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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-16
AMERICAN HuMoR.
Specimens OF the Article as Denomina-
ted by the English.

Mark Twalns recent cablegram to
the effect thar the report concerning
him Is all lie aud thar he has not paid
his debts recalls the playfnlness of
Artemns Ward and the famous Jest of
Mr.. Whistler. ". b. the former used
to pun on his program. "Mr. Ward VIII
pay no bills of his own contracting
Nor, for that NATTER would Mr. Wits
tier \ few years ago the iatter's cred
itors had Il meeting and submitted n
proposition. Mr.. Whistler refused 10
consider IT. The creditors held a sec
ond meeting and submitted Il second
proposition. The result was the same.
But, Mr.. Whistler" the spokesman
eXpostulated, we are merely trying TO
get you out of your difficulties MY
difficulties" he cried IN great astonish-
metn; my difficulties, did understand
you 10 say? Why. gentlemen, these are
not my difficulties: they are yours"
Now. that Is very fine specimen of
what the English call American humor.
1t would be lovely If there were more
like H. But as commodity II IS get
ting scarce. Apart from Mark Twain,
there is no one 10 whom you can turn
for ii now. Artemus Ward Is forgot
ten Petroleum Yesuyus Nasty be-
longed 10 prehistoric times. Bill Nye
has departed. Even Josh Billings Is
dead. And more is the pity, too. Bill
ings was not only a humorist, he was
a sage No one who was not both could
have said. "Flattery is like kolone
water. tew be smelt of, not swal-
lowed or. by the same token, put the
true and ludlcrons in shape as con
crete AS this:
lie who by farmin would get rich
Must dig. and plant. and no. and sieh;
Work hard awl day, sleep hard awl mite,
Save ey'ry cent, aid not git tite.
Golfers Weekly.
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DRYING Vegetables.

The drying of vegetables Is n new
Industry in California that promises 10
become almost rs important ms that or
drying fruit. Vegetables like potatoes
and carrots are poured into the hopper
of the cutting machine, where rotating
knife blades cut them up into slices II
quarter of an inch thick. After being
sliced the tubers are slightly snlphured
In wooden chamber. The next transl-
ton of the fruit is to the eyaporator n
sort OF small Ferris wheel, consisting
OF brick oven with glass windows.
This Is revolved close to hot pipes for "A
few hours. When this stage Is passed
the potatoes resemble dry chips, and Il
takes six to seven pounds OF the fresh
to make one pound of the dried. Onions
are SO pungent that bacteria do NOS
take kindly to them. They are, there
fore, only slightly sulphured before
drying. The process shrvels them so
much that 1t takes twenty parts or
fresh onions to make one OF the dried
Carrots dry in the ratio OF one part Of
dried to nine parts of fresh vegetable
The industry has proved very profit
nblp
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COFFEE MAKING.
easy Trick, Perhaps, but Is Yours
Really GoodI

easy Trick, Perhaps, but Is Yours
Really GoodE
! 1t Is easy for Kitchen TO be cum
hered with too many utensils. which
1 take up room and serve no useful pnr-
pose. An embarrassment of kitchen
supplies Is almost rs bad ms a scarcity.
Manufacturers are continually intro
luclng cooking utensils which fiatter
The housekeeper into the belief that 1t
Is not her own laundering or the stu
pldlty of her cook, but the want Of the
proper tools. thar has made her coffee
llaeorless. her pastry n failure, or her
syllabub 2 liquid.
She goes forth and purchases a new
coffee pot" when the best coffee that
ever was "brewedf can he made in an
od-fashioned stoneware pipkin. cost
Ing less than 10 cents for the Two
quart size. No pot of tin or agateware.
Or even of solid silver. is as good for
this purpose as this simple dish of
baked clay, a material which has been
in use for kitchen utensils since the
lays when the IsraeliteS made brick
for their Egyptian task-masters.
When you serve the coffee IL can be
strained into heated coffee pot of as
rsthetie stoneware or porcelain as you
please. Such dish would he too frall
to boil 1t In. DO not trust coffee pot
Of metal of any kind. The black coat
ing on the inside of metal coffee pot
that has been used few times shows
that the metal has united With the
acids of the coffee more or less and
affected the liquid made. The best of
coffee is only made from the first quail
lty of coffee bean. The bean should
not be Drowned over twenty-four
hours before 1t is used. and 1t should
be Drowned just before using. The
coffee may be easily spoiled, even if
these conditions are fulfilled, by boil
Ing it in metal. Coffee made In n pot
that contains on the inside the success
sive deposits of many days brewing
has rank flavor.
When coffee is dripped. In French
fashion, 1t should always be made in
heated stoneware An ordinary cheap
pitcher Will do TO make It In, but 1t is
easy to find picturesque German coffee
higgins that are not expensive, made
Of brown or of blue and white onion
ware. Let the housekeeper remember
that 1t does not require anything but
the cheapest and simplest pot to make
the best coffee that ever was made,
but 1t requires care In selecting the
coffee and in boiling the water.-New
York Tribune
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WHAT THE LAW DECIDES.

