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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

Doylestown has four odd characters
who pool their issues in buying shoes.
They all have the same sized foot, and
each regards this fact In the nature of
n libel perpetrated upon him by the
other three. Every year each one of
the quartet chips in SIS. and the fund
of $72 is expended for shoes. Buying
them in such quantities there is natu-
rally reduction in price. One would
think that there would be an equal d.
vision of the shoes, but that isn't their
little game.
The shoes are owned collectively,
share and share alike, and when not
being worn they are kept in closet in
the express office. which is the general
Longing place of the quartet. If one
man wants TO wear new shoes, he goes
to the express office and puts them on.
II he wears russets In the daytime and
wants to wear patent feathers In the
evening. he goes to the express office
and makes the change. They have
been doing this for several years and
claim they wouldn't wear shoes In any
other y.s-f.tiiavielphia Record.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
Maud.

Come into the parlor, Maud,
For the paper hanger is gone.
And the trail of his pastepot's plain
enough
From the hallway down through the
lawn.
All day has this papering man
In the parlor held high sway,
And over the chairs with reckless hand
He has thrown the marks of his stay.
Twas a week since this he began,
And his paper came quite soon;
Then he brought around brush and
some shears
And left them, along about noon
All week we have waited and seen
No sign of his entering here
All week we have waited and sighed
That his footsteps we still could not
hear.
But the hired girl whispered: "He comes,
He is coming with tangled feet,
He Is bringing his paste and his tapeline,
too,
And his face is quite red-with the
heat"
He has scratched the piano, tits true,
And has cluttered the face Of the lawn;
The carpet Is ruined, and so are the
doors.
But what does that matter? He's
gone.
Come into the parlor, Maud,
But look out for your dress, If you do;
lie has ruined our things with his paste
and his scraps
With his bill he has ruined me, too
Baltimore American.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

etcr, capped with wooden ferules. At
Its sides, 20 inches apart, are four hand
spaces, four inches wide for carriage
by two bearers, either in transverse.
or forward direction. 1t Is designed
for the special purpose of facilitating
the removal OF wounded "out OF fire. :"
in the fighting line, to place of tenn
porary safety, or the collecting station.
and for use also on all occasions In
mountain warfare, in lieu Of the pres
ent heavy field stretcher. 1t Is very
light weighing only fifty-three ounces.
and is easily carried and distributed
along the fighting line. 1t can be car.
ried either transversely, or In the usual
manner by two bearers.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
Against Rettinp.

Mr.. Memo. a strong partisan, felt so
sure Of the result of q November cleo
ton in one Of the States that be laid a
considerable wager upon tia FOOLS
argument by the way-and lost.
Still, he gave no outward sign of dis
appointment till few days before
Thanksgiving.
Coming home one evening he said to
his wife:
Nancy, have you made any arrange
ments for the Thanksgiving dinner?
"Yes," she replied. 81 have ordered
turkey"
WELL" he rejoined. suppose you
countermand that order. We can get
along with a chicken or two this year.
I'd be content to eat the poorest old
goose in the market-only 1t would
make me feel as IL were cannibaL"
From which it would seem that the
experience, although costly, had moi
been without profit
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
sAssLess FABRIC OF A DREAM.
Convict's Illusion of Freedom and
Wealth Rufhlessly Dispel1ed.

The day of my discharge has come
How happy | am. How proud l feel
as l stand with my face to the wall
near the dollhouse door, awaiting the
summons to go to the storeroom to
change my clothes. 1t seems that the
men will never cease their tramp
tramp, as they file from the dollhouse
on the way to the shops. But the last
of them finally goes out the door, and
| am hustled to the storeroom. | array
myself in my "store" clothes, then
make my way, eager and trembling
There, after a few preliminaries, am
handed my discharge and my money
and joyfully go forth to battle once
more with the world. How brightly the
sun shines. How fresh and inyigorat-
ing the air. st actually smells better
than the air behind those ugly frown.
ing walls.
And now that | am once again free
where will go? And what will | dof
All. thought strikes me. | have not
w mere 10 inNit a. SOSN
restaurant? Right down the street.
enter and give an order that makes the
waiter stare In establishment. liza, ma
He will stare harder than that when
he sees me get outside of that break
fast. Beefsteak, fried potatoes, eggs,
ham, hot rolls, butter. coffee, and.
But while the cook is hustlng around
making ready the feast will take
drink. Is there saloon near? Yes.
Just two doors below. Thlther | go
and feeling rich enough flor haven't !
twenty-five big American dollars in my
pocketD 1 ask everybody up to drink.
All accept. The drinks are placed on
the bar The barkeeper is making
change for ten. we raise the glasses
to our lips, and
Clangi Clang!! Clang.u goes the
gong and rise and dress, and, as usual,
go to my daily grind.-Minneapolis
Prison Mirror.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
just How the Stairs Ran.

