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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-16

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-16
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Popular Hero of Romance.

If one may judge from the novels
that young women seem to read with
most ayidity, they do not like lover
to be sentimental, rhetorical or brutal.
They still prefer him to be big and
strong, but let him be careful not to
put on airs about it. There is nothing
which seems to please little woman
more than to humiliate big man-and
that at his own game. If she can show
him that she can sail boat, shoot n
rapid, climb mountain, or swim
further out to sea than he can, she is
in a fair way to accept his humble
proffer of love and allegiance in the
next chapter.
The prevalent hero is n man who can
do almost anything well, but keeps II
to himself. He must be a man of i'm
mense reserve powers, who exhibits
most Of them playing golf, or polo, or
riding to hounds, or running a steam
yacht.
If he permits the fact to leak out that
in winter he is intensely Interested ia
civic and philanthropic problems he be-
gins TO get hold on the affections of
the naughty lady. What the modern
young woman seems TO want in n hero
Is correct, fashionable and rather
frivolous manner of life, but inwardly
"A tremendous seriousness of purpose. If
he simply has the purpose" he is all
right-he need not do much, for the
world is known to be rather cruel and
cynical toward reformers. The girl
knows that he will fail of carrying out
his ideal, but she Is determined that he
shall have her by way of compensation
-'Droch," In Ladies' Home Journal,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Search for Buried Plumber.

The finding of revolver marked
BLOOD for blood" has revived an old
story of buried treasure at Phoenix,
Ariz, and number of men are digging
in the vicinity Of the place where the
weapon was found. In June, 1876, five
men held up stage coach on the Black
canyon road, near Arastia hill. One
passenger was killed, and the booty
consisted of a big roll of new 500
greenbacks and bar of gold worth
$4,000. A year or SO later 1t was re-
ported in Phoenix, and, indeed,
throughout the extreme Southwest,
that the product of the stage robbery
had been buried at Phoenix.
Two of the robbers made partial con-
LESSONS when MORALLY wounded, but
their explanations were cut off by
death. 1t seems that the robbers had
feared to make use of the greenbacks
because these notes were rare in that
part of the country and would arouse
suspicion. They therefore buried the
bills and cut the gold bar in two with
an ak and buried half, together with
the pistol of the murdered passenger,
which was peculiar one, bearing the
words, BLOOD for blood"
The whole was inclosed in an iron
coffee pot. Almost every year since the
story of the treasure became known
one or more searchers have appeared at
Phoenix, each claiming to have tip,
received at some "bad mans" dpath-
bed or in some equally sensational way,
Some years ago priest from Magda-
lena, Sonora, who had been given the
location by man who died of wound
received in fight, spent long time
in searching for it without success, 1t
is probable that the treasure, If ever
buried at all. has been recovered by
some searcher who thought 1t well to
conceal his success,-New York World.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Bright Savings Of Children,

Mama-What are you playing with,
darling? Darling-With caterpillar
and two little kittenpillars.
Governess-Now, Tommie, If you had
eight sponge cakes and gave baby sew
en-, and then took away six, what
would he have then? Tommie-A fit,
pretty nearly!
Mama (seyerely)-Daisy, you have
been at my workbox again! I'm afraid
that everything tell you goes In at
one ear and out of the other Daisy Is
years old)-Well, mama, why don't
you top one of zem up?
A little fellow, who had his wits
about him when the contribution plate
was passed at church, administered n
rebulle to his mother, who on the way
mon. "Well, mother" he said inno-
Gently, what could you expect for a
cent?
A kindergarten teacher was recently
reviewing her. little class on the in
struction given the day previous. The
following are part of the questions
and answers: Teacher-Now, chill
dren, told you yesterday about the
various materials from which your
dresses are made-silk, wool and cot
ton. Let me see how well you re-
member. Margie, where did the ma
terial come from of which your dress
is made? Margie-It once grew upon
the back of sheep. Teacher-Very
good; and yours, Blanche? Blanche
My dress once grew upon the back of
a sheep, and part of 1t was spun by
the silkworm. Teacher-Correct! And
yours, Lucy? Lucy with evident en-
barrassment)-My dress was made out
of an old one of mama's.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
What Children Fear.

