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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
PRESIDENT HARRlsoN's HEART.
1t Is a Big and Warm One and Here's
the Proof.

You know those Supreme court de-
cisions." said an aged attache OF the
Indianapolis Journals composing room
the other day, "are usually so clear
and simple that on reading them you
imagine you knew it all before. Well,
one day | struck one | didn't under
stand, and began to figure ON how
could find out about it.
The reporter would have taken this
consequence for granted without say
ing. for an Unsuitable anxiety to know
ali about everything that comes within
his ken is the old gentleman's chief
characteristic, and has earned for him
about the office the title of "Searcher
after Truth"
That was shortly after | came here,
some years ago." he continued, "and
| didn't know anybody could go To to
ask. But | had met man several
times on the street whom, from his
appearance, l took to be lawyer. So
the next day when | met him as usual
at the corner of Pennsylvania and
Market streets l touched my hat and
begged a moment of his time. | asked
him if he were not lawyer, and re-
ceiving an affirmative answer, briefly
stated the point in the decision | did
not understand.
81 am not surprised that you did
not comprehend it, said he, with a
smile, for it is point in law that has
gotten somewhat remote from first
principles, but it is correct and logical
enough when reasoned out He then
went on to explain it to me SO clearly
and concisely that when he finished l
half believed | had known it all the
time. Now, if you care to look into
it further, said he, Il have several de-
cisions in my office bearing on the
subject and if you will come up with
me I'll point them out to YOU
81 thanked him, but told him | saw
it very clearly and would not bother
him further. He said it was no trou-
BILE at all; he was glad to be of service
to me and babe me a cordial good day.
when | reached the bottom of the
stairs, half a block away, leading to
the journal office, where the boys
were congregated as usual before 60
ing up to throw in their cases, | was
greeted with chorus of questions,
such as: When did you meet himp'
How did you get acquainted with
himp' and How do you come to be
training with big gunsp'
a. never did get acquainted with
him, replied, until l accosted him
on the street. Who is hep
"'Why, that's Senator Harrisonr
"And yet some of these correspond
ents try to make us believe President
Harrison is an iceberg!"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
One WOman's Way.

She was portly of figure, poor of at
tire and wealthy of words. This is
one way of conveying the idea that she
was Irish. You could have cut up her
brogue with an axe and had enough to
last through hard winter. She
swung by strap in crowded ele-
butchers window. A saddle tinted
gentleman from warmer climate
comfortably reposed in seat directly
in front of her dreaming of the alli-
gators summing themselves on the
muddy banks of the bayous of Louisi-
ana.
"Git up and give me that seat" said
the stout washer lady, kicking the
southern dreamer on the shin.
"Wha! Hoo! Ugh! Wool" cried
the startled colored gentleman. grab
bling that most vulnerable part of his
anatomy and carefully moving it out
of her way.
"Ain't you going to give me that
seat?" she sweetly inquired, swaying
toward him as if getting ready to drop
on him.
The movement alarmed the young
ScE Ill tHe HtNb seat, anu ue
hastily let 90 of his tender mustache
and rose and politely offered his place.
thank you, thank you very much,
sir! You're gentleman, sir, horned
gentleman.
The young man, who had suddenly
become the focus of a good many tit
tering eyes, blushingly acknowledged
the compliment. but looked uneasily
around for II way out of his embarrass-
ment. She continued at the rate of
250 words minute:
Il can tell gentleman every time.
I'll lay that you have good mother,
sir, as knows how to bring children
up. Bless you, sir, see the grace of
God in your face"
But somehow the rest of the folks
didn't see anything of the sort-only a
face as red as boiled beet, and this
they hailed hilariously. While the
unhappy youth fairly ploughed his
way through the crowded aisle to get
out of range the saddle tinted south
ron smiled seven-inch SMILEY. T.
Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
Decision of Character.