A lawyer was cross-questioning an
Irish woman, the point under inquiry
being the relative position of the doors.
windows and so forth In n house in
which certain transaction was said
to have occurred. "And now, my good
woman" the lawyer said, twill you be
good enough to tell the court how the
stairs run In your house." How do
the stairs rum" the witness replied.
"Shure, whin I'm upstairs they run
down and whin I'm downstairs they
run opp"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

Born In Fayette County, Ohio, In 1S49.
Dry goods clerk at SIS q week when 10
years old.
Bookkeeper In distillery at 81. Salary
81 a week.
With friends bought 300 acres of cheap
land and fifty coke ovens when % years
old.
Doubled capacity of coke works four
years later.
Survived panic of '73, when others went
under.
Owned 5000 acres of coal lands and
sold part interest in coke company to
Carnegie In 1882.
Became partner with Carnegie in steel
business in 1888.
Fought through the Homestead strike
and riots In 1892 and won 1t, after being
shot by Anarchist Berkman.
Indicted for manslaughter because Of
deaths of workingmen, 1893.
Built one of the most luxurious homes
in Pittsburg's suburbs.
Was able to pay 100000 for one paint
ing when 40 years old.
Employed John G. johnson, Pennsyl-
vania's greatest lawyer, to fight Carnegie
in the courts, February, 1900.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
The Devil Dancers of Ceyion.

A curious mask used by the devil
dancers Of Ceylon is supposed to be
the portrait Of devil, named Calico
Coomare. 1t is painful to have to re-
cord that the Cingalese, instead of lab
juring the devil and all his works." as
they ought, actually worship Calico
Coomare. If anybody Is Ill the priests
of the devil, wearing his mask, which
is made Of wood, painted In various
colors. and has n tusk sticking out of
each side of the horribly grinning
mouth-the devil always grins-two
discs at each side, and three cobra
capellas on the top, come and perform
the DEVILS own dance. An altar, dec
grated with garlands, is erected, and
the sacrifice, usually cock, Is offered
on II.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
STORY OF THE YAzoo FRAUD
one of the Most Gigantic Trusts Ever
KnnMn In America.

Known In America.
One of the most gigantic trusts ever
formed on this continent was In the
early days of the republic, back In
1795. Several gentlemen organized
themselves into n company for the pur-
pose of purchasing from the state OF
Georgia her unclaimed western terri
tory. extending from the Mississippi
ON the west to the Atlantic on the east
and from the thirty-frst degree of lati-
tude north of the equator on the south
to the southern boundary Of Tennessee
on the north, including what now con-
stitutes the territory Of Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi. This vast ter
ritory was purchased for 100000 and
this was the commencement of the ia
nous "Yazoo fraud" about which SO
much was said and written.
The bill authorizing the purchase
and sale passed the Georgia legislature
on Jan. 0. 1795, and 1t is said that
members were paid all the way from
eight negroes to 100000 acres of land
to vote for 1t. Corruption by bribery
was open. Great Indignation spread
throughout the state, and upon the as
sembllng of the legislature one year
later an act was passed declaring that
the said resurped act was null and
void; that the records relating to the
same be burned in order that no trace
of so unconstitutional, vile and fraudu-
lent transaction should remain pub
lie.
"The infamous records were placed
in one vast heap" said a senator,
land a sun glass was used to set 1t on
fire. that 1t might be said that the fire
that destroyed 1t was from heaven.
This Is the first and only instance in
the history of the country where leg
islative body personally superintendent
the destruction by fire of its previous
records of corrupt and obnoxious
laws."-St. Paul Globe.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
WON BY A SONG.
Romantic Marriage of Miss Munck and
Prince Oscar of Sweden.