A mandamus TO compel the perform
ance of an act by the Governor of
State Is held, in people. Broderlck VS..
Morton N. ", Al l.. X. \ 23l, to be be
yond the power of the court.
Practieing physicians are held. in
State. Burroughs ". Webster Ind).
Al l.. II. A. 2l2, to he subject to the
power of the Legislature TO require
new examinations for license 10 de-
termine their fitness.
Certlorari to review the decision Of
board of military examiners respecting
the competency OF person 10 be Il
militia officer IS denied in Deylin ys.
Dalton tMass.), Al l.. H. \. $40. because
the proceedings are not judicial.
A lease or other transfer by city of
It's water works or water rights Il held.
in Ogden City VS. Bear Lake and X.
Water Works and Irrigation Company
Utah, Al l.. II. \. 3O5, To be unanthor
lied by Il general provision for the
lease, conveyance and disposal of prop
erty.
The practice Of Christian science for
curing a patient without recommend
Ing or administering any drug or medi-
cine. or giving any course of physical
treatment, Is held, In State. Swarts ys.
Mylod Or. H., Al l.. II. a. 42S. not TO be
within a statute as To the practice Of
medicine or surgery.
The attempt OF Justice of the peace
to determine case under a statute
which has been actually repealed Is
held. In Norfolk and w. II. Company
vs.. Pinnacle Coal Company CIV. Na.).
Al l.. Il. A. Ala, TO be Il usurpation Of
jurisdiction, for which writ of prohl-
billion may issue.
A building of which the foundation
and four walls remain substantially in
tact and which can be repaired for
about one-thrd of It's value is held, in
Co+bett vs.. Spring Garden Insurance
Company N. ", Al l.. II. A. 3ls, not to
be totally destroyed within the mean
Ing of an insurance policy.
Defects and dangers in existence
when a lease is made are held, In VII
cox VS.. Hines CTenn.), Al l.. X. A. 2IS,
to create a liability of tire landlord to
his tenant, il he knew of them or ought
| to have known of them, while the ten
ant did not and could not, both exer-
clslng reasonable care and diligence.
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two hours every day, and weighs
herself frequently to be sure that she
is not gaining.
The Princess of Wales has never con-
cerned herself with state matters. al
though she must know what is going
on. She has always been absolutely
Indifferent to such things, unless
sweryed to one side or the other by
personal fayoritlsm. The Queen. who
knows every line of the possibilities of
her statesmen, has ever been a politi-
clan, looking for improved service. civil
and military. but Alexandra has never
worked along political lines, and never
will; she Is not that kind of woman.
Alexandra has her little Weaknesses
all womanly ones She is fond of
novels, thing the Queen desplses, un-
less of the classic sort. She dlslikes ia
nous people, such as authors and ar.
lists, for she is timid in the face of
genius, while the Queen will have moth.
ing to do with any other. Alexandra
loves fancy work and can outline n
wOrsted dog to perfection, while the
Queen never takes n stitch. Alexandra
notes the hang of the skirt and the cut
of the sleeve. Victoria Is calmly OBJ
livious to everything except court
dress.
Britishers will have something TO do
to get used TO their new Queen. for
they VIII have to reconstruct all their
ideas of royalty. Court dresses and
Jewels will shine in the dull old rooms
and music and laughter will be heard
where now only the echoes startle the
shadowy figures OF former galety
Alexandra has been preserving herself
TO have her royal cling" and she Is
woman enough to insist upon II.
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Tbe Power of His Eye.