President G. Stanley Hall Of Clark
University has been collecting facts
concerning the fears of children. The
fears Of children, he says, are gener-
ally created by parents and servants.
He found that 1,701 children had o.
456 fears, the leading ones being the
fear of lightning and thunder, reptiles
strangers, the dark, death, domestic
animals, disease, wild animals, water.
ghosts, insects, rats and mice, robbers,
high winds, etc.
A few Of these fears are rational. In
New Jersey no children were found to
be afraid Of high winds, but In the
West that fear naturally leads all 9th
ers. At Trenton, however, sixty-two
children were found who dreaded the
end of the world, fear created entire
ly by adult teaching. His tabulation
shows what education can do in this
respect.
No child was found to be afraid of
the devil. Two hundred years ago and
less that fear would have led all the
rest. Few were found who were
afraid of ghosts, fear that would
have stood high on the list not long
ago. The fear of robbers and of wild
animals Is survival, though robbers
have not disappeared as completely as
the wild animals.
Forty-six New Jersey children were
afraid of being burned alive. mon
strous thing to inculcate In the child
mind Fear will always be one of the
strongest influences in human life. but
at least 1t Is possible by teaching what
real danger consists of to eradicate
groundless fears.-Chicncn Trihnnn
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.

Over the hills and far away,
A little boy steals from his morning play,
And under the poisoning apple tree
He lies and he dreams of things to be;
or battles fought and of victories won,
OF wrongs o'erthrown and of great deeds
done;
or the yalor that he shall prove some day
Over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
It's oh for the toll the livelong day!
But it mattereth not to the soul afame
With the love for riches and power and
fame!
On, o man; while the sun is high;
On to the certain joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon of day,
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
An old man fingers at close of day;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won,
The old-time honesty and truth,
The trustfulness and the friends Of youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
Over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away?
Eugene Field.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
WHAT WE SHOULD DRINK.
Our Instincts Are Usually the Best
Guide.

our arc btSN
Guide.
We should drink from one-third to
two-fifths as many ounces as we weigh
in pounds, declares Prof. Allen in a
medical exchange. Therefore, for a
man weighing 16S pounds would be re-
quired from iXty-six to sixty-four
ounces daily, or from one and one-half
TO four pints. This we regard as a very
indefinite answer, says the New York
Ledger. The amount of water required
depends on the season of the year, the
amount of work done and the kind of
food eaten. In hot weather we require
more than in cold, because of the great
er loss through the skin, though this is
in part made up by the lesser amount
passed away through the kidneys. If
a man labors very hard he requires
more than If his labor is light. A man
working in a foundry where the tenn
perature is high and the perspiration
profuse not infrequently drinks three
or four gallons daily.
If the food Is stimulating and salty
more water is required than If 1t Is not
Vegetarians and those who use much
fruit reliire less water than those who
eat sailed fish and pork, and often get
along with none, except what is in their
food.
In most cases our instincts tell us
how much water to drink far better
than any hard or fixed rule. For ages
they have been acquiring a knowledge
Of how much to drink and transmitting
that knowledge to descendants, and If
we follow them we shall not go far out
of the way. 1t Is of more use to US
to know that pure water Is essential
and that impure water Is one of the
most dangerous of drinks than to know
how much of it is required daily.
If one lives in region where the wat
er Is bad 1t should be boiled and put
away in bottles, well corked, In an ice
chest, and In addition one should eat
all the fruit he can, if fruit agrees.
Fruits contain not only pure water, but
salts which are needed to carry on
BEAUTIFULLY the functions of life.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Farming for Frogs.

