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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
A Good Time to Go Cunning.

John Hummel, the noted gunner and
narrator of wonderful tales, was in
town on Monday. He was full of those
big cunning stories about himself, and
wherever he stopped he drew crowds of
boys and men, who listened to his awful
tales in establishment. John has brand
new book with this years record in it,
and it contains figures that are astound-
ing. His greatest game this summer
has been groundhogs, and according to
his figures he has killed several freight
cars full of them. He has also given
considerable attention to butterflies,
bees, ants, etc.
He was sorry that he had to come to
town ON business, for he would have
killed thirty-six groundhogs had he re-
manned at home. He said that he went
out cunning the other day and ground
hogs were SO plentiful that the barrels
of his gun became hot from shooting.
His coat sleeve took fire from the gun
and it almost burned off. He then set
the gun against a fence and post took
fire from it. He says that he has new
way of shooting turkeys when people
request him to slaughter such fowls. He
shoots load of shot against a cows
horn and when they strike they glance
off and kill turkeys mile off.-Lan-
caster (Pa.) Intelligencer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Woman and the Confidence Game.

A promised rattle for gold watch
was to have taken place at R. H. Pettit's
store Saturday evening, but it never
took place. A number of the ticket
holders were on hand, but the person
who was to give the rattle, young
woman, failed to show up. After wait
ing some time it began to dawn upon
the people who came that they had been
well duped.
A number of days ago good looking
young woman, stranger, who said her
name was Miss Clifford, called ON Mr..
Petit at his store. She showed him a
jeweled gold watch and obtained his
consent to have the timepiece raffled at
his store. Together with another wom-
an, supposed to be her mother, Miss
Clifford went all over the town and sold
large number of tickets at fifty cents
each. The last heard of the two women
was that they had been seen with valises
in hand travelling in the direction of the
depot Saturday morning. These women
are evidently confidence people.-Sacra-
mento Bee.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

Dessert dishes made with peaches are
the most delicious connections of pastry
imaginable. One of the most accepta-
BILE and easiest to prepare is peach cob
bier. To make it fill a deep pie dish or
pudding dish with ripe, peeled peaches,
leaving in the pits. Add cold water TO
half fill the dish, sugar to taste, and
cover with light pie paste rolled twice
as thick as if for pies. Cut Sits across
and prick with a fork. Bake about
three-quarters of an hour. In serving
cut the crust into sections, lay each piece
upside down upon the plate and pile the
peaches upon it. Serve with sweet cream.
Bavarian cream, with peaches, makes a
delicious and handsome dessert, and re-
quires very little time for preparation.
The ingredients required are two quarts
of milk, one cupful Of sugar, four eggs
and one package Of gelatin. Soak the
gelatin in one cupful of milk and put
the rest of the milk over the fire in ia
rina kettle When it nears the boiling
point put the gelatin in, add the sugar,
and when the gelatine is dissolved add
the'yolks of the eggs strained. Cook five
minutes and then pour into molds. When
it has thickened to about the consistency
Of custard. cut up the peaches and ar
range in layers, with the cream in the
mold. Beat the whites of the eggs with
half teacupful of sugar. When the
mold of cream is turned out pile this
meringue about it.-Demorest's.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

Some time ago the labor of deepening
the harbor of Ciotat was completed. On
that occasion the contractor gave to the
members of his staff and the representa-
tives of the press a banquet unprece.
dented for its originality. The tabl5
was set eight meters below the level of
the sea, at the very bottom of the harbor,
inside the caisson in which the ex-
cavators had been at work, and only the
narrow walls of this caisson separated
the guests from the enormous mass of
water around and above their heads.
The new fashioned banqueting hall was
splendidly decorated and lighted, and
but for certain buzzing in the ears
caused by the pressure of air, kept up
in the chamber in order to prevent the
thrush of the water, nobody would have
suspected that the slightest interruption
in the working of the airpump would
have sufficed to asphyxiate the whole
party. After the banquet an improvised
concert prolonged the festivity for sew
eral hours, after which the guests reas-
cended into the open air.-Vita Che 81
Viye,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Mourning BoOtblacks,

