davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
FORESTS BENEATH THE WATER.

Many years ago, says the Seattle
(Wash.) Times, there was some vast
upheaval ON the shores of Lake Sama-
mish that sent a portion of the New
castle hills down into the lake, with
its tall evergreen forests intact, and
there it is to this day. About this
time of the year the waters are at
their lowest and the tops of the tallest
of these big trees are out of the water,
but never more than ten or twelve
inches. At this time one can see down
into the mirror-like depths Of the lake
for thirty feet or more. Near the
banks the trees are interlaced at vari-
GUS angles, but father out into the deep
water they stand straight, erect, and
limbless and barkless, 100 feet tall.
They are three feet through, some of
them, and so firm in texture as to be
scarcely effected by knife blade.
There is a place in Taumwater Can
yon, on the line of the Great North
ern, near Leavenworth, in some re-
spects similar. At some early time
portion of the great mountain-side
came rushing down and buried itself at
the bottom. Now there is consider
able lake. and in the center stand tall.
limbless trees, different in species from
those growing along the canyon. At
Green Lake, near Georgetown, Cola
lake which is 10000 feet above sea
level is submerged forest of pine trees,
some hundred feet tall.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
THE M'CLEANS AHEAD.

The following is an amusing in
stance of the tenacity with which the
Highlanders hold to the honors and an
tiquity of their kindred. A dispute
arose between Campbell and Mclean
upon the never ending subject. No
Lean would not allow that the Camp
bells had any right to rank with the
McLeans in antiquity. who, he in
sisted, were in existence as a clan from
the beginning of the world. Camp
bell has little more Biblical lore
than his antagonist, and asked him if
the clan Mclean lived before the flood.
Flood What fiood?" said Mclean.
1.-THE flood that you know drowned
all the world but Noah and his family
and his flocks," said Campbell.
"Poohl you and your food" said Nc
Lean; "ny clan was before the food. {"
81 have not read IN my Bible" OBJ
served Campbell. "of the name of Nc
Lean going into Noah's ark.
"Noah's ark" retorted Mclean, in
contempt. "who ever heard of Nc.
Lean tina had not boat of his ownl"
Household Words.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
WIT AND HUM0R.

Anna-I wonder what makes Mr..
Droopley down in the mouth tonight?
Gay belle-Force OF habit. I suppose.
He's dentist, you know.-Boston
Courier.
Judge-You say you have some
means of subsistence? Tramp-Ys.
your honor Judge-Then why is it
not visible? Tramp ate it.-Hr-
lem Life.
Briggs-You say the phrenologlst
who examined your head wasn't very
complimentary? Hardly. He told
me | was fitted to be leader IN So
ciety. Life.
Miss Parique-In New York do the
prominent social lights smoke? Miss
CONSTITUENCIES, particularly after
they have been turned down. New
York World. -
Tramp-Do you know what it is.
sir, to be shnned by all; to not have
the grasp of a single friendly hand?
Stranger-Indeed l do. I'm a life
insurance agent.-Judge.
Principal Ito new apprentice)-Has
the bookkeeper told you what you have
to do in the afternoon? Youth-Yes,
sir: was to waken him when l saw
you coming. --Dahreim.
Blobbs-Your ocean voyage seems
to have improved you. You look
stouter. Slobbs-I lost Eve Iounds,
Just the same. Blobbs = Ssasick?
Slobbs - No; poker. = Philadelphia
Record.
"When / first took hold d this
place." said the new proprietor of the
grocery store on the corner, st was
doing absolutely nothing. and mw the
business has doubled. -Chicsp Tri-
bune
Old Soak-I'd like to be the COVER
nor of South Carolina. De Talque-
Why so? Old Soak-Because the gov
ernor Of North Carolina is always ask
ing seductive questions. Philadelphia
Record.
Bingo-I want to change the com
bination of that house safe of mine
Safe Man--Whats the matter? Ser
wants have found out the old number
Bingo-No. My wife has.-Brooklyr
Life.
She-Oh, my! there's something
gone down my back! He-Its' one O.
those laundering bugs, l suppose
She-No; guess it's one of thos'
lightning bugs, George. onkerl
Statesman.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
MORE MACHINERY AND BETTER PAY.

