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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26
MRS, NErT1E COKE.

ties, who prated of buildings and pie
plates as the prerogative Of womankind,
for some time. She has always been
possessed of what Mary wilkins calls
"faculty," and has helped all her life
at Offering inducements to the wolf to
Rit at some one else's doorstep.
She was born in western Illinois,
where they grow people Of indomitable
pluck, and her father was q frugal
farmer with large family, which was,
as Bill Nye wonld say, composed prin-
cipally Of boys and girls. The children
were all healthy, with the normal appe-
tite Of childhood, and those who OBJ
served found out what it meant to
have your liabilities and your assets a
perpetual equation.
This one particular daughter was an
exceedingly studious child to whom
books were delight and the chimney
corner, with magazine, a haven Of
refuge. She ranked high in the district
school and had college aspirations after
the fashion Of girls in the middle west.
But tho much coveted prize of classic
al education always dangled just be-
yond her reach. There was not educa-
tion enough to go round, and in the
equal division between many applicants
the shares were not large. To revenge
herself upon fate the girl, who pre-
ferred even fresh water co.. &c to none
ct all, has been q student all her life,
setting apart certain hour, no matter
how busy the days, for hard study,
without dilettanteism.
After awhile there was wedding ON
the Illinois farm, and IL years ago Mr..
and Mrs. Coke, with their child, came
to California. They went to Woodland,
where they lived on little ranch for
several years. In order to assist her hus-
band Mrs. Coke became bookkeeper in
dry goods store. Presently she went
to Fresno to accept better position in
the same line which had been offered
her, and while there was left o widow.
With her own support and the support
and education of her daughter to pro-
vide for Mrs. Coke looked rather seri-
ously into the future. The problem was
no longer how to exc out the living the
small ranch supplied, but how to feed
two mouths and fill one small head
with learning with two hands that were
very quick and capable, but not over
skilled. While clerking in store Mrs.
Coke began to study shorthand and
typewriting without teacher. 1t was
not such an easy task. After waiting on
the people all day she brought rather
tired head to her self appointed task
each night, and without teacher to
guide and inspire it needed all the / lii
nois courage and the schooling of life
ON small farm to keep her from be-
coming discouraged in her attempt to
master the mysteries of hooks, crooks,
dots and angles. But some people thrive
on obstacles. and Mrs. Coke is of that
species, rapidly becoming extinct.
After acquiring degree of proficiency
she entered the law Office of Frank H.
Short, where she now is. and daintily
picked her way through the legal jar
gon. at first stumbling over "incor-
poreal hereditaments, "certiorari"
and other sweethearts Of the common
law. But she stuck to it, and is now
ranked among the most proficient law
stenographers in California. -San Fran
0fcco rhuo,,snI,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

Mrs. John Richard Green, the widow
Of the historian. has returned to Eng
land, after an interesting and somewhat
adventurous trip to Greece and to the
site of Troy. During her travels Mrs.
Green was fortunate in finding an op-
portunity of visiting the island of Delos,
which is uninhabited and but seldom
accessible to travellers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

can be used for this purpose. The one
sketched here is ten inches long. The
bags are made of brown plush and filled
with sawdust. They are tied together
with brown silk cord, and the canoe is
suspended with the same.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26
Canoe Pincushion.

An odd little pincushion, souvenir
from the mountains, is in the form Of
an Indian canoe freighted with couple
Of plush bags which hold pins. 1t is sus
pended by silk cord. Different sizes
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

Health, said Miss Arnold in Boston
to the Chauncey hall kindergarten grad
yates. is the first requisite OF success.
The "new" woman has none of the old
fashioned belief in nerves and notions
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

The Omaha turnverein has for nine
years provided instruction for women
In physical culture, and in the last win
ter had 20 women in the class. The cos
tune worn is q loose belted waist with
boomers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

Upon curtains the principal part of
the embroidery is now placed upon the
turnover portion Of the top. This has
much the effect Of valance when effect
lively worked
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26
The Pay of Women Musicians.

