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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
BOOK MAXIM S.

1t Is better to give book than to
lend IT,
Do not bite a paper knife until it has
the edge Of a saw.
10 not cut books except with a
proper ivory knife.
1t is rulnation to a good book to cut
Il right through into the corners.
Books are neither card racks, crumb
baskets nor receptaeles for dead leaves.
Never write upon a title page or half
title. The blank fly leaf Is the right
place.
Do not turn the leaves Of books down.
Particularly do not turn the leaves of
books printed on plate paper.
II you are In the habit Of lending
books, do not mark them These two
acts together constitute an act of indis-
erection.
Books were not meant as cushions.
nor were they meant to 4 toasted be
fore a fire.-Arthur L. Humphreys In
Private Library.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
coms.= CT .h> Past Century.

During the nineteenth century 20
new comets we're discovered as against
62 In the eighteenth century. The
nineteenth century also beheld a great
er number ( large and brilliant com-
cts thnn did its predecessor. The finest
of these were the comets OF 1911. 1913,
1853, 1881 and 1882. In the year 1870
only one periodical comet was known,
Halley's Now many are known OF
which az least II have been seen az
more than one return to perihelion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
Fooled BY HIS OWN TRICK.
scheme For Selling a Farm and Its
Dramatic CLIMAX.

"Some years ago" said the narrator
ian oil boom hit Litchfeld, Ills. and
everybody for miles around was seen
smiling for oil and every stranger sus-
prcted OF being an expert looking for a
good thing An old farmer named Loo
mis- had a big place three miles out Of
town. which would have been a fortune
for him had he not been possessed of a
Iianla for swapping. manifest in a per-
,nnial attempt to trade Off his land
for twice Its value.
when the boom was at the top notch,
LOOMS received a visitor who took so
much interest In the farm. so liked its
appearance. location. etc, that the old
farmer scented a petroleum man and
saw visions Of incalculable wealth;
but. being a shrewd man. LOOMS did
not care TO take any unnecessary
chances with Providence, and on the
quiet he sent the hired man out the
back way with orders to dump the kerr
osene can into the ell. The visitor
liked the entire place. inspected the
barn. the chicken yard and then. as II
by chance. asked for a drink of water.
'I.oomis was waiting for that and
hauled up a brimming bucket before
the mans own eyes and poured him out
a gourdful of liquid with a fine. opa-
descent scum upon IT, The visitor smell
ed the stuff tasted 1t, made a wry face
and asked If the water was always like
that. oh. yes said LOOMS. but you
soon get accustomed to the taste, and
our doctor says this is the finest water
OH earth for the stomach Well,
am ding DANCED II I'll ever get used to
It, was the unexpected response. 1
am looking for a farm, not an oil well.
and II have got to haul my drinking
water three miles from Lltchfield |
guess I'd rather buy nearer town
at took LOOMS six months to get the
taste Of oil out of his well, and by that
time the boom was over. and nothing
was left OF the oil craze but rotting der
ricks and abandoned shafts."-New Or
leans Times Democrat.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

ton. Assuming that our average an
nual output is 220,0OO,oOO tons, a weeks
output would build a pyramid by the
side Of which the Great Pyramid OF
Cheops would be dwarfed to compare
tive insigni6eanee. and every ten min
utes there is raised 1900 tons of coal.
Suppose we take gigantic pair OF
scales. and In one pan put one of our
large new battleshlps weighing 1900
tons, and in the other pan the coal
mined in single period of ten minutes
The battleship would be elevated to a
position neither natural nor dlgnfed,
yet in accordance with the lnexorable
law Of grayltation.
But Of the great mass Of coal We pro
dueed in 1900 only 100000 tons we're
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