Since the extensive introduction of
the sewing machine we do not hear of
the distressed needle woman, at one
time so prevalent. Typewriters get
double the wages they would get as
penwriters, and they do six times as
much work with comparative pleasure
and great leisure. Steamships costing
millions. equipped with every known
invention for safe and efficient service,
in six days at nominal cost, with
every comfort, take weekly with al
most unfailing regularity thousands of
people across the Atlantic, where in
1890 it took Samuel Slater, the hon.
ored founder of the cotton trade, six
ty.six days to cross, and no doubt with
great discomfort and danger. Small
cost at one time 6, and
12 cents, and were loaded with Gov
eminent revenue stamp. Now bet
ter paper can be got for a cent. but the
compositors and printers get much
higher pay and have. like the news
papers. increased many thousandfold.
So it runs all through, and the whole
world gets benefited. = Fiber and
Fabric
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
HAD A LEGAL MIND.

There is a story told of the late
Judge Strong's boyhood which shows
that from the beginning his mind had
a legal bent. Young Strong, it seems,
purloinsd piece of cake from the table
spread for some festival occasion. No
one discovered it until the family and
guests were seated at the table, and
then nothing was said. When every
one had gone and the father was alone
with the youthful epicure he said to
him: Don't you know, my son, that
in taking that cake you broke one of
Gods commandments ?" Question
49," responded the boy who had the
catechism at his tongues end. Is
any man able perfectly 60 keep the
commandments of God?' ANSWER
SO. No mere man since the fall is able
in this life perfectly to keep the COM
mandments of God, but doth daily
break them in thought, word and
deed. 1t is not recorded what the
reverend father said, but it must be
admitted that the boy won his first
case
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
NEW VERSIONS OF GREAT SAYINGS.

"Would to God that night or Blu
cher would comel" exclaimed the Duke
of Wellington. as his anxious eye sur
veyed the dark masses of Napoleon's
forces.
"Night will be here in three hours
and eleven minutes, your grace, said
his chief of staff. consulting his watch.
"Ohl amt so particular about
night" responded the Iron Duke.
"All is lost save honor" exclaimed
Francis l., as he looked upon his de-
feated army. How about honor?"
asked sorrowing courtier. "Ohl we
didn't have any of that"
Soldiers" exclaimed Napoleon,
forty centuries look down on you
from the pyramidsl "Oh. they look
down ON us. do tbey?" asked Murat.
We'll, l should think forty centuries
on top of the pyramids weuld feel
stuck upl" "Stuck upl" said the little
Corsican. they are out of sight"
Welcome, Englishmen, came the
voice of the Sachem as ne approached
the shrinking group of Pilgrims.
Welcome. Englishmen! And, by
the way, have you any rum with your"
Gentlemen of the English
Guards. fire first" shouted the French
Guards at Fontenoy, as they ensconced
themselves behind brick wall. -Bos.
ton Transcript.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
NO REST FOR THE WEARY.

Go into any public square of New
York toward midnight any time this
summer and you will see sights that
will make your blood boil. You will
see poor, weary creatures, many Of
them evidently trying to be respect
able, sitting about on benches. Usually
they are in twos, and one sleeps while
the other watches for the park police.
man. Often both fall asleep through
sheer WEAKNESS. But they do not
sleep long. Tired nature gets only a
moments chance to "knit up the raw
eled sleeve Of care" Along comes the
policeman. He has an ordinance to
back him and besides he takes a sort
of inhuman pleasure in his work. He
wakes them up with many a jolt and
curse. They shake themselves to-
gether, sigh YEARLY, rise, move around
to another bench and repeat the at
tempt and get the same punishment.
If the policeman is in i'll Lumor he
gives them kicking or drags them
away to the station-house.
England is a monarchy. Liberty,
of course, cannot possibly exist in a
monarchy. Yet there is not in all
England a power great enough to make
and enforce such brutal tyranny as
this. In every park in London you
may see. day and night, men and
women and children by the hundred
yes. by the thousand. sleeping on the
grass and on the benches. The parks
are for the people over there. New
York World.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

very little attempt to compete with
the foreigners and fail to ship goods of
the kind ordered, a very essential thing
in these countries. They will send
something else like it with the explain
alton that they think it will suit the
trade better, thereby assuming to judge
against the man on the ground. The
credit also extended is too short, mer-
chants complain. The American wants
his money before the goods are actually
in the store of the merchant here, long
delays at the custom houses being the
rule. while the transportation is ex-
ceedingly slow. The foreign merchant
gives six, nine and twelve months
credit to almost every instance. The
freights of the New York steamers are
also too high.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
THOSE BICYCLE COSTUMES.

