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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
Bj5g 90 :
Is

A rovel by Hungarian writer, Ba-
ron Nicholas Josika is being Issued IN
English. 1t Is a vivid picture of the
overrunning of Hungary by the Tar
tars N the thirteenth century.
Amelia Barr's new novel of CromwelPs
time, THE Lions Whelp." takes Its
title from the text in Genesis: "A
lions whelp-from the prey, my son,
thou art gone up-and unto him shall
tie gathering of the people be-
Miss Rosa Nonchette Cary, In the
years since she began to write-it was
In 1865. that she published her first
noyel-has given the world more than
a score of books, each one of which
has enjoyed a well-earned popularity.
The Herb of Grace" is her latest Is
sued from the Llppincott press.
Think of one woman writing seven
yt-one booksl-a library in itself. John
Strange Winter A1rs. Arthur stan
nard is the lady, and her latest nov
el. "rhe Price of Wife" is her sew
enty-frst book she has kept in the
front rank of noyelists ever since she
attained sudden popularity with boo
ties Baby" in 1885.
A group of studies of James Bryce
In history and Jurisprudence has been
In the press for some time. There are
two volumes, and the contents OF
these have been composed at dlnerent
times, extending over many years.
While the studies are very diverse,
common thread runs through a num-
Der of them. This Is a comparison be-
tween the history and law of Rome
and the history and law of England.
Bret Harte, whose reported Illness
was lately denied, recently returned TO
the idea of the Condensed Novels
which were his first published work
In prose. further volume of Con
densed Novels" suggested by such
popular writer's as Rudyard Kipling,
Anthony Hope and Conan Doyle. may
therefore be looked for from him. HIS
enrlier excursions in this style of pa
rody belong to the California period of
his career and were contributed TO the
San | Francisco Californian.
William Ernest Henley, the English
poet. when asked II he would like to
reply to the criticisms of his recent
attack upon Robert Louis Stevenson,
quoted Bishop Berkeley in a lordly
tone: "'They say. What say theyf
Let them sayr The criticisms are
really not worth the trouble of re-
tort. shall probably read them in
the papers. | have kept silence for
five years against Observation-Disclosures
and every kind of innuendo and can
do so for another five years"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
GOLD MINE IN ARKANSAS.
Residents of Faulkner County Are
Searching for Lost Eidorado.

Residents of Faulkner County Are
Searching for Lost Eldorado.
Down in Faulkner County, Arkansas,
not far from the town of Conway, there
is a little stream called Gold creek.
When citizens of the sleepy village
have nothing else to do they go down
in the woods and beat up and down its
banks in search of a lost mine. When
the farmers get their crops laid by
they do the same thing.
This information was impaired by
one of Little Rocks capitalists who
was here recently in the interest of
railroad which at present exists only
on paper.
",The belief that there Is an Eldorado
in that section" he said, according to
the New York Times, sis not based
wholly on tradition. There is no doubt
that an Irishman who visited that Sec
ton, then a wilderness. in 1860 brought
to Little Rock a pocket full of gold
nuggets. He was caught in the mael-
strom of Civil War and was shot
through the breast at Pea Ridge. Be-
fore he died he told a number of per-
sons, including the army surgeon who
attended him, that he had discovered
rich deposits about thirty miles west
of Little Rock, near small mountain
water course, which he described. Gold
creek, as it is now called, in geograph-
ical location and physical appearance
seemed to tally with his description.
Hence the intermittent search for lost
mine.
at is said, but this part of the story
Is pure tradition which | have never
been able to trace to any authentic
source, that a farmer in that vicinity
shortly after the war, shot wild tur-
key and found in its crop gold nugget
the size of a pea"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
HISTORY OF GOLD SUPPLY.
Two Periods in the Past Compared 10
the Present One.

i
the Present One.
There are only two periods in the ms
tory of the money metals that can be
compared 10 the present. and TO when
we may look for any experimental
light upon the subject One OF these
was the period following the discovery
of America and the exploitation OF the
treasures of Mexico aud Peru. and the
other the period following the discoY-
cries in California and Australia.
In the period of $50 years following
the discovery of America the depreeia-
ton of the metals was about two-thlfds
of their value; that is. in 1000 given
amount of gold or silver bought only
about one-third as much as in lo0o Inc
result. naturally. was extreme confu-
sion in affairs, great suffering among
wage-earners, and embarrassment to
all whose incomes were fixed in terms
of money.
