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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07
Current News.
The Cruiser New York.

The cruiser New York, the sixth
vessel of that name in the American
navy, is designed to run and fight
equally well, and is especially
adapted to long cruises in foreign
waters. Her bunkers afford coal
space enough for run of 5000
miles, She is a monster, even for
modern times, being $50 feet in
length, 70 feet beam, 23 feet mean
draught, having a displacement of
500 tons, and was designed to have
speed of 1875 knots Her compile
ment of officers and men is 475.
She has four separate engines,
each having a power of 1900 horses.
Two of these work the shaft for the
starboard screw and two for the
port. These engines are so arranged
that they may be disconnected, al
lowing the vessel to cruise under
half power.
The main battery of the New York
will consist of six S-inch rifles of 35
calibers in length, firing an armor-
piercing projectile of 250 pounds
weight. The barbettes on which
these 9-inch guns will be mounted
are to be ten inches in thickness,
and the revolving shields for the
protection of the men working the
guns will be seven inches thick. The
intermediate battery will be COM
posed of twelve 4-inch guns. These
are of the rapid-fire type, and as
they are not too heavy for the use of
fixed ammunition will have great
range, and can be readily concen-
trated, they will form very power
full auxiliary to the main battery.
When one considers that in addi-
ton to the above there will be eight
6-pounder and four 1-pounder rapid
fire guns, mounted in the most ad-
vantageous points aloft and about
the decks, together with four Cat
lings, having ten barrels each, some
idea of the great amount of shot and
shell this vessel can fire may be
formed.
On her trial trip the cruiser New
York steamed across the line May
23, breaking the worlds record and
winning for her builders the largest
premium ever paid in any country.
When twenty-one knots were pre-
dicted as the speed for the. new
cruiser many hoped but few believed
her engines would ever be able to
drive such an immense mass of steel
through the water at that rate.
When she crossed the line, however,
with speed of 21.09 knots through
the water, and some corrections yet
to be added for the tide, the enthusi.
asm on board was intense. This
gives the United States not only the
most powerful, but the swiftest ar
mored cruising vessel.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

To properly plant peach tree, all
medium and large-sized trees should
have the entire top cut off, leaving
only stick Is to IS inches above the
roots, says J. H. Hale. Have all
broken or bruised pieces cut off.
When thus trimmed, plant in good
mellow soil, about two inches deeper
than it had been when growing in
nursery rows. When growth begins
sprouts will come out all along up
the body. All of these should be
rubbed off, except three or four near
the top that must be allowed to grow
to form the main branches of the fu-
ture tree. By proper selection Of
what sprouts to reserve, the trees
may be formed of any desired form
OF head. These new branches will
grow from three to five feet the first
season and to make much stronger
and better formed tree than could
have been possible had not the top
been all cut away when planted.
Don't fail to cut off the entire top
when planting Our Grange Homes.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07
THE HIRED GIRL.
she In Luxury Beyond the Reach of the
Middle Glasses.


No person with q clear judgment
can believe that any considerable
portion of the occupants of houses
in this country would be content to
be served through a cooperative
kitchen and laundry. The New
York Tribune says this is only an
other form of the boarding house,
which always implies the sacrifice of
the individual tastes to the general
tastes of all.
If the increase in the demand for
servants keeps on, and the supply
decreases as it has done, the domes-
tic servant will soon be a luxury be-
yond the reach of any families ex-
cept those of wealth.
Until we obtain workers equal in
numbers to the demand, this problem
will be unsolved. Training schools
for servants are for the few persons
of wealth who are not serious suffer-
ers in this matter. What is needed
most of all is help for the middle
classes, the farmers wives, who keep
one servant, and who are forced to
toll beyond their strength when they
do their own work.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07
Hawaiian A fairs.

