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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

What is the farmer going to do for
farm help? The complaint of search
ty of efficient agricultural laborers
comes from all parts of the country
The farm hands of the old days are
gone. Tile cities have absorbed them
Even the South, with its millions Of
stalwart negroes is complaining. The
negroes. under present conditions, are
not efficient agricultural workers as n
rule, the Southerners say. The Jack
sonville Times Union estimates that
there is about one negro in a hundred
who is n frst-class farm aborer. The
only way out of the Southern farmers
labor trouble, according TO this paper,
is for the farmer to make all the use
he can of this rare negro and teach
him To handle labor-saying machinery,
thus doing with the efficient negro IN
borer what the Western farmer accom-.
plishes with the hands that stray his
way. OF course. the greater part OF
farm labor in the South is furnished
by the negroes, but IL IS claimed that
it is not efficient labor. The negroes
love the city, and more snd more they
leave the country for If. The Rich
mond Times Dispatch says that II
knows of three counties In virginia
where all the work on the farms is
performed by the owners and their
sons. with the occasional aid of a
hired man engaged in the neighbor-
hood Then too, there Is a growing
demand for negro labor in unskllled
work in the cities. Our immigration
laws keep out some classes of foreign
ers that would make good agricultural
laborers. The farmers of California
would have no trouble in getting good
Chinese labor in abundance if it were
not for the Chinese exclusion act.
Their operations are greatly restricted
and often their fruit crop is not gath
cred in full because they cannot get
white labor at any price-and of
course there is a limit to what can be
proftably paid for agricultural labor.
Much could be done toward making
conditions better IL the 100000 foreign
ers who annually come TO our shores
could be directed to the country and
kept from the city. A large part of
them are of the peasant class, and
would make excellent farm laborers if
they would not insist on going to the
cities. One reason why the Northwest
fares as relatively well as 1t does in
respect TO farm labor is that a large
proportion of the Scandinavians who
emigrate to this country go directly TO
the numerous settlements of their peo-
pie in that part of the country. If
we are to continue to permit hordes of
aliens to enter our country, have we
not the right TO take hand in placing
them? Would it not be better for them
and for us If they are paternally taken
in charge when they arrive in this
country and sent where they are need
ed, where they can do good and re-
ceive good?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
The Art of Listening.

There is a grace of kind listening
as well as grace Of kind speaking.
Since men listen with an distracted
air which shows that their thoughts
are elsewhere, or they seem to listen,
but by wide answers and irrelevant
questions show that they have been
occupied with their own thoughts as
being more interesting, at least in
their own estimation, than what you
have been saying. Some interrupt and
will not hear you TO the end. Some
hear you to the end, and forthwith be-
gin to talk to you about a similar ex-
perience which has befallen them.
selves, making your case only an illus.
tration of their own. Some, mean.
ing to be kind, listen with such a de-
termined, lively, violent attention, that
you are at once made uncomfortable
and the charm of conversation is at an
end. Many persons whose manners
will stand the test of speaking break
down under the trial of listening.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

In Japan, thirty miles or so from
Kumanotu, some 10000 men, women
and children are permanently resident
in the crater Of an extinct volcano. In
this pit-llke city, surrounded by YER
teal wall more than 800 feet high,
the entire community lives, moves and
has its being. Rarely, indeed, does one
of its members make journey into
the outer world, and they are not often
intruded upon, for they are of churl
ish, not to say vengeful, disposition.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Twenty-Five years ago college stu
dents cultivated the hair on their faces
more than do the students of to-day
A picture of the Columbia College boat
crew which won the Henley challenge
cup in 1878 diseloses the fact that
not one of the young men had a
smooth face. Two of them wore mus
taehes, two mustaches and side whisk-
ers. and one had side-whiskers only.
The present-day student cultivates the
hair on the top of his head, but leaves
his Jaw and mouth unencumbered for
the college yell.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
Here is a pointer, young man:

Here is pointer. young inah' 1ne
western Electric Company of Chi
cago, has posted notices against GER
tain immoral practices of its employees,
among which are these: Excessive use
of liquor and cigarettes. All forms
of gambling. playing the races =
Those who violate the warning viii be
discharged. Officers Of the company
have become alarmed at the prevail
ence of the gambling fever among the
young men. especially the desire TO
play the races" Employees are NOT
only running themselves but are les
SEEMING their value to the company
This company employs more than
thousand young men. pays high saiar-
les, gives large opportunities and de-
mands efficiency. Its action Is not
that Of q moral crusade. 1t is strictly
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
motion as Miss Brown started at his

