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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
Her Lucky WipdfaIl,

"What is the most curious trans
action | ever hadf" said a well
known postage stamp dealer.
Some years ago an old lady called
upon me, asking whether l could
give her anything for a few old
stamps she had had by her since she
was postmistress in a certain small
country town about half a century
ago.
"On examination they proved to
be some of the very rarest of the
old unused British stamps, and as |
had Il customer for them l told her
hat would gladly give her ESQ for
them.
but what am l to do with all
that money Z" queried the old lady
in apparent dismay at the sudden
possibility of so much wealth.
of you like to send for it, | shall
be glad to hand it over to any one
whom you care to provide with Il
written authority for the payment
said l, and to this she agreed with
evident relief.
Accordingly the next day a man
called for the money. Shortly after
I heard that he had married the old
lady. l wonder whether her lucky
windfall had anything to do with
it7"-Cassell's Journal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

Miss Maud Lancaster is said to be
exciting Great Britain by her seem
ingly marvellous powers of telep-
athy. She says that while walking
in New York one day with a detect.
i've she started as some one passed
and exclaimed, THAT man has com
mitted a murderI' The detective
told her it was true; that he had
killed a man, but was only con-
demned to a short Imprisonment.
She further relates that in Lon
don a lady sent for her, stating that
she thought some of her servants
had stolen her jewels. They were
passed in review before Miss Lam
caster, but she was convinced that
the thief a not among them. She
says her work as II detective is done
by magnetism alone. She went to
the lady's boudoir and pointed at
once to the drawer from which the
jewels had been taken. Going into
another room, she saw a man stand
ing. She was Immediately con-
WINGED that he was the thief and
was about to denounce him when
the lady said, Let me introduce my
husband" When he had left the
room, the news was broken very
quietly to the wife, who was at first
very indignant. A short time after
ward the man confessed that he had
taken the missing gems.
She says that a murderer appears
to her to be ehvelopedin a red mist
that if she were taken into a room
where a murder had been commit
ted the same night detection would
be easy, but if many people have
passed the magnetism left by the
murderer would be disturbed and
obliterated. Exchange.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

The Earl of Aylesford was espe-
cially well known in west Texas.
He owned a ranch near Big Springs
and lived in the town. This was in
the days when steers were worth $50
a head, range count, and everybody
had money. But even tie broad
familiarity of the west halted at
Joey. They would not call him by
his title, so they called him 1.-THE
boss" Every cowboy in that whole
country knew him by that name,
and all asserted that he was a prince
of good fellows.
The earl was democratic in his as
sociations and preferred the unli-
censed frontier English of the plains
to the conventional phrases of the
clubs. He bought a hotel out there
and a saloon. Whenever a cowboy
doomed up there in a state of finan-
cial desuetude he was ure to find a
friend who would provide him with
a first class room, plenty to eat and
all the flicker he wanted. AS that
was the general condition of cow
boys then and now, the earl's hotel
and the earl's barroom ere costly
luxuries. He did a big business,
and nearly every other saloon in Big
Springs was forced to close, but he
did not make any money. He did
not want to make any. He much
preferred spending it and buying
whisky and victuals for cowboys,
which was perhaps a better way of
turning money loose than buying
brandy and sodas for the pegged out
aristocracy of London. And when
he died on his ranch all the cowboys
mou1ned his loss, and the grief was
sincere.-Dallas Sun.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
Orders Were Ignored.

II saved the life of a Union officer,
Captain Loeser of New York, at the
battle of Trevelian Station" said
| Captain M. G. Butler, land | was
very sorry | could not save his prop
erty as we'll. came suddenly OH a
road just as two couriers a out
and covered a Union officer, who
was mounted.
1.-The man had surrendered, but
he would have been shot to pieces if
l had not interfered.
He handed me his sword and his
belt, containing his pistol holder.
and asked me if / would send him
to General Rosser. He said he was
in mortal dread of being robbed and
knew General Rosser and would
feel safe in his hands.
81 told him he would be perfectly
safe with me, but, not appearing
satisfied, l told two men to take
him to General Rosser and gave
specific instructions that he must
not be molested on the way.
His guard waited with him along
the road until General Rosser's
command could come up, and as
soon as it did the men made a dash
at him, saying, 'Yank. we want
store boots.
ut was all in vain. The guard
protested, saying General Butler
had ordered that the prisoner was
not to be molested. They said they
belonged to General Rosser's COM
mand and not to General Buffers,
and they stripped Captain Loeser
then and there.
81 met him after the war, and we
laughed about it many a time. Cap
tain Loeser is now dead. New
York Herald.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
Where Shells Are Money.