England has been made by men OF
resolute and uncompromising char
acter, who had both the courage TO ex-
press their convictions, and the will
ingness to sacrifice themselves at the
call of duty. One of this class was
Rev. Richard Venn, of London, who,
during the reign of George H., actual
ly vetoed the appointment of an i'm
proper person to be Bishop, by threat
ening to appear publicly and oppose
the confirmation.
Nenn's decision of character was so
well known that the Lord Chancellor,
whose interest at court had procured
the appointment, sent gentleman to
threaten or bride the resolute clergy
man into silence The man found
Venn in his study, with his wife and
little boy, the afterward famous Rev.
Venn, and limited that he might be
appointed to the Deanery of Wells,
provided he would desist from his OPP
position to the appointment.
Let the Chancellor know that |
scorn his bribes," answered Mr.. Venn.
Whereupon the gentleman changed his
tone.
you will be ruined. Mr.. Venn, you
will be ruined, and all your familyw
said he.
Mr.. Venn calmly turned to his wife,
who was sewing, and said, MY dear,
could you not support yourself and me
by your needle?"
"Yes, if it were necessary"
Then turning to his son, he said,
Harry, would you not like to be a
Waterman"
"Yes, papa, very much"
There. sir, report what you have
heard to the Chancellor, and tell him
defy him."
The appointment was Cancelled.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
A Humble Christian.

some very good Christians fail to
carry out the scriptural injunction of
turning the other cheek. When they
are reyiled they revile back with con-
siderable bitterness. An old negro
named Uncle Mace keeps little fruit
stand on Austin avenue. He is dea-
con in the Austin Blue Light taber-
nacle, and when camp-meetings are
epidemic his voice can be heard so
plainly by the inmates of the deaf and
dumb asylum on the opposite bank OF
the Colorado river, two miles distant,
that they suffer from insomnia. APP
preaching Uncle Nace's fruit stand
Gilhooly said;
"Do you believe in the Bible, Uncle
Nace?"
Use been a humble follerer OBJ de
Lawd more den fifty yeahs, sab"
IF you believe in the Bible / sup
pose you admit that man is judged
by his fruits?"
Certainly, sab"
If men are judged by their fruits,
what kind of "A man art thou~ asked
Gilhooly, picking up an orange on the
lower side of which was a la.ge decay
ed spot. to which he called the old
mans attention.
The kick this humble praying old
Christian discharged Mt Gilhooly made
hole in the awning five feet over his
head, and the language he used would
have done credit to Il deputy sheriff.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
A Hunters Luck.

A hunter who had spent a eonsidera-
BILE part of the day in an unsuccessful
quest for game, and had discharged
his shotgun many times without re-
suit, caught sight, on his way home,
of a superb pigeon well up in an oak
tree which grew on a very steep hill
side
The hunters gun was charged with
powder, but he was entirely out of
Shot. In this emergency, and resoly-
ing firmly that he would have the
pigeon. he sat down on the ground,
took Gu. his pocket-knlfe, and with it
pulled several nails out of the sole of
his shoe. With these he loaded his
gun.
The pigeon still sat in his place. The
hunter aimed, and fired, and the pigeon
was nailed to a branch of the oak tree
with shoe-nails.
The hunter was almost in despair,
seeing the game apparently fastened
beyond his reach. But he climbed the
tree, assembled with difficulty to the
place where the pigeon hung, and had
just taken the bird off, when he lost
his footing and fell through the air.
As chance would have it the hunter
landed in the midst of a hare's nest.
He began to roll rapidly down the
steep and slippery hillside; but before
he did so, he seized large hare firm
ly by the hind legs.
Rolling downward, the hunter slid
plump into the mids of covey of
cartridges; and striking about him
with the hare, he succeeded in killing
nine of these admirable birds.
He then picked himself up ard took
himself homeward with his pigeon, his
hare and his cartridges, well satisfied
with the result of his shot
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
Under Difficulties.

