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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Eighty million dollars in bills were re-
ceived at Atlanta day or two ago, the
mammoth packages of money filling five
large dry goods boxes and making in all
a drayload. None of the bills was cur
rent, however, as they represent moth
ing in Gods earth now and naught in
the waters below it." They were Con-
federate bills of the rarest type. The
huge pile of genuine Confederate money
was shipped from Richmond, the former
capital of the Confederacy and is now
the property of Charles D. Barker of At
lanta. The money is of every denom-
nation issued by the departed nation,
and in the big collection are bills of the
rarest type. There are bills issued dur
ing every year of the war. Thousands
of them are very valuable as relics, but
the great number of them Mr.. Barker
has on hand will make them so common
as to bring but little on the market.
This $50, 200, 900 of Confederate money
has been all along supposed to have been
destroyed. This is undoubtedly the
largest lot of Confederate money in the
world. -Savannah News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
Ricycle Sulky Records.

The veteran reinsman, Budd Doble,
who drove Dexter when he made his IA
nous record years ago and piloted Nam
cy Hanks to the wire in 2:O4 last season,
agrees that the new records are not to be
discounted because made with the pneu-
matte sulky.
1.-THE progress of tracks, sulkies, rig
ging and horses is natural" he said. The
conditions under which Dexter made his
record were far more favorable to speed
than prevailed in the day of Flora
Temple, and Maud trotted under still
more favorable conditions than Dexter,
yet in each case the latter record was ac-
copied as standard.
Time and ingenuity may bring forth
even greater aids to speed than the pres
ent bicycle sulky and kite shaped track
have proved to be, but they must be ac-
copied as legitimate means of lowering
the trotting record.-New York Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

A steam "man" is the latest American
novelty. The inventor, Professor George
Moore, made similar apparatus with
partial success number of years ago.
but his present venture is larger and in
tended to draw wagon. The figure, 0
feet high, is incased III metal and looks
like knight in medieval armor, with
helmet and visor, smoking a cigar. The
cigar, however, is an escape pipe, and
the plumes of the helmet veil the top of
the chimney. The furnace and boiler
are contained inside the trunk and the
moving mechanism in the rest of the
body. The man walks briskly at pace
Of four or five miles an hour
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
jewish and Italian Immigration.

More than one-third of the SO, 900 i'm
migrants who landed at this port last
month were Italian and Jewish. The in
flow of these races this year surpasses
that of every other year. 1t is evident
that both the Italians and the Jews are
pleased with this country, and that those
of them who have been here for some
time give encouragement to others to
come. For short time the Jews of Rus
STA found some trouble in getting passage
to this country, especially from Ham
burg, but when excluded from German
ports they go to Belgian, Dutch, British
or French ports, where plenty of steam
ships are at their service, as can be seen
by the arrival of so many of them here
every week.-New York Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
sixty-eight Years Of Welded Life.

George Gilbert and wife of Gilberts-
vile, Montgomery county, were married
Nov. s, 1925, and will celebrate their
sixty-eighth marriage anniversary in
November next. Mr.. Gilbert will be 90
years of age on Nov. 8. 1898, and his
wife will be 80 on March 8, 1894. Mr.
Gilbert is still quite active and was
seen in the field last week moving and
haymaking, but his wife has been bed
fast 10 years, though her mental facul-
ties are unimpaired. The couple have
had 10 children, eight of whom are liv-
ing.-Cor. Philadelphia Ledger.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
TO THE BELOVED.

