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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20

A tax Of sixpence per head is levied
on all passengers landed In the Isle
Of Man. 1t Is collected from the steam
Ehip companies carrying the passen-
gers.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20
Smiths Dry
Goods Store.
PictureSeee

Take a good, long, satisfying
look at the pictures in our
window and see il there is
not something you need to
brighten up your room or
your home. Nothing gives a
home a more refined and home
like appearance than beauti-
full Epictures. Five million
dollars has been offered for a
single picture now in exist
ence. We have none SO cost
", but they are pretty just
the same. We have another
lot of the l0c pictures which
were so popular last year
that we could not get enough
Of them.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20

The custom of keeping birthdays ts
many thousands of years old. Phara-
obs birthday festivities are N .ntiOned
in the pentateuch
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20
Accounting For the Shortage.

AccOAantfnH FOF INC ShOftA8e.
"Brimble seems to have good deal
more money than brains"
Yes. All he inherited from his IA
Their was the money.'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20

Grimes-Look here. Smith, why didn't
you call last night? | told you my
daughter was going to sing some Of
her new songs. and you appeared de-
lighted.
SMITH was delighted-to know she
was going to sing.-Boston Transcript.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20
Let Your
Bundle Come!

Easy on clothing-Satisfaction
automatically Domestic finish work
of the highest grade-If you are
not already our customer send
US a trial order.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
Cure Effected.

The wise physician frequently finds
Il necessary to minister TO mind dis
eased" rather than TO the body that
merely sympathizes with 1t. A young
woman who had gone from her home
In an inland village to visit friends in
the great city for the first time in her
life, soon began to lose all appetite and
grow thin and hollow-eyed.
Her friends, fearing that she was go
Ing into decline, called in physician,
In spite of her protests. and asked him
TO prescribe for her. He asked a few
questions, noted her symptoms. gave
her malady scientific name, and said,
as he handed her bottle Of pellets:
1T will be necessary, miss, first Of
all, for you to leave the crowded city.
The air here Is not good for you. Have
you friends in the countryT'
"Why. | live in the country, DOCTOR"
she replied.
Every good. Return, then. to your
home, engage in light exercise. with
frequent walks in The open air, and
take five of these pellets every morn
Ing before breakfast"
She returned to her village home, OBJ
served the doctors directions faithful
~. paying particular attention to tax
ing the medicine, and was we'll in less
than a week.
Meeting the family physician one day
1t occurred to her 10 tell him her ex-
perience. He listened to her, asked to
see the pellets, tasted them, and find
ing them to be merely sugar, unmedl-
Gated, said:
what did your city doctor tell you
was your ailment!"
HE said It was nostalgia
"H'mph! Do you know what nos
talgla meansp
NO, SIR"
at means inconsistencies. youths
Companion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

Hot drinks have come into wide use
during late years among persons afilict-
ed with Indigestion A tepid fluid ex.
erts a marked sedatiye influence on the
gastric mucous membrane aud often "a
lieves the painful sensations following
the meals of chronic dyspeptic.
Less recognized perhaps is the in
fluence Of hot drinks on the motor
functions of the stomach. In the or
binary course of events nothing remains
IN the stomach six hours after meal,
sud the presence of alimentary debris
after that period indicates the presence
Of some degree of muscular paresis.
This condition of things may be greatly
benefited by the use of hot water with
on immediately after meals, but in
chronic cases permanent benefit can only
be obtained by perseverance, the treat
ment being methodieally carried out for
some months.
As might be anticipated, the hot wa
ter treatment does not ameliorate the
secretory defects in the same degree as
the muscular weakness. but by main
tanning the stomach in hygienio con.
dition we may, at any rate, hope to
check further degradation of the peptic
glands. The temperature of hot drinks
should be from l05 to 10 degrees r.
ST Louis Post. Dispatch.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