Persons who have Travelled in orr
entail countries have frequently en-
countered shell money. Many Amer
leans have brought specimens of it
home with them as souvenirs. III
vestigations by the director of the
United States mint show that in
many parts of Asia and Africa cow
ries. or small shells, are still used
as a medium of exchange for small
values. The cowrie in Siam is the
smallest unit of value. 1t would take
about 107 cOwries to make one Amer
lean cent. At the mint in Bangkok
the range of values is as follows:
Eight hundred cowries equal l
fuang, 2 fuanys equal l salung, 4
salungs equal 1 bat or teal and /
bat or teal equals about 60 cents of
United States money. In Siam 219
Or 220 cowries are reckoned equal to
/ penny sterling New York Times.
At Waterloo the musketry fire Of
the foot guards, armed with the old
clumsy Brown Bess, was SO fatal
that the heads of the charging
French columns melted away before
1t without advancing, just as they
would have done before
machine gun fire.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

of the wind, and the rattle of cordage,
and in the midst of the ship the brown
faced man calmly Indifferent to the
tempest.
More clouds and long blanks of cha
otto n~othingness. Ny eyes find them
selves gazing at the wall of my room,
and presently it opens and through it
steps the man who crouched by the city
gates. Step by step he comes to my bed
side, and his eye glistens and his knife
is red, and my eye never leaves his.
Then he pauses and bends low with
his arms outstretched.
"Sahib," he murmurs, and his voice
is sing ularly low and gentle, II am
here.
THE diamondl" l hoarsely murmur.
He removes his turban and slowly
unwinds its many folds. AS he does so
the room seems filled with the rustic of
garments, and a strange. sweet perfume
comes to me. There are whispers, too.
and a sound like a sti1ed sob.
Slowly the stranger unfolds his tur-
ban, and suddenly out of it leaps a
great white pebble. He lifts it before
me betwixt his lean brown thumb and
forefnger, and 1 know hat in his other
hand he holds the red knife.
1.-The diamond of the nizam, sahib,' -
he murmurs.
As he speaks a sudden ray of sun
light falls upon the white pebble and a
mighty glory seems to fill the room.
My eyelids drop before that glare. l
see the brown face of the Indian bend
lower. I see his fingers clutching at his
knife. The DON grows lark and yet
darker. I seem to be slipping away,
slipping away.
"Johni"
Is that my name? Is somebody call.
ing me? What is this that holds my
hand and draws me back? No, no; let
me go.
''John!'
Surely somebody is calling me.
1 open my eyes slowly, so slowly.
Across the level of my bed I see the face
of George leaning forward, his features
in the shadow, his eyes cleaning with
frightened anxiety, in his hand a tiny
medicine glass that catches a dazzling
ray of sunlight. Somebody else is there,
somebody who holds my hand tightly,
somebody who calls again:
John, deari''
I raise my eyes a little higher. An
other face is bending over me. a white,
tear stained face.
"Johnl"
1t is Mary.
And so 1 came back w. r. Rose in
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

The lack of reverence which ruth
lessly scorns the past and the mar
row short sightedness which neg
lects all service for the future have
much in common. They are alike
small and mean in their nature,
petty and insignificant in their re-
suits. What should we be but tor
the past that we inherita And, load
ed as wo are with it's benefits, what
is it but gross seltishness to give no
thought to and plan no benefit for
those who T to follow us2--New
York Ledger.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
Blast For the Be.semer C~onverter..