DR.. Mott Smith, who until recently
has been the recognized representa-
tive at Washington of whatever gov
ernment there may be at Hawaii,
has returned to Washington. He
confirmed the unofficial announce
ment that Lorin Thurston had been
appointed by the Provisional Gov
ernment of Hawaii its representative
at Washington. At the same time
DR.. Smith is in quandary. The
United States, in DIR. Smiths opin-
ion, never officially recognized the
Provisional Government, now ruling
Hawaii. 1t is true Minister Stevens
recognized the new Government, but
from what Commissioner Blount has
made public it is difficult to under
stand whether the present admins
tration recognizes the Provisional
Government or not. There is a gen
eral belief that Blount is now United
States Minister to Hawaii, but the
appointment has never been officially
promulgated. DR.. Smith, therefore,
is at loss as to his future conduct.
He proposes, however, when Thurs
ton arrives as the new Minister frcm
Hawaii to introduce him to Secretary
Gresham as his successor, and throw
upon Gresham the responsibility of
deciding whom the United States
ecognzes as Minister from Hawaii.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

Mr.. Thomas will conduct nothing but first.
class house, and II cordial welcome will be ex-
tended to all guests.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

The Miners International Confer
ence at Brussels has adopted reso-
luton in favor of eight hours day.
The supporters of the resolution rep
resent nearly 1000, 600 miners; the
opponents only 100000 The con-
ference discussed the question of a
universal strike to enforce the de-
mand. When the question was put
to vote the delegates representing
100000 miners voted in favor of an
international strike, and delegates
representing l20, 900 votes against it.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

A foal may be weaned towards the
end of September or IN October; he
will be better fitted to encounter the
hardships of his first winter if he has
been living out of-doors day and
night through the summer. When
he has learned to eat he should have
his little ration of crushed oats and
bran mash when his dam is having
her feed in the earlier part of the
year; cupful of lime water and lin
seed oil well mixed together and put
into the bran mash once a week is
effective in keeping the skin and
bowels in order.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

A dispatch from Dublin states that
while train on the Tralee and Din
gle Railway was going down a steep
grade it jumped the track on via
duct, and fell fifty feet. Five pas
sengers were killed instantly and
twelve more wounded severely.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07

To relieve pain from bruises, and
prevent discoleration and subsequent
stiffness, nothing is more efficacious
than formentations of water as ho
as it can be borne
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10

after the Unitarian schsm had begun.
Ihis portion of the congregation adopted
Unitarian opinions and beliefs, while DIR.
Holmes remained true TO the old orthodox
creed. The dssenrers, although a major
ity. had not the mower to displace him, for
he was settled for life by a contract with
the parish, and could only be removed by
an ecclesiastical council. which for some
reason was not called. The result
was that the leading men among
the dissenters, III order to gain as
many adherents as they could, held
meeting after meeting in the Old courthouse
on Cambridge square, to discuss and set
forth the Unitarian doctrines and beliefs.
In these discussions the lead was taken by
Mr.. Francis Dana, a citizen of Cambridge,
and uncle of the late Richard II. Dana. Mr..
Francis Dana was an interesting speaker,
thoroughly master of his side of the ques-
tion. The dissenters formed new congre-
CATION, built new Westinghouse and set
tied Unitarian clergyman, leaving DIR.
Holmes and his parishiouers who adhered
to him in possession of the old house. /
think that DR.. Holmes, when the old meet
ing-house was taken down, resigned his
cure. The remnant of the old congregation
built new Westinghouse and settled
clergyman of the orthodox creed, the Rev.
Mr.. Blagden, from Washington, ID. c.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
"REMINISCENCES OF HoLMEs.
George Ticl<nor Curtis, College Man,
Tells of the Old Harvard DAYS.


DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes. whose last
public appearance was at meeting of the
National Educa tional Association, held In
Boston ON the 23d ult., is just three years
my senior; but have witnessed the whole
of his career as poet and man of letters.
He graduated at Harvard in 1928 in the same
class with my brother, the late Judge Ben
ismin r. Curtis i graduated in 1892
Holmes was, think, the youngest member
Of his class, and he WAS always extremely
youthful in appearance. He was senior
while l was freshman, and l was at that
time but slightly acquainted with him. l
remember, however, that he was, even then,
among his classmates. celebrated for his
humor and brilliant conversation. At a
little later period / knew him very well.
He was The eldest son of the Rev. DIR.
Holmes, who was for great many years
minister OF the congregation wOrshiping in
the wooden Westinghouse which stood on
Cambridge square adjoining the college
grounds. This was enc of the typical New
England meetlDg-h0uSss; wooden build
ing, Two stories IN height, with steep gable
rooi, tower al one end containing belfry
and q ia spire above it with the inevitable
rooster" Tor vane. III the interior there
were galleries on three sides. The pull
Dit was carved wooden structure painted
white, which was aseended by fight of
steep stairs. The reading desk was sur
mounted by faded green velvet cushion.
In THIS Westinghouse the commencement
exercises were held in my day
Inc president of the university was
seated in the pulpit in his cap aud gown.
The members OF the corporation, the over
seers and the professors were seated on a
earpeted platform in front of tho pulpit.
the graduating class being seated in pens In
the broad aisle. The president called out
Ia Latin. "Expectatur CRATIC IN Iingua YER
nacua." Storrow. In n black silk gown.
assembled the platform, bowed to the audi
ence and began his GRAFTON. He was the
first scholar in his graduating class
He became an eminent civil engineer.
and built many works OF the locks and
canals at Lowell. DR.. Holmes. the father
of Oliver Wendell, became involved in a
controversy with part of his Pensioners,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
Making Sickness Pay.

Making sickness pay is something that
very people could do twenty years ago."
said DR.. Charles F. Bridge of Santa Fe,
n NJ, who is at the Lindell. But now
profitable invalidism is within the reach
OF everybody. l never knew il. though,
until recently. L was in New York two
weeks ago and met a friend of mine,
a printer, who said he was just out of a
sick-bed to which he had been cOnnned for
three months. l extended my sympathy
and incidentally suggested that the loss
of his wages must have been as severe
blow almost as the interruption to his
health. He surprised me by saying that
he made money by getting sick and
staying sick. He earns $50 a
week when sound, but when sick he earns
$50 week. This is how he does it: His
salary runs on il the Office in which he
works; he belongs to three benefit societies
in the building, each of which pays him SO
a week during illness, and he draws the re-
naming $50 in sick benefits from the Free
masons. Knights of Pythias and Odd Eel
lows. He pays % cents a week Into each
benefit association and meets certain assess
ments made occasionally by the three secret
orders of which he is a member. He can
draw benefits from the benefit societies as
long as he is sick, but the benefit paying
period is limited to thirteen weeks by the
secret orders. With one weeks sick earn
ings my friend pays the dues for whole
year in all the organizations to which he
belongs"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
Absurdities of the Modern Romance.

Frederic Harrison in the April Forum.
II another Dickens were to break ont tn.
morrow with the rlOtous toml0olery of
Pickwick at the trial, orof Weller and Sti0-
gins. thousand lucid criticisms would de-
nounce it as vulgar balderdash. Glancus
and Nydia at Pompe would be called
melOdramatic rant The House of the
Seven Gables" would be rejected by six
penny magazine, aud Jane Eyre would
not rise above a common Checker"
Hence she enormous growth OF the
Kodak" school of roman ce-the snapshots
ut everyday realism with a hand camera
We know how 1t IS done. a woman of 40
stout, plain and dull, sits in an ordinary
parlor at a tea-table near an angular gill
with a bad squirt. "Some tea?' said Mary.
touching the pot. 81 don't mind,'' replied
Jane, IN careless tone; Il am rather tired.
and it is a dull dayp 1T is" said Mary,
as her laek-lustre eyes glanced a the murky
SKY without; another cupH And SO the
modern romance dribbles on.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
Imperial Telephone Etiquette.
New York sun.


Emperor William ii has his own i'm
perial way of using the telephone.
Despite mistakes caused by the Emperor's
refusal 10 name himself at the opening of
his conversation. as other people do, he In
variably introduces his telephoned orders
merely with the words, II command that"
and so forth.
As soon as chief Of department hears
these words lie motions that his subordi-
mates must at once leave the ROOM The
significance OF this arrangement is sup
posed to be that the chief is having some
thing of an audience with his Majesty, and
that it would be presumption for person
not summoned TO hear the imperial voice TO
occupy the room into which its tones are
conveyed.
AT the.end of the conversation the En-
peror walks away without saying good by"
and the chief with whom he has converSed
must listen for five or six minutes afterward
10 make sure That the imperial orders have
been completed.
Tnen he calls back his assistants, and the
usual etiquette is resumed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
lie Dies Regularly Once a Week.


