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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
Genuine HosDitaiity.

I'm d.
ak about hospitality, " remarked q
%'seh down actor, 1.-THE place to find 1t Is
sno Tar west. The last time | was out
4, ,u''e We were playing sITncie Toms Cab.
h H., with a real mule. We played to tnir
nv as'iness and paid our bills until we reach
~ Aea Bluff. There the owner of the
. ri'a mousse had a piano for a~rA2rcbestra.
th' IL stood just below the hAdese. When
any, mule came on, some one M the audi
s,o,' got funny, and, throwing a lariat
Of I .r The neck of the animal, pulled him
no, Sne stage. The mule and the piano
ma ..u up, which ruined the orchestra,
mn,o "p'h DO got away from the piano the
La n,cGed down ono Of the boxes before
who,s a'aeu through one of the seats to
hin, sne fellow with the lariat wanted
wen, +. ""u a mouth organ, with which
mon, vi With the orchestral accompuni-
lor ,h ana we closed tho play with the Eel
aroo,s y, e"pturod ITO mule riding him
,.n, the opera house.
DANE manager Of the thcater claimed
anI 'a'' captured all of the box receipts
come could not get ont of town. OF
bams We expected to walk, but III BIT
with 'ho lanalard didn't pack US oil
rler,, :" M'Ngaae in u box CIR, give US
rin,sw Of lunch and send MS ciear to Viz
Vas INV o'ty without our paying "a cen He
Va most huspitable follow ever saw. .
""A"'Agton star.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
o.,I ADMIT YOU ARE OLD.
Ealing Mans Secret About One of the
ATE" secrets of Old Age.

SttHtt
New York travelling man, after due
,anotion. has .nmo to the conclusion
dollpu. T. nnwise for old people to- tell how
tla' ,re and thereby gain fame II
6o V" m live much longer. He oitcs
they 'har If eases " here centcharians, non
apN.5ans and even u"ct0genarians, had
ogen bnnted up by people who bad d fad
.f' tbat particular thing ana soon after
lot 'p rs effect OF notnrls,y
ldl
i.rho l,test theory advanced In behalf of
ise is therefore. "Don't think yourself
en" por allow anybody .lao to think tiial
gu are old, aid you'll live a. good many
,,as longer. .a...
,i.onntry IA goed doll seeking for CEN
a"s,ians and persons whose years vert
'""rucbing the century mark.
HRpMy contact. with them was so fire.
..n,' ), said he, "thut it WIS surprising.
ssary of tho people who had oached the
.sao If 100 or over we're sound of mind, and
ana norsons at 30 were quite youthful.
c"oroa La Barre, In Monroe Vounty, Pa,
.,ho Ind pass. 4 his II hundred and sixth
,,.,bday. found with u pipe In his
."outh. a flask of whisky In his pocket,
rbopping cordwood for all he was worth.
In lind lived among I'll" mountains all bis
,ms His memory was fresh, md he could
.a,t of things that had happened century
.o He had cbewed and smoked t1haoco
q, or wears and drunk whisky for more
than 90
,ou Delaware County, N. Y. He was Zoe
ssnrs old and remembered his mother
carving him In her arms when the British
,.otured Norw ich, Conn, during the Rev
olntjonsry war and flying with him to
ths woods to escape. He remembered when
Grsenyich street was the water front OF
North river, and he worked on the wharfs
along that street when he waa a boy. In
Orange county found a man who was
III years old. He was a colored man, who
had been a slave from the day of his birth
until be was 20 years old.
any Investigation among old people,"
continues this hunter after human relics
% A reporter, "has convinced me that Ii ID
not any trick at all to beooipe an ooto.
~eeusrian, and l never took any note OF
people Of that age unless there vas some
thing very remarkable about them, like
my old friend, Captain Moses ,Benner q
Ceres, Pa, who. ut the age of 83, was the
father Of two children that were younger
than his youngest great grandohild, and
his youngest great.Rrandchild was only 4
years cid. AT that age Captain BenDer
was able to put u rifle hall. with his gun
beld offlland ard equipped with only tie
ordinary sights, into n copper cent three
times ont of five ut 40 rods, or such octo-
g~erarians us the Bethany t~riplets-Mrs.
Bushnell, Mrs. Lippencott and Mrs. Camp
bell-with only % minutes between the
'sges Of the oldest and the youngest, and
The three, at SIS ears of age, in the enjoy
nent Of the most vigorous aud robust
health. '-Exchange
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
The Abolition Of slavery.