The poor laws" of Queen Elizabeth S
fine have been attributed to the dis
tress caused by the rise of food without
equivalent compensation to the wage
earning class. The quarrel of Charles
|. with parliament was undoubtedly
aggravated by the necessity for new
taxes to overcome the declining value
of the revenues; and some historians
hold that 1t was the deadly money
question, the bane of politicians III all
ages. that cost him his head.
Gold was discovered in California in
1913. and in Australia in 1851; and by
1852 these new fields were producing
together over $100.000,000 year The
first sign of the influx of the new gold
into Europe was seen in the holdings
of the Bank of England. They went up
from about $4O,0O0,000 in 1877 TO Sllo,-
OOO, GOO in June, 1868 To get this idle
money into use the bank reduced Its
regular rate of discount to per cent
and the market rate for considerable
time, was reported at ~ per cent. The
belief that the new supplies of gold
would effect a permanent reduction oil
the rate of interest was so general thai
! Mr.. Gladstone, then chancellor of the
exchequer, proposed in parliament
scheme to refund the consols below
per cent and fixed the rate on eX
chequer bills at ~ per cent.-Nortl
American Review.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
QUEER SToRDE5
~~~~~~~

1t has been observed that, as rule,
single women live longer than single
men.
The Car of Russia, with ninety mill
ion acres, is the biggest land owner in
the world.
Recent observations seem to indicate
that the incubation period of malaria
is about eighteen days.
An ounce of gold was worth fifteen
ounces of silver in the year 1880. 1t
would buy twenty-one ounces in 1900.
The city of Portland, Me- has in its
streets thirty thousand shade trees,
some of which were planted more than
half century ago.
The big gray kangaroo of Australia
measures about seven feet from the tip
of its nose to the end of its tail. 1t can
run faster than a horse and clear thirty
feet at jump.
, A writer i'll the Cologne Gazette de-
clares that servants in the United
States do only half as much work, de-
mand twice as much free time and
four times as much wages as servants
in Germany.
The danger of living in a house that
harbors consumptiyes is illustrated by
the fact that 6,273 patients officially ex-
amined by the German imperial board
of health, 2,177. or 34.7 per cent, be-
longed to families that included other
victims of tuberculosis.
A traveller writes: "A lady to whom
was sitting next at dinner the other
day told me she had remedy for sea-
sailor, and even now if she does not
practice her remedy she is sick; where
as when she does she can negotiate
comfortably a storm of four or five
hours on the high seas. 1t is simple
enough. AS the vessel dips she draws
in her breath; as it rises she expels it.
The remedy seems to me worth know
ing"
Many of the greatest men have had
phenomenal memories, says a writer
in Harper's. Caesar knew the names
of thousands of soldiers in his legions.
A modern man of science often has
prodigous memory for special termn-
ology. Prof. Asa Gray could at once
recall the names OF something like
twenty-five thousand plants. Prof.
Theodore Gill can do the same for
fishes. Our memory for mere words il
itself much more extensive than is gen.
orally admitted. The average well-to-
do child of two years of age has yo-
cabulary of some five hundred words.
and its father may have the command
of twenty thousand more
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
In the Eve of the BehoIder.

If one needs any assurance that beau
ty is largely in the eye of the beholder,
he has but to mentally review the mar
ried women of his acquaintance, and
reflect that even the plainest of them
is charming in her husbands sight. It's
Il very good thing, too, If we consider
feminnitys peace of mind, that each
lord of creation has style of his own.
There are fashions in beauty, however,
Just as there are in clothes. Why, once
small mouths of the rosebud order
were the only sort it was considered
possible for lady to have. The girl
who didn't possess one tried to make
herself believe she had, anyway, while
the maid with an uncompromisingly
big mouth just brooded over it In ST.
lence and tried to be patient under her
atiliction. A mouth Is not considered
beautiful simply because it is small in
these more enlightened days, but to the
contrary the good-sized one with well.
curved lips is looked upon as at once
more beautiful and more full of char
acter than the Cupids bow sort.
AS to eyebrows, Well, we've gone
through perfect revolution regarding
them. The old-time novelists consider
ed curved eyebrows the only sort al
lowable in good society. If young
woman hadn't curved eyebrows and an
astonished expression, she wasn't ex-
actly thought a black sheep, but she
wasn't looked upon as an ornament TO
the family as was her crescent browed
sister. Now, the straight eyebrows
the thing and she who hasn't it swears
she has and deies any one to disproye
her assertion.
