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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05

lected strays back to Syracuse and the
remainder goes | do not know where.
| left Syracuse early in the morning.
and by noon had covered a large part
of the distance between that city and
Winkumpaw But | suffered scarcely
any, being upheld by the approval of
my conscience.
AT Higgins. which is an important
station. having several cows and - me
inhabitants. our freight was inc s,ased
by three cans of milk and Ohm h.
Frost, who keeps the store "A Ainknm
paw. Mr.. Frost took at facing me
and viewed me in s,.cnee for several
minutes, after y .iich he asked If | ex-
peetss' - set by Winkumpaw without
being seen.
a am ashamed to confess. MIR. Frost.
said /, that my modesiy does not carry
me so far. / shall stop at Minkumpaw,
but trust the people will not get up
anything more elaborate than picnic
in my honor.
The storekeeper whisiled softly.
Wall, said he. ito the best of my
knowledge and belief it won't be a
picnic
urged him to explain.
"NrAen uncle Ed Stevens advised you
10 NTAlc lldl ilCCt ne Aolu YOU Soulc
stories, didn't he?n asked Frost.
Yes l replied, he related some
amusing incidents of the towns histo-
ry.n
An when it had got to be known
that he'd done So" continued Frost,
@pretty near everybody else took
hand?"
They were all very kind and com
municative, ! admitted.
$50 that before You left you'd col
lected every darned old yarn that any
man had to tell against his neighbor.
hadn't you?n
fensive,n | rejoined. ~Surely they
Were not told with any malicious in
tent. They were funny; that WAS all.
For instance. take the story illustrating
the imperturbable calmness of Deacon
Isaiah Gray
then briefly reviewed the facts of
this story in order to refresh Frost's
memory. | had printed it as a fine ex-
ample of the genuine Yankees inyinci-
ble self control 1t appeared that
Deacon Gray, some years ago, agreed to
repair piece of plastering over the
pulpit in his church. 1t had been dam
aged by leak in the roof. The deacon
had erected staging which was
reached by means of a ladder from the
pulpit. The ladder was too short. SO
the deacon had set it ON a board laid
across two barrels of whitewash. Ashe
was stepping from the staging To the
ladder with pail of whitewash in his
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
ONE OF CALIFORNIA; WONDERS.
A Natural Whispering Gallery in Lassen
Country-A Soldiers Story.

The queerest country | ever saw"
said Simon Askins, for twenty-eight
years soldier on the American front
Ter TO San Francisco Examiner man,
lis that immediately about Dry lake
in Lassen County. | was a sergeant
there under General Wheaton during
the Modoc war. Dry lake usually has
no water in it at all. 1t is almost an
arid plain. with some alkali scattered
here and there over it, and its area is
about two and half by four miles.
On one side are the Pitt river noun
tains and on another are big pine
woods, while to the west are the IA
nous lava beds in which the Indians hid
during that last great California
struggle with the sayages. Well. a
winding road leads up from the valley
below into the curious basin. If
horse walk on this road anywhere,
even two or three miles outside the
border of Dry lake, he can be heard
for many and many miles up in the
interior The ground all about there
sends forth hollow sound. Rever-
beration can be heard everywhere.
Whether there are any caves or lost
rivers there | cannot say, but though
l have been almost everywhere on the
frontier never found anything like it.
A football may be heard like a sound
in great cavern.
MANY night when, as soldier on
dnty, We anticipated an attack from
the Indians or the arrival of couriers
or supplies, | have put my ear to the
ground. If a horse was moving about
anywhere within miles he could at
once easily be detected. This enabled
us TO put ourselves in an attitude of
defense. 1t is a great gallery, whis-
pering gallery it may be called. where
the acoustics are so perfect that any
thing said is published to the world
All the country about there has ears.
Even the cav of crow or the notes of
q songster takes on weird sound.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
Habits of Birds.
Inunity.