exported. Nevertheless, comparatively
Insignificant as this amount seems In
comparison with the total output, it
would require about 334 900 cars of
twenty tons capacity each to haul 1t to
the seaboard for shipment, and 1t
would supply cargoes Of $500 tons each
to 1000 vessels. England exports an
nually 100000 tons of coal, and. to
transport II. 1900 vessels, each of car
rying capacity of $500 tons, are re-
quired.
71.ooo TrainIoads.
Let us imagine condition In which
our entire annual output would be ex-
ported. In that case we should have
1000 trains each mile long CARRYING
coal from the mines to tldewater. and
the seas would be crowded with more
than 10000 loaded ships. If we carrv
the calculations still further and deal
with the output for thirty years. tn
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

announcement. says Pennsylvania Grit
of Willlamsport. is stubborn fact
which will not yield to argument; the
other statement will appear less alarm
ing if we examine it in the light Of such
Information as we are able TO get
According TO statistical reports the
output of coal in the United States last
year was in round numbers 2J0,OOO,OOO
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

tons. As ton Of coal in strata repre-
sents about one cubic yard, last years
output was 250,OOO,O00 cubic yards.
This amount of coal would make a
stack a mile square and approximately
400 feet high. 1t is an enormous guam
tity, and We may be excused for some
alarm when we are told that the re-
serve supply will soon be exhausted.
But 1t may be well to look into the mat
ter a little before getting into a panic of
fear. However, before relieving our
distress of mind, let us enjoy a brief
season Of additional shiyers.
Thirty Years. rodnct.
Somebody has estimated that during
the past thirty years we have mined
5,OOO,O00.O00 tons Of coal. DO we real
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
Two Faced Babies.

Not that deceit is n born Instinct
but some babies must be two faced IN
the cradle"
"Oh, that's not possible"
81 don't know. | know child that
looks like Its rich aunt when she comes
on visit and is the exact image OF It's
rich uncle when he happens to be
there. "-Exchange.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

Miss Singer saw In the paper that
there Is to he an entertainment for
-musical orphanage" Pray. what may
musical orplIanage BET
Mr. Rental can't say positively,
Won know. but | imagine II must be a
child deprived of its native air.-Iiar-
pers Bazaar.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
A nran Of Water.

A gallon OF distilled water weighs
$3.50 pounds. and there being four
quarts TO the gallon and two plnts TO
the quart. and ~ fluid ounces to the
pint. and two tablespoonfuls TO the fiuid
ounce. and four teaspoonfuls to the ia
blespoon. and 40 drops to the teaspoon,
n drop OF water weighs O.000lSO57
pound. slightly more.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

Now. dear" said mamma, giving
final instructions TO Elsie, who Is going
to take tea with playmate. when you
are asked II you will have something.
you must say, Yes, thank you and IL
you don't want IT you must say
"oh. you needn't bother about that
Elsie interrupted. Il don't expect 10
refuse anythlng."-Philadelphia Press.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
THE WORLDS COAL
Facts and Calculations Touching
Increased Price.
ASTOUNDING FIGURES
Annual Output When Considered ia
Bulk Gives Rise 10 Fears.

rut 1. 900 Years Of Reserve Left Surely
AIIavs All Anxiety-The Imagination
Staggers I'm Ter the Array of Facts
Illustrated bv Diagrams and Forti-
fed by CaieuIations-A Train 7l,ooo
Miles Long to Transport Our Annual
Product.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

The dust of charcoal is gathered up
and mixed with the chaff from wheat.
barley AM ''her grains, and with chop
ped straw, Japan. 1t is then moist
ened into IA paste, rolled into balls
about as big as a billiard ball, and
makes excellent fuel.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12
No Dim culty.

Phillips Brooks once gave new yes-
sion of the Jonah story to n wondering
skeptlc, who said be doubted whether
a whales throat was large enough To
swallow Jonah. There was no din
Guilty" said the bishop; "Jonah was one
of the minor prophets"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