A charity concert was to be given
on shipboard, says the author of "A
Winter Cruise in Summer Seas" but
on the appointed day the wind and
sea rose and almost every passenger
succumb bed to sea-sickness. So rough
did it become that men and women
lay prone in the cabin, catching at any
visible means of support" in order to
escape being hurled against the walls.
All day long had the manager of the
concert paper and pencil in hand, been
cruising about, interviewing invalids
for particulars of the work they pro-
posed doing for the entertainment.
One minute he might be seen, arm
about stay, trying to make note on
paper, which would suddenly jump
up and poke the pencil in his eye.
Then he would be graphing with a
saloon chair, which would dash at him
and fell him to the floor. A little later
one might see him and a possible per-
former brought together in way to
make them bosom enemies.
This concert agent, having by a
series of athletic exercises reached the
piano, thus addressed the audience:
Ladies and gentlemen" (here he
Unexpectedly sat down on the music
stool), II regret to inform you that
circumstances over which" (here his
head struck the piano. "she has no
control deprive us of the pleasure OF
having Miss song. The doctor
tells me also that, Miss and her
father having this morning fallen
down the companion-ladder, the young
lady has felt rather below par and
must be excused"
Here he clutched at the music on
the piano.
Miss, who was to have sung
Put Me in My Little Bed finds she
has no excuse for the song as she has
not yet got up. Mr. is present
and prepared to play the violin if any
gentleman will kindly hold it for him
as he requires one hand to steady him
self"
Here ne grabbed at friends hair.
"The gentlemen down for recitations
are all present, but the noise caused
by the wind renders reciting difficult
so the captain has lent his speaking
trumpet, by the aid of which we hope
to be able to hear them"
He then produced the trumpet. at the
sight of which an impetuous serambl,
was made for the doors. YOUTHS Com.
ponion.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
French Marketing.

French marketing is sketched by
Mr.. William Henry Bishop in paper
in the atlantic. He says:
Shrewd insidious or grabbed old wo-
men stare hard at you, to throw you
into confusion, if possible, by their
appreciation of the fact that you are a
novice and stranger. They practice
extortion on all hands, and return
impudence, or affect TO toss back their
lettuce or plums into the basket in dis
dain il you attempt to bargain. |
think no masculine mind, in superior
pride of intellect, will be much incln-
ed to smile at the difficulties of MASTER
ING all the new qualities and quanti-
ties of the received kinds of provisions.
and keeping a proper eye out for TAX
ing novelties. To estimate in kilo-
grammes and litres instead of pounds
and quarts, and in francs and centimes
instead of dollars and cents, is simple
enough, grant you, in cold blood ;
but to do it under fire, as it were, and
know where you are in your econo-
mics. is a matter of long and serious
practice. Suppose it is suddenly
sprung upon you, for instance, that
you have eggs to the amount of soix-
ante-dix centimes. mushrooms for
quartre-vingt-quinze and four hektos
of butter at trente-huit the hekto, will
you remember instantly that these
are simply fourteen, nineteen, and
seven and three-iifths cents respective
", and that four hektos is four-tenths
of a kilo, which is two and one-tenth
a.,Iap ehItt1d ff,tab don LAT
It, Then, too, the difficulties of lam
guage come in. However glib you
may be with it, it will not always
serve; for the lower order of people.
the world over, have way of mouth
ing or chopping their words, or chang
ing them into a patois of their own,
which render them all but unintel-
ligible.
"Even if you get them to send a
written account, it isn't much better"
S-was given to complaining, in
these days. "They make their figures
all alike, and nothing is in the least
distinct but the sum total"
However, this is one of the condi-
tions of the problem; it is AL ordeal to
be met,-the earlier and more brave
ly the better. A personal acquaint-
ance with price is indispensable as a
check, even if the marketing is after
wards to be committed to another.
Surely some of the hardships of the
campaign are Offset, too, by the never
failing supply of humorous episodes
that arise, and the bright, busting
character of these market scenes, in
which good part of foreign pictur-
sequences resides.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
A Dead Mans Eye,