Oh, not more subtly silence strays
Amongst the winds, between the yeiee-
Mingling alike with pt-- hays
And with the music that rejoioes,
Than thou art present in my days.
My silence, life returns To thee
In all the pauses of her breath;
Hush back to rest the melody
That out of thee awakeneth,
And then wake ever, wake for me.
Full, full is life in hidden places,
For thou art silence unto me.
Full, full is thought in endless spaces.
Full is my life. A silent sea
Lies round all shores with long embraces.
Thou art like silence all unvexed,
Though wild words part my soul from
thee;
Thou art like silence unperplexed,
A secret and mystery
Between one football and the next.
Most dear pause in mellow lay.
Thou art inwoven with every air;
With thee the widest tempests play,
And snatches of thee everywhere
Make little heavens throughout q day.
Darkness and solitude shine for me,
For life's fair outward part are rife
The silver noises, let them be.
1t is the very soul of life
Listens for thee, listens for thee.
Oh, pause between the sobs of caresl
Oh, thought within all thought that Is,
Trance between daughters unawaresl
Thou art the form of melodies,
And thou the ecstasy of prayers.
Alice Meynell In London Athen@um.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
A HOUSE WITH A ROMANCE
First the Home of Quaint Quaker ant
Then of Lottery King.

VI +" A-oNNtAJ ming.
On tongue of wooded land formed
by the Glebe and Goldsborough creeks
in Talbot county there is a house with
romantic story. When, i'll 1861, Wen
lock Christison, the Quaker, was seized
by Puritan mob headed by the Rev.
Seaborn Cotton, tried and condemned
by Governor Endicott to die, pardoned
by the king and let off with f1ogging
at the carts tail on the highway, he
found sanctuary in Maryland, where
Lord Baltimore granted him asylum on
the tongue of land that cools itself in
the pleasant waters of st. Michael's
river-Miles they call it now Here the
indomitable Quaker abode and prosper
ed, wearing his hat in the presence of
governors and magistrates and testify
ing for 1.-THE truth and the light" with
out fear of clubs or cart tails. Those
easy going eastern shoremen actually
made him burgess, and he and his de-
scendants long dwelt in peace in the old
brick manor house, of which frag-
ment still survives.
In time by lapse of heirs the place
fell to the possession of Richard France,
the famous ''lottery king of Maryland,
who built the turreted villa there and
adorned the ground with fountains and
winding walks, Conservatives and gar
den gods, to the ELUSIVE wonder and
admiration of the natives. But Mary
land, taking up scruples, set her face
against lotteries and France for time
coquetted with Delaware until Della
ware in like manner turned prudish,
and the last we hear of the lottery
king is that he had died in debtors
prison.
Then the garden gods fell on their
faces, and thorns sprang up and choked
them, and all was desolation and respect
ability Again the villa waited not in
vain, for one day the windows were
opened, exposing all the CHASTITY gaps
in their panes, and strange man, I'M
tidy and shock headed, pottered about
in the weedy, seedy garden, a grim and
churlish recluse. But negro curiosity,
once sharply piqued, is persistent and
penetrating, and forthwith Ethiopia be-
gan to gossip about the strange man.
how that he was a blacksmith from
Connecticut and an oracle in local
political circles, one to whom "Big Six
was a spell to conjure with. And pres
emily the disheveled interloper was
Joined by bearded and venerable COM
panion, with a head like pear, who
lurked and waited behind the close
gates and the screen of shrubbery. Then
furtive yacht at night in st. Michael's
river took the bearded mystery aboard
and was off to the bay and the sea, and
the police, who went poking about the
place day or two later, looked foolish
and asked one another inane conun
drums about the cunning fitting Of
Boss Tweed. -"Old Maryland Homes
and Ways in Century.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
The Appetite Of the Ostrich.

1t is never safe to drop any article
when walking near covey Of ostriches.
The ostrich will eat anything, seeming
apparently to have no sense of taste. A
story is told of young girl who was
visiting zoo where large ostrich
snatched her kid gloves, which were
rolled into ball, and ate them. The
next day the girl returned with the fam
lily contribution Of half dozen pairs of
gloves, all Of which were as readily
swallowed. Detroit Free Press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
The Future Postal Card,

