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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
NEW USE FOR ELECTRICITY.
The Driver Presses a Button, the Cur
rent Does the Rest.

rent Does the hests
Electricity has been put to new and
so far successful use-that OF conquer
ing a balky or lazy horse. In one case
very high-spirited and valuable AMI
male, but extremely vicious and balky.
was cured in one hour with the aid OF u
three volt dry battery.
The officials of the Western Pennsyl-
yania Humane Society were notified
some time ago that Thomas Rodgers,
of Avalon. was using the dry battery
on his horse which was as bad as Il
valuable high-bred horse could be. Su-
perintendent Thomas NJ. Porter inyestl-
gated the case. aud he gave Rodgers u
hearing before Justice William Girls
com, OF that place. Rodgers said his
horse was worth $1,000 to him II he
could be cured of baking aud one or
two other vicious habits. lie had Of
fered $500 to any one who could man
age the animal. and at last consulted
DR.. +. C. Mcneil, the city veterinarian.
The doctor advised Rodgers to try cleo
tricity, and he bought three volt stor-
age battery, and by means of three
wires connected each side of the bit
and the erupper with the battery. The
horse was hitched to a roadcart, and at
first refused to move, standing with all
four feet In a braced position.
Mr.. Rodgers then had the wires con-
nected to the battery, which was placed
In the cart, and at the first push of the
button the horse jumped, snorted aud
then moved off. Each day for week
he went through the same lesson. aud
is now the pride road horse OF Avalon.
and never balks, bites or kicks.
That was the testimony brought out
at the hearing, and as the veterinarian
and squire thought three volts was not
a sufficient shock to hurt the animal,
Rodgers was discharged.
Superintendent Porter had similar
case some months ago. He found that
one of the rich suburban residenters
was using the fuld battery on a lazy
horse In cultiyating his summer gar
den. After several unsuccessful at
tempts to catch the gardener using the
horse, he was at last rewarded one
bright sunny morning by catching the
gardener wedding the potato patch
with the horse hitched to a harrow.
The superintendent went to the driver,
and after introducing himself, and in
forming the man why he visited him.
he was shown the continuance.
Strapped to the backband was a
small huid battery, with wires. running
from 1t to the martingale and crupper
A sponge was fastened to the wires at
each place, aud kept moist by the heat
of the horses body. When the animal
got tired, 1t would stop. and by pressing
two buttons together the circuit was
formed, and the horse would move on
for several hours. Porter tested the
full strength of the battery on himself,
and found that the sensation did not go
above his elbows, and that the voltage
was only fraction over two. He said
he thought 1t was better and more hui
name to use a small amount OF e.ec-
tricity on a horse than to whip it, and
was satisfied 1t was not case of cruel
tV
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
The Eyes Of a Lion.

One night, when some troopers were
encamped in South Africa. 1t came to
the turn of Rennle Stevenson to go for
water to the spring, which was about
thousand yards distant. He describes
the experience In his book, Through
accompany him. When they were near
ing the spring this man whispered to
Stevenson.
"There's lion skulking in the under
growth on the right bank"
Yes, there We're its eyes, cleaning
through the dark.
shall freY' whispered the soldier.
"Yes, fire, but take good aim. II you
only wound 1t. we are done for"
The trooper knelt and took long,
steady aim.
Bang, The sound of the shot rever-
berated through the surrounding trees
and up the river But there were the
eyes. still cleaning.
Stevenson asked for the rifle and
crawled nearer. trying to get a better
shot. Closer and closer went the two,
their hearts in their mouths Sudden
ly. when they thought they were al.
most In the face of the ''lion." they
found the eyes" to be two glowworms.
The alarmingly bright little creatures
had not felt it necessary to get out OF
the way.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