1t has been told of Van Amburgh, the
great lion tanner, that on one occasion
when In Il bar-room he was asked how
he gained his wonderful power over
animals. lie said:
ut Is by showing them that am not
IN the least afraid of them, and by
keeping my eye steadily on theirs. I'll
give you an example OF the power OF
my eye"
You see that fellow? He's regular
clown. II make him come across the
room to me, and | won't say one word
to him."
Sitting down, he fixed his keen,
steady eye on the man. Presently the
fellow Strengthened himself up, rose
from his seat and came slowly across
TO the lion tanner. When he was close
enough he drew back his arm and
struck Van Amburgh tremendous
blow over the chin. knocking him clean
overthe chair, with the remark: you'll
stare Mt me like that again, won't your
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rust-coverci tin dishes: an old chair,
and an old Iron barrel stove COM
pleted the furnishing of the room. The
visitor entered another room and as the
sound Of his footsteps broke the silence
he heard a startled movement IN the
far end, and the next minute voice
exclaimed: 60 away! Go away. in
Gods name. What do you want with
me? Leave me alone to die" Assured
that 10 harm was to come to him. An.
derson was persuaded to come into the
next ROOM
Aside from pallor acquired by long
confinement there Is no unusual diseol-
oring of the skin. There are no botehes
or scales. which are the pronounced
symptoms of leprosy. on his hands,
face or neck. nor are the finger nails
discolored or decayed. When Informed
that the grand jury had decided that
he was not victim of leprosy and that
the State contemplated sending him
back to Sweden, Anderson said. Il
have no desire to 20 anywhere. For
years | have been bounded and perse-
tuleu llkt Il WIN btisi- was idNth
forcibly from my home, brought here,
chained 10 the floor. | became con-
WINGED there was no hope, no future
nothing but death before ME. For
seven years have lived here alone I'M
ill the sight of man. the sound of the
human voice and the customs of the
people with whom | was formerly asso-
ciated are so entirely unfamiliar to me
now that 1t would be like beginning life
anew. | have been branded as leper.
whom all my fellow beings have been
warned TO shun. My name has become
a byword. my alleged aflictlon so we'll
know that it would be impossible 10
cultivate acquaintance anew. II l.
were given my liberty would be with
out home, without friends and unable
TO secure employment. 1t Is best that
l stay where am until my end comes"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-16
The Amateur Hunter.

Onward through the gloomy forest
Strobe the hunter from the city,
! Clad in golfing toys the hunter
Strobe with naughty mien and manner
Onward through the gloomy forest.
Sprang n rabbit in his pathway.
Sat down in the road and smiling,
Winked his other ear, the rabbit!
Then the hunter from the city
Raised his rifle TO his shoulder.
Aimed aud iired-hit the treetopi
Aud the rabbit. smiling scooted
Back to home and Mamma Rabbit:
Left the hunter from the city
Standing there, disgruntled. swearing!
Onward through the gloomy forest
Strobe the hunter from the city.
Chrped squirrel In the treetop;
Then the hunter from the city
Aimed with due precision. fred
Hit the atmosphere 10 westward.
And the squirrel. chirping shrilly.
Put his paw to his Cyrano, =
Thus in squirrel language gave the
Hal hal 10 the city hunter.
Onward through the gloomy forest
Strobe the troubled city hunter
Perched a pheasant in his pathway.
Perched and spake in pheasant prattle;
| Then the hunter from the city
Raised his rifle to his shoulder.
Aimed with utmost skill aud tredl
! Hit a poor unarmored bowlder.
| Aud the pheasant, laughing loudly,
| Flew off home TO get his dinner.
! Onward through the gloomy forest
| Strobe the hunter from the city.
Saw n Robin Redbreast dreaming
| ON leafess branch and fired.
! Hit the blue sky just amidship,
| And the Robin Redbreast whispered:
Try it over; slips don't count. sir.'
| Straightway then resumed its dreaming.
Onward through the gloomy forest
| Strobe the hunter from the city,
| Always aiming, never hitting;
! Always shooting, never killing;
| Till the dusky twilight came and
! Brought with it the purple shadows,
| Then the forest, dark and gloomy,
| Moved through all its depths OF darkness.
| Spake in these words. spake in this wise:
Go back home and shoot the rarebitI
! Shoot the bird and shoot the bottle
| In the restaurant and cafe;
Try your skill at shooting Holsters,
For out here with Nature, why, you
| Couldn't even shoot the chute, sir!
Couldn't even bag your trousersF
| Then the forest, dark and gloomy,
| Shook its solemn sides with laughter.
| And the melancholy hunter
Came to town and hit the market,
hit It with some dollar bills, and
Strobe home lyingly to WHEY.
Baltimore American.
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HOUSE IN WHICH HE HAS LIVED.