The men seem to be having almost
rs much trouble over their bicycling
costumes as the women. There are
hotels, it seems. that will not en-
terrain men in knickerbockers, and
they are by no means as welcome in
all places in their bicycle clothes as
with trousers that flap about their
ankles and modish shirts. 1t is largely
to this cosideration of clothes that the
far-seeing look for the preservation of
the horse and the continuance of some
of the old-fashioned methods of con-
veyance. If men could live and move
and transact their business in golf
stockings and knickerbockers. and
women in boomers or short skirts, the
bicycles progress might be as sure as
it has been swift. But as it is, the
formalities of life, such as they are,
initiate gently but firmly against the
bicycle, and though they are not effect
ual to hold it back, they do make a
little for its restraint. -Harper's
Weekly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
VALUABLE GEOLOGICAL DEPOSIT.

While blasting for New York's new
speedway along the Harlem river dis
covery of considerable scientific interest
was recently made. Several thousands
of crystals of zenotine and monazite
were found in blocks of micaschist and
gneiss by New York mineralogist.
Zenotine is phosphate of yttrium, &C.
curing in yellowish brown tettagonal,
while the most valuable elements in
monazite are thorium and cerium. In
clevite, which is one of this group of
yttrium and thorium minerals, the
elements of argon and helium were dis
covered, and is declared that all the
minerals of this group contain these
new elements to certain degree. The
discovery of these minerals in this Sec
tion of the country will doubtless be
of incalculable aid to local chemists
and scientists in their experiments rel
alive to the newly discovered gases.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
DON'T WORRY.

One of the worst habits to acquire,
excepting, perhaps that of smoking
cigarettes, is the habit of worrying and
fretting.
Don't fret. A fretting man or woman
is the most disagreeable object in the
world. A wasp is a comfortable
housemate in comparison-it only
stings when disturbed; but an habit
ual fretter buzzes, if he don't sting.
with or without provocation.
In every community there will be
found large proportion of men, and
women, too, who are constantly en-
gagged in inyenting troubles, and. as
some writer says, it would be ludi-
crous if it were not profoundly pathetic
to notice the perverse ingenuity with
which many people pursue this bust
ness of tormenting themselves with
imaginary sufferings.
The true remedy for worry of all
kinds is work. If misfortune hits you
hard, you hit something else hard.
There is nothing like good, solid, abb
sorbing, exhausting work, to cure
trouble.
There is no end to the complaints
which we hear uttered against the
hard fate, the numberless sorrows, to
which the human race is exposed; but
the man who works is not affected by
them. Work is not patent medicine,
but it has proved its efficacy ever since
Adam and Eve wiped their weeping
eyes and settled down to hard work.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
SAVING A VESSEL ON FIRE.

One of the most brilliant pieces of
ocean wrecking seamanship on record.
whereby the vessel, far out in the At
lantic with her cargo on fire, was saved
and brought safely to port, was per-
formed on board the American ship
John Jay, commanded by Captain
Samuel jackson.
When two weeks out the cargo was
discovered to be ON fire. The captain
determined upon his course of action.
He had the carpenter lowered over the
rail, and instructed him to bore several
holes low down by the water line. The
vessel was then put on the other tack
so that she would be heeled over on
the side where the holes had been
made.
The water shot through these open
ings. and after the ship had been al
lowed to sink almost to the level of the
deck, she was put around on the other
tack again, SO that the holes came with
in two or three feet Of the top of the
water. Several of the sailors, with
lines made fast under their arms and
holding long wooden pegs and ham,
mers, slid down along the side, steady
ing themselves by ropes that had been
passed under the vessel and haulted
taut, so that they came alongside of
the holes. The tapering pins were
thrust into the openings and knocked
tight, then the vessel was put before
the wind to get her on an even keel.
and the crew turned to and pumped her
ont
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
NEWSPAPER STANDS IN PARIS.