Probably there is no field where more
varying wages are paid to women than in
the realm of music, writes Mrs. Garrett
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

Powdered alum dissolved in the
water in which the hands are bathed
before putting On the gloves will check
the perspiration of the hands.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-02-26

In Paris the pretty fashion of decking
the table with tiny trees-almond,
orange and cherry-is being revived.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
Virtues Of Hot Water.

Hot water has fur more medical vir-
tues than many believe or know. Be-
cause it is SO easily procured, thou
sands think it vaueless. The uses of
hot water are, however, many. For
example, there is nothing that SO
promptly cuts short congestion of the
lungs, sore throat or rheumatism as hot
water when applied promptly an d
thoroughly. Headache almost always
yicl Is to the simultaneous application
oi hot water to the feet and back of the
neck. A towel folded several times and
dipped in hot water, aud quickly wrung
out and applied over the painful
pnrt in to othache or neuralgia, will
generally afford prompt relief. A
strip of fan mel or napkin folded
lengthwise and dipped in hot water
and wrung out, and then applied
around the neck of child that has
the Group, will sometimes bring re-
lief in ten minutes. Hot water taken
freely half an hour before bedtime is
helpful in the case of constipation,
while it has most soothing effect
upon the stomach and bowels.
goblet of hot water taken just after
rising, before breakfast, has cured
thousands of Indigestion. and nc
simple remedy is more widely recon-
mended by physicians to dyspeptics.
Very hot water will stop dangerous
bleeding. New York Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
The Color Of the Eyes.


The latest subjects of statistical in
quiry are light and dark eyes, and as
the result OF sundry responses to
questions propounded in various coun-
tries aud duly authenticated, it has
been discovered (and not merely dis
covered but also proved) that, taking
the average of Europe and America,
A. 6 is the percentage of men having
light eyes, including blue and gray.
The proportion of girls and women
having blue or gray eyes is by
the same computation 34.2 percent.
In other words. blue eyes are decided
ly rarer among women than among
men, and it is for this reason, per-
haps, that blue eyes, especially in COM
bination with blond hair, are es-
teemed so highly as feature Of fem
mime beauty.
Men have light eyes oftener than
women; but in the intern ,diate grade
of color between light aud dark the
percentage OF the two sexes is very
nearly ii not quite the same. In this
intermediate category are brown and
hazel eyes, neither pure light nor
genuine black. The percentage of
these among men is A.. /, and among
women 45.1 The percentage of dark
or, more properly, black, eyes is
larger among women, being 20.7 per
cent. OF the whole number, while
among men it is 1913 Perhaps it is
the relative rarity of dark eyes among
men which establishes the rule that
dark-eyed men are esteemed more by
women to be more fortunate in the
color of their eyes than blue-eyed
men.
The figures upon which these per.
centages are based are the result OF
inquiries not prosecuted in one or
more OF the countries of Europe or
one or more states OF tho United
States, for, as is well known, in
southern European countries dark
eyes both among men and women pre-
dominate, while light eyes ure to be
found to just as high proportion in
northern countries.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
The Scallop Industry.

The delicate shell has commended
itself to makers of toilet and other
articles for ladies' use, such as PIN
cushions, made either in one valve or
between both shells; needlebooks and
many other things are made from
them, but they are too frail for some
uses that shells have been put to, such
as scrapers, scoops, and dishes, yet
from their employment by cooks to
serve n peculiar patty OF oysters in,
they have given the name OF "scol-
loped oysters" to the dish, whether
served in the shells or otherwise.
The only portion of this handsome
bivalve that is edible is the adductor
muscle, which closes the shells and
corresponds to the "hard pnrt" in
the oyster, often miscalled the "eye" (;
the rest of the animal, being very soft,
Is called the rim by the fishermen.
The little village of New Suffolk, on
Great Peconc Bny, which divides
the eas tern end of Long Island into
two long peninsulns, lives mainly
from the scallop Fisheries, which be-
gin in September and end about the
irst of May, and are nlyinterferedwith
by the freezing of the bay or by float
tn tyn f,,r lao oh col
dom mind the weather unless gale
should interfere with the managem ent
of the boats, which are small sloops OF
five to fifteen tons burden and are
managed by two men-une at the tiller
and the other at the dredges. They
use from one to six dredges, accord
ing to the size of the boat. The seal
lop fleet of New Suffolk comprises
twenty-six boats, and some few others
OF n smaller class occasionally join in
the work. About seventy men do the
catching and carting while twenty
men, thirty women, and eighty chill
dren open and prepare the catch for
market; and MS the population of the
place is only two hundred and seventy
five, it may be truly said that all
grocer, postmaster, and stage driver
live from the catching of scallops.
Children stop on the way home from
school and open few quarts, and
mothers often rock the cradle with
one foot while standing on the other
at work in the shops. -Appletons
Popular Science Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
Queer Things About Ears.