Postmaster General Bissell has de-
cided to abandon the three sizes of postal
cards now in use and to substitute one
size for single and reply cards. The
specifications which have been sent to
prospective bidders for the contract for
furnishing the postal service with cards
for the next four years call for single
cards of the uniform size of 81 by 81
inches. This is what is known as the
international size.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Already the sun was casting long shad-
ows over the landscape around the pretty
English village of Densmond in Devon
shire, for Densmond was pretty and
everybody said so-that is, everybody
who had ever been there said so. And
as for those unfortunate beings who had
not been there they We're so very much
i'll the minority that no one ever cared a
straw what they said or thought.
The day had been hot and sultry, and
with the advent of the cooling breezes
of evening every one who could pos
sibly get out of doors did so, for the air
was delicious now after the overpower-
ing heat of the day.
Along the dusty highway a man, we'll
dressed and evidently a stranger in the
country through which he was passing,
was walking slowly, evidently absorbed
in thought. He was about 40, of a
bronzed complexion and dark hair, now
slightly tinged with gray. On the whole
he was far from handsome, nor did the
scar of saber wound across his fore
head add to his attractions.
Just now he paused before cottage
that stood somewhat back from the pub
lie road, almost buried in flowers, like
modest and retiring cottage that it was.
Sounds of happy laughter came from an
arbor, concealed by the surrounding
hedge. Colonel Nathaniel Pember paused
but moment, however, before he opened
the gate.
Can you tell me, he asked one of the
party of young girls that met his view
rs he entered, ''if you know of any one
'esiding in this neighborhood by the
lame of--of Amelia BurtonY'
Eyes, indeed" answered one of ebe
oung ladies, with meaning smile, ..but |
'uu have to hurry, though, for there
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
After All, Work Is Welcome.

Though it may seem hard to go back
to the routine of household work or to
the place i'll shop, Office or schoolroom
when vacation time is over, still if you
are honest you will confess that occa-
sional idleness is enchanting, but con-
tinued period of it would drive you
msd,-Philadelphia Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
Emotional Element In College Sport.

The Boston Transcript makes bold to
say that when we read that one really
manly" fellow in the Harvard crew the
other day put his head down into his
hands after his side had been beaten in
the race at New London and boohooed
like a child in the face of all the thou
sands of spectators we realize that there
is a prodigious emotional element in
these college sports.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
The Pilgrims Jewelry.

If the new yacht Pilgrim, which was
built to defend Americas cup, fails to
win, it will not be for lack of attention
to the regular sea dog superstitions. A
ring from Mr.. Stewart, a moonstone
scarfpin from the captain and various
odds and ends have been deposited at the
heel of the mast for good luck.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Three places at least are known where
green snow is found. One of these places
is near Mount Hecla, Iceland. another
II miles east of the mouth Of the Obi
and the thirdepea Quito, South America.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
A cheap Lot Of Old Stocks.

At the auction sale, the other day, of
the personal property of the late Gov
ernor Hale Of New Hampshire, stocks
having par value Of $2,700,000 and
promissory notes with face value of
e57, 900 were sold to the highest bidder
for less than t7.-New York Tribune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Last year 1872 mistakes were made i'll
London by doctors in notifying cases of
infectious diseases for removal to hos
pitfalls, with the result that 102 of the
mistaken cases resulted fatally.-Ex-
change,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
Inward and Outward Debt OF Argentin,

The total internal and external debt
of Argentina on Dec. 81 last was $411,-
500, 1898 gold and 46,061, sol currency,
of which the interest bearing debt
amounted to 1907, 293, 523 gold and s14,-
s13,6O1 currency. The external debt
was 1915, 567 ,56S gold, which was in
creased to $222 ,531, 022 on the LIST Of
July. The currency in circulation
amounted to 1921, 900, 000.-Rio News
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
ROMANCE OF THE WAR