You have all heard of corn and pump
kin farms, but who ever heard of n
frog farm? Yet just such novelty ex-
lists in the Trout river basin of Ontario,
Canada. 1t has been in operation for
many years and has large annual out
put of frogs legs and live frogs. In the
summer time it is probably the greatest
place for hops in the world, and as for
orchestras and vocal music few places
can equal It, The farm is mostly a
stretch of shallow water and swamps
and the frogs are allowed to hop at
large and breed until they are three or
four years old. Then the farmers" go
out at night with torches and the frogs
are caught in nets and placed in pens.
When they are wanted the water is
drained off and the frogs are sent away
TO market The farm is stocked mostly
with big bnllfrogs, which provide the
largest and best legs. In 1895 and 1896
the farm produced the immense
amount of 5000 pounds of dressed frog
legs, besides 1000 live frogs for vari-
Gus purposes.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

fellow named Dick Is four years old,
and when Miss Selden is writing he sits
on the table near her and amuses him.
self with boxing scraps of paper around
or chasing flies.
'Dick has been trained to do good
many interesting tricks. He will hop
over a stick held by his mistress sew
eral inches from the floor, wears a
small paper cap with all the dignity of
a grenadier, and when his mistress
places cushion on the floor and sets
him on shelf he promptly springs into
the air, turns a somersault, and lands
on his feet with the accuracy of train
ed acrobat.
''There is another trained frog be-
sides Dick, and when they are together
Miss Selden frequently plays the piano.
The music sets the frogs to going and
they will hop around the floor, slowly
or rapidly, keeping time to the music as
nearly as frogs mind can measure
If
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Why Stars Twinkle.
Twinkle. twinkle, little star,
/ wonder why you twinkle?

i Wluhle, lWluhle, illllt SUR,
! wonder why you twinkle?
This is the little song that astronom-
ers have been singing for years; and
not one of them could satisfactorily an
swer the question.
Now, however, DR.. L. L. See, who is
In charge of the great telescope at Flag
staff, Ariz., has suggested solution of
the mystery which is awakening wide
interest among scientists.
DR.. See has found the cause of the
twinkling to be the presence in the at
mosphere of innumerable little currents
or waves, which dart through the air
and cause a break In the light from the
star. The result Is that to beholder
on the earth the star has the familiar
appearance of twinkling. These little
air currents can be distinguished
through the twenty-four inch telescope
very plainly on nights when this twink
ling is observed most, by the simple
process of removing the eyepiece of the
instrument.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
HEARD AT THE SCREEN.
The Old Man Imagined the Apen,
Had Suspicious.

The Old Man Imagined the Agep,
Had Suspicious.
81 want a ticket to Valparaiso"
Zone dollar and thirty cents"
You don't think want to get 1t TO,
nothing, do you?"
WAS It Valparaiso you saidY'
at was. sir"
Zone dollar and thirty cents
Cant you see I've got my pocket.
book out? Do look like man thar
watching for chance TO jerk rail.
road ticket out of your hand and RIM
away without paying for it?"
Say, If you want ticket for ysl
paraiso-"
That's what l want, young man
and I've told you so twice. How MANY
times more do you want me to asI, fo,
1t? You're here to sell tickets. / racI,
onW N,
Yes, sir, and If you want"
"A ticket to Valparaiso-V, a, |, D
+, mo. d, ="
"One dollar and thirty"
Il know exactly how much II IL
young man. [ don't need to be to,5
more than five or six times. I've trov
eled between this town and Valnar,is,
more trips than you've got ounces =,
brain inside your skull. | was buvn,
tickets from here to Valparaiso wha''
you were wearing short pants. yon
don't look like the kind of chan tha.
can afford to put on airs over main
common, everyday people. You looh
like some Billy sort of a bralyepon
that's been promoted to a conductnr,a
job on account of scarcity OF ma.
terial, and hasn't got over the swelloa
head yet. No, I'm not hindering any
body that wants to buy ticket to somo
other town, either. l know this nan
standing behind me. He wants to On
to Indianapolis, and his train doesn't
leave for three hours. You'll listen to
all l have to say If it takes me till din.
ner time. If the railroad componv
cannot afford to hire clerks that hoyo
got sense enough to tell an honest man
from pickpoclet or gold bric,
swindler 1t ought to raise the price Of
tickets or economiZe by building chean.
er cars and advertise for few com
petent-oh, you've concluded to hand
over the ticket without waiting 20 see
whether I'm going to gobble it and RIM
off with 1t, have you? Well, h,rn's
your change, and perhaps you'll know
me when you see me again, young
man. MorningP'-Chicago Tribune,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Smallest Dog in the World.