Why some birds which could pick
up food among ne all the year round
should leave when food is plentiful,
while others with similar WAYS of life
remain is still a mystery. 1t is easy
to understand that species which prey
ON fresh-water fish and ON frogs should
seek other quarters when the ponds
are frozen and the frogs are buried in
the clay. But it is not quite so clear
why the swallow and fy-catcher leave
a region where there is perpetual sum-
mer and winged food in abundance TO
risk a long journey over sea and land,
only To find great scarcity of the
same kind of food
And il is equally puzzling that the
seed and fruit eaters who since Octo-
Der have been fattening among the
gardens of Algeria and Egypt should
suddenly in March or April be seized
with such an inordinate craving for a
change of diet As to fly SOD miles on
the chance oil picking up the short
commons of an English spring. Per
haps it will be- found that migration is
natural to all birds and is greater or
less As circumstances may determine.
Every animal shifts lis quarters ac-
cording To the plentifnlness or scarcity
of food. Even our residents move up
aud down the country at different PEE
RODS of the sear,living in the lowlands
in the winter and in the uplands in the
Summer, aud it is well known that all
winter there is continual drifting of
the birds from the continent II our ISL
snds, according Ia the weather Lon
don Standard
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
SOME QUEER FRANKS OF CYCLONES
strike and Bound as They Pass Through
the Air.

Cyclones play some very strange
pranks," said gentleman who but
recently Was near enough TO witness
the destructive power of funnel
shaped cloud Il was out in Kansas
few weeks ago when a cyclone
formed and swept over the town
where | was stopping. The people
saw the cloud for fully fifteen
minutes before it commenced 10 move.
and every body reached place of
safety. | stood less than forty feet
from the cloud when il rushed by. |
tell you it was grand sight and an
experience | shall never forget The
cloud was funnel-shaped and appeared
TO be no larger than a camp kettle. 1t
bounded up and down like rubber
ball, and when it struck the earth
something had to move. In fact every
thing in its path did move. 1t would
strike q house, tear it into a million
pieces, and then bound up into the air
without removing so much as 3
shingle from an adjoining building.
A. one place it went through large
grove and snapped of large trees like
dry twigs. In the path of the cloud
there was one tree taller than all the
rest. 1t stripped the limbs and leaves
from that tree from the ground to the
topmost branch. and yet the tree was
not blown down. The cloud struck
the stock-yards near small town and
snapped off the posts and fence-boards,
but never budged the cattlechute, the
weakest part of the structure
Two hundred yards further it struck
the ground near large tree. Under
meath this tree was a dog-cart and a
mule. The tree was shattered into
atoms and torn out by the roots, but
the mule and dog-cart were not injured
in the least.
The same cloud struck herd of
cattle and punched them together
and whirled and wriggled them around
just like and with apparently as much
ease as it would have bunch of sticks.
Out of herd of sixty cattle only one
was killed. Twenty feet farther the
closd picked up barn and carried it
two miles through the air. When the
cloud passed me | lay fat on the
ground and watched it closely. 1t
went by with a rush and roar similar
to that created by freight train in
crossing bridge. / could see all the
clouds dart out and in like forked
lightning and then whirl round and
round with wonderful velocity. The
electrical current was plainly visible
in the cloud, especially when it struck
some object. You may believe it or
not. but it is fact that less than forty
feet from that cloud there was not
enough wind TO fiutter cloth. 1t was
a grand sight and no mistake.
The people in the Western Stateshave
become SO frightened over cyclones
that in many towns men are employed
to remain up all night and watch the
clouds. Out at Augusta and Towanda,
in Butler County, Kas, both of which
have been torn all to pieces by cyclones
this year, the city councils hire men
to watch the clouds and in case
danger appears the fire bells and the
church bells are set to ringing and the
people take to their cellars. The
people in those towns live in constant
fear and when cloud approaches you
can stand in the street and see the
people hurrying to some cave or
cellar. So. Joseph Nescs.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
An Epitaph.

Here lies a poor woman who always was tired
For she lived in a house where help was not
hired:
Her very last words were, MY friends, ] am
going
sewing
o. everything there will be just to my wishes.
For where they don't eat there's no washing
of dishes,
The courts with sweet anthems are constantly
ringing.
But having no voice shall get clear OF sing
lng!"
She folded her hands with her latest endeayor
And whispered. 20, nothing, sweet nothing,
fors-yeri"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
Do As a Tramp Does.