TO Media, consigned TO the care of the
authorities OF the poor-house, and a
house was erected for his safe keeping.
Situated In the center of a fenced-in
field, the nearest building 10 1t being
the barn of the poorhouse, a half mile
away, with a big bare room, the furni-
ture Of which consists of rude couch,
an old stove and a trough into which
his meals are dumped. Anderson for
seven long years has lived alone.
Fed from n Trough.
Since the day Anderson took up his
abode In this house no other human
being has crossed its threshold. Even
the pathway that formerly ran by the
door has disappeared from lack of use,
and no one has gone inside the fence,
save the keepers, who carry the pail of
food and dumped 1t into the trough.
The house is desolation itself, the grass
around 1t grows high and the small tree
at the foot of the steps leading to the
main door spread out Its branches as
II in token of warning to keep away.
The front door was never open. When
ever the alleged leper had occasion TO
seek the fresh air he went out by the
rear door, which is reached by nine
high steps. at the top of which is a
small porch, the favorlte spot OF An
derson.
So fearful have the authorities and
attendants been of the dreaded disease
that the ashes from the stove created
by the fuel burned by Anderson have
never been moved from alongside the
house In the seven years he has been
under their charge, and to-day form 4
mound many feet high. Neither the
house nor the porch nor the steps have
been swept or cleaned In all this length
of time.
Afraid of Human Voice.
The other day a reporter called upoT
Anderson to tell him that he was to b.
released As he opened the door he wa
greeted with a gust of air which foi
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-16
spiders Helm Make Balloons.

In the professional school at Chals.
Meudon, the IndustrIe Textile states
that spiders have now to spin for the
beieHt of the balloons which are used
The spiders are grouped In dozens be.
fore a reel, which wlthdraws the deli.
cate threads. One spider can give a
thread from twenty to forty yards In
length, after which performance It Is
released. The threads are Of plnklsh
hue. ai.9 are washed TO remove tho
sticky surface layer. Eight threads
have to be combined. The resulting tex
ture is much lighter than ordinary silk
OF the same bulk, and strong cords for
military balloons can no doubt be OBJ
tanned In this way.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-16