One OF the most popular preachers In
London, from 1882 TO 1879, was DR..
John Cumming, Scotch Presbyterian.
His celebrity was chiefly due to his
sermons on prophecy. wherein he in
terpreted the signs of the times, the
millennial rest the Last Trumpet, and
the Seventh Vial.
Shortly after the publication of
series of sermons, in which the preach
years the present order of things would
end, the poet Tennyson was dining
with a friend at a London tavern. In
the course of the conversation the poet
said:
Doctor Cumming, although he has
prophesied the end of the world in ten
years, has just taken n lease of the
house he lives in for twenty-one years"
rs that true, sir? exclaimed n wait.
er, rushing forward. napkin on arm.
You have cOmforted me wonderfully,
sir. am family man, and didn't
see the use OF MY being waiter IL the
world was to end so soon"
Doctor Cumming was a canny Scot.
He knew how to drive good bargain,
and had unbounded confidence in his
drawing power as a preacher. When
he became pastor of the London church,
1t had run down into poor, weak,
palsy-stricken thing. The confident
young Scotchman agreed TO take the
pew-rents for his salary, and to re-
main satisfied with the same.
The trustees consented-there was an
ncre of untitled pews--to discover in a
year or two that their pastor was re-
ceiving the largest salary of any dis
senting clergyman in London.-Youth's
Companion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

During the progress of the Queens
Jubilee the colonial princes, officers and
premiers attracted. next To the royal
lady herself, the attention of the pub
lie. Wherever they appeared they were
received with cheers and especial
honors.
on on occasion the streets were pack
ed with spectators watching the guests
depart from some royal function at
buckingham palace. The crowd re-
fused TO move except when some OF the
Indian rajnhs or Australian officers APP
peared, when a way was speedily open
ed for them.
A carriage presently came out Of the
gates in which were three or four
Americans who had been guests in the
palace. Finding that the way was
completely blocked, one young fellow
among them shouted:
let us pass, We, too. are colonlals."
The crowd divided, and rs the car
rlage entered the opening, he added
I'VE are the colonlals who wouldn't
let our mother spank u.s.
The crowd caught the Joke, and re-
piled with laughter and applause
Youths Companion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

y herd Of wild Asinn bufialoes will
charge any fee, even tiger, to save the
life Of one Of their number who has
been wounded. Elephants, balloons and
other animals will do the same thing in
q wild state.
ON the other hand. monkeys have
been known to fall upon one of their
number who is ill and drown him, pos
sibly az an act Of mercy. Similarly
wolves destroy one of the pack which
becomes helpless
II an otter is trapped, his brother OF
ter will run around him all night, show
ing the utmost concern.
A writer in The Spectator states that
he has seen sparrows in groups discuss
ing and lamenting when one of their
number had fallen into a trap. Next day.
when robin was caught, the sparows
paid no attention.
He adds that he had seen a big pig
try to help smaller one through hole
in the fence paling by pulling at its
head
st. John tells Of highland shepherd
whose cat brought him some edible bird
nearly every day in the year.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
The OLDEST AMERICAN CITY.
Ruins of copsn, In Honduras, Recently
Visited by Explorers.