The shoeblacks are almost in despair
AS the fall approached they have been
watching and waiting for the dictators
of fashion to declare against the russell
leather shoes. On the contrary, the
makers of fashionable footgear say that
this fall the yellow shoes will be more
popular than ever and that quite likely
they will be worn during the winter also.
While the inventive genius of some mass
i've intellect has prepared patent yell
low polish, for which the shoeblacks
charge ten cents for each application,
they do not find anything SO profitable
as the old black calfskin shoes which
had to be polished every day, and some
times night and morning. The yellow
shoes, l notice, are being worn more and
more every day.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Boarded by q Monster Tarpon.

A day or two ago the schooner Flour
Bluff, Andrew Anderson, captain, and
John Anderson, mate, was passing
through Flour Bluff channel some eight
or ten miles down the coast from Corpus
Christi. Everything was running along
smoothly when suddenly the smoothness
was broken by 6-foot tarpon landing
on deck.
The big fish at once began making
things interesting on the boat, and for q
few moments the sailors contemplated
seriously leaving their vessel and "tak-
ing to the woods" They finally regained
control of their nerve and decided to
have it out with the fish, so one of them
seized an ak and the others handspikes
and at the tarpon they went. The
struggle was long and fierce, and one of
the sailors there were five of them in alD
was knocked overheard by coming in
contact with the tarpons tail. A rope
was thrown him and he was pulled back
ON deck. At last the fish succumbed to
the repeated blows of the ak and hand
spikes and lay along the deck as dead as
mackerel.-Cor. San Antonio Express
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

During the winter and spring months,
nature by its heavy rainfalls fills the
earth with an abundance of water, to
have a reserve supply for the dry sum-
mer scissor months, during which time
there is but little rain. Then nature
draws from its storehouse moisture
stored away many months before.
Man has not been given power to make
the rain descend, but while it is stored
in natures storehouse he has it largely
in his power to control evaporation.
He can draw on natures storehouse
whenever his crops need it. equally as
well as he would draw ON his bank &C.
count. But how can a farmer have any
controlling influence over the water
stored up in the bowles of the earth
as many may think, yet it
10 true that we have every power to
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
The boundaries of Oxford.

The custom, which is only observed
at rare intervals, of perambulating the
boundaries of the city of Oxford, Eng
land, was followed this year, and was
of more than usual Importance owing
to the fact that the boundaries had been
largely extended since the last occasion,
when a tour was made six years ago.
The mayor and other members of the
corporation in their robes left the city
buildings at o'clock in the morning,
preceded by band and the city mace
bearers.
During the day many amusing Incl
dents took place, some of which might
have proved dangerous. At Wolvercote
there was dispute about the boundary,
and a clergyman who opposed the city
forces was somewhat roughly handled.
At the Cherwell punts were used, and
the one containing the mayor, the sheriff
and several members of the corporation
and the mace bearer, with the mace,
was upset in the middle of the stream
London Letter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Stop the Little Leaks.

We took long drive through the
country recently during heavy rain
storm. 1t was not very pleasant work,
but it gave us chance to observe
some things. One was that upon the
majority of farms which we passed the
dripping rain from the barn roofs fell
directly ON the manure, and from that
the rich, black water ran off in rivulets
and gullies until it found an outlet by
which it could get entirely away from
the farm. Probably the owners of the
farms had seen the same thing a hun
dred times and had made no effort to
correct it, but we had just as soon leave
our pocketbooks out for every passer to
help himself to little change as to see
our substance wasted away in that
manner. The short-sightedness of
some men in little things is one Of the
most prevalent causes of non-success
and it occurs as often on the farm as
elsewhere. Now that the busy season
is over, would it not be good idea to
look around and see where there are
little leaks that can be stopped?
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
hats for the Season.