Grecian noses have given place In ia
vor to retrousse ones, golden hair to
brown, and delicate figures to the ath-
letic sort.
But were ready to declare each new
fashion in good looks is the best, SO
perhaps after II while Wen be cultivat-
ing arched eyebrows again and going
back to the days. when fainting spells
We're only the outward and visible sign
of an inward and spiritual sensitive
ness. Who knows what a day may
bring forth?
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
PROTECTED.
English Consul Saves the Life of an
American Sailor.

English Consul Saves the Life of an
American Sailor.
In recalling incidents of international
courtesy, when British and Americans
have supported each other, writer in
the Boston Transcript tells the follow
ing story which came from an Ameri-
can sailor who had landed at port in
Chilli:
The men had gone ashore and become
somewhat hilarious, and one of the po-
lice officers, instead of warning him
not to make a noise in the street, drew
his sword and knocked him down. The
American got up, and promptly knock
ed the policeman down in return. He
was arrested. tried and condemned 10
be shot the next morning.
Mr.. Loring. the American consul, OK
postulated with the authorities, say
ing that it would be monstrous to put a
man to death for such an offense; but
they paid no attention to him. On the
day specified the sailor was brought
out and pinioned, in readiness for ex-
ecution.
The English consul, preparing to
hoist the Union Jack. saw a crowd in
the field opposite, and realized that
the execution was about to take place.
He rushed over to the American con
sui and cried:
'Loring. You're not going to let them
shoot that MANI"
what can | do?' was the answer.
Il have protested against Il. | can do
no more"
Give me your flag cried the Eng
llshman.
With the two flags in his hand. he
ran to the field, eshowed his way
through the crowd and soldiery and
reached the prisoner. He folded the
American flag about him and laid the
Union Jack over 1t. He stepped back,
and faced the officers and soldiery.
"Shoot. II you dare" he shouted,
through the heart of England and
America
The man was not shot.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31

Is y the 2dth of July, 1I15, nearly
II II year before the Declaration Of In
~ dependence, the Continental Con
gress, then in session at Philadelphia,
passed a resolution creating Postoihce
Department. and appointing benjamin
Franklin Postmaster General with sal
airy of $1,000 year. This is the posi-
ton, greatly magnified in Importance, TO
which President Roosevelt has called
Henry c. Payne.
In 1888, when the federal constitution
went into effect. the number of post
offices in the thirteen States then COM
posing the Union was only %. The pre-
vaiing method of carrying the mails was
by horse and rider. The rates of post
age WERE for single letter sent any dis
lance under sixty miles, ~; over sixty
miles and under 100, Ill; over 100 miles
and under 200, his cents, with proper
tomato additional charges for greater
distances and double rates for double
letters, triple rates for triple letters, etc.
A letter had to be written on a single
sheet, containing the superscription-en-
velopes were not permitted \ double
letter was a letter containing two sheets,
and very additional sheet increased the
charge for postage. The cost of sending
single letter by packet to Europe was
222 cents. The standard of value i'll
which postage rates were computed at
that time was the pennyweight of silver,
rated at fiYe-nineteths Of dollar, which
accounts for the decimals in the rates
given above, as for the purpose of con
venient comparison they have been trans
lated into the terms of money now cur
rent.
The entire postal revenue of the coun-
try for the first full year after the adop-
ton of the stituton-1790-was $751;
935, which would not look large now in
comparison with the receipts at the post
office of Chicago or New York for a sin
gle day. The disbursements OF the Post
office Department for the year 1890 were
$50, no The receipts of the Chicago
potsofce for the month of November last
were 81, 100000.
There have been times when the postal
rates were higher than they were at the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
WATER FOR THE HOLY CITY.
Jerusalem Is Now Supplied by Sys-
tenn of Modern Designs.

a
tenn of Modern Designs.
The holy land has its railways, cleo
trio lights and American windmills, and
now Jerusalem Is about to get 4 supply
of good drinking water In ancient
times the city of David was well sup
piled. The remains of aqueducts and
reservoirs show this But since the
Turks day the people of Jerusalem
have been dependent on the scanty and
often polluted Accommodations of rain
water in the rock-hewn cistern beneath
their feet. Even this supply has re-
Gently failed, says correspondent of
the London Times, owing TO want of
rain. Distress and sickness became SO
general that the Turkish governor has
ut length been induced to sanction the
purchase of iron pipe to bring water
from Ain Salah, or the "sealed foun.
tain" ut Solomon's pools, about nine
miles south of Jerusalem. A pipe six
inches in diameter will bring 5000
skins of water day for distribution
at fountains supplied with faucets.