Everywhere in Paris are stands for
the sale of newspapers, and if there
are five there are 5000. The boule-
wards are lined with the newspaper
kiosks, each with stock of papers and
magazines from Paris. the provinces
and foreign countries. In each kiosk
is woman who is on duty from early
morning until late at night.
These little stands are under the OIL
rection Of the municipality, whose aim
it is to encourage newspaper circula-
tion. The so-called ambulsnt vendors
also have the freedom of the streets
and may go where they will unhin-
dered by the police. There is recent
law in France that paper shall only
be announced by its title.-Chicago
Chronicle.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
THE WORLDS OLDEST MAN.

The oldest man in the world, { is
said, is a citizen of Bogota, in the
Republic of Salvador. He deohres
that he is 1876 years old, but from the
tales his neighbors and relatives ell,
he is much older than he claims t. be.
He is half-b breed Indian and Soan-
lard. and his name is Michael Solis
He lives with an old planter named
Luis Hernandez, who himself il SO
years of age. Hernandez says that as
long ago as he can remember old
Michael was known as man far past
the century mark. 1t has also been as.
certained direct from the records that
lone Michael Soils, man now 1876
years of age" contributed ten days
work toward building the Franciscan
convent which was erected in San Sc
bastian in 1919. If it is really true
that the old patriarch was 1876 years
old in 1919, he has now passed the
second century mile post and is fast
winding out the first decade of the
third.
Doctors who have lately made
study of the case of this double CEN
turim say that there is not an ounce Of
meat on his bones and that the skin
which resembles parchment, is drawn
so tightly over his frame that it can
not De pinched up between thumb and
finger. He is unable to walk, but has
goo1 hearing and sound eyesight and
a large crop of perfectly snow-white
hair and beard.-New Orleans Plea
yune,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
LABOR SAVING MACHINERY.

The Detroit Free Press says: "It is
we'll known how ingenious machinery
has well.nigh revolutionized the once
intricate work of the carpenter, leav-
ing only the simplest part of the trade
for manual labor. Never was this in
novation Of patented devices more
marked than between 1880 and 1890,
yet there were 53, SAT carpenters in the
United States in the former year, while
there were 140,621 in 1890, and the
average wages of the latter we're 1915
as against $3.50 for those who had far
less machinery to contend with. Be-
tween the same years great strides were
made in the molding and handling of
brick by machinery, yet the number of
workmen doubled while the sumber of
yards was but slightly increased, and
the wages advanced from an annual
average of $228 to $500. In few in
dustries has the saving of labor by
machinery been more marked than in
the manufacture of furniture, and the
cheapening of the product has heen
simply amazing; yet the number of
men employed in it increased from
55, 304 in 1880 to 80, 304 in 800, wages
advancing from an average of $453 to
$527. This line of evidence might be
pursued throughout the list Of indus
tries where, for any considerable time.
machinery has been doing the work of
brains and hands. The conclusion
forced is that the introduction of
labor-saving machinery is not to reduce
permanently the number of employees.
but simply to readjust the working
force and insure higher wages"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The executive committee of ~.
Ohio Wesleyan University has accented
DIR. Slooum's offer of $50, 900 for n
new library.
Forty thousand acres of land in tbe
Southern States have recently been pur.
chased for occupation by northern
farmers.
The fiftieth annual session of the
Senior Order of United States Me.
chanics will be held in Philadelphia in
September.
Nebraska has returned to the prison
lease system. The system was abol.
ished seven years ago because of the
discovery of gross frauds
A subscription for the Pope has been
started in Italy in commemoration of
the twenty fifth anniversary of the
declaration of papal infallibility.
Edible sna1ls u the amount of $780,
900 pounds are annually shipped 10
America from France. At the place
of expectation they are worth 81. so per
1000.
Another Roman atch.tower, the
twenty. seventh in a line along the
Rhine, from Basel to the Lake of Con-
stance, has just been found near Rhein.
felden.
Nail biting, according to a French
doctor. is hereditary. Almost one
third of the French school children bite
their nails, and the girls are worse
than the boys.
The Pana, Ind, Telephone Company
proposes to build exchanges at Ander-
son, Upton, Kokomo. Logansport,
Summitville and Alexand ria, connect
ing them with Elwood.
A modern Greek English dictionary,
the first to deal with the Greek today
as living language. has been made
by DIR. Jannaris and is about to be pub
lished by Murray.
Aries has Roman theater in a bet
ter state of preservation than the one
at Orange and intends to hold open air
performances in it in summer and to
become the French Bayreuth.
Deposits in Irish joint stock banks
increased by $4,000, 900 last year. the
total amount in June being e37. 500,0
while the savings banks held 97.371,
900, an increase of e744. 900.
An estimate of the orange crop of
Florida the present year places it al
but 1000, 600 boxes, against 5000.
900 last year. The freeze of last win
ter is the cause of the large fall off in
the crop.
Alaska's home industries are boom
ing. There are dozen salmon can
neries in operation there, and the latest
addition is big establishment for
packing CLANS and bottling clam juice.
Bruges in Belgium is about to be
made seaport again by means of a
ship canal cut through to Heyst on
the North Sea, for which the Chamber
of Representatives has just voted the
money.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