Art Dealer-Yes that was painted by
one OF the old masters. But, ! beg your
pardon. sir, you must not touch 1t Win
your umbrella.
Old Mr.. Hardplayer-What's the mat
ter? Isn't It dry yet?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

say, the coal still in the bowels OF the
earth would make cube of 100 miles
dimensions. As a matter of fact, II
the coal supply is 0o.ooOOOO.oo0 tons.
the cube would be very close to l73
miles IN height, breadth and thickness.
and the thirty years output would be
a cube OF about 1.73 miles. But for con
Yenience the even numbers are used,
though they are far below the actual
figures. The proportions. however, are
given with sufficient accuracy.
A London paper has dug up procla-
nation issued 600 years ago by Ed
ward l., which indicates that coal was
not appreciated SO much by the people
Of the fourteenth century as il Is now.
The proclamation is referred to In 1862
AZ follows:
Whereas In the year of our Lord
God 1906, King Edward the by proc
lamation prohibited the burning OF sea
cole In London and the suburbs to
avoid the sulferous smoke and SAVIOR of
the firing there is so great
scarcity Of wood throughout the whole
kingdom that the Inhabitants
In general are constrained to make
their fires of sea cole or pit cole even
in the chambers of honorable person
ages. Within thirty years last the nice
danes of London would not come into
any house or room where sea coles
were burning nor willingly eat of the
meat that was either sod or roasted
with sea cole fire"
World Need Not Worry.
Now the world is beginning to worry
lest 1t be not able to get enough coal to
burn. 1t may be of interest to know
what proportion of the worlds total
output of coal Is credited to the yar,.
Gus coal producing countries. In 1904
the last year In which statistics ara
available, the production in metric tons
was as follows: United States 228
1859; United Kingdom, 223, COG. GIGS.
Germany, 1884 ,427; Austro- Hungary.
36,OO0,0OO; France, 32,779.965: Belgium.
21,9l7, 74O; Russia. 1900. 900; Japan
6,650,0OO; Australasia, 600. 900: India
100000; Canada. 4,141 600: Spain .
$4,000; Mexico. 400, 125; Sweden. 23g.
IA; Italy, 10000; all other countries.
3,5oO,oOOi total, partly estimated. 1877
| 608.GB1.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

If mother is at all clever. she can
train her baby by the time II Is weeks
old 10 cry TO 90 10 its father as soon as
no comes In the house. -Atchison Globe
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

HE coal barons
announce that the
price of coal viii
advance by a fixed
graduation accord
ing to a schedule
agreed upon by the
producers We are
also told that the
coal supply will be
exhausted In a few
years. The first
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-09-12

Why do people give advicel Fools
won't take II. and wise men don't
need " An
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

take some kind of healty exercise
to offset the evil tendencies of the
close confinement. When all this
is done the hens will lay, not as
the result of any forcing process,
but because the obstacles to laying
are removed.
The phrase forcing hens to lay"
is misleading 1t should never be
seen in print. 1t implies power
to make hens lay eggs by some
process other than correct feeding
and such general care as is re-
quired to keep them in healthy
and thrifty condition, the condition
which is brought about by the
spring weather and diet when the
hen lays simply because she can
not help it.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
Forcing Hens to lay.

In the spring when the winters
cold is succeeded by the warm sun
shine and the new and tender veg
citation, eggs are abundant, but
nobody calls this forcing the hens
to lay. If we want eggs in winter
we must use our wits to the end of
initiating the conditions of spring
as closely as circumstances will
permit We must shelter the hens
from the winters cold, furnish
them vegetable and animal food, as
we'll as grain, and make them to
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
FOR THE FARMER.
Orchard Hints.

To raise peaches every year pile
a wagon-load of rock around every
tree, and if you don't raise fruit
nobody else will. The rock keeps
the ground moist around the tree
and the weeds and grass down,
prevents a late fall growth and
keeps the ground frozen in the
Spring till warm weather is
settled fact. In transplanting
trees don't plant deeper than they
were IL > nursery, unless you
have a rich, deep soil, as the good
soil is right on top. The tree
should be planted so the top roots
will spread out and form good
braces, which gives the tree a
good, steady growth. A tree will
do no good if planted deep in clay
soil.
Don't be humbugged by agents
trying to sell you whole-root trees.
A 2-year-old apple tree Seeding
has root q or S feet deep, which
would cost nursery s. apiece to
put on the market, and if you
were to plant them on clay soil
they would die. If you want
whole-root trees plant your seed
where you want the tree and do
your own grating. If you plant
corn in young orchard, plant it
east and west. A corn or cane
shade is splendid thing for a
young orchard the first year, but
after that plant two rows of beans
or COW peas on each side of tree,
and that gives the trees plenty of
sun and air and enriches the soil
near the trees. 1t don't require as
deep cultivation as corn. Don't
cultivate too deep or too close to
the trees, nor later than the 18th
of July, if you live south or on a
line with st. Louis, as it stimulates
a Fall growth, Don't try to make
a pasture or meadow out of your
orchard. Clover is good if you
turn a crop under every other
year; it forms good Winter blan,
ket and excellent mulch.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

