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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
JACKS DOUBLE Play"
His Presence OF Mind Cost His Father .
Check For the Doctor.

His Presence of Mind Cost His Father .
Check For the Doctor.
A graduate of Union college tells
this story: There was in college
with him a young man who, being
accustomed to take frequent trips
to New York, ON one of these ex-
cursions was embarrassed by seeing
his father approaching him. In a
moment he resolved to play the
part of his own double. His father,
looking surprised, accosted him
with, We'll. Jack, what are you
doing herea"
With great dignity the culprit
replied, II beg your pardon, sir,
but you have evidently mistaken the
person."
why Jack, what do you mean?"
Excuse me, sir, but / do not care
to be interrupted in this manner by
q stranger, and he turned abruptly
and walked quickly away. His
father stood confused for a moment
and then Immediately set off for tho
Grand Central depot to catch the
train for Schenectady and prove
that Jack was an impostor. But
Jack quickly guessed his object and,
reaching the depot, caught the
same train, but for safety settled
himself in the baggage car. When
the nervous ride was over and the
train stopped at Schenectady, the
prosecuted youth ran up to the COL
lege at a %sprinter's gait and, burst
ing into his room, said to his room
mate, "Get me in bed quick; the
old man will be here in a minute ~
Jack was soon in bed, with a wet
cloth around his head, his face
powdered, a teacup with broken
saucer and a spoon for medicine,
while his roommate was sitting at
his bedside with a Shakespeare in
his hand.
Soon the old gentleman came up
stairs and, with a noisy knock,
Numbered out as soon as the door
was opened, where's Jacki"
"Hushl Did you get my tele-
grant"
"Telegraml What telegram
why, about Jacks sickness. He
has been very ill.,"
Just then Jack opened his eyes
and said family, "Is that you,
father3" and then a moment later
added, "This young man has been
very kind to me, father" With a
look of bewilderment the old man
said, SIS there anything l can do
for you, my poor boyf" and, taking
out his checkbook, he left some
thing to cover the expenses of sick
ness. He then retired to pick up
the thread of business dropped in
the city, feeling convinced that he
had met Jacks double. New York
Mail and Express.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
VI DID NOT STOP TO THINK"

It only was one careless word,
And spoken with no Ill intent.
The moment that its sound l heard
I had occasion to lament
Twas something l could not recall.
1t set my features all atiame,
It turned a kindly heart to gall,
And made mine stop from simple shame,
1t changed a current Of a life.
1t turned me back from fortunes brink
That little word with portent rife
Because IT did not stop to think"
I thought of judgment he had lack,
And spoke; twas speaking out Of
school"
Before the word 1 could take back,
He said, you think I am a fool"
"Think twice before you speak" All, true
knew the adage well, and yet
Not fifty words can e'er construe
That one or stop a vain regret.
Walter Cooper in New York Ledger.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
They Bought Bibles.

In the early days of Atchison a
rich Boston man named Clafin came
to town to assist in celebrating the
opening of the Central branch. He
was entertained by George w. Click,
and the morning after his arrival he
came down stairs and asked Mr..
Click for a Bible, saying he always
read a chapter in the Bible before
breakfast. Mr.. Click said he would
get one, but found there was not a
Bible in the house. He slipped over
to Cottonwood Browns, supposing
he would have one, but he didn't,
and then he went to Virgie Parker's.
Parker didn't have one, either, and
finally Mr.. Click was compelled to
confess to his guest that there
wasn't a Bible in the neighborhood.
The late l.. A. Anderson operated
a Bible depository in Atchison at
that time and used to tell how Click,
Brown and Parker slipped into his
store one morning one after another
and bought a Bible each. 1t was
the morning after the Boston man
inquired for one.-Atcbison Globe.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
The Invasion of America.