The Anthropologfcal Society met
recently in the pnrlors of the Cosmos
Club, Madison place and H. street
northwest.
DIR. ID. S. Lamb opened with lee
tire, entitled "a Study in Ears"
There was pronounced difference in
enrs, lie said, even when the ears of
animals of the same species we're
considered. This, together with the
different opinions of the several speci-
nlists, made positive figures al
most impossible Generally speak
ing, however, there were relative
marks which gave fair index
of the character. For instance, it
was nearly positive that in the brute
kingdom, at least, small, well-formed
ears meant intelligence. The size of
ears showed much. Taking n basis
of fifty degrees for the medium organ,
the difference could be traced mi
nutely. The professor illustrated
these remarks with the aid of charts,
compiled from Topinard indexes.
Again, he said, there was much in
the position of the ear. Some claimed
that the organs wide extension from
the heud invariably meant criminality,
all other things being equal. OF
course, other than natural influences
might have something to do with that
observation, admitting as an example,
that n child sleeping on one ear con-
stantly would cause the organ of that
side to grow nearer to the head.
Head dress in certain countries
affected this to some extent.
The power of moving the organ of
hearing portrayed to II certain extent
the influences of life. Animals in
constant danger had this power to u
remarkable degree, but Darwin
claimed man had lost it entirely
through the general absence of its
need. Still some people could move
the ear remarkably well, especially
upward and backward. Returning to
the flat ear, the doctor said that some
claimed animals which used their teeth
rs weapons always had the flat ear.
He would not vouch for this. Wash
ington Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
New Orleans in Peril,

"The people of New Orleans are
fearful as TO what course the Missis-
sippi river intends to take" said G..
L. Loumis of the Crescent City.
"Some of the very best engineers
claim that the father of waters has
grown tired of the route he has trav-
eled for so many years and is very
likely to take short cut to the
ocean. OF these there nre three, one
by the bayou Teche, another by
Lakes Allemands aud Salvador being
very much more direct and with n
better fall than the present course of
the river. Either route would leave
New Orleans from fifty to one hum
dred miles from the river, and the
prospects for the river breaking
through all bounds aud changing its
channel in this way are growing every
year. The old-time danger of an
inundation of New Orleans owing to
the city being on lower ground than
the river is not nearly so great as that
the river will desert it and make it an
inland city. Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
Misiit Shoe Shops.

New York City has developed num-
erous unusual industries. On the East
side, in the neighborhood of Grand
and Norfolk streets, are several small
stores which are known to the irrev-
erent youth OF that neighbor-
hood as shoot and shoe mishtteries. F"
The stock in trade is announced, and
is supposed to consist of boots and
shoes made to order which have been
returned by some customer whom they
did not exactly suit. The misftters
are marvelously skiIlful in their work,
and will deceive anybody but an ex-
pert. A favorite trick is to restore n
shoe AMI then put two or three blots
of ink on the lining. The suave
dealer offers you the lining and says:
"Just as good as new, only some care.
less clerk dropped the ink on it, and
it was ruined for that first class store. ,
Shoes made for Patti, Langtry, Prin-
cess Eulalie aud other feminine celeb
ritiesare always kept in stock. The
customers of these places are of very
good class, and consist usually o.
young women who desire to get fash.
ionable boots worth $40 to SIS for 81
or So, and who do not mind the fact
that these are shop worn, mistit oil
some secondhand so long as they can
make their associates believe what the
mistit dealer told them about the inl
blots.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