"My halter" every well dressed man
has a hatter) was asked about mems
hats. What was TO be the thing and so
on, for these are things about which
men want to know, and the women are
Just as anxious about the subject. No
woman who cares rap about her hus-
band is uninterested in the sort of hat
he wears. He can wear any sort OF
collar, and she won't notice the differ
ence, but when it comes down to hats it
must be in accordance with her idea--at
least she thinks so. This is what the
halter of one man told him:
OF course you will have derby. 1t
won't be the same old derby, but it will
be a derby. The fashion in derbies is in
the height or the lowness of the crown
or in the brim. Otherwise it is the same
old derby. The straw hat had its day,
for the season is over. | never sold as
few white plug hats in my life as have
this season. Usually presidential year
brings out some sort of campaign hat.
It hasn't been so this summer. Time
was in presidential year when you
could tell mans politics by the hat he
wore, but it can't be done any more-at
least not this campaign.
How many black silk hats have you
seen worn by well dressed men this
year? OF course there will always be
silk hats, but | am almost persuaded
that the hatmakers are just now hesitat-
ing. The time is ripe for something new
in mems headgear. | hardly know what
to advise you to buy-that is, if you are
going to confine yourself to one hat.
There will be hat for the season, yes.
But 1t won't be alarmingly new. 1t is
too bad, for in other respects the Amer
lean gentleman is the best dressed man
in the world.-Chicago Tribune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

The large art schools of the country
significantly indicate the direction art is
taking. Among them the Woman's Art
school of the Cooper union affords a
suggestive example, and its sister schools
throughout the country tell the same
story of the broadened intellectual life
of women. When we allude to the
schools of Boston, Philadelphia, San
Francisco and Washington, and mention
the new buildings that have lately been
erected for museums and schools in
Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago,
and speak of the art departments con.
nected with Harvard or Yale, in which
women have equal opportunities with
men for study, to say nothing of the
studios filled with art collections at such
women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley
and Smith, we see how large a field art
now occupies, without counting the
myriad children now learning to draw
in the public schools of the United
States.-Mrs. S. N. Carter in North
American Review.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

The least appreciated worker in the
community is the school teacher One
of them retired from the New York
public schools the other day after fifty
seven years of service -fifty-seyen years
of molding human character in the
nations household, and the nation ac-
cepts the service with the same COM
placency as though she had been cook
ing pies instead of morals. It's an
achievement to make good pies, but it's
greater achievement to cook good
morals. They receive small measure of
homage-do school teachers, and they
are not an envied class of workers. The
field is trife narrow to the outside OBJ
server, but some one has to work in the
narrow field.
In all vocations there are rules that
govern routine work There is good
bit of red tape in modern educational
fields. a good many ledgers and day
books to be kept and schedules to be
made out, and minutes and hours are
accorded due Importance, but for the
inner workings of the educational ma
chine there are no rules. There are no
rules bearing on attrition, on the moral
sensibilities, on the sympathy between
teacher and pupil, on the sentiment that
must live in the breast of these foster
mothers of the nation to make them a
success in their vocation. The monetary
compensation for this work is merely
nominal.
Fifty-seven years of teaching-think
of it!
Eleven thousand four hundred days
by actual count-22,S 800 times of re-
spending to the call of the school bell
reception committee to horde of ar
rant young anarchists, whose mothers
bless their absence for the peace it
brings.-New York Recorder.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
A Twentieth Child.

Monroe county can boast of wonder
full child. 1t has little girl only six
years old who is musical prodigy. She
can play on the piano any piece she ever
heard and fancied. Her hands are not
larger than child's of four years. She
is too small to get on the piano stool, yet
she plays well and with ease, and just as
well when blindfolded. She is daugh-
ter of w. FL. Thurman, and strange to
say she is the twentieth child, without a
funeral in the family except that of his
wife. He is the inventor of the Thur
man car coupler. The little girl is
named Vivian, is pretty child and can
play almost whole day, always diff
ferent tune.-Griffin (Ga.) News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Stole His Stories,

Stephen Bonsal, the young American
newspaper man, whose story of the
quarrel at Fee between the British Min
lister and the Sultan was recently tho
sensation of the day in England, has an
extensive rod in pickle for F. Hopkinson
Smith. Mr.. Bonsal says that he met Mr..
Smith on the Bulgarian frontier, and
sat up all night telling him stories of
travel and adventures in the interior of
the country. Great was his surprise
when he found that the author had
made these incidents the basis of a
magazine article, written as If from the
standpoint Of Mr.. Smiths personal ex-
perience and observation.-Lon
Letter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
A Very Peculiar Ailment.