An Italian, who cannot he other than a
most remarkaD Die imp0stor, has been PLAYING
wonderful tricks upon the good people Of
THIS in tie Caucasus. Russia. His name
is Tagarelli. and, while lie cannot be termed
an Italian in the strict sense of the word.
having been born in Russia Of parents born
in the same country. ii is known that he is
OF that extraction. He is known all over the
land OF the Car as THE Dying Prophet"
his ability to delude The public depending on
a queer faculty he has for dying and return
ing to lie once every week. A person who
has viewed the situation on the ground SAYS:
" The audacity of his pretensions, the skill
with which they are maintained and, above
all. the profound effect produced upon all
who come in contact with him, have no
parallel In history. He is most extraordi-
nary being, ana if lie is an impostor then he
is the most marvellous impostor of the age"
he dies, to all appearances, and the 0rdi-
nary death tests declare that life is extinct.
While In this condition he declares that his
spirit visits "the other world" but which
of the two he viii not tell. All that he will
divulge In regard to his doings while on
these trips" is that he examines the Book
OF Life, and that be can tell the spiritual
standing OF every person who cares enough
about it to make Inquiries.
What folly To be without Beeehain's Pills.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
NEWS FROM BERKELEY.
Arrangements for This Years Univer-
sity Extension Work.

sity Extension Work.
The Trustees have issued the election
ordinances. They call for an election to be
held Ma s of the following town officers:
Three Trustees for two years, two School
Directors for three years. Town Marshal
(ex-officio Tax Collector, Town Clerk, an
Assessor. Treasurer, and two Constables.
The ordinance also states that as more than
one-fifth Of the electors of the town had re-
quested 1t, the question of reorganization as
a city Of the ifth class. under the laws of
the State. will be submitted to the electors
at the May election.
Professor Eugene w. Hilgard. head Of the
department of agriculture, who has been
travelling in EurOte for the past year. win
return to Berkeley next July.
Miss Ethel Bradshaw has been elected
class prophecies by the seniors.
The Skull and Keys Club win present
play during commencement week.
BEGINNING with next Saturday Professor
Joseph LIE COnte will deliver series of
weekly lectures on Reproduction" Pro-
lessor lie Conte gives the course yearly, but
it Is open only to upper classmen.
Recently tho San Francisco Board of Ed
ucati0n senta communication to the faculty
of the university desiring its professional
aid in the appointment of the city's teach
ers In resDonse the faculty has elected a
committee to assist the San Fran cisco board,
which consists of Professors Brown, Bacon.
Gayley, Stringham and Whiting.
committee of the regents has carefully
considered the matter of university extern
sion. 1t sees three difficulties in systematic
development Of extension courses The
large area of the State. the distance to be
travelled, the bare sGfiiclency of the corps of
Instructors for its present duties and the
increased expenditure OF funds.
1t advises the present course to he given
in San Francisco only, courses to be given
in Oakland and Los Angeles on specia! re-
quest. All work must be of university
grade, and no class may number less than
twelve. Each course will consist of eighteen
lectures, to be given weekly, commencing
six weeks after the opening of the college
and continuing without iutermission. A
course fee OF 50 50-or % cents for n single
lecture will be required. Regular instruc-
tors will give the courses without increase
in their salary or dminution OF their uni
versity duties, although departments doing
extension work will be allowed fellows To
strengthen the department at a salary of
5000 year.
A secretary, who will receive a salary.
will have charge of the extension work in
courses. William ID. Armes has been APP
pointed secretary for the coming year.
Five courses will be given next year in San
Francisco.
The University German Dramatic Club
will present play at Saratoga Hall on
April q.
The Science Association will hold gen.
Pral open meeting at South Hall tomorrow
evening. Mr.. Marsden Manson Will read a
paper on the Importance of North Pacific
Weather Stations"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
= THE MANDRAKE.
Peculiar Forms Assumed by This
Peculiar Plant.

