The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-02-22

Carson Letter.
EDITOR COURIER; Mrs Nations
Christian names are Carrie HELEN
her fathers name was Charles Dam
and he was rich planter in Louisiana
before the war; on her second mar
rage, she married man named Ma
ton. The people in Kansas call hel
by her full name-Carrie HELEN Dam
Nation, and they pronounce it fast
with the strongest accent on the first
syllable of the second name,
49, 49,
Testimony in the suit of John An
derson ct al. VS.. Henry Bassman ct al.
was resumed in Carson last Monday
The defendants began the examination
oftheir surveyors, w. Fl. Kirk and w.
". Coleman. Judge Morrow in San
Francisco, VITO is to try the case and
decide it, refuses to hear the motion OF
the defendants to non-sujt the plain
tiffs, saying that the case must all be
submitted at once, and if either side
takes testimony unnecessarily, he will
tax the costs incurred thereby against
that side. This disposes of all future
attempts at delay, and the trial must
go. on until it is finished. After the
testimony of the surveyors is in, the
further taking of the testimony of the
defendants will take place at Wood
ford
The New York Correspondents Club
lately sent out the following question
to prominent men and women through
out the United States: ''How can the
influence of the press be increased"
Cardinal Gibbons, Governor Odell,
Bishop Potter, WI Ting Fang, Thomas
A.. Edison, Controller Coler and White
law Reid in effect replied as WI Ting
Fang did: ''By strict adherence to
facts" John Hay, who feels compe-
tent to act as Secretary of State for the
United States, confessed that he was
not competent to give advice. w. ].
Bryan answered that principle was
of more Importance than SCOOP"
Thomas A. Edison said "By publishing
q fact now and then" Andrew Car
negie gave the best advice: "The paper
which obtains reputation for publish
ing authentic news, and only that
which is fit to print, and which edito-
rally writes temperatelys although
afways decidedly, will steadily increase
It's circulation Arthur 7. Hadley,
President of Yale College answered.:
s'The question is rather how that influ-
ence can be SO directed that it shall
work more toward permanent ends
and less toward temporary ones"
Coming from Yale, and from its presi-
dent, the question ought not to have
been evaded. 1t was plain question.
The question was how to increase the
influence which the press already pos
sessed, and he simply asks the question
show can it be SO directed that it shall
work more toward permanent ends
aud, less toward temporary ones" 1t
is not an answer at all, and insofar as
any part of it could be used for an
answer, it is Pathological. If he in
tended to answer that the press should
"Work more toward permanent ends"
there was no occasion or necessity to
add s'and less toward temporary ones,n
sswork more toward permanent ends"
is incorrect. We labor to attain more
permanent ends, not towards them. OF
course, know what the professor in
tended to say, and | heartily coincide
with his opinion, and with his advice,
and l call attention to the errors he
committed simply because he is Presi-
dent of Yale.
"A preacher in Kansas lately delivered
himself of stirring sermon on the
text s'Ye who are without sin, cast the
first stone at her." or words to that
effect. After the sermon, he started
out with his little Ratchet and smashed
all the mirrors, and bottles and glass
ware he could see in a fashionable
saloon of the town, and later in the
night the saloon man smashed all the
windows in his church, Moral Those