There is peculiar case near Barbour
vile, w. Va, which is attracting the
attention of the medical fraternity of
this whole section of the country. 1t is
a case of general bone breaking without
an apparent cause. Mrs. Kelly, wife of
Peter Kelly, well known citizen, Is the
victim of this peculiar disease, which
the local surgeons and doctors. for want
of better name, call fragilitas osium.
Mrs. Kelly, who is delicate lady, was
Just getting around after a long and
serious illness when, few nights since,
she got out of bed and started down
stairs to get drink of water.
When but few steps down one of the
bones of her right leg broke with Pc
culiar glasslike snap, without having
come in contact with anything, and from
no apparent cause. She called her hus-
band, and he picked her up and started
back toward the bedroom with her, when
the bones of her right and left arms
broke in several places with the same
peculiar snap heard and felt by the
woman when the first fracture occurred.
Mrs. Kelly was carried to her bedroom
and laid on her bed, when the bones Of
her left leg broke in the same manner.
A surgeon was Immediately sent for.
He set the broken limbs and bandaged
them. Mrs. Kelly said that she felt no
pain when any of the fractures occurred,
and that the setting and bandaging of
her broken limbs occasioned her not the
slightest discomfort Baltimore Ameri-
can,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Experimenting with Chickens.

The Experiment Station at Calhoun,
Ala, has been making some tests Of
gg-producers and general purpose
fowls. Here are the results:
The Plymouth Rocks have led, fol-
lowed closely by brown Leghorn, Ham
burg, Houdan- Minorca and Langshan.
Previous to this year the Leghorns have
made the best record for egg produc-
ton for three successive years. The
Plymouth Rocks, however, had the
advantage of the run Of the place.
1t is impossible to maintain purity of
the breeds without close confinement,
and yet such confinement is very preju-
dicial to health and egg production.
The European breeds are all great
spring and summer layers, are small
and non-setters. 1t is pretty we'll
established that the Leghorns are the
best egg producers of all the breeds.
The Asiatics are generally good win
ter and early spring layers, and make
excellent mothers, and are good table
fowls
The Langshams stand at the head of
the list, and are regarded as one Of the
best general purpose fowls.
The Plymouth Rocks are also good
winter and spring layers, and make
excellent mothers they are hardy, of
quick growth, and good table-fowls.
OF the breeds mentioned, the Lang
shan and Plymouth Rocks are consider
ed the best general purpose fowls; the
Leghorns or Hamburgs the best egg
producers. Such are the conclusions
reached after several years experience,
the hens being confined during the time
in small pens and fed only ON vegeta-
BILE products raised ON the farm. Were
wide range possible for them the re-
suit mig be different.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Fear and Cholera.

A striking example of the effects Of
fear in times of cholera is the following
authentic fact, which is recorded in the
newspapers Of that time:
In 1853 or 1854, now forget which,
we had the cholera in Wien (Vienna).
The professors at the great general hos
pital in the Alserstrasse had their hands
full. A man of the name of Franz Hol-
riegl was then awaiting sentence of death
for murder, and the director of the hos.
pital presented a petition to Emperor
Franz Josef to grant full pardon to
this man providing the culprit in re-
turn would consent to sleep in bed
from which corpse of cholera victim
had just been removed.
The emperor granted full pardon
under the aforesaid condition, and the
condemned man was only too glad to
comply. He was taken into the hospi-
tai and ordered to lie down at once in the
same bed from which in his presence
the corpse was removed. The man I'M
dressed and went to bed. In less than
half an hour he began vomiting and in
six hours he died from cholera.
The man died of cholera, which he
took from fright. The corpse removed
from the bed was not that of a cholera
victim, but Of man who met his death
from gunshot wound. The expert
ment did not take place in the cholera
wing, but in the ward for skin diseases
Washington Star.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