An earnest and timely plea for school
defamation Is made by a correspond
ent of the New York Times, who has
noted the increasing tendency OF the
public schools to abandon Evolutionary
training. u the protest could be wide
ly circulated Ii would doubtless meet
with the hearty concurrence OF great
majority Of the people. 1t Is true that
spoken delverance has been overshad-
owed by the printed page as a medium
for influencing thought and molding
the sentiment of the people. The i'm
passioned orator no longer sways the
populace as he did in the days of Pat
diffusion of intelligence through the
work OF the printing press Is now Sc
universal and far-reachlng that the
people no longer take their facts or
their arguments from the platform.
The people listen to the campaign spell.
binders and applaud their utterances
and then go home to devour the print.
ed augmentation upon political ques-
tions and form their conclusions after
mature thinking. But the printed page
cannot entirely fill the place Of trained
oratory. A forclble and inspiring enun-
citation of noble sentiment by a man OF
magnetic presence. eloquent diction and
earnest conviction represents a power
that Is not approached by the cold and
unimpassloned types. Mans ideals,
ethical and political, can be projected
into the human conscience with great
est and most enduring power through
spoken utterance delivered by mas
ter of diction. articulation and gesture,
If the schools persist In their present
course a decline In the arts and graces
Of public speaking Is Inevitable. In
fact, there is danger that We may lose
entirely the matchless power that
comes with trained eloquence. Not
wlthstanding our growing commercial
ism and sordid materlalism we are
still sentimental people. Nothing Is
comparable to oratory In Its inspiring
effects upon people of sentiment and
feeling. The schools should not only
return to the old Idea of commence
ment day, with its original oratory and
its declamatory efforts, but elocution
should have an important place In the
daily training of pupils. Besides the
effect of school training In defamation
exercises salutary effect on the pu-
pills speech all through his after life.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
THE BElLED BOY.
An Incident of the Childhood of Presi-
dent James Buchanan.

dent James Buchanan.
During the political campaign of 1896,
James Buchanan, the Democratic noml-
nee for the Presidency. paid a visit to
Mercersburg. Pa. his native place,
where he was received with the cry,
"Hurrah for Uncle Jimmie" He stop
ped with the late DR.. Sehaff, then
professor In the theological seminary,
and Mrs. Schatf. anxious about the
dinner. gave special instructions TO her
colored cook, emphasizing them by the
remark that the guest might become
President of the United States. We'll,
missus." placidly answered the cook.
IL guess he amt God Almighty, is her
The father OF Buchanan-the tif-
teenth fresident-was an Immigrant
from northern Ireland, and In the lat
ter part of the eighteenth century built
two log cabins. three miles from Mer-
cersburg. TO serve as a trading post for
the Indians and the settlers In that
sparsely settled region. When James
was a little boy. his mother, busy at
the counter of the store and with house
hold cares used to tie a. bell around his
neck that he might not get beyond her
hearing. The motheffy device gave rise
to the story-one OF the traditions of
the neighborhood-of Jamie and the
bell" which DR.. Schaff, shortly after
the Inauguration of Mr.. Buchanan, told
to a Sunday school at Carlisle. The
incident afterward enormously told of
James G. Blaine when he was candi-
date for the Presldency-is thus mar
rated In the address, which we copy
from the life of Philip Schaff," by
his son:
"Three miles from the town (Mercers-
burg where | live, a little boy was
born In the mountains whose name was
jamie. When he was or years of
| age, his good mother, afraid that she
should lose her Irish boy amid the
rocks and bushes, tied little bell
around his neck, that she might know
II he were near by, or far off. This
was little. jamie with bell around his
neck
when the boy was 8 years old, his
father moved to the town where | live.
There he studied Latin and Greek, and
when he was IA. his father brought
him to this big town of yours, and to
this big college Dickinson, and here
he graduated. This is little jamie
with bell around his neck
AT 81 he was admitted as a lawyer
in Lancaster-then was sent to Harris
burg to the legislature; then to Con-
gress at Washington; then he was sent
to Russia, and then to England, to rep
resent this great government of ours
before kings and rulers of the great
powers of the world. All this was
little jamie with bell around his
neck And now where Is little jamie
/ to-day? He is at Washington In the
Presidential chair, the chief magistrate
of this great American nation. This Is
little jamie with bell around his
/ neck"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
QUEER 5ToR't5