at was strange and dreadfully re-
alistic presentiment that the fireman
on the engine which killed Rice had
last night" went on Bockrath, after a
painful pause.
'Since the death of Rice the fireman.
try as hard as he may, cannot drive
the accident from his mind. 1t APP
pears vividly before him at all times
on and oil duty.
Last night after firing up, the fire
man remarked to the engineer: Dan
ny, see the eyes of Pat Rice on the
track
The engineer tried to allay the fears
of the fireman.
that, he replied. i see Pat Rice on
the track, and believe that it bodies
evil-anothcr accident. | am going
up the track
Saying this the fireman jumped
from the cab.
Walking up the track about twenty
five feet he made the dreadful discov-
cry that his presentiment presaging
accident was too true. There, with
his head resting on the rail, was the
body OF a PROSTATE man.
He was lying in exactly the same
way as James Murphy, who was found
yesterday afternoon crushed by flat
car and which was shot out by the
same engine.
The man seemed to be in stupor.
and was removed to position of safe
ty.- Sacramento NeUS.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
AS II Is in IsostOn.

It waG MONDAY in busy downtown
office, and a Boston Herald reporter
was awaiting the return of the man.
ager, when the pretty stenographer
went to the telephone, and after the
usual parley with Central, called:
"Hello. Charley. Are you busy just
nowP"
Apparently Charley was not for she
continues: "Oh, yes, | had lovely
time, but don't you think -"
Here there came strange pause, and
with a pencil she tapped idly on a light
piece of board which she had taken
from her desk, and was holding before
the transmitter.
"a case of wait minute thought
the eayesdropper, alphabetically;
but the pretty girl spoke again, with a
laugh:
81 don't believe it. for heard -"
Then sac began tapping on the board
again. Then the reporter caught on.
She was telegraphing. So when she re-
turned to her desk he remarked: 81
notice you have an original method of
telephoning."
"Oh, did you see that? Well, I'll tell
you about it, but you must not give it
away. You see can't use the tele-
phone here without every one in the
room hearing what / say, and they do
say that those girls in the central office
listen to the conversations over the
wire, and, as Charley and | are both
photographers, we invented this method
of conversation by telephone. Isn't it
great schemep Not one in the office
understands it,"
But young man at an adjacent desk
worked sounder in pantomime and
winked at the Herald man.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01

A stately gentleman was registering
at the Hoffman house desk last night.
A young dude approached and gave
him sharp dig in the small of the back
with his umbrella. The stately gentle
man turned round and scored the dude
hotly. The dude was profusa in his
apologies.
81 beg pardon, he said, "but l mis-
took you for my friend, Mr. Hawkins. !"
."And does Mr. Hawkins like that
sort of thing?" queried the stately
gentleman.-N. Y Journal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
PRINTERS ! Van VIII IT'D

Every thing you want-Cylinder and Job Presses
Yaper cutters, the Latest and Best STYLES of
Type. and all Printers Supplies at our bouse
our Goods are all OF Standard Eastern Make.
HAWKS Il SHATTUoK,
400 Washington Sts
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01

Fifty cents will buy bottle of r. Halls
Pulmonary Balsom for coughs and colds
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
A Literary Cab-Driver.

was very much amused at little
incident with Boston cabman, asked
him to drive me to a number in Mount
Vernon street. Upon reaching there
the "cabbie," holding the door of the
cab open, heard me ask the servant
who was sweeping the sidewalk wheth-
er Mrs. Deland was at home. Being
answered in the negative, | told my
driver to 60 to the next address.
AS l was dismissing him at the close
of the day he said to me:
excuse me, sir, but at the address
in Mount Vernon street to which we
drove l heard you ask for Mrs. De-
land. Is it the author of John Ward,
Preacher who lives there?"
"Yes," replied; "but whyp Do you
know herp"
mo, sir, but | have read her book"
"You haveP" l exclaimed, getting in
terested.
Eyes, sir l have also read her last
one, Sidney but didn't like that as
well as l did John Ward, Preacher. 10
This was a surprise! A literary cab
driver.
why, when do you find time to
readp" asked.
In the evening, after put my horse
up, live with my mother and sister,
and. being all fond of books, we read
aloud to each other. We read quite a
deal. l have read everything, l think,
written by the poet to whose house we
drove this afternoon-Dr. Holmes"
By this time was simply astounded.
"Well," l said, you're regular
literary man. You have never written
yourself l SUPPOSED" ventured.
mot much, sir. Two or three
pieces" came the quick reply.
prose or poetry" | asked.
"Oh, prose, sir. never tried poetry.
had two articles and a story printed
in the papers here. Then l began to
read Herbert Spencer, and l wrote an
article of my impressions of his philoso-
ply. But couldn't get it published.
and got discouraged. And | don't
know but that cab-driving is about as
lucrative as writing to me, at least
he said, as he mounted his box, babe
me goodnight and drove off.
And l was dumbfounded! A cab
driver reading Herbert Spencer and
then writing about him!
Talk about literary Boston! Great
Caesar!-E. W. Box, ia Boston Journal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
LEARNING TO TAKE 1T EASY.
Rich Men Should Take "A Holiday Occa-
sionally And Forget Business.

