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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

run toward the tree to be Jared, and
the heavy timber strikes the tree as
high up as the boys shoulders with
jolt which sends the nuts rafting down
to the leaves below. This scheme
is known to the initiated as bump
ing 1t Is a labor-saylng device. so
far as tree climbing is concerned, and
is an exceedingly popular mode of get
ting them in the rural districts, where
hickory nuts most do congregate
To many persons new to the woods
the fact that the nuts fall in among
the leaves and are often hidden by
them Is n source of much searching
and considerable i'll temper. But to
the experienced person this is a mat.
ter of very little importance. He sim
ply scrapes away n circle around the
tree he is getting nuts from, and then
sets fire to the leaves under this par
ticular tree. The fire spreads to the
circle and there stops, leaving the
faintest possible track of blackened
ashes. All the hickory nuts are thus
easily found and much time and work
saved.
Hickory nuts are easily huled gen
orally speaking, but the walnut takes
more time and more trouble. Hazel
nuts, when the clusters are dry, are
easily beaten out from their husks.
The hickory nut and the walnut de-
serve honorable mention i'll the annals
of American history for they are part
and parcel Of the winter festivities in
almost every middle central farmhouse
in the land. To go up in the garnet
with half bushel measure and bring
down a lot of the nuts and then to get
all the hammers in the house and the
monkey wrenches from the granary Is
the first move. Next you go out to the
smokehouse with gallon jug and
draw it full of 'Ben Davis" cider.
Then you go to the cellar and get Il
lot of northern spy" ''wine sap
"rambo," 'seek-no furder apples and
you are all ready. Then you sit up
with the rest of the folks for two or
three hours drinking cider, eating APP
pies and cracking hickory nuts and
walnuts.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

Several medical students, who were
travelling from Seville to Cordova, play
ed a practical joke on the occupants of
n neighboring carriage, with serious
consequences. They had with them a
skull, which they fixed to the end of Il
walking stick, and held it up to the
window of the next compartment, nj
the same time emitting series of aw-
full groans. The victims of the joke
screamed with terror, and one lady
opened the door of the carriage and
tried to jump out. When the train was
stopped, it was found that an old lady
had died from fright and another had
tainted, while an old gentleman had
almost lost his reason. The students
were arrested.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

an exceedingly low key-be grand
worker but a deg AIDED player. That is
because work is subject to constraint,
and play $50 far forth is not The
only way We can exactly determine
our own character is by noticing what
it is we do when we are doing exactly
what we want to do-that Is, what we
do when we are at play. There is no
criterion of mans quality so accur-
ate as his amusements, for in them
there Is the remuneration of DISCUSSES.
Our real inwardness discloses itself
not in what we do, but in what we per-
fectly enjoy doing This test is rather
a severe one, and is. perhaps. calcu-
lated by the books he deyotes himself
to when he Is studiously at work, but
by those he is absorbed in when he is
reading for the pleasure of it,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
THE NUTTING SEASON
WHEN THE SMALL BOY TAKES
TO THE WOODS.
With Falling Leaves the Forests OF
the Central West Are Invaded by
Youngsters Methods Employed In
Gathering and the Varieties Sought.
The MT CrOD.

Inc ~ ut NEOp'
In the fall when the leaves drop of,
the trees become bare and the hickory
nuts and walnuts, the butternuts ana
hazelnuts and the pecans get READY 10
be gathered. Along the country roads
you may see groups of from three to
dozen small boys trudging toward the
woods with brown or white SACKS
thrown across their shoulders. Some
times they will speak to the stranger
passing by, but usually they are as
shy as partrides, dippir into the fence
corners as wagon approaches or scut-
Ting into the fields like scared rab-
bits. These brown, silent children are
of the woods themselves. But could
you see them under the trees, freed
from all restraint and chattering
among themselves, they would remind
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
PLAY the Test of Character.

1T is not to be inferred that because
play is our normal condition it is there
fore an experience to be INDUCED in
without discrimination writes Rev.
Charles II. Parkhurst, ID. d., In an ar
ticle on THE Young Man at Play"
in the Ladies' Home Journal. BE
cause play Is the absence of constralnt
a man IN his play will be himself sim
cerely and unaffectedly. In play there
is no affectation. If INDUCED in with
out considera ton its character will de-
note perfectly the character of the
player He will sink Or rise in 1t to his
true level. One may do very good
work and commit himself to reputable
and magnificent purposes, and yet in
the intervals Of enterprise may fall 10
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
A Nineteen-Year Dronth.