IIldea away among tie mountains
CT Honduras, in beautiful Yailey
which. even n that litfletraveled coua.
try. where rrmnfeness Is 4 rharaetcgiS
IL attribute of places. + unusually So.
Guided, Gopan 5 are of HE greatest
mysteries Of tn ages. says George
byron Gordon. IN lie Century. After
the publication lin lS4nl Of Slenheas'
account o. his visit 10 lie aims. Yhieh
made them known fer lie hrs tiae to
the world. .he Interest, awakened hy
his graphic description and the draw
ings Thai aecomaa led Il from The very
skillful pencil Of Catherwood. reiapsed;
and, until within the last d"eads. vri-
tiers on the subject of American arch
aeology were all dependent. entirely.
for information concerning Copan upon
the writings Of Stephens. which Wore
regarded by many with skeptielsm aud.
IN some cases, even misrust.
Not only do the recent explorations
confirm the account given by stephens.
as regards the ma gntnde and import
ance OF the ruins, but the collection OF
relics now in the Peabody Museum is
sufficient to convince the most skeptical
that here are the remains of n city, I'M
known TO history, as remarkable and
rs worthy of our careful consideration
as any of the ancient centers of ciyiliza-
ton in the old world.
Whatever the origin of its people,
this old city is distinctly American
the growth of American soil and its
environment. The gloomy forest. the
abode of monkeys aud iaguars. which
clothed the valley at the time of Ste
phens' visit, was N great part destroyed
thirty years ago by colony from
Guatemala, who came 10 plant In tie
fertile valley the tobacco for which,
much more than for the ruins, that val
ley Is famous throughout Central Amer
lea to-day. They left the trees that
grew upon the higher structures, form
ing n picturesque grove, remnant of
which sill remains--a few cedars and
eeibas of gigantic proportions. clus-
tered about the ruins OF the temples,
shrouding them IN n sombre shade and
senulng tneir huge roots INTO the crew
lees and unexplored chambers. and
vaults, and galleries of the vast edi-
fees. The area comprised within the
limits of the old city consists of level
plain seven or eight miles long and two
miles wide at the greatest. This plain
IS covered with the remains of stone
houses. doubtless the habltatlons of the
wealthy. The streets, squares and
courtyards were paved with stone, or
with white cement made from lime and
powdered rock, and the drainage was
accomplished by means OF covered
canals and underground sewers built
of stone and cement. On the slopes of
the mountains, too, are found numerous
ruins, and even on the highest peaks
fallen columns and ruined structures
may stlll be seen.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

The shooting occurred In the West,
on the Panhandle Branch of the Santa
Fe Railroad, ard the story OF Il is re-
lated by the Topeka State Journal. The
nero of the tale IS a snperstitious en-
glneer, who believes IN warnings.
One night he was rolling along at a
good speed, when he saw clear white
light, like q will-o thc-wisp, dancing
over the track a few hundred feet in
front. He shut off steam and came to
n stop as quickly as he could. The
conductor and train crew came run
ming up TO the engine 10 see that was
the matter.
"There Is some one swinging a lam
tern across the track said the engl-
neer, and the crew went ahead to IN
yestlgate.
I'VE can't find any one" reported the
rear brakeman, and the engineer pull
ed out again. but he went slowly, and
In few minutes stopped again. The
crew went ahead once more TO see what
was the cause of the light. The CON
ductor, who was a good shot. drew his
revolver, and at his second shot there
was crash, scream, and the light
went out, and something white came
fiuttering down from the clouds.
The engineer was scared. you've
shot an angel, sure" he said to the con-
ductor, with a face as pale as death.
Investigation brought out the fact
that n small boy, with lantern tied to
the tail of his kite, was the cause of
the trouble; but it leases the engineer
to be asked about Shooting angels"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09


The clubman was looking particular
ly blue, and when asked by his club
mates for the cause, he said
"This evening, just after dark, as !
was coming down to the club. walking
Along thinking Ct nothing in particular,
| was hit in the back by what seemed
to be locomotive and knocked sprawl
ing into the gutter. 1t was muddy there,
and when | had collected my scattered
senses was all covered with dirt and
also very mad. | looked around to see
what hit me and found a young man
and a safety bicycle ON the pavement,
all tangled up. ! was mad, as / said be-
fore, and, without stopping TO think
what did, l took that young man by
the coat collar and kicked him off the
pavement Then jumped on the bicy-
Gle, smashed all the spokes out of the
wheels and generally disfgured it, "
Here the gentleman stopped, and one
Of his audience said:
"Well, why should that make you
feel as you dof You did just the right
thing.
Il suppose hadn't ought to feel so, "
said the speaker; but, you see it was
my boy and my bicycle. Pearson $
Weekly
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
Idiomatic English.