A race horse galloplng at full speed
clears from twenty to twenty-four feet
at every bound.
]. NJ. Lewis. of Altamonte Springs
Florida. has a curiosity In a blood
grapefruit. 1t Is the first year that the
tree has frulted, and the fruit Is a reye-
latlon to him.
In Paris rats destroy each year food
worth $1,000,000, and the value OF the
food destroyed by these animals year.
ly all over the world Is estimated to
amount In the aggregate to $4,000, 900.
Sleepy grass Is found In New Mexico,
Texas and Siberia. 1t has a most in
furious effect on horses and sheep, be-
ing strong narcotic or sedatlve, and
causing profound sleep or stupor last
ing twenty-four hours TO forty eight
hours.
Edward Beaupre, of the Province Of
Asslnlboine. Canada, claims to be the
tallest man In the world. His exact
height is 7 feet l0A inches, and he Is
still growing. and expects to reach the
eight-foot mark. He Is 20 years old,
wears a No. u shoe and a No, 81 col.
lar.
1t Is stated by an authority that the
weight of mans brain has nothing to
do with his mental power. The colder
the climate the greater size Of the
brain. The largest heads of all are
those Of the Chugatehes, who live very
far north, and next come the heads of
the Lapps.
The Turkish postal system has Of
late been reformed with much benefit
TO the people OF that nation 1t used
to be frequent occurrence for letters
to be irrecoyerably lost. The pay of
the Turkish letter carriers Is so low as
to obllge them to combine with their
official profession that of mendicant,
and ask publicly for "backsheesh."
A giant crustacean of unknown spe.
cies, but which from its appearance
must be the father OF all Holsters from
the beginning Of Time was found in O
scoopful OF sand and stone at the ex
cayation at the big Wachusett dam al
Clinton recently. 1t is 3l% Inches long
and nobody III Clinton has ever seer
any fresh-water creature like 1t.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
Out of Sight.

"Yes. have a pretty big mouth, for
Il fact" admitted the candid man, but
have learned to keep 1t shut and that
counts for something when you take
your levels | received a lesson when
was small boy that | have never
forgotten. | was born and brought up
on farm, and had the country boy
habit of going around with my mouth
wide open, especially II there was any
thing unusual going on. One day an
uncle, whom | had not seen for years,
paid us n visit.
'Hullo, uncle said, looking up at
him with my mouth opened like barn
door
"IIe looked at me for a moment
without answering, and then said:
"'Close your mouth. sonny. so can
see who you are
II took the lesson to my heart and re.
solved that from that day | would not
allow my mouth to conceal my iden.
tity."-Detroit Free Press.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
New Use for an Ice-Breaker.


''The attempt to reach the north pole
with Russian ice-breaking vessel has
been abandoned" remarked Temer-
hook.
II didn't know that such an attempt
had been made" said Hammersmilh.
That's because you don't keep up.
This happened some time ago.
"Then that's the reason. | knew of
It at the time. doubtless, but dismissed
1t from my mind. You see, Tenter-
hook" Hammersmith went on. my
mind Is not like yours. receptacle for
all sorts of unimportant information.
It's you who don't keep up, not |. For
get few things"
much obliged, I'm sure, for your
kind words. But 1t seems pity that
vessel OF great crunching power
should fall TO do the work expected
OF It,"
"oh, that's all right. The ship Will
still be of use."
"HowT'
in winter 1t can keep the Ice In one
OF the Russian harbors pounded nm
and In summer II can be used to break
on the final jagged syllable of Russian
proper names."-Pittsburg Gazette. !.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

tar rate Is high and the Assessors make
large assessments against which the
assessed protest. and which Ii puts
them TO some little trouble to get re-
duced. In order that there might be
harbor OF refuge for oppressed mil
lionaires the Rhode Island Legislature
four years ago passed law authorlz-
ing the courts to grant certificates or
citizenship" TO persons who swore that
they had acquired a domielle In the
State The advantage of this certificate
Is that II Is judicial evidence OF Rhode
Island citizenship. Whenever an at
tempt Is made to tax on personal prop
erty a former New Yorker who has
one of them, all he has to do is to show
1t to the Assessors and bid them let
him alone Already several New York
ers, Mrs. William Aston being one OF
them. have acquired these certificates
and will pay taxes henceforth on per
sonal property In Newport where the
rate is low. and where the valuations
put on property by the owners will not
be questioned by the taxing authorities.
The latter, like the citizens of Newport,
generally witness with delight this In
flow of taxable wealth. This migration
to Newport simply shows how unprofit-
able is the attempt to impose a high
rate of taxation on personal property.
AS a rule the Assessor cannot reach It,.
Where there Is a possibility that he
may reach ii. that property is apt to
take wings to itself and fly away 10 "A
more congenial home.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
HELPED BY THE PHoNoeRAPH
Assists One Man to Get Well, Another
to Sleep.