Romantic Marriage of Miss Munck and
Prince Oscar of Sweden.
One of the most romantic marriages
in royal European circles was that Of
Prince Oscar of Sweden, better known
as Prince Bernadotte, to Miss Munck,
one of the attaches at his mothers
court, and the most singular thing
about 1t was that the young lady won
her husband by song. Prince Oscar,
the Kings second son, saw the young
lady at her duties among the maids of
honor in his mothers train. None was
more obscure than she-untitled and
unportioned. But she had face that
in his eyes singled her out from ALL
1t shone, white and penslve. from a
frame of hair as yellow as that Of any
valkyrle in the Morse mythology.
Prince Oscar, who knew the folklore
of his native land by heart, woye
around that face of hers many a day
dream In which thoughts of gods and
heroes were curiously intermlngled
with the realities of today, his own
hopes and his own affections.
Like a yalkyrie, too, Miss Munck
could sing mans heart away. Prince
Oscar discovered that listening to her
one day when she thought she was
alone.
King and Queen and all the court
We're Mortified when Prince Oscar pro-
claimed that he loved Miss Munck and
that no other woman should be his
wife.
There was a great turmoil. The maid
of honor was admonished to keep her
thoughts and her eyes away from the
Kings sons and Prince Oscar was sent
on long voyage. with orders to forget
Miss Munck as speedily as possible.
Meanwhile her gift of song had been
discovered by others and the Queen en-
couraged her to use 1t for the pleasure
of the court.
King Oscar himself is no mean poet
and musician. At that time he had
composed several songs. Miss Mupek
studied them and learned to interpret
them with great feeling.
Prince Oscar returned from his voy-
age in much the same frame of mind,
save that he thought more of Miss
Munck than ever before.
So matters stood one evening when
the court gathered In the music salon.
Miss Munck was commanded to sing.
She began song Of King Oscar's-his
favorite composition.
The theme was n sad one, the music
pitched in tender minor All the
girls breaking heart found voice as she
sang.
When she ceased she had apparently
forgotten where she was As deep
sob was heard all eyes turned from her
to the King. His eyes were streaming.
Approaching Prince Oscar he took
him by the hand and led him to where
the singer sat. Without utterlng a
word he Joined their hands and left
them there, standing amazed before
them all.
Prince Oscar and his wife-the Prince
and Princess Bernadotte as they call
themselves-are well known and liked
all over Europe. They are very relig-
ious and often work together as public
evangelists. And at such times the
princess voice rings as sweetly In
streets and slums as 1t did In n palace
when 1t won kings heart.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
sma,,pox Time.

The statistics of smallpox show that
this ailment Is more prevalent from
January to June than In the latter half
Of the year. Measles show a descend
ing curve In January. a rise In May and
June, a fall from August to October,
and then a rise In November and De-
cember, carrying us on to the January
fall Scarlet fever is low from Janu-
airy to July; 1t rises in August, and Ia
high till the end Of December Ty-
phoid fever is typically an ailment Of
the autumn.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

New Stretcher Designed for Use on
British Batt1efieids.
A new collecting streteher has been
designed by Deputy Surgeon-General
W. s. Oliver, OF Halifax, for carrying
wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
and a number of them are being con-
structed to be sent with the second Ca
madam contingent to South Africa. The
stretcher is composed of strong duck.
8 feet 10 inches In length, % inches in
width, supported on two bamboo poles.
B feet 8 inches long, one inch In diam
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
FOUGHT FOR A PENSION.
Difficulties Surmounted by the Widow
of Three Soldiers.

There are skeletons In the pigeon
holes of the pension bureau. skeletons
as CHASTITY as ever took up habitation
In family closet. The specialist who
makes divorce getting his business does
not receive more shocking revelations
than does the pension official through
whose hands pass the result of inyesti-
cations of claims. A case from St.
Louis fairly illustrates hundreds of do
nestle complications which come under
the observation of these officers. Soon
after the civil war soldier who had
married in the vicinity of st. Louis
died. His widow applied for a pen
sion and got it. But while the claim
was pending courtship was also under
way. The second marriage took place
just before the allowance of the pen
sion. 1t stopped further payments, and
all that the woman received was the
amount due from the death Of the sol
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
MANY Mormons IN indiana.