The battle Mt last was finished. The
victory was lost and won. And while
the defeated army had fallen back to
take shelter in the woods and mountain
passes the victorious host had en-
camped upon the field of action. A thick
misty haze hung over the landscape,
through which the setting sun shone
like great copper shield FURNISHED and
ready for combat.
Since early morn the battle had been
in progress, and the carnage was fright
full. Even the sturdiest of the surgeons
had more than once turned pale as they
worked over their improvised operating
tables, and all had felt sensation of
faintness that they did not care to own.
In one corner of the field when the
fight had been the hottest, in little
grove of half dozen trees at the angle
of stone wall, knelt the colonel of
New York regiment beside the PROSTATE
form of his own lieutenant, young
man of English birth and a great ia
vorite among his comrades. His breath
came slowly and painfully and when he
strove to speak the lifeblood welled upin
his throat so as to almost choke all utter
ance.
"Creston, my boy said the colonel in
the low voice which he always used when
in the presence of suffering-for the col
onel was as kind and as gentle asa woman
to the sick-'is there anything more
that l can do for you-any word or mes
sage that you want to send? For you
know
Creston's lips parted with faint and
almost imperceptible motion, and the
colonel bending low caught the words,
"Lift-me-up."
Raising the dying man to n half sit
ting position, the colonel held him in his
own strong arms and gently wiped the
red froth from his lips.
"Colonel"-the words were weak and
low-''my -open-the-th e-pocket
-inside"-
The exertion was SO great that he could
say no more. The colonel, opening the
vest, drew from an inner pocket min
nature, the portrait of young and
beautiful girl so beautiful that even
then the colonel could not help gazing
upon the likeness with interest and adj
miration.
'fAnd this?' he questioned as he held
it up to the eyes of his dying comrade.
The pale face of the sufferer grew
strangely bright when he looked upon
the bit of painted ivory before him.
in England" he whispered. "she
ives-Densmond in Devonshire-you'll
remember-take her this, yourself-no
one else. Find here in Densmond, Anne
liza Burton. Tell her-I didn't-forget"-
A torrent of crimson lifeblood gushed
from his lips, and all was over. The
colonel arose, folded blanket and placed
it beneath the head of the corpse. Then
the night winds gathered and whispered
among the trees and brushed with their
dark pinions the bright, cold drops that
stood on the pale forehead of Herbert
Creston.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
An Afterthought.

THAT is an excellent little thing about
the Lord tempering the wind to the shorn
lamb, is it not?"
sit sounds well-yes; but did you ever
reflect that lambs are not shorn?"-
Truth.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Popcorn pops because the essential
oil in the corn is converted into gas by
heat, and thus an explosion occurs which
tears the kernel open and causes ain
gular inversion of its contents
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13
Not Permanent,

"Timmins says he is welded to his
art.
"You don t say 1t is wonder to mo
that he doesn't sue for divorce on the
ground of nonsupport. cincinnati
Tribune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

The outer layers of the alligator skin
are said to contain a large percentage OF
silica; hence the hardness of the ami
malls hide.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-13

Far away in the wilderness of Virginia
the night winds gathered and whispered
and murmured and muttered, and with
their dark pinions brushed the bright
cold drops of dew that chung to the
blades of grass above the unmarked
grave of Herbert Creston. -Exchange.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

Don't snub hoy because he wears
shabby clothes. When Edison, the in
ventor, first entered Boston, he wore
pair of yellow linen breeches in the
depth of winter.
Don't snub a boy because of the ig-
norance of his parents Shakespeare, the
worlds poet was the son of a man who
was unable to write his own name.
Don't snub a boy because his home is
plain and unpretending. Abraham Lin
coins early home was a plain and un-
pretending log cabin.
Don't snub a boy because he chooses
a humble trade. The author of "Pil-
grim's Progress was tinker.
Don't snub boy because of his phys
ical disability. Milton was blind.
Don't snub boy because of dizziness
in his lesson. Hogarth, the celebrated
painter and engraver, was a stupid boy
at his books.
Don't snub boy because he shutters.
Demosthenes, the great orator of Greece,
overcame harsh and stammering voice.
Don't snub him for any reason, not
only because he may some day outstrip
you in the race of life, but because 1t
is neither kind nor right. New York
Recorder.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