Mrs. Fremont, in sketch of her
father, Senator Benton, tells the fol-
lowing story of the French bishop at St
Louis at the time of the purchase of
Louisiana. She says:
1t was n point of honor among the
older French not TO learn English, but
the bishop decided that 1t would be bet
ter to acquire it, especially for use from
the pulpit.
To force himself into the familiar
practice of the language, he secluded
himself for a while with the family of
an American farmer, where he would
hear no French. The experiment
proved very successful. Soon he had
gained n sufficient fluency to deliver
a sermon In English.
Senator Benton was present when 1t
was to be given. and his feelings may
be imagined rs the bishop, a refined and
polished gentleman, announced:
my friends. I'm right down glad to
see such a smart chance of folks here
today
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09

The friends of local art connoisseur
are telling a tiny but fairly good joke
at his expense. 1t seems that he was
passing up Baronne street the other day
with lady who had asked him to ex-
plain the meaning of the term ''impres
sionist," and he halted before an unfin-
ished building to illustrate his remarks.
1.-THE impressionist school, +" he said,
ideals with effects in mass. Now, when
look at that wall over there don't
SEQ the separate bricks. l merely
Just then a careless mason ON the upper
scaffolding dropped fragment from his
pile of material and smashed in the top
of the gentleman's new silk hat. He re-
moved the shattered tile and gazed PEN
sively at the wreck. II merely get an
impression of brick, " he added, with
dignity. - New Orleans Times Demo
crat
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
Mhnt Arc rrnflics2

Trufiles are n fungous growth, gener-
ally found In soil lmpregnated with
lime. and always near oak or beech
trees. says Fiction and Facts. Very lit
tie Is known about their propagation
and growth. but they lie loosely I'M
bedded I'm the earth, from an inch to IA
foot underground. They are oblong or
spherical, and vary from the size Of a
walnut to that of a large potato. Some
times they weigh as much rs two
pounds. Some are of a dull white col
or. but the black or brown truflle has
the finest flavor and brings the best
price. TrufIles have a strong aromatic
odor, which produces nausea IN some
people.
In England and Germany dogs are
trained to find truflics. When a dog is
to be trained for truflie- hunting, he Is
given truiie to play with, and then
allowed to see It buried. When feeding
time comes he is told to find the trutile,
and made TO understand that his meal
depends upon its redlscovery, and, as a
rule, he is very quick to comprehend
this, and guided by the peculiar truflle
smell, learns to scratch up the soil
where trufiles are growing. Some dogs
will tear the trullles TO pieces, but a
good one stops scratching away the
earth rs soon as the truflles are in view.
In France and Italy, pigs, which are
passlonately fond of trufiles. are made
to hunt for them, and they prove TO be
of much service to those who hunt
trutllps
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
MEN OF THE NAVY.
Arduons Study and Drill n Necessary
Preliminary to Good Service.

The average person. after reading Of
the recent glorious achievements of our
navy. is inclined to take il as matter
OF course that we should have won, and.
perchance. docs not realize Of what
sterling stuff our naval heroes are
made, nor how many long and tiresome
days must have been spent at study and
drill before men can be rounded out
into good. fighting naval force.
At the same time, ii is not TO be Won
dered at that the average person knows
very little of the difference in rank Of
officers, of their duties. OF their mode
OF appointment of their rigid training,
and of the hardships of the service be-
fore the world ever knows of their mod
est efforts IN the performance of the
usual monotonous daily routine of duty.
There are also many interesting de-
tails and points of interest In connection
with the life of the members that con-
stitute the more numerous part Of the
personnel of the ships crew, VIZ: the
file of the navy.
The commissioned officers who con
stitute the brains and the directing
power Of the ship being for the present
disregarded the rest of the crew con-
sist mainly Of seamen, marines, ma
chinlsts, carpenters and landsmen.
The last named includes all nurses,
messengers, and all boys or men WHO
are employed at duties that can be per
formed by men without previous train
ing on seagoing vessels. These men are
enlisted for term of years, and re-
ceiye usually the smallest pay of all on
board.
The duties of carpenters and maehin-
lists need no explanation, and these men
also go in under enlistment after hav-
Ing passed searching examination
covering all details in the departments
In which they wish to serve.
The marines are what might be called
the infantry of the navy" and act as
guards on board ship. They are usual
~ not more than fifty of them on any
ship in regular service. They wear
uniform very much similar 10 that
worn by the men of the artillery branch
guards on board ship. There are usual
Of the ships crew to make a landing, in
case men are needed ashore from the
ship.-Popular Monthly.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
A MILLION MILLION.
How Long. Think You. Would II Take
You tn Count Ifs

