sickness was called
Retroflexion. VIA
I would sit down ].
felt as if L could =, 8
ge t up. L took
Lydia e. PinkhaEl y
V ge t a BILE Coz
pound and did Just
as you told me G.. /
now l am perfecIT
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big baby boy" -
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ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkhan1's
Vegetable Compound

Black Duck, Minn.-"About q yer
ago wrote you that 1 was sick and