We depend upon our vast popula-
ton, resources and wealth to over
awe our enemies, when history
teaches us that great wealth only
facilitates the task of the invader,
since the contributions he a levy
will indemnify him for the cost of
war, and that without previous prep
aration no population, no matter
how great, can in a few weeks pro
duce an army, but only an armed
mob. We talk about the vastness
of our territory and the impossible
ity Of an army penetrating far from
the seaboard and lose sight of the
fact that under present conditions,
we're a we'll trained army of 300, O00
men landed on II shores, our great
est cities, being on our coast, would
be at it's mercy, and that after levy
ing enormous contributions, indem-
nifying it for all the expenses of the
war, it might be possible for the
enemy to withdraw, leaving to Us
the shame of defeat and the post.
ponement of our revenge until our
armed strength had been increased
and our blood cooled. Captain
James Parker, U. S. A., III Harpe1's
Magazine.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
OUR FoRBEARs AS BIBBERs.
As q Rule The, Deemed Water = Dan
9erous Fluid.

As q Rule The, Deemed Water = Dan
gerous Fluid.
The colonists in America suffered
much in the new world in the ear
Hest days from water drinking
Bradford, the pilgrim governor,
com planned loudly, while Higgin-
son, the Salem minister, boosted in
1929, Whereas my stomach could
only digest and did require such
drink as was both strong and stale,
l can and ofttimes do drink New
England water very well AS ne
died shortly after writing this his
words do not carry their intended
force. One bold New Highlander says
Of water, II dare not p%referre this
before good Deere, but any man
would choose it before bad Deere,
wheay or buttermilk.
Water drinking was held in spe-
cial adherence in Virginia, for the
notion arose that the great mortal
ity among the early immigrants was
caused by the enforced use OF water
at that time during the scarcity of
beer. The assembly in 1923 recon-
mended all newcomers to bring a
plentiful supply of malt, to be used
in brewing, and thus not be forced
to drink water It'll the body became
hardened" Earlier still, in 1909, in
the true and sincere declaration, "
issued by the governor and council,
brewers were asked for.
Soon barley and hops were plen-
tifully grown in Virginia, and it be-
came no longer necessary to import
beer from England. In 1862 George
Fletcher obtained a monopoly i'll
Virginia for Il years of brewing in
wooden vessels. Whether this affect.
ed the prog1 ess of brewing l do not
know, but soon it gradually declined,
as did the cultivation of barley.
The Virginia planters quickly dis
covered the adaptability of the per-
sim mon for beer by making and
baking cakes of the fruit and then
brewing from these cakes. They
brewed beer from dried Indian corn,
from potatoes, from pumpkins, from
bran and molasses and from green
stocks of maize chopped and mashed.
They planted the Jerusalem arti-
choke like barley, to be used in
brewing and distilling. The royal
manuscript commission gives the
project of a chemist named Russell
who for e., 900 paid by the Virginia
company agreed to demonstrate the
making of wine or beer from the
sassafras tree. So there was no lack
ing for materials for brewing.
New Englanders did not long con
tinue in a peerless state. They I'M
ported malt and learned how to
make beer from Indian corn and
| quickly learned to cheat in brewing,
using coarse molasses. In 1884 an
ale quart of beer cost a penny at an
ordinary, and a landlord could be
fined if he charged IA higher price Oh
if his beer was of a low standard.
Tavern keepers also We're enjoined
to sell no more than a quart of beel
out of meal times. This was to pre-
vent bye drinking. - Chicago
News
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

A good story is told of Lord Hawke,
the cricketer. When playing at Sheffield
one day, he invited a well known and
highly respected professional to take
lunch with him i'll the ''gentlemen's''
pavilion. One Of Lord Hawkes. col
leagues thought it necessary to object to
the presence of a professional player at
the table. "Then, SIR" said his lord
ship, turning to his friend, "since |
cannot entertain you here perhaps |
may have the pleasure of lunching with
you" And with these words Lord
Hawke proceeded to the players meal
in their pavilion. -Pearson's Weekly.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
This Way Lies Safety.