LatterDay Saints say that outside Of
Utah and Its immediate environments
Indiana has more Mormons than any
other State, Notwithstanding other
commonwealth are larger and have
been proselyted longer. They have the
figures to show that the Hoosier State
Is a productive field for the followers
of Joseph Smith and that the State
leads all Its sisters In membership. The
district and mission reports for the year
1890 show that Mormonism is growing
rapidly In Indiana.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
wounded In Hattie.

An army loses far more of Its strength
through Its wounded than through Its
Killed. In the first place there are four
or five wounded to one killed. and In
the second place the dead men give no
trouble. while the wounded require an
immense number of noncombatants to
attend TO them. A great many of the
wounded return again TO duty, their
wounds being comparatively slight,
but as rule more than half Of them
take no more part In the war;.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
Pursuing the Argument.

Earnest Of heart and soul as he was,
John Wesley was not without a quiet
humor. having its rise, perhaps, in his
gtore of common sense. This II was
which sometimes came to his aid, when
even his eloquence did not suffice to
accomplish his chosen work.
ION Thursday, the Goth Mar (1742). :"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

Successful Cooperative Factories.
Cooperative factore sin Great Brit
ain last year made profits aggregatin
over 81 100000 on capital Of a little
over $11,0O0,000. This is nearly 10
per cent. on the investment.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

Very few men over fifty can wear
lot Of hair on their face, and not cause
n suspicion that they never see wash
basin.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
A Lucky Machine.

The horse gazed thoughtfully over
the fence at the whirring automobile.
you are luckier than you realize,
you insensate conglomeration Of
Wheels" sail the equine. "You are
not tortured with IN overhead check
rein."-Omaha World Herald.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
QUEER HERMIT.
Joiin Vanderbilt Lives Alone IN
Mountain Home In California.

Mountain nome IN Nhhiof
Once a year old John Vanderbilt, OF
Hexankopf, Cal, comes barefooted down
the mountains to Lower Sancon, and
buys a mess of coarse cornmeal. This
he packs up the steep slope to his hut,
to form his main food supply for q
twelvemonth. Cooked with water IN
hnecakes favored with sassafras root,
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

1t forms a strange
enough fare for a
wealthy member Of
the richest family in
America.
Old John Wander
bilt went to the
II e xa n k OPT, or
Witch's Head noun
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05
SNAKES OF THE OCEAN
REMARKABLE HUNDRED MILE
VOYAGE BY STEAMER.

Fifty Millions of Poisonous
Reptiles-Wonderfu Brought
from Our New Possessions by Gov
crnment biologist.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-04-05

Enemies of the cigarette never make
light Of Il
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-08
State Chairman A1baugh and
other High Republican Off
Gals Charged with Fraud and
Malfeasance in Office.

One of the many and most glazing
attempts at fraud that has been at
tempted upon creditors OF Il national
bank, under the best banking system on
earth, is now being perpetated upon the
creditors of the deIunct Cross National
bank of Emporia. Among other assets
is 5000 acres Of land turned over to cred
itors by Vim. Martindale, vice president
of the bank. The land Is valuable and
could have been easily sold in small
tracts for from $4,000 10 100000. In
stead of doing this it was sold in body
for 81, 900. The whole procedure is If
regular, done by stealth, and evidently
intended to defraud creditors, who will
at best, loose a good part of their de-
posits. The managers of the scheme are
Mort Albaugh, chairman of the Repub-
lican state central committee; receiver;
I. f. Lambert, McKinley's United States
district attorney for the dlstric,
sas, attorney for the receiver and Rep
lican state senator; r. T. Blt-., r.r
The matter has been taken into h,
courts and Calvin Hood who bought tn
property has agreed to give $4,000 more
to quiet matters and stop further inyesti-
CATION. This is a pretty trio of Repubh-
can officials. Were they fusionists occu-
plying corresponding positions every
Republican daily in the state would have
Scare heads and columns of editorials
for weeks concerning the matter. As it
is, little attention is given to the affair.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-08
WattersOn's Accusation.