st Louis Republic.
The mandrake ri Britain (Which some
botanists declare to be similar to il not
identical with our May APPLE has more
folklore and genuine mystery clustering
about IL than any other plant or shrub with
which the writer is acquainted.
The very name means ''man-form;" this
from the ancient idea that the roots were
formed in Initiation of mans body. The
cid books on botany (herbals) figured male
and female specimens of mandrake, the
males having long boards and the females
being well provided with "w0man'S crown
ing beauty"-long, wayy hair. Away back
in NEUROLOGICAL times the mandrake was
known by name which signihed 'heaveE-
borD, and was popularity thought TO be an
ELF that had fallen from heaYenI
In England. in primeval times, the
plant was said to only grow under
gallows or in field where murder
had been committed IL 1t grew under
gallowS. 1t was, of course. according to the
ideas of those days, caused by this drippings
OF corruption which fell from the culDrits
body; for, it must be rememb ered, in olden
times felons were hung in Chains and al
lowed to remain hanging until every snred
OF flesh fell from the bones. Another SUI
perstiti0n in regard to this plant was this,
that 1t would shrek ana grOaE most terribly
when being fOrcibly removed from the
ground, whether by design or through acct
uent, as I'D piOwlng or In digging vegetables.
This latter belief is alluded to in the fol-
lowing poeiical quotation
Mark how that rooted mandrake wears
His human feet, his human hands;
Oft as his Shaprly form he rears,
AghaSt the frighted plowman stands.
Witches, who used mandrake in making
some OF their "hellish potions," we'll knew
the fright they would get should they essay
TO remove a mandrake root from the soil by
main strength of band; therefore they al.
ways tied moon string" to dog and the
other END to mandrake root, thus. as
Stowe saws. so exercising the
baleful influence of the plant rs to be able
TO remove it from even hard earth without
1t making groans or noises to the least
extent"
While engaged in unearthing some bulbs
from her garden a few months before her
death Mary Queen of Scots is said to have
pulled up mandrake, the roots of which
were curled and twined so as to represent
a scaffold and woman prepared for the
block
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10

trmly into The head stall. so that they
could not be shaken out of place. AT
hrst the animal appeared startled by
this addition 10 his harness, but he soon
got used to his glasses and liked them so
much that when he was turned out 10
pasture he felt uneasy and uncomfortable
without his goggles, and one Sunday
hung around the barn and whinnied so
plalnilvely that the owner put the head
stall and goggles on him, and the horse
was so glad that he rubbed the mans
shoulder with his nose as the only
method of returning thanks. Dogs who
suffer from shortsightedness have also been
provided with spectacles, and have been
able thereby to recognize their canine
acquaintances much farther off than before.
III the system Is not carried much farther
no great harm will be done, but suppose
"upplsh" horses and dogs insist upon dis
carding goggles for the pince-nez or even
the monocle. Puppies in eyeglasses would
he intolarahia
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
A Remarkable Experience.


The most remarkable experience which
l had abroad" said a woman Just home.
who went over last fall. happened before
l touched foreign shore
AT Bremen, where we landed, we were
taken off IA tug. AS we were steaming to
the wharf we approached very close TO a
vessel crossing our path, and for few Sec
onds collision seemed imminent.
"A man whom / had noticed on the pass
age over, but did not know at all, COM
pleiely lost his head at this crisis.
He was sitting near me, but he suddenly
rose. took off his nigh hat, Put IL In my lap,
and with the hasIy exclamation, Please
keep this leaped overheard.
Though every attempt was made TO
rescue him he was drowned there before
our eyes, and l landed a short time later.
carefully holding bis silk hat, which by his
last Will and testament was certainly.
though most useles5Iy and gruesomely.
mine"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10
A Change for the BETTER.

After using timber props and Orders for
over twenty years, the engineers Of the
West HOughton England Coal and Camel
Company have adopted metal in their place.
The first experiments were made on
main road. about ten feet wide, in
one of the collieries. This was secured
by iron props and steel girders and
covered with three eighths inch
boier-plate, the girders being about three
feet apart. This was done about six years
ago, and il has not yet been necessary to
take out or replace a single girder. Super
intendent Isaiah Johnson states that the
company now has about 1900 feet of main
roads secured in this manner, and that on
nearly all Of them the best timber (arch)
had to be removed formerly at least every
twelve months