You Ia Count ns
Professor Wapstaf. whose very name
suggests a pleasing first cousinship to
Shakespeare, has lately heen amusing
himself and his audience at Gresham
college by speenlations as to what might
have happened If the father of our hn.
mau race had given up delying and
taken to figures. Let us suppose that
Adam had set himself to count mil
lion million, or. in figures. !, 900, 600,
900, 600 We will imagine that he conld
count three in a second, which. though
not exactly rapid ciphering, will be
found ample. if taken continuously.
Now, if 5000 years have elapsed since
the gracious amenities of Eden formed
the cradle of humanity, Adam would
have been working for $50, ZIG, 900, 600
seconds and have reached total of
567 69s, GOO, 600 figures. In other words,
his task of counting million million
would still have been unaccomplished
by over four hundred thousand millions
digits
All of which goes to prove what?
There are many possible conclusions.
The first is, of course, that Professor
Wagsiati is very ingenious and by no
means melancholy mathematician, but
that hardly needed proof. A second de-
duction. which we advance with ali
humility, is that if Adam had only had
habitual recourse to harmless dissipa-
ton of this arithmetieal kind, instead
of betraying marital weakness and a
fondness for fruit, his descendants
would have been very much better off
morally and spiritually, though not
perhaps in material comforts. And a
third conclusion. eminently gratifying
to those who refuse to believe that there
is any serious discord between religion
and science, is that Professor Wagstaff,
no doubt man of distinction in scien
titic attainments, accepts without any
demur Bishop Ussher's chronology.
According TO The divine, the world
was created in 1904 b. O., and that
added to the 1898 years which have
elapsed since the Christian era makes
in round numbers the 6, 600 years on
which the whole calculation depends.
Some hayward scientists" have dog
matically affirmed that the world has
been wagging along a good many more
centuries than usher supposed, al.
though there is serious difference, it
is true, in this matter between the as
tronomers and the biologists. So, after
ALL perhaps if Adam had been reason
ably industrious, he would have had
time to accomplish his task, unless his
brain had given way under the strain.
Most of us have such vague ideas as to
the meaning of large figures that it is
as we'll to be reminded by so happy an
illustration how many units go to the
making of a million. The only other
conceivable fashion in which such in
struotion could be acquired is to become
South African "boss" of mines and
diamonds, and that process, much as
we may desire it, is fortunately or un-
fortunately, not open to the majority OF
us.-London Telegraph.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
A son.in.I,aw,s Contribu,ion.

A certain young man, says Spare Mo
ments, had mother-in-law who WAS
always nagglng ut him. and everything
he did was always wrong.
One day he was told by his wife that
she had died suddenly, and that they
should have tombstone erected.
Accordingly, the father-in-law, wife
and husband went TO the mason.
They Were at a loss to know what to
have written on the stone, but finally
the father-in-law said:
Put Gone before!'
and" said the wife, ''you can put
Not dead, but sleeping for me.
"WhatY said the young man. "sleep-
lngl Well, put on for me. For heav-
ems sake don't wake her up"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-02-09
Went Them several Better.

Fritz Williams, the actor, was sitting
one evening in New York cafe, when
two very young men came in. They
beckoned condescendingly 10 n waiter.
Waiter, said the one, bring me a
chop. Mind it's just right, now, Just
mention my name to the cook. -
you may bring me steak" said
the other just as grandly, "aid tell the
cook who it's for. "
The waiter was half way across the
room, which was crowded, when Fritz
Williams hailed him.
Waiter" he drawled, "bring me
half dozen Blue Points, and mention
my name to every darned oyster "--Ex-
ihnnpa