II. G. Russell, a scientific man OF New
South Wales, announces as result
Of prolonged examination of history
from the earliest times that seasons of
drouth recur with unfalling regularity
at intervals of nineteen years. OF POS
drouths recorded since the year 900.
all but fifteen conform to this theory
which is that there are, every nineteen
years. one long period of three years,
during which the rainfall is somewhat
deficient, and a shorter period between
each of the long periods when the de-
ficiency is excessive. He even finds a
confirmation of the Bible chronology in
the fact that the dates of the Egyptian
drouth in Joseph's time, the drouth dur
ing King Davids reign. that foretold
by Elijah and that predicted by Elisha
all fall into the nineteen-year period.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

was pining for the old home, though
she felt that il would seem ungra teful
to say so. and then. somehow to pray
in the magnificent church. where she
sat in a velyet-cushioned pew. did not
seem 10 give her the help she prayed
for. for God. as il seemed to her, was
not as close as when she used to pray
mt home, kneeling by that old table.
If she could only go back and tell her
friend all about it, just once kneeling
where John used TO seem 10 come and
join her. This feeling grew and grew.
though, AS there was no one to tell IL
TO, she shut ii mp in her lonely old
heart
One summer morning she was miss
ing. and she could not be found, though
they all searched everywhere they
could think she would be likely to wan
der, but in vain. She was gone. Then
Alfred recollected all at once that he
had rather neglected his mother of
late. His wife forgot her cultured
calmness, and Joined in the search
weeping bitterly. Henry left his desk
for once and got telegraph wires to
work, and confusion and grief reigned
supreme, while the sons and daugh-
ters found their thoughts running back
again to childhood and mother as they
had not done for years. Hours passed
and no news came from the missing
Then their fears and grief grew greater
and stronger Mother was gone.
Perhaps she had gone home. The
thought was sudden, and, too impa-
tent to wait for trains not due for
hours yet, they set off across the coun-
try in their carriage As they drew
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

lass. The bark stands out from fin

glass. The bark stands out from the
tree in ragged and tough steps, which
almost always point downward, and
when you clasp the trunk in a fond
embrace and start in to bunch up the
tree 1t catches hold Of your breaches
with firm, "rippy" grip that will an
initiate the toughest pair of trousers
during the course of one ascent
How n Boy Climbs.
Only boy can climb these trees sue
cessfully, and he does It by grabbing
the tree tight to his shirt and then
spreading out and lifting up his legs
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

garden, with an orchard full of old
rough, weather. beaten appletrees be-
hind IT, while an outer circle of ancient
elms leaned reverently over 1t. like
faithful guardians. The low red house
with its broad wings made you think
of mother bird broodlng over her
well-filled nest. But the nestlings
were all gone now-had wandered from
the old home which seemed to t.iem
shabbier and more cramped every time
they came back for short visit
Only mother chung to il closer and
closer as the years went by When
the busy sons and fashionable daugh-
tiers called 1t lonely and the grandcllil-
dren wandered all over its queer little
hooks and corners, and remarked with
open contempt upon the stiff old furni-
lure and the tiny PANIED windows. the
good old lady listened and said moth
Ing, but her heart throbbed with pain,
as though she heard the maligniDg of
some dear friend. "They don't know,
of course" she thought, excusing them
In her own gentle way. Though to
other eyes 1t may seem poor and old
fashioned, to me it can never be so,
for 1t is the first and only home that |
ever had" And after the sad, tender
manner of the old, who only have n
happy past and an empty present with
ont aluring future here, she fell a-dream-
ing of bygone days, when her faithful
John had brought her, a bride, to this
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
why Bees Like Night Work.

Bees prefer to work in the dark be.
cause the action of sunlight upon the
honey is to cause the sugar to granulate
out, and so to solidfy the whole mass,
in which condition it is of no use either
to themselves or their young.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

What do you wish, MADAME" said
the election officer to Mrs. Tenspot.
You have already voted once to-day.
You voted before noon, you know"
"Oh, yes, know that" replied the volt.
ress, but want to change my ballot"
-Harper's Bazar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
Most Valuable Fur

The most valuable of fur is that of
the sea otter. One tho,.sand dollars has
NAL not more than two yards long by
three-quarters of yard wlde
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

III you never experienced this sort
or thing you can never appreciate IT,
Ii you ever have you know how 1t Is
yourself and no explanation is needed.
But If You never enjoyed an evening
such as this half your life Is gone.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09
Logic.