lob WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EN
j ecuted with neatness and dispatch at the
TINES office at reasonable rates. Send for our
estimates before sending your work elsewhere
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
The Sheep to Tatten and Sell.

Ewes that have not proved
good breeders nor good mothers,
or have not produced fairly good
fleece of wool should be selected
out of the flock, put on good pas
ture and marketed as soon as they
are in good marketable condition.
Usually the fleece a sheep pro-
duces should pay for its keep,
leaving the increase for profit. If
the wool does not do this or if
there is no increase there is a
short profit
The best rule is to Gull out every
sheep that has not returned pro-
fit. There is no better time to fat
ten than while there is good pastur-
age and before the weather gets
too hot. Sheep will keep healthier
and thriftier if they have access to
salt and water, where they can
help themselves as they need; and
they should, also, have plenty of
shade to rest under.
Sheep will fatten faster if they
can be changed to fresh pastures
every ten days or two weeks, and
will do better if pastured to them
selves. They Craze closer than
any other stock, and eat heritage
that other stock will leave.
With little care, they may be
tattened and marketed before hot,
dry weather sets III. and can then
be sold to better advantage than if
kept longer.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
ALFALFA AND IRRIGATION.
Plenty Of Water Needing Only To Be Pumped.

For one product mark ct stands
ready for all that we can possibly
produce There are always peo-
pie in the world to eat more than
all the good beef and good butter
than can be produced. China,
Japan and the Philippines now
take all the butter we can send
them, and will take as much more
as we can send, to any limit what
ever. The whole world stands
ready to eat all the beef it can get
from anywhere. The only limits
is our ability to produce.
There are thousands of acres of
wheat land which would grow al
falfa if there were any water.
There is plenty of water under the
ground, needing only to be pump
ed. Hitherto, fuel has been to ex-
pensive, but oil is now plenty and
cheap, and is bound to stay cheap
enough to get itself used. Elec
tricity is becoming increasingly
available and may be made, by
water or oil power, cheap and
available anywhere. There is no
reason why the baked plains of the
valley should not become green
with alfalfa and alive with cattle.
Not the least of the advantages
ofincreasing dairy business will be
the fact that it will furnish steady
employment to intelligent Ameri-
can labor. The fruit business tends
toward Oriental labor. 1t requires
a large number of migratory labor
ers at certain times, who can be
hired and worked in gangs. This
is the yellow mans chance and the
white mans menace. The care of
cattle and the making and care of
butter and cheese call for intelli
gent white men, who work as in
dividuals and have steady Jobs.
We need more such industries -
Cor Rec
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
hot Cabbage Slaw.

We have taken your paper for
more than twenty years, but this
is my first attempt to write. Not
seeing any answer to Mis-. Asa
Jones request for hot cabbage
slaw, will send mine: Have cab
bage cut fine and seasoned with
salt and pepper. Break an egg in
teacup, beat, fill up about half full
of sour cream, and add four or more
tablespoons of vinegar, Now put
in pie-pan lump of butter size
of a walnut, set on stove, add con
tents of cup and stir until it boils.
Pour on cabbage hot if preferred,
or it is nice to cool it first for cold
slaw.-MRs. ]. A. WILKs.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

would have had a much better
stand left. Two years ago we set
a patch, placing the plants 3HxIH
feet apart, and this planting gave
the best stand we ever had. Some
of the rows interlapped so we
could not tell what varieties the
plants in the middle were. We
now set our strawberries this
distance always.-C. G. BEALs.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18
Planting Strawberries.