A successful business man was asked
by a Cincinnati Enquirer man the
other day the secret of his success.
We'll. said he. lit is all due to some
good advice given TO me by an old man
when | was a boy. | got out of a job
one time and went to my old friend
for sympathy and advice. He drew
his chair up TO mine. and. taking one
of BY hands loosely in his own, said:
My boy, never be discouraged. Have
some confidence in your ability to tus-
sic with the world. Be independent.
lou must be like tramp that is in
New York and wants 10 get TO Chicago.
After n good deal of trouble he gets on
TO freight train, near the engine,
maybe. He doesn't ride far before he
is seen and put off. Does the tramp
give up? No; he simply gets on in the
middle of the train. aud if put of again
goes farther back until at last he is put
of the caboose. Then what does he
do? Why, he simply waits for another
train and tries it over. Now. if YOU
have little troubles. just bide Your
time and crawl back into favor IL
your employer should discharge YOU,
that is no evidence thar YOU have no
ability or that YOU cannot succeed. 1t
may be the best thing in the world
for you. Why, some of the most noted
novels and famous songs were refused
by many smart publishers, until at
last some one saw their worth and
brought them out Never be discour-
aged. my son. just get onto the next
train aud YOU will get there all right
some time
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
The Wlvvls FoLKs.-

II 'tEasn-t fer the wimmin folks. IL seems to
me. l "a lest ~ hound.
A. Il tins earfhsd he - duI. wouldn't kser TO
stay around
An while ainsf in emmy sease what might h-a
called = ladies man.
Ialers Ike l. keep thin : speaking distance
when ] can.
Its funny how womanis Smile can sort o
brighten III place.
A faan ferzrefs fhe shaooerS while be stses TIE
sunshine IN her face
7 q poets cal en- clingin vines an say ne
men are mighty oaks.
Saue times haIf believe the strength Il earth
= ia the AimInin folks
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05

But when IL comes To buyin' gowns an hats
an all that sort o. thing.
I've Enuxed the time my r. has spent ten
dollars in one fall or spfingD
Then when feller sees the hills come fumblin
IN they sort q NcN
Him fer while an make him Wish bed never
seen the faier sex
hut bee gifts over that you bet when trouble
shows it, gloomy face.
For then he sees EN- goin round a-sowin sun
shine ever place.
Fer sorrer that disturis the heart until 1t
burns an ssells an chokes
l. seldom cured excepiin' BY the medicine Of
wimmin folks.
An can't you call To mind a time " hen you
was sick. an through the night
Tie neiehhors come an set around an watched
you in iiiskerin light
An talked In whispers. cause they felt they q
worTy you it'll what they said.
An you not KNOWN II you'd live an carin
hess II you was deadf
I'm sure AT you can recollect you didn't mind
the doctor much,
But wasn't Il disirssin when another man'd
dare Ia touch
Your burning flesh: but o, what JOY il was TO
feel the gentle strokes
Tn check and brow of loxin hands belongin'
10 the wimmin folks.
I've seen a right smart heap Of life Of sunny
days. and dark ones. too;
I've Tried TO think out lots q things, an failed.
but jest t~ixt mt an you
I've got a lot . sympathy for emmy man who
es,es mile
Along life's weary road ithout it's frightened
by "A woman's smile.
An heavens mencifui | know, fer right
through ever cloud of doubt
1T reaches down its gracious hand an hangs
hopes lovin' lantern out.
Ii gives To men thousand joys TO tighten up
their heavy yokes.
But all the rest % them combined ant ekal to
the wimmin folks.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
Tides Caused by Electricity.

A Canadian electrician states that
electricity causes the tides and demon
strates it by electrifying rubber
comb by rubbing it through the hair
and then drawing it over the top of a
glass filled with water, the result be-
ing that the tidal wave follows. the
comb.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05

hand the foot of the ladder slipped off
the board The deacon lost his balance,
slid down the ladder like thunderbolt
and landed with foot in each barrel
and the pail on his head
Did he yell? Did he swear? Not
bit of IT. He removed the pail slowly
from his head; calmly combed the white
wash from his beard with his fingers
and remarked in a perfectly steady
voice to the Mortified spectators: Wall,
a little more and I'd had a fall.
Do You know said Frost Ia me,
= that story is the one thing that the
deacon is sensitive about? He imagines
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
Bright Ewes,

The eyes are the windows of the soul, -
at least, SO says Hafiz, the Persian poet.
But the cleanliness Of the eve. like that of
the complexion, depends upon the purity
of the blood and the healthiness of the Sc
cretions. 1t is now admitted that there is
no medicine, or compound so potent as
Halls Sarsaparilla, as an Alternative and
blood purifier. 1t is compounded with Vel
low Dock and Iodide of Potass, and is
warranted to be free from spirits, mercury
and arsenic. Sold by all druggists.
j. r. GATES d CO.,
Proprieters, All Sanseme street, S. F
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05
A Question of Finance.