Wasn't that dinner we just had
create"
Elegant! l don't know when | have
felt so uncomfortable" -Brooklyn Life.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-09

Such n dear
old home it
was. Nesting
down in an
old-fa SllioOp1
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
Thursday, June A, 1896.

The Ogden Standard of May rs,
hows up the ignorance of the
Illustrated american editor, on
he money question, to a niceity.
The editor in question has been
Turing the people Of the South
nd Northwest, because we want
rec silver; and the Gold-bug editor
Il the american can't see why the
people Of the South "shonld care
10 much for Silver" when Sin the
South there are no silver mines"
The South, as we'll as the North
vest, know that before the country
will be restored to it's former pros
5erous condition, we must have the
rec and unlimited coinage Of the
American silver product, placed
bn parity with gold, at ratio of
l6 to /; and we wish the East and
the North were not SO much con-
5rolled by the gold bugs, SO they
would have honor enough to adj
NIT their honest convictions that
gold and silver should go side by
side : but it is a true saying that
sspride goeth before the FALL" and
it may be they will have the fall
before they can come to an honest
money bimetalism.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
State Line District.

Report comes to town of some
very promising gold discoveries at
State Line district made during
the past ten days. Quartz carry
ing gold in large quantities has
bee n found in several veins at the
old Nate Hanson stage station,
which is about four miles in an
easterly direction from the Utah
Spur, claim. Over dozen loca-
tions have been made, and vigor-
Gus prospecting is going on there.
At Eagle Valley district also, on
the Nevada side of the line, and
some three miles southwest Of the
Utah Spur, gold discoveries are
being repo1 ted, and all claim own
ers Whereabouts are much encour-
aged over the outlook.
Dandy Ross has made a ten-ton
shipment of high-grade ore from
the Utah Spur claim, at State Line
on which he holds a lease. Phoebe
Record.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
Pages Cut Of
The Seven Wonders,

The question is often ASKED
what were the seven wonders OF 7
the world? The seven wonders OF
the world were several remarkable
objects of ancient times. FIRST
the pyramids Of Egypt, second, the
Pharos, or watch tower at Alexane
drin, Egypt built by BY 9 order G % OF
Philadelphus, about $50 b. o., be-
ing built Of white marble, a aod
visible at o distance OF loO
miles; third, the walls and hang
ing gardens of Babylon; fourth,
the temple of Diana at Ephesus,
supposed to have been two hum
dred years in building; fifth, the
statue at Olympia, in Ellis, sculp-
tured in ivory and gold by Phidas,
the most eminent Of the ancients;
sixth, the tomb built for Mausolus,
king Of Caria, by Artemesis, his
queen; seventh, the colossus at
Rhodes, a brazen statue of Apollo,
seventy cubits high.-Ex.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04

How is this from Mexican stand
point: "Many ardent free silver
journals in the west of the United
States are quoting the Mexican
Herald in behalf of their cause.
They are wholly welcome to draw
from our armory any weapon they
may choose to select and to use it
with what vigor they possess, But
it must be borne in mind that this
journal is, above all things, not
endeavoring to aid the cause of free
silver in the United States; it might
be a good thing for that great coun-
try, but most assuredly it would be a
bad thing for Mexico. Silver
monometallism is making Mexico
strong and wealthy; it is building
up local industries; it is rendering
us selfrellant and emancipating us
from financial AMI industrial in
dependence on older countries.
Hence we are for the silver dollars
of Mexico, the dynamo which sends
its force through our entire social
mechanism. We do not wonder that
American editors who see business
stagnant, their readers out of en-
ployment and paralysis resting on
affairs, advocate the adoption of
the Mexican PLAN We sincerely
hope, however, that they will stick
to gold and stay so for quarter of
century more, Meantime Mexico
will continue to grow rich on silver
-Mohave County Miner.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
Carnival Notes.

The Press Bureau offer SIS as a
prize for the best editorial on the
Midsummer Cornwall, and $50 is
also offered for the best written and
set display advertisement on the
same subject.
Every cent of expenditures of the
peoples money subscribed to the
Carnival fund will be itemized and
published.
Clip the coupons and vote often
Tor your tavorite for county queen
DO not vote for those who are not
willing candidates.
The huge Continental Market
building, on West Temple street, is
used tor the construction department
Tor the Carnival. The building Of
the beautiful floats is now in progress.
There will be fully fifty floats in
line, representing business. com.
merclal and manufacturing indust.
ries.
Every county in the State is re-
quested to have a representative
noat IN the Carnival procession
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
luck we can get, and let US hope
we may have it.
Is Hard Times Comihg7

The fact of the feed on the ranges
drying up SO much and the cattle
dying, all over the country, brings
to mind a little information given
us by All old veteran who was very
intimate with the prophet Joseph
Smith, liz the early days Of the
Church. The veteran above refer
red to has gone to his rest, but his
words still live in our memory.
lie said that he heard the pro-
phet Joseph say that "when the
time comes that the stock shall be
dying on the ranges, then is the
time for the people to kill their
stock and salt the meat down and
cure it, and prepare for famine /"
Tho extended dry weather is
hard, and if it continues. there is
no telling what may yet occur.
Crops this year are rot as good as
they were last, and the exceeding
short changes of weather is not
helping them any.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04
He must have been tired.