Caiforninns seem to be the least
appreciative of the marvellous treas
ures of gold that lie ready to their
hands. The fact that great English,
Scotch, French and German companies
are stendily coming into California to
develop the stores of gold so nbun-
dant in the state should be sufficient
notice TO all Californians, rich or poor,
that no reason exists for their going
outside the state in search of wealth.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

The bread known as pain de
guerre," which for some time past has
replaced the once notorious biscuits
of the French army, has been success
full enough to warrant its trial in the
navy, says Paris correspondent.
The bread in question is practically
what is known as whole-meal bread,
but rendered rather lighter and more
palatable when stale by finer grinding.
The machinery which was used to make
biscuits has been utilized for the max.
ing of the new bread, and the big state
bakeries will still supply bath army
and navy.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

There nre two things which England
can't get on without--our millionaire
daughters and our hotels, boasts the
New York Herald. No man on the
globe knows how to keep hotel as
the American does. lie is perfect
Mahatma Mt the business. SO they
say that they are to have in London n
five million dollar hostelry, and it is
to have all possible modern improve
ments, and chef imported from this
country.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

Jules Verne thought he was writing
OF an altogether new and unique thing
when he told his famous story of
"The Underground City," but again
truth proves to be stranger than fc-
tion, as the Russians have discovered
a big underground city in Turkestan,
near the Bokharan town of Karki.
Exploration OF some big caves re-
vealed the fact that they led to n
city in the dirk, built thousands ol
years ago.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

An energetic California orchardist
has invented machine to keep fruit
trees from freezing. This, he says,
will insure the fruit-grower against
the losses from frost, which are per-
petually sweeping down on him and
destroying his profits and his crol s,
The invention combines tar, straw,
and water states Harper's Weekly. II
is carried about on a wagon, in which
the straw, kept wet from tank on the
vehicle, lies on the burning tar, the
fire of which is sustained at an intense
pitch by means of a fan operated by
machinery attached to the wheel oi
the wagon. The blast of hot air il
blown through the wet substance in q
horizontal direction, by its force eject
ing column of condensed vapor un
derneath the trees. The inventor
says that with this machine the heav
lest frosts can be defed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

"Senator Tillman," says n CORE
spondent of the Springfield Repub-
lican, 'was at one time taught by Miss
Annie Arthur, n sister of President
Arthur, who was governess in the Till
man family when the Senator was a
boy. During President Arthur's Adj
ministration this lady revisited the
scenes of her early days in South
Carolina, and spent several weeks with
the family of then Farmer Tillman
at the old estate. This lies at about
thirteen miles distance from Augusta,
GA. Here Senator Tillman was born
fifty years ago, and has lived ever
since, excepting two years spent in
Florida. His father was slave and
land owner, and the family lived in
the lap OF luxury before the war.
After the war, however, the family
like the majority OF others in the
South, became land poor. The great
great-grandfathe of the Senator came
from near Strasburg, Germany, and
80 was German. The name was then
spelled 'Tilghman.' There is furni-
ture still in the family that camo from
Strasburg. The Senator'S great t-grand-
mother was Irish. He has also Hugue.
not blood in his veins"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