If you want to carry accident in
surance that will cost you nothing,
carry a card in your pocket giving
your name, address and to whom
word should be cent in the event
that any accident befalls you. No
one 80 equipped is ever killed OF in
iured.-Atchison Globe.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
L U GUM NEGROES.

TIL Evils Tha4 Their Bites Are Supposed
to Cause-A Doctors Statement.
Among the numerous superstl-
tons of the old plantation days
which still linger in the south none
is more pronounced II ore widely
diffused than the belief in the fatal
effects of the blue gum nigger's'
bite. In many places car be found
white persons of intelligence who
will tell you that the bite of a negro
with blue gums is more to be dread
ed than the bite of rattlesnakes and
rabid dogs. 1t is affirmed that his
bite is a sure producer of hydropho-
bia, blood poisoning and numerous
other terrible ills.
Every few months the southern
newspapers publish accounts of per
sons being bitten by blue gum ne
O and the fearful results. These
newspaper accounts tell of children
being bitten by their enraged nurses
or of men and boys who are bitten in
fights with negroes, with the result
that hydrophobia, blood poisoning
or something of the kind is said al
ways to occur. Recently a physician
in Augusta, Ga, who was treating
a patient suffering from a bite of
this kind, said he was unable to of
fer any scientific explanation of the
blue gum negro's bite, but he be-
lieved it was as deadly as that of
the most poisonous reptiles.
1t is said that an Alabama pillow
hand once became angered at his
mule and bit off the end of its ear.
The mule at once became frantic
and ran braying through the woods
until it fell over a bluff and was
killed. Several years ago a man in
middle Georgia was bitten by Il blue
gum laborer, and it is said that a few
days later he developed violent
symptoms of hydrophobia and ran
about frothing at the mouth and bit.
ing like a dog until he was overpow-
cred by his neighbors and lodged in
the county jail.
There is no scientific reason why
the bite of a negro whose gums hap
pen to be covered with a blue cuti-
Gle should be any more poisonous
than the bite of a white man whose
gums nature has provided with q
covering of red. II is very probable
that in cases where Inflammation
does follow such bites it is the result
of such conditions as are sometimes
known to produce various degrees
of blood poisoning from slight
wounds or scratches. But, while the
bite of the blue gum negro may not
in reality be any more harmful than
the bite of any other human being,
the fact remains that he is univer-
sally dreaded by both whites and
blacks and by his own class.
1t is impossible to t1ace the strange
belief to its origin. 1t may have
been suggested to the whites by
their early experiences with the
negroes, may have been developed
on the old plantations by the vaga.
ries of the African mind or, what il
more probable, imported from the
jungles of the Kongo homeland
New York Sun.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

What! You cannot mean to tell
me you found the professor stupidi
Why, he knows everything"
II know he does" said the sweet
young thing, but I'd rather talk
with some n who knows every
body. "-Indianapolis journal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
Cause For Pride.

Fuddy-Saw Greggs just now
He's proud as Lucifer.
Duddy-Why, what's happened to
himi
Fuddy-The doctor says his trou-
BILE is the govt, and, you know. he
thought it was only rheumatism. -
Boston Transcript.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

The gambling game craps"
which SO deeply engrosses the
"trifin" kind of colored men in the
south, was invented by the aristo-
cratic Marquis Bernard de Marigny
of New Orleans, who entertained
Louis Philippe when the latter visit
ed Louisiana.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
Sweeping.

:'My wife is a very peculiar wom-
an" said Somerly.
"Most wives are" replied Henry
Peck, with a shudder. - Philadel.
phia North American.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

Coaches are said to have been in
vented in Hungary and called "kot-
1ey"-in French, 'coche" and
were introduced into England in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. They
were then termed "whirlicotes, 4
name long since sunk into oblivio
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

An English beauty was in the
habit of curling her hair with So
Bank of England notes. She occa-
sionally showed herself to visitors
with her hair in this costly paper.
She soon captured a wealthy hus-
band, who discovered that she was
a deceiver, for she had borrowed
the money she had displayed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
THE WHITE PINE NEWS.
TO AN ARTIST.