I The great American Eagle re-
turned on Sunday afternoon, about
! A o'clock, and lit on top of the ball
of the Tabernacle spire, remaining
there until Monday morning, when
lie took his departure, only to re-
turn again to his favorite resting
place on Tuesday afternoon. He
remained until Wednesday morn
ing, when he scared off eastward,
us the clock struck 8 o'clock.
Many people call these hard
times, and not few have fears OF
harder times coming, but those
who profess to know, say that
visit from the great American
Eagle betokens good times, and il
there is any truth in the omen
surely his making his third visit
ought to bring us better times IL
the near future, ii he carries good
luck wherever he goes; and one
thing sure we need all the good
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04

The New East Tintic railroad
has been incorporated with 500
shares of par value Of 500 per
share. j. A. Cunningham is presi-
dent and general manager; FL. s..
Young is treasurer, and f. B. Cook,
secretary. These with j. a. Gun
ningham, Jr. and William M. Brad
ley constitute the directory of the
company.
The object of the company is to
construct and operate line of
railroad between the Mammoth
mill in the Tintic district, and the
Mammoth, Ajax, Sioux, Utah,
Swansea and other mines, and to
transport the product Ct these
mines to the Mammoth mill for
concentrating and the smelling
ores over the connecting railroads.
The road will be standard gauge,
and will be equipped with one
Shea locomotive and several freight
cars, the intention being to handle
the cars of both the Rio Grande
Western and the Union Pacific.
The total mileage as now agreed
upon will be something over five
miles, and the maximum grade will
be 6 per cent. Inter Mountain
Mining Review.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1896-06-04

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Washington Co., Utah, us second class
latter, March ~, 1896.
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The Yale expositor., 1896-09-18
An Object Lesson in sauashes.

Well here / am, Mariai I'm back
again, yer see
That is, ez fur as thet's concerned,
I'm back, what's left of me.
The more 1 learn and more 1 see since
all this talk began
Makes me the more inclined to be q
Bryan silver man.
You know he SEE in that thar speech
l read to you last night
That produce hain't gone down a bit,
but COLDS up outer sight.
Well, when / got TO Louisville, at half
past five o'clock,
There want another man had squash
but me on Pierces dock.
/ started in a-selling mine, ten cents
apiece, l swar,
And at that price I'd say that gold
stood just about to par.
Bout six o'clock three other teams
came on the dock, by gosh,
And every gol darned one of 'em was
full of summer squash!
Well, then and there gold started up.
and she began to rise.
Five cents apiece for summer squash
l jumps right up and cries
BY thunder, didn't gold go up as quick
and slick as grease,
For them there fellers offered theirn at
just cent apiece.
But still gold kept a-going up-a-kiting
up she went,
Till / sold out what / had left, two
squashes, for a cent.
You know darned well that squashes
amt apt to fluctuate,
So Bryan's got the thing dead right
it's gold as sure as fate.
IL stands to reason he is right when
he SEE it's because
There's something out of killer with
them thar silver laws.
SO. darn the stuff, I'd full as lieve have
old Bill Ketchums note.
And when election comes around Bill
Bryan gets my vote. II. II.
The Yale expositor., 1896-09-18
A Bad Old Humbug.

The Denver Republican calls for
more money as the cure all for the
peoples woes. They must" II says,
ego back to the good old American
policy OF bimetallism, under which the
country enjoyed such extraordinary
prosperity from 1892 until the COM
plete decentralization of silver" Oh,
those good old days." when less than
1000, 900 silver dollars were coined in
the 81 years from 1892 to 1S73-less
than in the first six months Of the
present year-and when no man ever
saw a silver dollar, except as a curl
osltyl Never once in all this time did
the country have as much money per
capita as 1t now has. Never once, ex-
cept during the war. were wages so
high and prices so satisfactory as in
the IL years following the resumption
of specie (gold) payments in 1878. The
talk of good old times" is simply bad
old humbug.