Ellen olney Kirke has finished one
book AMI has commenced another.
Mary L. wilkins hopes to write a
novel and some short stories this win
ter.
Alice Morse Earle has just finished
an extensive work on home life IN early
colonial days.
1t has been discovered that Roehes-
ter. in "Jane Eyre" was ideallzed by
Charlotte Bronte from the brother of
her friend, Ellen Massey, who was 4
West Riding merchant.
Countess Tolstoi attends to all the
practical matters relating to her hus-
bands publications; experimenting the
printing. reading the proofs, and carry
Ing on all correspondence.
The poems of Ada Negri, remarka-
Bile Italian woman of the people. have
been translated into English verse by
Miss A. NJ. Won Blomberg. who also
tells the story of Ada Negri's life.
"A Duel with Destiny, and Other
Stories" is the title of compilation of
her newspaper stories by Edith Town
send Everett. who edits the woman's
department of the Philadelphia Times.
Poor Human Nature" by Elizabeth
Godfrey, gives an interesting picture of
operate matters in Germany, and is
somewhat similar to Jessie Fothergilrs
novel, THE First Violin
One of the best puns ever made was
by Sydney Smith, on hearing a little
girl say cartridges" for 'patriarehs. $
while reading aloud. "She is deter
mined to make game of the patrarehs, :
said the witty divine.
Herbert +. Hamblin, who has recent
~ risen 10 fame through his engineer
the same kind, one a story of the New
York fire department which will e
back to the days of hand engines.
DR.. Clifford, an English divine who
has been preaching and lecturing in
this country, credits the women of Bos
ton with exhibiting in one month more
knowledge of Browning than he had
found among English women in life
time.
Some years ago lived gentleman
known as Antique Smith, who discoy
cred a remarkable talent for producing
letters and manuscripts In the hand
writing of Robert Burns. After awhile
this lucrative occupation was sdmmar
ily interfered with by the authorities
who proceeded to suppress all the doc
uments they could lay their hands OF
and to suppress Antique Smith hmsel
for term of months. A reserve stock
ln-trade which he had accumulated es
capped destruction and has lately mp
peared in the Glasgow market.
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which knew, and the signature, which
l guessed at There is a singular and
perpetual charm in a letter of yours
Ii never grows old, 1t never loses Its
novelty. one can say TO ones self ev-
cry morning: Here's Il letter of
Morse's: haven't read 1t yet: think
| shall take another shy at 1t to-day,
and maybe I'll be able. in the course of
Il few years, 10 make out what he
means by those Is that look like VS.
and those is that haven't any eye
hrows other letters are read and
thrown away and forgotten. but yours
are kept foreyer-nnread. One of them
will last a reasonable man lifetime.
Admiringly yours. Thomas Bailey Aid
rich "
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FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT.
Improved the Opportunity TO Get Even
with the Judge.

with the Judge.
We can hardly blame. perhaps. tie
satisfaction which non-sulted litlgaa 1t
IN certain court once gained from an
opportunity that chance gave him. A
Judge. travelling on circuit. had before
him. in a small country town. case N
which a tavern-keeper IVES held for the
payment on a land transaction Of a
large amount Of money which he had
hot agreed definitely TO pay. The court
declared that, although his agreement
was not on record. 1t was involved by
construction or implied. In his partiei-
patton in a business proceeding con
nected with IT,
After Judgment had been rendered,
the court adjourned for dinner and the
Judge found that the only eating house
In the place was The inn kept by The
defendant in the case which he had just
decided. lie also found that the de
PENDANT personally superintendent the
preparation OF the meals. and that the
food was charged for on the European
plan"
The Judge called for Two boiled eggs.
which. with the other food he ordered.
were brought 10 him done to II turn.
He ate them. and At the end of the meal
the bill was presented 10 him. He was
astonlshed to read on II the following
items:
Two boiled eggs. -....t.......'.' ID CT
Two chickens, at 7Jc.............. .S1..o
He called the proprietor and said.
How is this? l have had no chickens;
why do you charge me for themT'
Those are constructive chickens,
your Honor answered the host,
WHAT"
why they are implied in the eggs,
you know, your Honor" the man per
sisted
The Judge began to understand, and
said no more. However, when he hand
ed In a s. bill to pay for the dinner, he
found that the lnnkeeper had given him
his full change. without charging for
the constructive" chickens.
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sympathy for the barbarous treatment
of Dreyfus and his isolation on Devils
Island, there has been within a few
miles of Philadelphia n human being
deprived of his liberty. of association
with his fellow men, treated like a wild
beast, and buried in living tomb.
In all these years he has not touched
the hand of a human being nor heard
a voice save the occasional shout of the
person passing his prison. AS a con-
sequence of his isolation, he has grown
to be more of a savage than n human
being.
Anderson, who IS about 40 years of
age, is a mechanic. For years he was
employed in Roach's shlpyard, at Ches-
ter. About seven years ago he was
taken Ill In his boarding house with a
peculiar malady, which the attendant
physician was at a loss to diagnose.
Another physician was called in, Who
In turn. summoned others, and after
consultation pronounced Anderson
leper. The authorities were notified
and immediate steps taken to place him
In solitary confinement. He was taken