Jaek-~I'm thirsty. Come in hero
and I'll order bottle of champagne /"
George rather have beer" Jack
$50 would |. but | haven't cent.
Its easier 10 ~; trusted for cham
pagiie than beer ~. Y. HseEly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05

THE genuine Halls Sarsaparila, Yellow
Dock and Iodide of Patass, is free Of Mer-
curry and Arsenic.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-05

There are 9s) common lodging
houses in London.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-11
CHAT WITH CONTRIBUTORS.

Contributions accepted Hattie Heath, Nyas,
Alumnus, K. t. Did, Stocles and Damon
Puzzliug has no charms for Espersnce when be
can get hold of a racket and indulge in game
of tennis. We shall look for his return TO
Mystery" with the close of the Summer
season.-Jack O'LanterD sends the Arst an
swer TO No. 557 in last weeks issue, and is
awarded the 10 postal cards.--Mshdea has
migrated from New York City to SC. Johns
New Brunswick, where he is engaged in the
laundry business at 30 Waterloo street. He
has our best wishes for success in his venture.
Has he forgotten his promise TO send us some
ontributions?-K. T. Did, satisfied with his
years solving record has decided not 70 solve
for some time, as other matters require his at
tention. He may we'll rest on his laurels-
Where's the Lucubrator all this timer
Frantz has written a very pretty poem in
memory of little Grace Sessford, the daughter
of G.. Race and Alumnus.-Sam Slick has be-
come domiciled in Salem, o., and writes that
he expects soon TO be able to devote more time
to his fayorite pastime, puzzling.-Damon
will journey to Boston next week, and while
there will visit Sphinx, ]. E. w. and other
BOstonians.
S-lI-92. EUGENE
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-11
Figures for WOrkingmen.
Boston Journal


notice that the Democratic platform says
we are taxed to nearly the verge of starvation,
or to that effect Let us see about it. / have
a store. book. loaned me by fellow. workman,
for the year 1872, before the decentralization
of silver" Taking prices as in that book and
comparing with prices to-day, also taking the
mans daily pay for each year, find the fol-
lowing result as to the purchasing power of the
same mans wages: His days work would
purchase of -four, in 1872, one-quarter of a
barrel; 1892, one-half of BARREL salt pork,
in 1872, II pounds; 1892, 81 pounds; sugar, in
1872 % pounds; 1892, 55 pounds; lard, in 1872
20 pounds; 1892, 81 pounds; cheese, in 1872, II
pounds; 1892 % pounds; beans, in 1872, 22
quarts; 1892, 81 quarts: print, in 1872, 20
yards; 1892, As yards cotton cloth, in 1872,
fifth of ton; 1892, one half of o ton.
l might extend this list to cover every article
of food and clothing if had the time These
figures may be verified by any man at any
store that has been doing business % years.
good Democrat" seeing my last article
in the Journal came to me last Saturday to con-
vince me of my error
"Why," said he " I bought coal in 81 for S.
ton. and now have to pay Sc to ST."
Every well, sir. What did you get in 1872"
Zone dollar aud seventy-fve cents day."
"What pay do you get now?"
"Three dollars day"
"Then, sir, according to your own figures,
you worked three days for a ton of coal in 81,
1872. And yet you are not voting to restore the
tariff for revenue only that was in force in
81. Do you really think the workiBgmen are
better off to work three days for given article
than they are to work two days for the Same
article?"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-11
Weather Forecasts.

Copyrighted 1892 by w. T. Foster, st. Joseph Mol
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave to cross the continent from Aug. 8 to IL,
and the next will reach the Pacific coast about
the 14th, cross the western mountains by the
close of the 18th, the great central valleys
from 18th to 18th, and the eastern states about
the 10Th. This will be an average storm in
force, preceded by excessively hot weather and
followed by a moderately cool wave which will
move eastward across the western mountains
about the 18th, the great central valleys about
the 10Th, and the eastern states about the 2lst.
The term great central valleys used in these
forecasts. includes all the country lying east Of
the Rocky Mountains and west of the Allie
ghanies. 1t also includes Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
The most dangerous storm wave OF August
will reach the Pacific coast about the Goth,
cross the western mountains by the close of
the 21st, the great central valleys from 22d
to oath, and the eastern states about the 25th.
This storm will begin to increase in force about
the 23d when near the Mississippi River, and
will become a dangerous storm in the upper
Ohio Valley and the eastern states about the
Gath and 25th.
A moderately cool wave will cross the west
ern mountains about the 23d, the great CEN
trail valleys about the 25th and the eastern
states about the 9th. The weather, however.
will average excessively hot during the last
half of August, with local drouths and excess
i've rains in places.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-11
survivors of the Mexican War.