Mr.. Simons, who lately passed
through period Of critical illness, Is
now conyalescent. although still unable
to leave the hospital S
His friends come occasionally 10
bring fruit and flowers, and be Is plen'
tlfully supplied with reading matter.
Mr.. simons Is an active man, aceus-
toned to diversified amusements, ana
he finds 1t difficult to pass the ulne
away with games of solitaire and dla-
lect stories In the magazines.
Chicago men are failures as patients.
They are unwilling to lie back anu
wait In Idleness for slow recovery
Every disease Is complicated by worry
over an enforced absence from pnsi'
ness. Some patients may find an oc-
cupation In counting the spots on the
wall paper, but Mr.. Simons was not
that kind OF patient, and, besides, there
was no wall paper at the hospital
while he was fretting over lack of
entertainment friend thought of the
monograph. Mr.. Simons was moved
into a private room at the hospital and
n monograph with a megaphone at
tachment was put to work for his ben
eft.
He would lie there for hours at time
and listen to brass bands, comic ora
tors and vaudeville singers, and. al
though he would have preferred a real
performance In theater, he enjoyed
the entertainment very much.
| Ont of Slmons' friends gave n dinner
party and he received an Invitation, al
though 1t was known. OF course, that
he could not attend. But the GONZALES
cent was not to be robbed Of all the
fun. He sent a photograph to the din.
ner party and had the stories, the laligh-
ter and the music recorded on the cyl
inder and he got them all secondhand
next day.
Then he had a photograph sent to
his office next day, and 1t took the
street noises and the talk Of his EN-.
ployes, and when he heard these he
was homeslck for the roar Of wheels on
the granite blocks.
This suggests the story, which Is not
vouched for. Of the man who had lived
at n lake front hotel for several years
and had been lulled to sleep every
night by the rattle of wheels, the puff.
Ing Of engines and the footing of whis.
ties along the Illinois Central Railroad
| tracks. .
He left the hotel and moved to. a
northern suburb. where the silence nj
night was so dense that it could be felt.
lie found that he could not 20 TO
sleep. The deathly absence of noise
caused dull ringing In his ears and
he would lie In nervous dread. fearing
any sound. and yet hoping for some
break in the prolonged Stiffness
At last he concluded that he would
have to move back to the hotel and be
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
He Was Not Unreasonable

A young man with an impeachment in
his speech went to stammerers' in.
stitute and asked for course OF treat
ment. The professor, who. according
to the Independent. had an eye to the
main chance. asked him II he wanted
a full or partial course.
"A Impartial c-c-course."
"How much OF partial course?o
Enough $50 that wh-when | 60 to
a f-f-fAfiorist's and ask for a c-c-c-chr
chry-s-s-anth- (whistle here e-m.mum
The th-thing won't w-wilt b-before
y-get It,"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
a MODERN FABLE.
fhe Faithful Watchdog and the IN:

fhe Faithful HaICudoR- hnu thS Ia
ccndiary.
One dark night an old and superan-
nuated watchdog who. bad. heen turn
ed out to. die, was sleeping In an eiipty
hogshead In the alley back Of The big
store belonging to his master, when
he was awakened by q suspicious
sound. Peerlng cautiously out OF Ills
retreat. he saw man Ia n bhitk-inask
creep steaHhiIy up to the bnilding aud
begin pillag n lot OF nhammhblei ma
terlal agalns 1t. - - !.
"Ah," said the OLD watchdog, here
Is fine chance to return good Tor
evil. aud heap goals Of lire on, the head
OF my cruel master. only this mofns
Ing he kicked me from the premises
which | have guarded so long. saying
'Begone, you worthless curl! and bruis-
ed humbled and well-nlgh bndTen-
hearted. | afept IN here to resrand.re-
fleet, little thinking that ! would 50
soon have ans opportunity 10 dsnlon-
strate my worth ifirl eafll the Lifelong
gratitude of my master by saving MS
property frpIn the tvreh sf..an, lnfen.,,
diary" s"ev :" to 80,
So saying. the faithful 1atehdog'i
summonng jal his strength, spraqs.
upon The masked Intrgder ap9 bore
him to the ground just as he.yas about
10 apply, tle match. There was a ter,
rifle struggle, but the mastin hing
bravely on until a pqlieeman, reaehed'
the spot aud took charge oftlf~eaiss
be incendiary. e 70 'sfs'- Il.
The next day the insdranees authsis;
ties took the case 10 hand, aud tie'dae,
course df time tine faithful finl piucisy.
old watchdog was lifted ZIP witila gold
collar, and furnished with. az easy
berth and luxurious quarters IN. a pig
insurance building. while the dogs I'M
grateful. MASTER fsr. the. man IN the
black mask was .lndeed he, reee!yyed
his just deserts by. Aelpg. sentehted
to seven years at, para laboE. ps ~
MoraiEft never pays'to 'g5 hack ION
an old friend-eFhef font-Iegra or.
two legged especially 1fyoe dre-goliig'
into some crooked transaction where
he Is liable to catch you at it.->Har-
per's Bazaar. -
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