motion as Miss brown started at his
advancing footsteps.
Il beg your pardon | fear l have
unintentionally startled YOU
Not at all Violet looked up earn
estly at his face as she answered.
Perhaps you can direct me to the
shortest cut across these woods to
Mlllhambury7 | am not quite certain
as to my localities"
You are on the direct path now,
Clarence Smith,
He started. in his turn. and gazed
serutinizlngly Into her faee.
81 thought 1t was familiar TO meg
he exclaimed, and now | know It.
Violet! who would have thought OF
meeting you here"
Violet Brown trembled like an aspen
leaf, but she strove TO control her
self.
"rhe world Is fun Of just such
chance meetings, Clarence
She had half turned away, but the
gentleman had put down his vnlise.
and was evidently inclined not to part
with her so readily.
stop, Nlolet-do not go away. My
love, | have SO longed to see you. all
these years. Tell me that yon have
not entirely forgotten the past-that
you have still n word of tenderness
for the maynard lover who flung away
his brightest chances OF happiness
long ago. Violet, you were my first
loye-be my lastT'
do you love me still. Clarence?"
she asked, the blue-gray eyes soften
ing to a strangely tender brightness.
DO ! breathe and exist still? |
tell you, Violet. my heart Is like the
century plant which only blossoms
once-and its hlossomlng Is In the sun
shine Of your love alone"
She was sllent-loYeller than ever
Clarence thought. In the momentary
INDIGESTION, the shy hesitation of her
manner, as she stood under the old
trees, a gold.tinted leaf drifting down
here and there around her, and her
tremulous hands clasped to hide their
futter as far as might be.
Violet darling! tell me that you
love me"
81 love you. Clarence"
There is a Garden of Eden created
anew for every happy pair of lovers
and Clarence and Violet stood in
Paradise now!
But, Clarence" resumed Violet
when the first all-absorbed words ana
glances of their new happiness had
been exchanged. 81. don't comprehend
this at all. How did you come here?
and how did you know where to find
met"
Il did not know where TO find you,
Violet. Chance has been my friend
here. and as for my opportune appear
ance on the scene. it is very easily ac-
counted for. | have been called to
take charge of the parish of Mlllham-
bury"
Clarence, you are not the new min
lster?"
But | am the new minister"
His name is John Smith"
Il beg your pardon, mia amima-
II is John Clarence Smith"
And Vlolet's surprise was sufficient.
ly amusing TO the reverend gentleman
at her side.
Old Mrs. Bezabel Marsh and her
two elderly, -hard-favored daughters,
had got the parsonage all ready. even
to lighting the evening lamps on the
study-table. and poklng the clear an
thracite fire that burned In the dining
room CRATE.
Miss Mehetable had turned the
tumbler of crimson currant Jelly into
its cut-glass dish, and disposed the
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

1t will astonish not a few people TO
be told that the most valuable of
our crops, excepting only corn, wheat
and hay, is eggs. The lay of the
American hen is worth about $780,
100000 year. All the cattle and hogs
slaughtered in the country are worth
less, and so is the country's total yield
of both gold and silver.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

1t is a crazy world. 1t permits
man to be proud of his ancestry, his
talent, his industry, his achievements,
or his wife But when he likes the fit
of his nose or the breadth of his shout
ders this same world Immediately con-
victs him OF vanity and sneers at him
forever after.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Long-range "candldating' with a
happy result is reported by the Jewish
Chronicle. Hungarian Jews in Chi
cago wrote to their native land. and
asked to have an orthodox rabbi, able
to preach to them In their own tongue.
recommended to them. The recon-
mended candidate took his best dis
courses, and talked them into phon-
ograph. When the records We're re-
produced in Chicago the preacher was
chosen, and a handsome salary was
voted to him.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

The use of titles is becoming more
and more common In the transaction
of corporation business, says the Elec
trlcal Review. One man of affairs
had this brought to his notice the
other day in an unusual manner.
lie found on his desk a memoran-
dun that certain man had called to
see him, and had left word that he
would return later The information
was signed, Richard Emerson. o. b.
"Who is Richard Emerson?" asked
the gentleman of his clerk.
Richard Emerson? Richard-why,
It's Dickr'
"And what does %. b. stand for?"
"Office boy"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

1t took an 11-year-old Chicago boy
Just one week 10 find out that all the
Indians in Nebraska had been killed
off before he got there. Then he was
ready to come home. Businesslike
methods in matters like this are al
ways encouraging.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
ose of sherlock Holmes Deductions.