Ten engines Of 500 horsepower
are each n as big as the engine in
a street car power house with wheels
four times the diameter of a mans
height, beams like Orders of a
bridge, rising SO high that the oilers
and inspectors s an iron gallery
to get to the upper portions. These
engines blow the air into the stoves
and thence to the blast furnaces
with a force equivalent to 1872
pounds to the square foot. Some
idea may be gained of the power of
this artificial hurricane by the fact
that the tornado that destroyed a
portion of st. Louis exerted a force
of only 16pounds to the square foot.
These blowing engines, which were
supplied by the Cuyahoga works of
Cleveland, produce a blast III times
greater than a destructive cyclone.
The blast which they drive into the
bessemer ~converters keeps IL tons
Of molten iron suspended in the air
until the process is completed and
the converters are turned. Modern
Machinery.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

The natural life of Haydn was
from 1882 to 1909. His first musical
performance of note was at the age
of 20, and from that time until his
death his industry was incessant.
His artistic life thus covered a period
Of 57years. His works comprise 1876
symphonies, 16 masses, 2 great ora
torios and almost numberless con-
c%ertos, duets, trios, quartets and
quintets for various instruments.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
AN ISLAND IN THE JACK POT.

It Is Now Part Of Minneapolis and 1s
Worth Many Fortunes.
At one of the most interesting
games of poker ever played in Min
neapolis Nicollet island was put in
the jack pot by a man who thought
he understood the game, but found
there were others who understood it
better.
Fifty-five years ago Pierre Botti-
neau took up a claim on the spot
where st. Paul now stands. A year
later he traded it for a horse and
COW, which he drove away into the
wilderness, never dreaming that the
land he had almost given away
would in a few years be the site OF
a great city. For a small sum he
purchased a large portion of what is
now the business part of Minneapo-
lis and put up a log cabin on a little
mound in the center of Nicollet is
land.
Half a dozen of the old settlers,
Bottineau among them, had a little
poker club. One evening the stakes
kept growing larger and larger, I'M
til every jackpot contained a small
fortune. MI. Bottineau had been
losing heavily, but at last was dealt
a hand upon which he hoped to re-
gain his losses and win something
besides. He was given four queens,
and, drawing one card, secured an
ace, leaving four kings as the only
hand by which his could be beaten.
He thought he saw n of the play
ers discard a king, and he considered
his hand invincible and played it ac-
cordingly. Soon all but Bottineau
and the man opposite him dropped
their cards and retired to watch the
game. The table was heaped with
money and the personal belongings
of the two men. The Pickering light
of the candle shone dimly on the
flushed faces as they watched each
other warily out of the of
their eyes. All of Bottineau's pos
sessions lay on the table, and it was
his bet. He looked at his hand care
fully and then said that all he had
left was Nicollet island, which he
would bet against 5000. The bet was
called, and Bottineau laid down his
four queens with a smile of triumph.
Amid a dead silence his opponent
laid on the table face up four kings
and tray. 1t was so still you could
have heard them breathe. Then
Bottineau called for writing materi-
ais and made out a deed to the is
land. From that day he never touch
ed a card or countenanced gambling
in any form.
After drifting around the country
he went to Red Lake Falls and took
up a claim and remained there until
the time of his death. He was EN-
rloyed as a guide and scout and was
one of the principal members of the
Sibley expedition. He knew every
foot of the northwest country, hay
ing trave1sed it ever since he was IL
years old, when he guided Lord Sci
kinks colonists from old Fort Garry.
When he died, the last of the old
time Canadian voyagers and guides,
who were such an important factor
in the upbuilding of the northwest,
passed away.-Minneapolis Trib.
une,
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
ON AN ACTRESS.

Aye, she played rarely. though it had been
played
A hundred timea. and some OF more renown
Have played IL worse. but she bewitched the
town.
lowered with ethereal loneliness, she swayed
All hearts to love, while music lent soft aid.
She moved, she spoke, and, when she would,
drew down
Laughter unquenchable, the players crown,
Symbol that all her frolic rule obeyed.
Aye, she played rarely, but myself, who knew
What grief had gripped her In its chill embrace,
Could hear dumb weeping in her words, and
through
Her every pose the anguished soul could trace
And pierce the frippery Of art unto
The pallor shining in her perfect face.
-Iondon World.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
Fatal Ink.