control evaporation. We may hasten
or retard evaporation. To hasten soil
evaporation we need only let the show
ers, which are generally heavy, pack
the soil without stirring or loosening it
and we hasten evaporation. To retard
evaporation we must pillow deep, as the
nature of the soil may require, some
deeper than Others.
Never pillow when the furrow Is
Shiny, it being then too wet; or the soil
will pack. Break the clods and har-
row it until it is in finely pulverized
condition. Plant the seed whether
corn or potatoes, work the soil every
time it rains or as soon after as the
ground is fit to be worked. Under any
circumstances do not neglect it for q
day after being fit to work, neither
work it too wet. The first working
may be four or more inches deep, then
as the fibrous roots or their feeders
spread, less, until finally the soil is
merely scratched an inch deep. Never
break or Enjure the feeding rootlets.
In thus working the soil capillary
attractions are broken and as the mois-
ture or evaporation rises in the packed
earth to where it reaches the loose, fine
worked soil, which acts as a mulch, it
stops, is condensed, moistening the soil
and feeding vegetation by its moisture.
With proper attention crop of corn
or potatoes may be grown without any
rain after planting, providing the store
house was we'll filled when planted.
In dry weather, work one crop at least
every ten days, which will assist nature
in condensing the vapor rising upward.
By keeping the soil fine and loose, you
will not be troubled with weeds.
Packed soil is the weeds delight.
Weeds take up great amount of mois-
ture at the time most needed by crops,
robbing them of the necessary plant
food and the return of your labor. In
hard packed soil, the evaporation rises
up through the packed earth until it
reaches the surface, escapes and is lost.
By utilizing the water thus stored in
the earth the crops will pay abundantly
for the little extra labor given in clean
cultivation, besides keeping an earth
mulch retarding evaporation. B.
X. Johnson, Lehigh Co., Pa.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Root Grating.

Seeding trees of one years growth
can readily be grated. The young
trees are first washed to free them from
grit. The top is cut off at the collar,
with smooth, sloping cut about an
inch long. A lien is prepared by cut
ting about three inches long with the
same kind of cut ON the lower end
the cut ON the root being, of course, ON
the upper end. In each of these two
sloping cuts slit nearly three.quarters
of an inch is made, allowing the knife
to enter about one-third of an inch from
the thin end. This makes two tongues,
as they may be called, each to be fitted
into the slit in the other and pushed
firmly together and made to agree, at
least ON one side. Wrap them with
thread or soft Irvine to hold together.
In nearly all cases it will be necessary
to trim off the roots in proportion to the
top. This work can be done during
the winter if proper care is taken TO
pack away in a damp cellar and kept
till spring, when they can be planted
out.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07

In sheer logged patience nothing can
surpass the Chinese race. A pious man,
whose exploits were recently noticed in
the Chinese papers, has become a candi-
date for the highest distinction of holi-
ness by undertaking to sit on his moth
er's grave for three years. He has al
ready sat there for some months in o
rude hut provided by the charity of his
friends. He is an object of devout curl
osity to all the visitors to the cemetery,
and it is confidently expected that when
he has sat out his term the matter will
be reported to the throne, and he will
receive a suitable provision for life
London News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-07
Profit of SLABS from Eight Acres.

j. G. Russell, who owns large tract
of land about two and one-half miles
north of Traver, has nearly completed
harvesting his peach and nectarine crop
from eight acres on his ranch. There
are about five acres of peaches and three
of nectarines. From the peaches he has
now harvested $4,000 pounds of dried
peaches, which, at thirteen cents
pound, the price now quoted, would net
him $1,000. 1t will cost him 1896 to
harvest this crop and market it, which
will leave him a Net profit of 81, 425, or
$285 per acre. The nectarine crop has
done nearly as well, the difference being
only in the price of the two fruits. Mr..
Russell has hired all his work done, and
therefore the expense account is correct
and covers everything.-Fresno Call
Advance.