Social interchangeable, parties, and
the like-are of very ancient origin.
Madame Eve gave the first garden
party.
Entertainment which is given with
the genuine hospitality and heartiness
means more than mere feeding of the
body; it means a royal interchange of
the gifts Of the soul, and is not to be
COMPOUNDED with the credit for hospi-
tality that man gets when he gives a
restaurant dinner he does not pay for.
But to return to Ewes garden party.
How simple and transformations it was,
and yet how select The first people
OF the country, including his Satanic
Majesty, were there. and no doubt en-
joyed themselves very much until the
"wee sma' hours" etc. Compare
Madame Ewes quiet but elegant little
blowout with bal pondre which oc-
CURED in Philadelphia not long ago,
about which local reporter writes: at
was nearly morn before the last and
most fastidious person deigned to make
his appearance, and then the scene lost
its incongruity and became an ocean Of
wave upon wave of flashing chances,
enhancing smiles, beauteous faces and
ravishing toilets, kissed by rain of
gems"
OF course this Philadelphia affair
boosted of many features that were
lacking at the quiet little affair in the
garden of Eden, but, after all, the two
great essentials were present at both
entertainments, viz. the ravishing
toilets and Satan. -Siftings.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16
TO STUDY DIPHTHERIA.

The laboratory of bacteriology has
been opened in Paris. The purpose
of this laboratory is to furnish physi
clans with the necessaries to enable
them to establish the diagnosis of diph-
iberia. This laboratory. which is
under the direction of the well -known
bacteriologist, DR.. Miguel, will be open
for twelve hours each day. The neoes-
saries for analysis will be delivered to
the doctors on the evening or before OF
the day of their employ, and the results
will be communicated twenty-four
hours after the materials have been
returned to the laboratory. Tele-
graphic answers will be given ON pay
ment Of 80 confines.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

The hottest mines in the world are
the Comstock. On the lower levels
the heat is 80 great that the men can.
not work over ten or fifteen minutes
at a time. Every known means of nit
igating the heat have been tried in
vain. Ice melts before 1t reaches the
bottom of the shafts.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

Buffalo has furniture firm, Irish
q English. and the Buffalo Times
says the com bination has always served
them as a good advertisement. Singu-
lar to say, however, Mr.. Irish is Eng
lish and Mr.. English is Irish.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

Papa asked Willie, isn't
cynio man who is tired of the
world?" mo. my dear; a cynic
is man of whom the world is tired"
Chicago Times Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

care you the man who runs this
newspaper" mo, sir; I'm only the
editor; the citizens run the paper -
Atlanta Constitution.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

Don't you know. prisoner. that
it's very wrong to steal a pig?" II
do now, your honor. They make such
row. It'd. Bits.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-16

The egg product Of this country ia
estimated at $3.50. 900, 900 a year.