Dear. III gle ye some advice
You'll tax 1t no uncivil:
You shouldna paint at angels mair,
But try and paint the devil.
To paint an angels kittle wark,
wi Aud Nick there's less danger.
You'll easy draw a weel kent face,
But no a weel a stranger.
Robert Burns.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
From Appearances.

Armson-That's Muggins. He war
pretty badly hurt in a fight the other
day.
De Manising-Wherea
"On the West Side"
He walks as if he'd been hurt a
little on the east side too. "-Chicago
Tribune.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

The weight of the brain in nan is
about the thirty sixth of the whole
body, that of idiots being between
the sixtieth and the n hundred
and fortieth. The average weight
in the mammalia is the one hundred
and eighty-sixth; in birds the two
hundred and twelfth; in reptiles the
thirteen hundred and twenty-tirst,
and in fish only the five thousand
six hundred and eighty-eighth.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11
A Chapel Bell.

The largest bell in the world is
the one called king of bells in
Moscow. 1t was cast in 1873, but
fell during a fire and remained
buried in the earth till 1886. 1t is
more than three times as high as a
man, being over 10 feet high, and
weighs as much as 220 common cart
loads of coal. There is a large piece
broken out of one side, SO that it
cannot be rung as a bell, but it is
set upon a stone foundation and
used as a chapel, of which the broken
place is the door.-St. Nicholas.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-11

He-My mother was renowned for
her beauty. She was certainly the
~handsomest woman / have ever
seen.
She-Ah, it was your father,
then, who was not good looking2-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
4 DUBIOUS HORSE DEAL.
Each Party to the Bargain Trying TO Mako the
Other Take tho Horse.

Each Party to the Bargain Trying to Mako the
Other Take the Horse.
Justice Of the Peace Lowry Of Jersey City yes
terday morning brought about the settlement of
an unhappy difference regarding the ownership
OF n horse. Harris Ruttenberg, q teacher of
Hebrew, who lives on Jersey City Heights, was
sure that Max Dranow of $50 Grand street
owned 1t. Dranow was sure that tho horse. once
his. had been sold to Ruttenberg, though pay
ment on the check for S35 which Ruttenberg had
given him for tho horse had been stopped at the
bank. The horse meanwhile was held by the
police as found astray without an owner.
1t was established that until Monday. July 10,
the horse belonged to Dranow. It's ownership
became confused when Ruttenberg led It away
after giving Dranow the thirty-h ve-dollar check.
Ruttenbergg goes all over eastern Now jersey to
give lessons in Hebrew literature. He started
for Newark with the horse on Wednesday. The
horse, which Is q sorrel Of low and rakish rig
went very nicely to the Jersey City limits
When it reached the impaired roads 1t did moi
60 ut all. 1t took the learned Hebrew four hours
to urge the horse to move over O quarter Of q
mile Of road.
He gave up the Newark trip; Later. with hi,
for a drive on Pacific avenue. Near the cana
bridge tho horse. for ssasons ~ esG,,sr to lsssit
In his seat aud maintained the dignity Of his
patrlarchal gray beard as long al she could. but In
himself from being dumped in the, canal. Thor
he went to the bank and stopped payment on
the check he had given to Dranow,
On Friday. after the horse, had made one OF
venerable Hebrew led It back 10 Dranow's door
and there left it. The horse stood there all day
fused to 500 1t. At 3 o'clock in the Afternoon
Policeman Gouzer led It to the police station q!
an estray. He says 1t 10 not true that he had "a
tie the horse to q trolley car to get it to tho sta
ton.
The case was laid before Justice Lowry. Yes
terday morning he hTd o talk with the dis
putants and a compromise was arranged. Rut
tenberg acknowledged ownership Of the horse
Dranow reduced tho price to $50 and then founc
n man who would pay Ruttenberg $50 for IL
The teacher the paid the bill OF 80 for the boart
of the horse while II was ownerless.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
oUnnD M sr. ANNr,s nEtIo.
A Crippled soldier Asrribcs 1zis Recovery u
lts influence.