The little Archduchess Elizabeth,
daughter of the widowed Crown Prin-
cess Stephanie of Austria and the pet
of the Austrian imperial family, is the
fortunate owner of the smallest dog in
the world 1t can play upon human
hand and Is of the silk-halred terrier
breed. 1t formerly belonged to Mrs.
Waldmann, keeper of cafe in Vienna.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Too Big a Mouthfu1.

Speaking of odd accidents to birds,
a friend of the Boys and Girls depart
ment wrote about a surprising thing
which he saw last summer. He was
camped on Lake Geneva during most
of the month of August, and he found
much pleasure in watching those fish
ers of the air, the osprey and the king
fisher. One day he saw a kingfisher
drop down from the sky like a shot,
splash into the water near shore and
then rise laboriously with heavy fish
in its talons. 1t flew to the top of a
tall stub near shore, and while he
watched it he saw it flutter suddenly
from its perch and then drop down
ward with apparently helpless wings.
He rowed over to the shore and ran to
the foot of the dry stub. The king
fisher lay there fiuttering feebly and
almost dead with a small perch stuck
fast in its throat. 1t had tried to swal-
low entirely too large mouthful, and
had not the visitor removed the fish it
soon would have died.
Have any of you ever heard of a
stranger accident?-Chicago Record.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10


pound.
Mrs. Waldmann thought the tiny
thing so charming that only royal
child should possess such rarity. She
accordingly applied to the crown prin-
cess for permission to present 1t to the
little archduchess. Frau Waldmann
took the dog with her to the court and
showed 1t to the royal mother. All were
at once taken with the terriers droll
ways and its fine little head, and a few
days afterward the dog found its way
in small basket to the castle, being
presented to the child from its mother
and grandparents,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

some OF us have more ups and downs
IN ms world than others, but when we
get TO the cemetery we will all be on n
dead level.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
FIRST WOMAN UP SKAGUAY

Mrs. M. A. Hamme1 Broke Up He,
Home to Follow Her Husband.
Accompanied by her husband, Mrs
NJ. A. Hammel Of New Whatcom
Wash, was the first woman over the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
THE NEW COOK.

CERTAINLY / was
In an awkward
fix. My husband
did not see 1t, of
course, and when
| had said for the
thirteenth-I love
to be accurate
for the thirteenth
time that evening,
wv hatever am |
to dor" he only re-
piled, to his news
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Serum in Dinhtheria

Experiments In the application of
serum IN the treatment of diphtheria
In Paris show that the number Of
deaths has been reduced from 1000 to
800 annually.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
THIS is THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute Doings of the
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tie Ones to Read.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
GIRLS IN NEW GUINEA.

They Are Cooped Up, and 1t Is Difficult
to Elope with Them.
Girls In New Guinea have little chance
to elope. Every night they are put up
In little house way up in the top Oh
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
A Coincidence.

A Coincidence.
20 mammal said little Johnny,
what do you think l seef
There's a baby way back in your eye,
And he looks just like me"
''Yes, darling, but a stranger thing
I'll tell you, and it's true;
There's another baby in my heart
And he looks just like you"
Sarah J. Burke.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

IL some women were to cast tbeI,
oreao upon the water 1t would be pref
" severe on the fish that gobbled 1t up
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

Every church should manage 10 con
vert newspaper reporter, IN oros,
have some one to root for free au's'
Using.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10
Frogs.