"Many a man has been hung upon less
evidence than that which connects Mr..
TAYLOR with the attempted assassination
of Mr., now Governor, Goebel.
"This Taylor, by the money and grace
of the Louisville and Nashville Railway
company and the intimidated concur
renee Of the officers of election 3 I've
recent count of votes-to sly othiu r
about the law-abiding acquiesenc Of t
Democratic masses of the stat is
Taylor, acting as de facto governor of
Kentucky, no sooner found himself
clothed with the little brief authority
thus vestel in him than he began to or
ganize for the forcible retention Of his
de taCto appointment.
''AIr. G0ebel was shot down from am
bush provided by the de facto Governor
TAYLOR. Instantly, all effort TO arrest his
assassin was blocked by Taylor's orders.
Two days have passed and not a word
is said by this mock governor, 50 ready
with his reasonable proclamations, and so
prompt with his lawless use of troops TO
dispense legislative bodies and to ter
rorize courts of law, to pursue the per-
petrators of the horrible deed done under
his own official roof, almost in his pres
ence. and by men brough to Frankfort
by his orders. If this be not a public
acknowledgment of completely, then
there is no significance in human con-
duct. Even a Louisville and Nashville
railroad attorney would characterize it
as at the very least. contributory negli-
gence.'
"Truly, whom the gods would destroy,
they first make mad ,"
The above from an editorial in The
Louisville Courier Journal comes with
double force from the fact that the paper
was not supporter of Goebel. Wat
terson is Gold Democrat, and speaks
out now only as citizen of his state
protesting against a high handed out
rage.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-08
"Good Counsel
A Challenge TO Republicans

Parsons, Kansas, Jan. "a, 1900,
Managers of the Republican Party of
Kansas,
Conference.-The Peoples Party of
Kansas believes that the actions, even
more than the platforms of a political
party are the proper criterions of It's
motives and intentions, and that the ac-
tons Of the national Republican party
relative to finance and the trust ones
Il are hostile to the interests of every
laborer and producer in the United
States.
We l'rthermore believe that f11l and
free discussion of all political issues is
essential to an intelligent vote, and that
the leaders of the Republican party
should have manhood enough to defend
in the open measures they are pleased TO
force upon the people.
Therefore, in behalf of the Peoples
Party of Kansas to a series of Joint de-
bates, to be held during the next sixty
days, in any or every town, county or
precinct in the state on the following
questions.
Ist. Resolved that the currency and
banking bill now before the senate of
the United'States representing the fnan-
cial policy of the Republican party is
injurious to the welfare of the common
people, inasmuch as all money should be
issued and controlled by the United
States government, in the interest of the
people, rather than by banks, in the in
terest of banks and their allies, as pro-
vided for in the proposed bill.
2nd. Resolved that the foreign policy
of the present administration is contrary
to the constitution of the United States,
contrary to the declaration of Independ-
ence, and contrary to the spirit of this
republic.
3rd. Resolved that the present polit-
ical organization is the representative
and tool of concentrated, constituencies,
predatory wealth, and can not be trusted
to pass Legislation to destroy the tyranny
of trusts.
For the good of our country, and the
education of its people, we hope that
the Republican party of this state will
stand by its guns, and meet us in fair
and open manner, to the end that all
may know the truth. The Republican
party has defined its position. Has il
the manhood to defend it?
]. H. CURRAN, TAYLOR RIDDLE,
Secretary. Chairman.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-08
"How Are the Mighty EallenT"

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy.-Jesus.
Every bullet sent, every cannon shot,
every flag waved, in the war for civiliza-
ton and progress, means Righteousness. ,,
Rev. Wayland Hoyt.
Blessed are the peacmakers, for they
shall be called the children of Cod
Jesus.
1--WE hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent, that all men are created equal,
Traitor! Copperhead!
THAT they are endowed by their Gre
asor with certain inalienable rights.
Copperhead! Traitor
That among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
Traitor Copperheadl Traitorll!
THAT to secure these rights govern
mers ere instituted among men, deriv-
ing their just powers from the consent Of
the governed"
TraitOrl COpperheadl! Treason!