Solomon, in his famous Song"
speaks of this secret spring, now turned
TO use. My beloved he saws. lis like
a spring shut up, fountain sealed
1t is deep-down subterranean spring,
which has. from the time of solomon.
flowed through the arched tunnel built
by him TO the distributing chamber or
reservoir near the northwest corner of
the highest of Solomon's pools Half a
century ago the location Of this hid
dem spring which was still, as in Sol
onions time. flowing into the reservoir
mentioned, was unknown. The tunnel
Is rooted by stones leaning against each
other like an inverted V, the primitive
form of the arch, which is also seen in
the roof of the queens chamber of the
great pyramid. The entrance TO this
tunnel from the spring is one of the
oldest structures in existence. The
piping is to be laid along the old aque
duct which formerly, from the time of
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31

him with on his death bed. But the
show of grandeur is all outwardly;
like the good Shepherd, John is sim
plicity itself In bearing and demeanor,
Father Ivan is the son of an Arch
angel peasant. He understands the
Russians as Russians understand him.
The peoples sufferings are his own,
he says. aud his purpose in life to
alleviate pain and promote happiness.
On this principle rests his reputation
as a miracle worker, and because of
his success on these lines he is called
a saint. But he claims no supernatural
gifts for himself-no mysticism enters
into his ministry as physician of body
or soul Asked for an explanation of
some of his miracles now on every
son; nothing but love. Yes, and pa
thence, too, and perhaps also the gift
to put myself into my brothers place.
When ] find a man or woman all
downtrodden and despised, and pain
full to look upon and, apparently. Grim
inal in deed and intent, forget about
how things ought to be. | feel with
my heart reckon with his circum-
stances. | make his profit or loss ac-
counts my own, and thus we under
stand each other without humilatng
confessions on his part, without pre-
on mine" The saints latest
that set the world wondering
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31

outset Of the government. By the act of
1893 it cost g cents to send a single let
ter less than forty miles. To send it
any distance not less than 800 nor more
than 500 miles cost % cents. To these
rates there was an addition of 80 per cent
in 1S14-a war measure-whch lasted +.
only two years But as early as 1915.
there had been a drop to cent for local
letters.
In 1868, when free delivery in large
cities was instituted, the rate on drop
letters was raised to cents. In 1877
the rate on drop letters was lowered to
1 cent in cities without the free delivery
system. The great reduction to cents
ON all letters not weighing more than
one-half an ounce, to all distances WITHIN
3 900 miles, was made in 1851, and the
first grand recognition of books and 9TH
err printed matter as a separate class TO
be carried at special rates was made IN
the following year, though it was not
till long after that the pound rate for
newspapers and periodicals, of which
such shameless advantage has been taken
in recent years, was established.
The reduction of letter postage to
cents per half ounce was made in 1893,
and in 1855 the unit of weight for letters
was raised to one ounce. 1t was in the
latter year that the rate on newspapers
and periodicals was reduced to cent
per pound. In 1887 the free-delivery sys-
TEN was extended to places of 10000
population or $4,000 annual postal reye-
nue.. The most farreaching postal limo
walton since that has been the establish
ment of the rural free delivery system,
which is a recent memory, and the limit
Of which is not yet discernibe.
The Postmaster General was not
member of the Presidents cabinet until
Jackson's time. When that change oe-
CURED the number of postofiices was
about G,000, the annual revenue of the
department S1,500,000 sand the annual
expenditure about $1,300000. To-day
there are upward of 7G,6SS postoflices in
! the United States. The extent of post
routes, which was 1,7S5 miles in 1890, is
now G00000. The revenue of the de-
partment has risen to Sill ,631, 1913, and
J the expenditure to $115, 55l ,920.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-01-31
MIRACLES OF HEALING PERFORMED
By A RUSSIAN PRIEST.

It's queer story they tell in Russia
about Father Ivan, or John of Cron-
stadt, a miracle-working priest of the
Greek church, who. it is alleged
makes the lame walk, cures eonsump-
ton. and makes the paralyzed whole
Father John has just come into new
prominence by reason of & gift of
100000 rubies about $750,000, from
some unknown friend.
"Sain Ivan" as the people call him,
is the most Christ-like person one can
imagine walking this earth. When, at
the coronation of the present czar, he
was seen in the procession that con-
Quoted his majesty from the chapel to