In the first place, the citizens of NIL the
southern states have Leon affected In more
ways than they imagine by that defunct
Institution Of slavery, of which many OF
them have no personal knowledge. They
are likewise affected today by the fact that
they are brought into perpetual contact
with u. free alien race, to whom they are
theoretically bound to allow legal and po-
htical rights, hut to whom they cannot al
low social rights without the risk of dis
migrating their own civilization. They
are further affected by the fact that In
every locality and grade of society men
and women are to be found who represent
an old order of things, who inculcate So
cal and political principles alien to Amer
lean Ideals, and who seek In every way to
ioster sentiments. that favor southern seq
iegation and that antagonize the unity
,g forces ut work in the rest Of the ma
/ tNhL
They are affected finally by the fact that
@f oolninant political party for many
Jan practically treated them as citizens
" section and by Its legislation welded
wen into q compact mnss of taxpayers,
wac rightly or wrongly, regarded them
m''eS as tribute payers. The generation,
Ien' that has built up the south of today
"unlted by ties OF sentiment and interest,
winch, while not strong enough TO endan,
tr the permanence of the Union, are
.hong enough to have overcome till now
se forces that make for divergence and to
variant the critic and historian In speak
~ Oh u southern people heterogeneous In
hangers, hut homogeneous In idea.-W'
& Trent in Atlantic.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
Advertising Locals, F..

Buy your fencing, pine or redwood
shingles, clear and ommon lumber Of
all sizes OF Foulks and Powning, Verdi
or Reno. The best mountain pine and
low prices. Common Il. nlher on the care
~ Verdi at $40 per thousand.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
For Rent.

A good six room house with well, cell
lar. barn aud other improvements at
reasonable terms. Inquire OF Mrs.
Blundell. ..,..
When yon stop in Truckee fora day
or fora month You should remenebei
you get the best accommodations at the
Whitney House.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
Don't Forget Us.

We are agents for the Weekly Exam,-
ner. Leave your money in town. Don't
order through these travelling agents,
we will give you the same prices anu
nreminms. Order at the DESPATCH VI
fce or the Post office. Give US Il chah'e
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
HUNTERS NOTICE.

Hunters will please not go into the
fields on the Italian ranch near Jake
Hamilton's old place, or on the; Hill
ranch, to sh' OF, as the wild cattle break
out and cause ME much trouble and ex-
Dense. s,.s
i. OMNGHousK.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13
Notice to Hunters.

+. / hereby notify all hunters not TO
.trespass upon my premises. Those
who do not heed this notice will be
prosecuted. 7. q. HERMAN
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13

Tie nest OF tho wasp shows n degree OF
engineering skill and adaptation Of means
to end which rival the saine talents Of the
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-13

For SALE-A fine nickel plated bari
tone horn for. sale at a very low figure.
Call at this office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
"oUR ARID LANDs.n