German doctors have found in
making experiments with school
inks a bacillus that proved fatal to
mice within four days. But it is
not to mice alone that ink is fatal.
There have been some very fine
regulations destroyed by it.-Boston
Transcript.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

Holland at the present moment
has its girl queen, Wilhelmina, and
for a. few months before Alphonse
XIII was born the Infanta Mercedes
was temporary queen of Spain. The
ex-Queen Isabella resides in Paris,
so that it may be said there are four
women who wear OF have worn a
European crown alive at the present
time.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
PARIS FlREMEN AT WORK.
They Go to the Fire Deliberately, but Are
Active When There.

NilIS y
They Go to the Fire Deliberately, but Are
Active When There.
The strength of the French build
ings, the uninflammable nature OF
their partitions, their hardwood
1oorings and the scantiness of the
furnishings, to say nothing OF the
comparatively slight use of fire for
household purposes, have generally
kept Paris quite free from catastro-
plies due to fires, and at the same
time have left the firemen seriously
handicapped when it is a question OF
dealing with a serious confiagration.
A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, who saw a fire in Paris
a few years ago, relates that while
strolling along one of the principal
streets leading from the river up to
the central line of ~boulevards his at
tention was caught by a connection
in a building just across the street.
Smoke was rolling out of the win
dows of the third story, and busy
hands were visible throwing items
of household use out of the windows
with that lack of discretion 30 preva-
lent among the saver of material at
fires. Chairs and tables, a long
legged stool and items of bric-a- brac
were saved from the flames only to
meet a quicker and more certain de-
struction on the hard asphalt pave
ment. In the attic window there
was a woman screaming, although
it proved afterward she was quite as
free from actual danger as if OF the
sidewalk below. A small crowd
gathered and some one said, "They
have sent for the firemen." The
household goods were taken down
in a desultory way and the woman
au seizieme continued her screams.
In just Is minutes the engine ar
rived. 1t was such a one as may be
g Q today at a muster in New
Hampshire. 1t was gently led up
the street by its cords and set in
position beneath the windows, from
which the smoke was still slowly
coming forth. The fremen, who are
sappers and miners in the French
army, were dressed in uniform, each
with a leather helmet on his head,
and most of them with the short
hooked climbing ladder in hand, of
a form not unlike that now used by
us. If the previous proceedings had
been deliberate, all that was changed
now. Like SO many monkeys the
firemen climbed from balcony to
balcony, running up their little lad
ders, so that in a moment the whole
front of the building was alive with
men. Half a dozen were on the floor
of the fire, tumbling in at the win
dows, but the confiagration had been
too quick for them. 1t had devoured
all that was combustible at hand and
was truly in a dying condition. 1t
did not need the services of the lit
tie engine, for the tiremen, scraping
together what little there was left
of its embers in some kind Of scoop,
dropped it in a mass after the furni-
ture and other goods. Two brave
fellows, climbing to the gutter, g
cued the screaming woman, who
throughout all that interval had not
ceased to make known her distress,
and deposited her head first through
the window of an adjoining house,
and thus closed the little episode.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

Probably the most remarkable
drummer who ever lived was Jean
Henri, the famous tambour major
of the Emperor Napoleon. One of his
feats was to play on Is differently
toned drums at the same time in so
soft and harmonious a manner that,
instead of the deafening uproar that
might have been expected, the effect
was that of a novel and complete in
strument. In playing he passed
from one drum to the other with
such wonderful quickness that the
eyes of the spectators could hardly
follow the movement of his hands
and body .-London Standard.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-I remember
the time when people used to be
afraid to cross the ocean.
Mrs. Yeast-Yes, | do too.
"But since the bicycle came into
8 people feel more timid when
crossing the street. = Yonkers
Statesman.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