Tho annual novena OF st. Anne at the Church
OF st. Jean Baptiste, In East soventy.sixth
street. closed yesterday. All day long the little
French church was crowded with those who
came to zee and kiss the relic which is bel eyed
to he part OF the right wrist of tho mother Of
the Virgin Mary. The interior Of tho church
was lighted by hundreds Of wax candles, and
palms and flowers decorated tho affairs and
pillars. Throughout the day q constant stream
of humanity moved slowly up tho main aisle
to the altar, where q priest held the sacred relic,
and kissed the glass case. At the left OF tho
altar stood a large pile Of crutches. They had
by the relic. Sisters of Charity and Mercy
moved among tho sufferers who had not found
them. Scores OF motbers with sick babies wait,
ed patiently In the long line until their turn
came to press the relic to their baby's lips.
Late In the afternoon, as the crowd was thin.
ming out, q l.en about o. years old walked up to
one Of the fathers at the door and told him that
Jean Dubois and that no lived in Tarrytown.
?" am an old soldier" he said, " and fought
sEeinst ths Germans. In their war with France,
forced 70 retire from the army. At the conciu-
time, followed my trade. that Of a cabincimaier
had not been hero long before / commenced to
feel e sharp pains in my leg AZ hrst thought T.
had been injured by. the bullet. An opera
ton was performed. but 1 obtained no
relief. Little by little tho pain increased until
II became almost unbearablc and ] was forced
to abandon my work. / moved to Tarrytown,
and while there I herd OF the relic and its won
derful cures. That was three years ago. | was
then completely crippled. and the slightest
touch on my leg was enough to cause extreme
pain. decided to come and test the wonderful
relic. confess / had little faith in II at the
time. During the novena l called Mt the church
every day. Last year after my annual visit ]
noticed that my leg was slowly improving. Two
months ago ! was able to rost my weight on 1t
for tho first time In many years. This year I
cured, and, thanks to the blessed Mary and tho
holy relic. l have become a devout Catholic"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
IN BOSTON
Conductors Receive nm Edict on Etiquette, and
women Patrons Approve the ChanEe.

Conductors Receive nm Edict on Etiquette, and
women Patrons Approve the Change.
BOSTON. July ga new ediot on etiquette
has been issued by E. c. Foster. superintendent
of the Lynn and Boston Railroad Company.
Hereafter conductors and other employees Of
tho company who have occasion to address tho
women patrons OF the company will use tho
word Madame instead of Lady" as has
been the custom as far back as patrons Of the
road can remember. Commencing to-day every
employee Of the various trains will carry
wherever 1t will be most convenient o copy Of
the following edict:
On and after this date. conductors and motormen.
In addressing women passengers, shall substitute the
Z. c. FOSTER, Superintendent
So far as can be learned no complaint has ever
been made, By any woman who travelled by this
line to the appellation Lady" The new order
Is made by the company for the reason that uni
formity in addressing women patrons Is do
other way than by edict. One Of the company
said by way OF explanation:
at has become q growing and very noticeable
that women patrons OF the road were addressed
az Mrs. sometimes as Miss. not infrequently
as Lady and occasionally as Madame and IT
was often the case that Tho person addressed as
Mrs should have been addressed as Miss. II
strict propriety were observed, and vice versa,
boon reported. BY the adoption OF a uniform
greeting, such as Madame, 1t relieves the con.
ductor and motorman Of the responsihllity Of
at the Same lime prevents any possible offence
IL matters not whether tho woman is elderly,
middle aged. new. or summer girl, she is 10 be
addressed as Madame" and every violation OF
the edict will bring down q reprimand on The
tried it say that the women give the new form
of address the smile OF approval.