Al the annual Reunion Of the Mexican Veterans
at Chester H.. July 20-2l during the regular hours
OF business, Comrade George II. Deokmann offered
the following preamble and resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
Inasmuch there is to be held American
Worlds Exposition in the city Of Chicago In 1893
where every civilized nation Of the world is ex-
peeled 10 be represented In the various industries
known TO and practiced by mankind, including the
arts and sciences OF war and peace; and whereas
there is the kindest and most fraternal relations
existing between the Government OF the Republic
of Mexico and the United States; and In view of
the fact there exists common bond OF mutual in
teress among all the Governments of the American
continent, which must eventua.e in fraternal and
mutuni association in defense and against any and
all foreign foes, or Invasion isom any quarter !:
Therefore be il
ResolJod That this Association of the survivors
of the Mexican war call upon the National Associa-
ton Of Veterans OF said war 10 extend fraternni
inyitation TO the Mexican survivors OF the be-
tween Mexico and the United States in lsi6 ~, as
10 meet at the Columbian Exposition in fraiernal
union, q time hereafter agreed upon;
Resoleed That the Secretary transmit q COPY oi
these proceedings TO the Mexican MinisteT-resdeni
al Washington aud the American Minister-residen,
at the City Of Mexico, 10 the Senators and Repre-
sentstives in Congress from Illinois, and all the
leading newspapers Of the United States;
RcsOtued, That the Chairman appoint committee
whose duty il shall be TO take the necessary steps
20 carry the foregoing preamble and resolutions
into effect.
In pursuance of the above the Chairman az,
pointed the following committee: George II. Dieck
mann, Naudalia; c. &. i. Holden, Chicago; Isaac
T. Smith, Pleasant Plains; Jesse Coleman, Neoga
Capt. ]. w. Hartley, Decatur; George &. Spears
Iolua; w. j. Wyatt, franklin: Thomas James
Chester; 6. u. Tufts, Centralia. Capt. j. w. Hart
Icy, Secretary.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-11
A STRONG PROTEST.
Brothers Object to the Offering of Prizes for
Military Efficiency.


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: We regret to notice
the following In one OF our daies: "At Helena n
prize of 81 600 will be awarded to the successful
Camp In a competitive drill"
Can it be, Mr. Editor, that such is the case?
Undoubtedly the generous donatOrs will be in
clined to politely inform :he writer's that such is
not within their jurisdiction. and therefore, not
entitled to their criticism Well that may be- but,
be rs cOmplacent AS we will, n comment OF such
Rbsurdity will present itself.
In the first place. understand that strong
motive of uniformed brethren Is to patrioticaliy
fit themselves for active duty. That means unques
the object of course without any idea of ren,unera.
ton whatever. In other words guardsman in
the Sons of Veterans Is supposed to be more con-
scientous soldier than the ordinary regular or
militiaman; the latter, as u rule, being prompted
by personal gain or q profitable inducement of
some kind. However, consider them all on a level
of good soldiers: one obeys the compulsory law.
while the other adhereS TO that OF pure sentiment
and his love OF duty.
Place the lucre as an incentive for the highest
perfection of this duty, and you wreck the whole
magniicence of the action.-you wipe out the
manly principle.
Were we an organization formed for the pur-
pose of perfectng military movements, the matter
would be different; but to think that our life is to
further such principles as we FOSTER and then that
such q valuable gift In money is necessary to pro-
mote them, Is enough TO make the cold sweat run
down our backs.
II as we understand, the Sons take the place of
the militia in some sections, ana are IN need OF
funds to progress with their work, give them all
certain portion; that is if Is actually necessary 10
the welfare of their respective communities to
promote this semi-military idea
a little more Judgment and find something more
worthy of your valuable donation. II you have
too much OF q surplus, and cannot find u more
deserving end, don't worry to reduce II. but keep
VIM G. LAHEY,
T. D. Morgan Camp, New York City.