There is a young woman FAMED Miss
Mona Selden in the town of Friend
ship, New Jersey, who abandoned
school-teaching about seven years ago
In order to engage in some occupation
more conducive to her health. She con-
cluded to raise frogs for the New York
and Philadelphia markets, and for this
purpose bought, at $500 per acre,
twenty acres of marsh land in the vicin-
ity of Friendship. This tract she
fenced in, and has diligently prosecuted
the business of breeding, buying and
selling frogs, until it yields her an in
come of $4,000 per year. We extract
from an exchange the following partic-
ulars In regard to this enterprising
woman and her surroundings:
''Since Miss Selden turned her atten-
ton to buying frogs, she has spent less
time hunting. but occasionally she goes
out for a day in the bog and comes
home with full bag The twenty acres
that she bought she holds as reserve,
and ten acres of it she has turned into a
breeding place for frogs.
she calculates That every spring
there are about 10000 frogs in the
breeding ground. She feeds them and
they are furnished with clear water
from continuously flowing stream.
Under the treatment that the woman
gives them the frogs thrive and grow
to enormous proportions. The largest
are kept in the ranch" The medium
sized are taken for the market. because
they are the tenderest. juciest and
sweetest, and they command n higher
price than the larger legs.
I'm her home Miss Selden has n large
aquarium in which she keeps fish and
frogs. They are her only pets, and they
seem to have an affection for her. The
fish eat from her hand, allow her to
take them out of the water and under
go the discomfort of being in the open
air without making any objection. The
frogs are on more familiar terms with
her than are the fish, and they have
their hours when they are given the
freedom Of the house. One big green
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-11-10

More than an hour later we went up
stairs, to find our guest and my cook
satting on the big sofa before the draw
ing-room fire, neither of them SAVING
much, apparently, but the little brown
head nesting where 1t should alwsrs
have been and measureless contenI ID
both their eyes.-pr!ncess.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-26
PRAISED BY CARLISLE.
Secretary of Treasury Speaks
Highly Of Revenue Cutter Service.
Earnestly Recommends That the Pension
Laws BE Amended So as to Include
the Enlisted Men OF This
Service.

Secretary Carlisle has written some
complimentary criticism of the revenue
cutter service. In report on the sub
ject the secretary says, among other
things, that the general and varied
work of the service abundantly COM
mends it's value ard efficiency as a
branch of the government. There has
rot been a similar period in the his
tory of the service, he states, when,
with old and badly-adapted vessels and
depleted personnel, its resources have
been as severely taxed as they were
during the year just closed. Yet, with
the numerous calls made upon the
service, it has ably performed impor-
tant work intrusted to it, and an in
comparable record Of service rendered
is presented. The report says:
IAN active patrol of the coast line,
rivers and harbors of the United States,
especially on the sea, gulf and great
lakes, has been maintained and in the
performance of this work the vessels
Of the service have cruised an aggregate
Of 307,133 nautical miles, boarded and
examined 20,250 vessels Of the merchant
marine, of which number Gas were re-
ported to the proper authorities for
violation of the United States customs
and navigation laws, mourning penalties
in the sum of $210,944. During the
year 67 vessels, with 604 persons on
board in actual distress were assisted
the value of the vessels and their car
goes amounting to S1,O11 ,S07."
In referring to the Behring sea fleet,
Secretary Carlisle says:
THE able captains and other Off
GERS and the faithful crews of the feet
have, under the sldllful direction of tho
officers in command, met every emer-
gency, and are deserving of the high
est consideration and praise. This fleet
has cruised over 100000 nautical miles,
boarded and examined ZIG different YES
sells, of which number &C were engaged
in fur sealing"
The secretary earnestly recommends
the creation of retired list for COM
missioned officers. He also recommends
that section 4,741 of the revised stat
utes (Act of April IS, 1919 be amended
so as to read as follows:
"The enlisted men of the revenue
cutter service of the United States who
have been or may be wounded or dis
abled while in the actual discharge OF
their duties, shall be entitled to be
placed upon a pension list under the
same regulations and restrictions as
are nroyided nv law for. enlisted men
of the navy"