A traveller describes game which is
popular with the children of Italy. 1t
is very like one played by American
children. In Italy the game is called
counting the eggs, and is thus played:
The children sit in row on the grass,
with every pair of brown feet well in
sight. The mother counts her eggs
that is, the children's feet-and then
says: Now, there are 16 eggs. Be sure
you dom t eat any while 60 to church. "
In her absence the children tuck up a
certain number of feet under their
frocks and say, "What long time
mother is at church, She comes home,
counts the eggs and says: why, how
is this? l left 16 and now there are only
ten." The children answer that wom-
an came while she was gone and offered
four chickens for the six eggs, and they
took her offer. where are the eggsy'
asked the mother. Down in the field, )"
they reply. The mother goes to seek
them, and no sooner is her back turned
than all her children jump and dance
about, shouting, "We've eaten them
ourselves" whereupon the mother has
to catch them all and whip them. The
last one caught has to be the mother the
next time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11
Here's an Idea |!
A chance to get a
Pair of Shoes
u. FOR
Ten Minutes Work !
The question among the business
men of Honolulu is
DOES
ADVERTISING
-

To solve the problem as we'll as
to ascertain whether advertisements
attract the attention of newspaper
readers, we offer pair of our best
$500 shoes CSC. so anywhere else)
to the person who sends us, under
the head of Wanted" the cleverest
advertisement of our shoes.
1t must be original, concise, and
to the point. 1t must not be lon
ger than any ordinary want ad.
found in the daily papers.
Advertisement to be written on
one side of white paper and signed
by the competitors full name and
address. State the name of the
paper in which you saw this no
tice and enclose your effort in an
envelope marked
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11
Band in Attendance /.
ADMISSION FREE.


1.-THE shortest correspondence on rec
ord, said Congressman Covert of New
York yesterday, passed between Amos
Cummings ard me few months ago
Shortly after the November election,
when Amos was defeated for congress,
he was appointed subway commissioner
of New York at salary of So, 900 a
year. When heard of it, sent Amos
this letter:
Dear Amos Then drew pic
ture of human hand and wrote in red
letters across the palm the word
'Shaker Yours, Covert.
1.-TWO days later i received reply.
1t read thus:
"'Dear jim Underneath was a
human hand stretched in the opposite
direction from that drawn in my letter
and bearing on the palm the word
Thanks. In the corner of the page was
an excellent delineation of a champagne
glass half filled with wine, and under
it the words With pleasure. Yours.
Amos.
"But / always believed that Amos
reply was not genuine. You ask me
why? Because l never saw him with a
half filled glass. TWAS either trimming
over or empty. Nv Washington Times.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

THAT city native annexation
club which started with such a
great flourish and ruffle, seems to
have succumbed to the proverbial
tired feeling. Perhaps it was only
a personal scheme and in that re-
lation has gone to join the aspir'
atoms of a certain Stalled individ,
ual for the post Of Minister tc
Japan or America, or the design o.
of another individual on the For,
eign Office portfolio.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

NATIVE boys who dive in the
bay for nickels would be filled with
wonderment if they knew how
their occupation had been poisoned
with dishonesty and Improvement at
San Francisco. Up there three
men in the game take passage on
ferry boat. Two are expert swim
mers, the third a ready talker.
One athlete falls" overheard. The
second jumps to his rescue. Then
the ready talker takes up collec-
tor to reward the life saver.
Tbf three men make a livelihood
from this business in spite of the
protests of the ferry people.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

In AUSTRALIA the promoters OF
the cable from Sydney to Van
couver are making the representa-
ton that the enterprise will pay.
That is usually pretty effective
appeal to British capital. There is
plenty of hope for Hawaii in the
proceedings. The line cannot fail
to pass within striking distance OF
this country.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11
Lent.

Strange to tell, the familiar term of
Lent has nothing in its origin significant
of fasting. 1t is derived from the Saxon
term-lengthen, tide or spring-the
time when each successive day steals
few minutes from its night. In English
literature we have repeated illusions to
Jack o. Lent, sort of puppet, general
ly personated as lean and ragged scare
crow, which boys jeered and threw
stones at, much as the Guy Fawkes of
later days was treated, Philadelphia
Ladper
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-11

IT IS very apparent that there is
room for improvement in the local
public school facilities. And the
kindergarten seems very well in
deed as one of the points Of begin
ming. There is one thing in this
connection that might well be
looked into. To what extent can
Hawaii afford to labor at the bust
ness of preparing for the duties Of
life and citizenship children thai
are not to become subjects of the
Island Government