Judge J. s. Emery of Lawrence has
an exhaustive and interesting article in
the Current number of the Arena on the
subject of "'Our Arid Lands" Judge
Emery has given much thought and
time to the subject of which he writes
and probably no man in the country is
more competent to discuss it ihtelli-
gently.
After quoting Major Powe1ls asser-
ton that one-half of the United States
is not sufficiently humid for profitable
agriculture without irrigation, he says:
Now, is it not passing strange that
there is not law in our statute books
which recognizes the existence of this
great economic fact or provides for the
mana cement or disposal of the vast
area of dry lands?"
Attention is called to the fact that
large portion of this area is sparsely
settled by constantly decreasing pop
ulation. It is shown that less than half
of this immense area has cost $3S, 250,-
900 besides a 2-years' war and we have
thus far got little in return because no
provision has been made for utilizing it.
To quote from Judge Emery: 1T is a
sort of unused part of Uncle Sans do
main. 1t might hold very many mill
ions, but it does hold scarce half a doz-
en- millions. In very many large dis
tricts it is wholly unpopulated.'
The Importance of some plan for util-
izing these arid lands for agricultural
purposes is set forth in the follow
ing language: Given your gold and
your silver mines, and yet if the tiller of
the soil be not comfortably fixed and
fairly paid for his labor, there will be
unrest and a lack of that bottom to the
whole social fabric that we all so much
desire to witness in any of the newer
states" Attention is called to the fact
that Colorado gets more out of what she
grows than out of all her mines. Who
asks Judge Emery, is to reclaim this
arid area, shall it be done by the state
or by the Individual?
A senate committee five years ago eS-
timated that from rs to $50 million acres
of the land can be reclaimed by irriga-
ton with the water in sight. The same
committee estimated that in ten years
an irrigated area will produce from
three to five times as much as an equal
area cultivated by rainfall.
Finally Judge Emery suggests as his
idea of the solution of the problem that
the government should by surveys and
scientific investigation furnish all the
necessary data for carrying out a
scheme of irrigation and let the people
do the rest. Something has already
been done along this line, but the work
is yet in it's infancy. Congress has
seemed willing to act in the matter, but
apparently has had no well defined no
ton of what should be done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
WHITING TO THE PAPER.

The State Journal receives scores of
communications every day on all man
ner of subjects. 1t seldom prints any
of them. If it printed one-tenth of
what it received, the paper would be
filed with signed communications. The
only kind of communications that the
Journal really desires to receive are
those containing news. 1t does not So
licit the other kind. The immense num-
Der of communications the Journal re-
ceives, if they were returned to the
writers, would keep a clerk busy
considerable part of the day returning
them. People who write communica-
tons to the newspapers should not ex-
pect them to be returned, If not used
We did not request the communication
and do not feel that we ought to be put
to the trouble of posting and mailing it,
The Journal is not a magazine to which
valuable manuscripts are sent. It is a
newspaper Those who write to the
Journal signed articles are requested to
preserve duplicate copy of their own
as all matter refused by a newspaper
goes into the waste basket. The vol
ume of it is too enormous to be contin-
ually returning it.
Another thing, a communication so
lines in length will get into the paper
80 times out of 100, where a communi-
cation a column long won't get in at ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
a DIxEY ANECDorE.
lFrom the Chicago Times Herald

IFrom the Chicago Times Herald
henry e. Dfxey says that his fun
niest stage experience occurred one
night several years ago when he was
playing THE Seven Ages
In the last act of the play Dixey, as
part OF his makeup for an old man,
wore an immense nose made of putty
and painted red. Just before it was
time to make up for the last act Dixey
discovered that his supply of putty had
been exhausted. He hastily sent a call
ooy out to get some more, but the
youngSter soon returned with the in
formation that it was so late that all
the places of business were closed. In
desperation Dixey asked if there was
any flour to be obtained about the the
alter, saying that prehaps he could
fashion a nose out of dough which
would last for the remaining act.
After considerable skirmishing about
the building some -four was borrowed
from a family living in an adjoining
fiat and Dixey hastily improvised a
probiscis of dough, painted it with YER
million and tottered out upon the stage.
The act had not progressed very far
before Dixey became aware that some
thing was wrong. The audience seemed
to pay no attention to his speeches. but
began to whisper and litter and point
toward him. A minute later the cause
of the trouble became apparent-Dix-
ey's nose was growing. The dough had
been made of "self-rising" -four, which
required only the addition of water in
order to swell into several times it's
original size, and as it was hot night,
the heat of the footlights fastened the
operation and soon expanded Dixey's
nose into the proportions of an e1e-
plants trunk
And still the wonder grew. and grew
so rapidly, too, that the actor discov-
cred that heroic measures must be
adopted before the act could be finish
ed. At last, goaded to desperation,
Dixey stepped into the wings, deliber-
ateIy twisted off his nose and returned
to the stage, with the fragments of
dough still swelling and growing where
that wonderful snout had been. The
roars of the audience completely
eclipsed the remainder of the perform
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
MUNKACZY.
[From the Chicago Times-Hera1d.1