not be quite the dude he had been at
the Point, but still he was always the
best dressed subnltern in the regiment.
He had money enough, for one thing.
"But to come now to the bullet.
Gertrude Creighton married n Curton,
the son of u rich mine-owner. Pater-
familias Curton wanted this youthful
scion to make short trip with
view to looking after some of his in
terests in the West. And so it came
to pass that one day ont in Arizona
this same young Curton, in company
with n few prospectors, ran right into
small band OF Apaches. For time
| they stood the Indians of, while one
of Curton's crowd got away and
brought the news into Fort Blister.
1t didn't take long for detail, under
command of the dude sub, to mount
and bear away for the scene OF the ex-
citcment.
"But the messenger had underrnted
the number of the Apaches, and for
once our colonel had erred in iudg-
ment with regard to the size of the de-
tnchment he sent out. The Apaches
were too proud to be driven of by Bris-
tow's little squad. When the troopers
arrived they found IL serious piece of
business on their hands. The pros
pecting party had been nearly cut to
pieces. Only one or two survived.
One of these was Curton, and he was
badly wounded. Bristow, the first
sergeant said nfterwnrd, started vio-
lently when he saw him, and for II
moment was quite unuerved. Bristow
had met Curton in past years and
knew of course that he was Gertrude
Creighton's husband.
"But shout restored Bristow to his
senses. The Apaches, yelling and
hourishing their rifles, were rushing
down upon the doomed group of pros
pectors, thinking by sudden rush to
snatch their prey beiorcit was secured
by the troopers. Kids gave qui elk
order for counter charge, and then
riding for all he was worth-riding rs
he once rode at the academy-dashed
across the intervening gully aud was
Mt Curton's side in twinkling. Lift
ing his now wounded rival on his own
horse, with kick he sent the amin al
at mad gallop Off to refuge behind
our little line. Carton, half dazed,
only heard him say, as he lifted him on
the horse: 'Tell-your wife-that it
was Joy to die-to save her husband J.
eyes, that is the bail l cut out OF
Bristow," sighed the doctor. can
Apache put it into him just after Cur
ton swept away to safety. OF course
our men got the body. Aud l kept
the ball.
"But there goes sick ctllp" ex'
claimed Sawbone', jumping mp.
"Well, Bristow may have been n kid
gloved hero, but he was hero all the
same. For Kids wasn't Just n carpet
knight at Cozzan's, but we of the -th
after that wrote him down in mem-
ory's roster MS one of the fighters OF
the plains, Frank Leslie's Maga-
zine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
War and the Locust.

On the outspread wings OF seven
teen-year or Pharoah locust, the lines
of the letter W can be clearly traced.\
There is popular superstition that
the letter W means war.
In 1894 these locusts appeared and
marched across the country on n
sweeping line of devastation. The
Japanese Chinese war, the most
momentous affair of its kind in the
present decade, followed Immediately
after Just seventeen years before
the noisy pest was ngnin abroad and
that was the year before the great
Russo. Turkish war. Seventeen years
previous, in 1860, the locust was with
us again, and 1860 was the year be-
fore the Civil war. In 1913 the locust
again cast itself upon the nation, and
the Mexican war occurred one year
after.
Back of this few remember whether
the locust was on hand or not, but if
there is any logical pertinency in his
name he should have come in 1858,
which brings us to n grand epoch in
the worlds history-thc Greek Revo-
luton and the independence of all the
South American States and Mexico.
The Seminole war, in Florida, fol-
lowed. New York Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
No POundkeeper in LOndO

London has no poundkeeper, but
astrays are promptly taken care of. all
the same. The Graphic says: Londou
dogs have been ''run in" by the police
to the number of nearly 81, 900 since
the muzzling order began in the mid =,
die of February. OF these some 5000
we're claimed at the police stations!
while most of the remainder enast,
their days in the lethal chamber. From
January to June 106 cases of rabies
occurred in London.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09
Discomfort.

Yes. It's that which alters
Tho strain of him who sings;
When the music faltcrs
The fault is in the strings.
lifc's suprcmest losses
Never match its gains,
Crowns ars more than crosses,
Pleasures more than pains.
often we, forgetting
All the good we see,
Spend our lives regretting
Things that ought to be.
OFT, instead of doing
Little tasks today,
Waste our strength pursuing
Great ores far away.
In the quest Of pleasure
Every soul that lives
Grusps the fullest measure
With the hand that gives;
And no balm Of healing
Comes 10 heart or brain,
Save from fellow feeling
For anothcr's pain.
Not whore glorics llngcr
Dearest joys belong,
Not the loftiest singer
Sing. the sweetest song;
For one eagle soaring
Ger the mountain chain.
A thousand llrks are pouring
Their music DER the plain.
j. u. parke, I'm Detroit Free Pre-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

Francis Joseph, of Austria, is one
of two Independent European sover-
eigns whose presumptive heirs are
their nephews. The Emperor of
Russia and the King of the Belgians
have presumptiye heirs in their
brothers
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-09

No street cars run in Glasgow on
Sundays, and now the Sabbath
Alliance of Scotland is trying to pre-
vent bathing on Sunday in that city.