For a number of years we have
raised strawberries in small way.
A few years ago we set patch in
hills 81 feet apart each way.
The grubs and cut worms took
most of the patch, leaving the
plants very scattering If the
plants had been just twice as thick
on the ground and the insects had
taken as many as they did, we
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

DR. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
pie free Add Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or N. Y
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

farmer located Stony Brook of the most maarous
districts this State and bothered with malaria for times
so could work. and always co1Slpaed WELL For
had malaria bad in the when engaged blowing
that could do nothing dt shake must have taken about barrel
pills besides dc of other remedies but obtained
benefit Last fall in peach time had most serious
attack Of hs and then commenced to take Rpans Tabues
friends advice the first box made all and have
been without then take Tabue each morning and night
and feel than usually exhausted take
They have kept stomach bowels regular and
have had the least touch of malaria splitting headache since
them know also that sleep better
refreshed than formerly don't know how complaints
Rpan Tabues viii help but do know they will the
condition and would be without them any price
honestly consider them the heapeStpced medicine the world
they also the beneficial and the take
years and have worked hard all life the
farmes both early and late and in all kinds OF weather.
and have enjoyed such good health have last fall
neghbos have all remarked condition and have
said 'Sav John, what doing look so healthy ?"
xxyAN ad
ned
10
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-05-18

If your ground is poor SOW or
plant cow peas and pasture with
hogs. In pruning trees, which
should be every year, take linseed
oil and aniline-red and daub it on
thick where you cut the limb.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-16
The Honorable Board.

Sam Rawson occasionally said good
thing, and one of these occasions chanc.
ed to be the town meeting. The peo-
pie of Sans village could not under
stand how the money appropriated for
the roads had vanished with such poor
results.
A stretch of road running past Sans
house was in VIGOROUSLY poor conoi-
ton. although Sam declared that he
had paid literally to have it put In
good order and there was general in
terest when Sam rose to make his state
ment before the selectmen.
"I'd just like to say one thing" he
drawled, needless of the fact that he
had interrupted an indignant neighbor.
II don't want to make any fuss, but
I'd just like to ask the honorable board
Of highwaymen"-
That was as far as he could get. A
roar Of laughter swept over the town
meeting and showed its effects In the
red faces Of the "highwaymen."-
Youths Companion.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-16
SOUTHERN MoUNTAINEERs.
The Part They Played In tho Wa
Between the States.

The Part They Played In the Wa
Between the States.
It is odd to think that the southern
mountaineer was not discovered until
the outbreak Of the civil war, although
he was nearly century old then, and
It Is really startling to realize that
when one speaks of the southern noun
taineers he speaks Of nearly 100000
people who live in eight southern
states-Virginia and Alabama and the
southern states between-and occupy
region equal in area to the combined
areas Of Ohio and Pennsylvania, as
big, say, as the German empire, and
richer, perhaps. In timber and mineral
deposits than any other region of SIM
liar extent in the world. This region
was and is an unknown land. 1t has
been APPLY called Appalachian Ameri-
ca. and the work Of discovery is yet
going on.
The American mountaineer was 6is-
covered. say, at the beginning of the
war. when the Confederate leaders
were counting on the presumption that
ing line between the north and south
and formed, therefore, the plan Of
marching an army from Wheeling to
some point on the lakes and thus dis
severing the north at one blow. The
plan seemed SO feasible that it is said
to have materially aided the sale of
Confederate bonds in England, but
when Captain Garrett, West Point
graduate. started to carry it out he got
no farther than Harpers Ferry. When
he struck the mountains. he struck en-
emies who shot at his men from am
bush, cut down bridges before him,
carried the news Of his march to the
Federals. and Garrett himself fell
with bullet from a mountaineer's
squirrel rifle at Harpers Ferry.-Scrib-
ners Magazine.