IFrom the Chicago eS-Herald-1
Michael Munkaczy, the famous Hun
garian artist, is again very ill.
1t is said that short time ago he
was placed in a private insane asylum
near Bonn, and that in all probability
he will never be able to work at his
easel again.
1t will be remembered that last No
vember he was stricken with what was
announced as paralysis of the spine, but
his recovery was later reported.
Munkaczy's Christ Before PLATE"
made a sensation in Europe before it
was exhibited in America. 1t is con-
sidered by some who are great critics
the most mastery Interpretation of a
theme that has been essayed by many
of the worlds greatest painters.
Munkaczy Sprang from the humblest
rank of life. His parents were poor
and lowfy AS a boy he was appren-
ticed to a carpenter, but his instincts
revolted against the drudgery of the
bench, and, despite the restraint of his
environment and the disbursement
asserted itself and he mixed his paints
and put his brush to the easel. Drift
ing to Paris he found protector and q
patron in a banker named Sedelmayer,
who was something of a Midas.
Men OF genius often require certain
surroundings to spur their magma
lions to their best efforts. The atmos-
phere of rich brio a-brac is what Mum
kaczy affected, and the odd tumble of
artistic stuff in his studio affords the
action. So well was this known that
recently when MunkacZy promised to
deliver some lectures to an art class In
Paris the students begged and Dor
rowed a great mass of such brlc-a-Drac
to decorate their room, well knowing
that without these surroundings the
great painter could not be induced TO
visit it a. second time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
MEx1Co's AWAKENING.
[From Harper's for February.

[From Harper's for February.1
1t is not far to remember when there
was not a railroad in Mexico, and when
other material conditions were in pro-
portion. The actual Mexico has forty
railroads, with nearly 1000 miles of
track, and everything that implies. Its
transportation facilities are practically
as good as those of our western states;
and the investment is far more profit
able. 1t is netted with telegraph lines
with the cheapest tariffs in America),
dotted with postoftices, schools, costly
buildings for public business and public
beneficence. 1t is freer than it was
ever before-with free schools, free
speech, free press. 1t is happier than
ever before, and more prosperous than
even in the bonanza days of the mag
niffcent silver kings of Zacatecas and
Guanajuato. There are degrees. of
course, by local variation of impulse
of opportunity; but there is progress
everywhere material intellectual,
moral.
If the visible prosperity of Mexico, in
the face of certain of its circumstances
shall seem enigmatic to sane people
whose sane views are based on rad1-
cally unlike surroundings, yet only 1g-
norance can deny the fact Mexico
is admirably prosperous, in spite OF
seven years drouth; in spite of the
Cara revolution Clxindled In the United
States, in ways and for reasons too
complicated to be reviewed here), III
spite of national debt, contracted when
exchange was at from to 1t, ana pc
ing paid with exchange at from 80 to
102; in spite even of cheap money II
has been a miracle of craftsmanship,
but a miracle which will never pc re-
peated in a dissimlar land. l Will try
to explain, later, how even so terrible
a blow as the depreciation of silver was
to Mexico has been turned to the ad-
vantage of a nation which lies IN tne
hollow of one mans hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
A STAGE COSTUME WORN.
IFrom Theatrical Tidings.l