The grotesque and ludlcrous finery
in which the Indian loves to garb him
self Is not conducive to work. No In
dian ever holds a plow when he has on
that sort of clothes. Ii he didn't wear
raiment that makes him laughing
stock he would not be easy TO distln-
gulsh from his neighbors. He would
be thought more of as a citizen and less
as an Indian.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17
,oothed nv the rumblIng trains.

soothed by the rumbling trains A
friend suggested the photograph.
So he had several cylinders loaded up
with Whistles, puts. beH.rlnging and
other illinois Central noises. and every
night after he retired bis hired man
would put these records. into the
phonograph and he would fall asleep
with the old loved SOUNDS In his ears.
This may not be a true story. but 1t
suggests a new use for the phonograph.
Chicago Record.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

Unhapplly. there are never enough
offices to 20 round among the good men
who want them. In the distribution the
unlucky many must put up as best they
can with the disappointment. while
the lucky few rejoice in their good for
tune. Politics is full of ups and downs,
the downs largely predominating.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

Work has begun In the Salt River
Valley on a great plan for the growing
of citrus fruit indoors. The project in
wolves the roofing of more than one
thousand acres OF orange, lemon and
pomelo trees. and Is undertaken by the
Territorial Association of Citrus Fruit
Growers.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

The decision of a Midland County,
Georgia, Justice in kissing case was
that widow aud widower have u
right under the constitution to kiss one
another. and il the public doesn't like
it the public can move on"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

1t seems that there were three Off
Gals of the railroad In the New York
tunnel disaster. but unfortunately none
of the responsible directors were rid
ing ON the cow-catcher.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

8 Or. ID. X. Persons, of Chicago, the
fphilanthropist who has given SO liber-
ally to the cause of education during
the past ten years, says that he Is
through with the colleges of the East
ana that hereafter his donations will
be to Western institutions. DIR. Pear
sons says they are through raising the
kind of boys in the East that made this
country what 1t is, and the type of men
!. are growing up in the West that made
New England famous 100 years ago.
Eastern boys are elfeminate, in his
opinion, are being raised in too much
luxury and have not that sturdlness
that characterizes the boys of the
West. lie has some very strong ideas
about how boys and girls should be edu-
Gated, and is bitter enemy of all
fads. He favors dormitories and thinks
all students should be forced to live
In them. There Is no use in paying
more than 81 week fyr board. and
$50 should carry any young man or
young woman through college for a
year" DIR. Pearsons thinks saving
wood or raising potatoes would prove
more effective for the muscular deyel-
opment of students than playing foot
ball or baseball. and believes both of
those games should be abolished as be
ing useless and nonsensical fads.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

The toe seems to be an important
factor In the social functions of South
Carolina. At dance one man stepped
on another's mans toe, and very soon
afterward three men turned up their
toes.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

wealthy men and women In New
York City are ready to renounce citl-
zenship there and become citizens and
cItlzenesses Of Rhode Island when by
SO doing they can escape the New York
Inheritance tax. and also secure what
they consider moderate personal prop.
erty taxation. In New York City the
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

Ii there We're nothing In life for wo-
man but the thrill she has when she
first pokes her finger through an en-
gagement ring 1t would still be well
worth living.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-17

IL the scientist who locates the soul
In the spinal column will carry his In
vestigatlons further. lie will find that a
good many souls are in the scattering
column.