1T does seem strange to me, said
ex-Congressman West the other day,
"why some business men cling closely
to business all their lifetime. You
laughP Well, business is business. OF
course, and Ben Franklin knew what
he was talking about when he said
something about saving penny every
time you got a chance. But what
mean to say is that business man
needn't be everlastingly drudging away
simply because he is making lots of
money. He should take holiday often,
and at times jolly long one"
Mr.. West stroked his big white beard
and looked up at the ceiling as if try
ing to count the roses in the frescoed
wreaths above the chandelier, and then
went on
Rich men in business, no matter
whether they began business when
they were poor as church mice or
whether they had piles of money be-
fore they got out of their teens, are be-
coming sensible nowadays. | can
count on my fingers ends dozens of
men who twenty-five years ago never
took week off in summer time even.
who were rich as Croesus years and
years before that, and yet who went
to their offices as early as they had to
do when they were clerking it; and
they kept it up till they toppled into
their graves. Why, knew some New
York business men twenty-five years
ago who had never taken an ocean
bath because they had never seen the
ocean beyond the Battery | know a
thing or two about Saratoga, and,
would you believe it, last summer
had as pleasant day as | ever spent
in my life in Ballston with a merchant
of this city who had got out of town for
week for the first time during the
sixty years of his active business life?
Yet that man had always made his
clerks go away for week every sum-
mer, with weeks salary paid in ad-
vance.
Business men don't feel old now
adays because their hair is gray. They
don't save up for the boys by depriv-
ing themselves of needed recreation.
They take their share of the jollities of
life, too, and by jollities | don't mean
jags. And though they don't work as
many hours a day as their fathers did.
they manage to accomplish much more.
Do not forget the danger in burn
ing kerosene lamps turned low. A
lamp burned in this way all night in
a sleeping room is sufficient cause to
make well person i'll and is decidedly
dangerous for weak or sick people.
Either burn a small lamp with wick
turned at the full height or set a
larger one behind a screen that will
shade the light properly. Kerosene
is too cheap to risk breathing the
foul gases from insufficient combust-
ion of the oil, which physicians CON
slider especially hurtful for little chill
dren to inhale.
Fifty cents will buy bottle of R. Halls
Pulmonary Balsom for coughs and colds
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
A Narrow Escape.

Army officer Cat Washington)("Yes,
l have been in the service ten years"
Young LADY, suppose you have
had some narrow escapes?"
Army officer Cunning pale at the re-
collection)-"l had mighty narrow
escape only short time ago"
Young lady (breathlessly)--"What
was itp'
Army ofllcer-"I came very near be
ing ordered West TeraS SiftiR.s.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01
n fet Alligator.

Col. William Sellick of Baton Rouge.
La, has pet alligator that will turn
up its nose at sucking pig and scorn
crying puppy, but runs eagerly to
catch an old shoe or Il piece of super
ANIMATED harness that some charita BILE
person from time to time throws
toward the intelligent saurian.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-01

One of the Afghanistan ameer's latest
acts is to order that funeral expenses
be cut down, because of a verse of the
koran which condemns prodigals to the
lower world.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-07-29

Full ball-bearing, all = around
Boys Velocipedes, So so up.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-07-29

SCRANTON, July N.-John Edmuuds.
employed at the Carbondals Traction com
pany's plant at Mayield, in attempting to
jump upon a moving electric car at JeF.
myn. was thrown under the wheels and
cut TO pieces