IFrOm Theatrical TidingS.l
In the search for striking costumes to
be worn at the recent Bradley Martin
costume ball a number of people who
lent their presence on that festive oc-
casiOn applied to several New York
managers for novelties in the way of
antique wearing apparel. AS a result
one or two of the costumes that figured
a the ball belonged to well known
players. J. E. Dodson, who plays Car
dinal Richelieu in Under the Red
Robe" received a letter few days be-
fore the event from a friend Of his who
is a society man of considerable wealth.
After beating about the bush for a
while he came out fatty and asked Mr.
Dodson if he would not loan him his
Cardinals robe for the occasion. He
said he would not need it until after
the performance and would guarantee
to return it in good condition the next
day. AS a matter of fact, while Mr.
Dodson will not admit it, there is no
doubt that his costume was worn at the
Bradley Martin ball. My friend was
not actuated by a spirit of economy -
says Mr.. Dodson, but he is something
of a sentimentalist, and probably want
ed to wear a costume that had some
valued association about it other than
the costume makers workshop"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

consciousness from the movement of
seizure. We fancy it is so. though the
fancy may only be born of the special
notice one accOrds to such events. and
we fancy also this time with more GER
tainty that there is a marked change
in the manner in which such incidents
are regarded. Forty years ago every
body who heard of a death among his
acquaintance, like that of the arch
bishop of Canterbury, deemed it incum-
bent upon him to profess and in many
cases actually felt a sort of horror,
which today is almost absent from
mems minds.
Conventionalism on the subject is ex-
tinct-nO one deploreS the SuddenneSS of
say openly :vHow terrible for the arch
bishops relations, but how fortunate for
him" The instructive wincing or shiv-
ering of the mind seems, in tactic have
long suffering, and it is not uncommon
to hear men acknowledge that they
would rather die s the archbishop died
than in any other way, and even de-
clare that they now carefully avoid re-
peating the prayer in the litany which,
is they think, involves a petition to the
Almighty against sudden death. 1t is
by no means clear from the context
that they are not partially in error and
that the prayer is not directed against
the death by violence, which at the time
IL was written, was, of all subjects of
apprehension, the most constant and
most reasonable. 1t is, of course, also
possible that the sentence is survival
from the days when to receive all the
aids of the church could give to the
passing spirit was held to be of the last
Importance. and men dreaded as the
brave Breton soldiers still dread, moth
ing so much as dying-like Hamlet's
father nhouseled, unannointed, IN
annealed." However that may be-
change of feeling is very marked and
we are disposed 10 inquire both whence
1T arose and whether it is beneficial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
A GREAT HoTEL KITCHEN.

(From ScribnerS for February
It is a large, brilliantly lighted place
full of people; cooks that shout at eacn
other in shrill French, and perform
wonderful featS with copper skllIets,
and walters with their black clothes IN
strong contrast to the white caps ana
coats of the cooks, that scud In ana out
holding a tray in one hand and an order
card in the other, lodging other waters
and shouting their wants to the chers
in French; who wouldn't pay any at
tentfon to them if they were not IN
French; while farther down the room
are vegetable preparers, maShlng ppta-
toes by the tubful and on the other SIDE
a rabbIe of scullions rafting silver ana
scraping plates and cleaning dlsheS at
the rate OF several thousand an hour by
aid Of the Self-drying process, Wh1ch
makes a cloud of steam
The chefs of the various departments
along the range Snarl out directions 70
the under cooks, jerk sizzling Things OH
the fire and slap them back again with
the apparent carleSSneSS that dettnesS
brings, reminding one OF the seeming
unappreciativeness of bank clerks ty-
ing up packages of bonds And when
they want another portion or TWO TO
fill a fresh order they shout across the
room to the garde manager, ana those
at the garde manegr repeat the order
and shout "Bonv' and three or four OF
them yell in concert, sometimes Each
tries to put more spirit into 1t than the
other. Everything is organized oustle
and orderly disorder, with the cnet
standing calmly in the center OF the
room watching everything Occasion
ally he confers in a low tone with the
head-Waiter as to the times to seno up
the three hundred casseroles OF Terra
pin Maryland TO the banquet room,
where these same noisy waters VIII
presently enter sedately and speak in
x4-hi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

woman herself to help herself No one else
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If a woman will take proper care of her
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body knows how expensive a medical edu-
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