Sir Isaac Newton's epitaph runs:
"Isaacum Newton, quem immor-
talem, testantur tempus, natura,
coelum, mortalem hoe marmor fate
tur" (this marble acknowledges
Isaac Newton mortal, to whose i'm
mortality time, nature and heaven
bear witness).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-05

the many hundreds who have been killed.
this policy has remained sterile. The
Spanish army is in deplorable condition,
a very large percentage Of the soldiers
being unfit for service. They are scarcely
clothed, and what uniforms they do receive
are quite unfit for campaigning work. The
average age Of the rank and file is from
fifteen to eighteen. They are mere boys
raw recruits. who. Immediately on their ar
rival in Havana. are dispatched to the in
terror without drill or any kind. Naturally
they soon fall victims to the climate, for
it Is not Cuban bullets that have carried
off the majority of the Spanish army. Al
though it is generally supposed that there
are 100000 Spanish troops in Cuba, think
that at the present moment half that num-
Der would be the more correct estimate.
Sickness and bullets will account for the
remainder. In many cases deaths are not
notified to Madrid, and especially is this
the case where the victims fall in provinces
officially supposed to be pacified. In these
places the correct returns are never
given. The Spanish soldier here Is hum
BILE, obedient and cool in action, but he
has no knowledge of this kind of war
fare"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-05
ANNEXATION OF HOLLAND.
Germany Casts Wistful Eyes on Old
Deutschland.

Deutschland.
From the New York Post.
The northern Germans. who do not for
get that Berlin itself was founded by a coll
ony from the Netherlands I'm 1163. look to
Holland as the cradle of their race and the
natural highway of their rapidly expand
ing commerce. As 1t is, at the present day
Rotterdam is one of the chief ports, II not
the principal one, for German shipping and
transit. Holland, therefore. is the one cher
ished and constant objective of German
policy. How persistently the project is
kept In view may be judged from the fact
that Prince Bismarck when, several years
ago. he met the late King of Holland at
klsslngeh, said to him, I'm his half-jocose.
half-serious way, that when he made m
his mind to join Germany, they would he
ready to name him high admiral of the
united fleets OF Germany and Holland And
the German emperor's famous telegram to
president Kruger was dictated as much by
cesire to Halter the Dutch (Which IL un-
doubleday succeeded in doing) as by a feel
ing OF hostility toward England
But the annexation of Holland can only
be brought about by very wary and circui-
tous means; possibly by the establishment
IN the nrst instance. OF a customs union:
Tor recourse to violence would furnish
England with a pretext to seize the VAL
liable Dutch colonies and blockade the
ports CT Holland, since their ACQUISITION
would raise Germany into first-rate naval
power. Herein, then, lies the irreconcilable
antagonism between England and Ger
many. England's traditional policy has
peen 10 crush every rival on the sea- and
coInteract the growth of any likely COM
petitor In trade. Having reduced Holland
20 impotence, the protection she now ex-
nenos TO her aims at preventing the estab-
hsnHeht tnere OF any other naval power
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-05

From the Detroit Free Press.
81 tell you, it isn't safe for a man to
leave home nowadays" grumbled the man
on-the-corner to another man. "Since my
wife got mixed up with SO many clubs-art
clubs, literary clubs, musical clubs, kinder
garten coteries and the like-she has so
much to attend to and so much to talk
about to other women that she actually
forgets that she has any domestic respon-
sfbilities. My wife told me last night that
she was sitting In our library early In the
morning, deeply immersed in club CONVEX
sation with an intimate friend, and they
heard the door bell ring. She knew that
cook was very busy, and the second maid
sorbed in her club talk that she decided
not to answer the bell herself. Again it
rang with emphasis. so then she went to
the shutters and looked out only to see at
the door the back Of a roughly dressed
man. She concluded that he was only a
peddler or beggar, and went back to her
profoundly intellectual friend. A third
time the door bell rang. and this time with
energetic and sustained violence.
Goodness, hear that man. my wife
said to the other club lady; Nora is out
and I'll have to go and see what he wants.
or he will break the BELL So to the door
she FASTENED. feeling very Indignant with
the peddler, who was SO persistently dis
turbing her peace. She opened the door,
prepared to discharge a .yolley of rebuke
ON the mans head, but forgot all about 1t
when he said, excitedly:
Well. missus. yaid better be answerin
this bell-I came In to tell yer that tho
back part o yer house is on fire."