De of sherlock Holmes Deductions.
Conan Doyle creator Of the famous
detective, Sherlock Homes, was asked
why he did not open detective agency
and employ his shrewd devices In soiv-
ing the entanglements OF others.
THE knots which | have united
were of my own tying said the au-
thor. .tersely. I'D fail in untylng 9TH
en- persons knots
Did you ever make practical use
of your power of, deduction?'
To this query the author responded
with
No but on one occasion / believe
| could have done so. | happened to
step into tailoring establishment
where an unattractlve individual was
selecting material for n pair of trous-
ers. A striped design was recommend
ed. Not this. | have had enough
stripes. ! am tired of Them protested
the customer
1.-THE manner IN which the man re-
ferred TO stripes convinced me that
he was an ex-conyict To satisfy my
self, visited the prison, examined the
photographs and was gratlfied to find
my mans picture in the album"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Uncle Sans income is over 5000
600 a day, which Is somewhat larger
than Mr.. Rockefeller's income. But
Mr. Rockefellers percentage of profit
Is greater than Uncle Sans. He has
less competition.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Won't that magnetic pole they have
discovered In the neighborhood OF
Skagway do just as well as the north
pole? 'Twould save heap of trouble
IL IL would
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

General Greedy is pretty sure TO do
more for his country by laying cables
In Alaska than that other arctic ex-
plorer, Lieutenant Peary, will by max
ing tracks toward the north pole.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

As society has demonstrated that il
is not strong enough TO suppress the
toy pistol the only thing left to do was
10 discover cure for lockjaw.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

business. The company demands sat
isfaetory service. Dissipation inter.
feres with efficiency. Therefore. either
The dissipation or the dissipated must
go. And there are others requiring
the same high standard of personal
morals railroads, commercial enter
prlses of all sorts. At every boost
of modern business methods decency
goes higher.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

company of chlcagoans is going
to work the Brazilian diamond fields
II the Glass Trust does not get out an
injunction.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

One of the latest songs is called Il
Can Hear the Angels Calling 1t is
written by travelling salesman for an
undertakers' supply house.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
OLD
FAVORITES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


silvor Threads Among the Gold.
Darling | am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day
Life is fading fast away;
But, my darling, you will be
Always young and fair to me!
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

A lover may think day an eter.
nifty when he doesn't see Her, but II
isn't half as long as the hour she
leaves him alone with the baby after
they are married.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Macedonia has discovered, after APP
pealing pretty generally all around,
that 1t can get freedom only by lighting
for Ii.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

All the joys of Heaven and all the
torments of the other place lie within
the small circumference of wedding
ring
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

King Edwards speech at the close
of the British Parliament was one OF
the best ever written by his private
secretary.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

A contemporary contends that II
young COW Is a calf, a young horse is
half. Why not?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Bigamist Mills says that the way to
win a woman Is to play on her vanity.
Who would ever have suspected IT.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

It's a wonder the professional thieves
don't organize a steal trust.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

England has a breakfast food prob
lem. too.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How | wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When be nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light
Twinkle. twinkle, all the night
Then the traveller in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He could not see which way to 90,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though | know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Jane Taylor.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

When there is a sudden shouting on
the streets, a woman always looks
down In an alarmed way to see II her
skirt is coming off.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

War between South American repu-
lies is always useful in relieving the
eImui between revolutions
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

A daughters chaperonage OF her
bereft father begins on the way back
from her mothers funeral
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26

1t will ruin any man 10 be hen.
pecked. We never knew such a man
to amount to anything.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
CHORUS.


Darling, | am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day
Life is fading fast away.
When your hair is silver white
And your cheeks no longer bright
With the roses of the May
I will kiss your lips. and say:
Oh, my darling, mine alone.
You have never older grown.
Love can never more grow old;
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Checks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never winters frost and chill;
Summer warmth Is in them still
Love is always young and fair,
What to us is silver hair,
Faded cheeks or steps grown slow,
To the heart that beats below?
Since | kissed you. mine alone,
on have never older grown.
.Eben Il. Rexford.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-11-26
Monkey Disoinlinr.

One OF the monkey cages In tho
New York 200" contains mother
monkey and her baby. Some visitors
one day gave the mother chocolate
peppermint. She tasted IT, smacked
her lips, winked, and put it all Into
her mouth-only to remove Il ut once.
and smack and wink much harder.
After a second she repeated her ex-
pertinent, and again hastily removed
the peppermint
Once more she put the dainty In her
mouth, but once more took 1t out.
Then, with watery eyes, she laid the
candy carefully ON the ledge of her
cage, turned her back, walked over
TO the opposite side. seized the rails
with both hands, and gazed out as II
she had never seen n peppermint
Meanwhile the baby who had been
engaged with visitors In a corner. had
returned to the front. Seeing the pep
permlnt, he picked 1t up and tasted
IT. But his mothers three expert
ments had left only a nlbble for him.
Tint disposed Of, he, too, walked TO
the opposite side, seized the rails, and
stood gazing out with the same mir of
utter absorption as his mothers.
As soon as the latter had cooled
down she came back again, and look
ed FOR the peppermint. Not seeing 1t.
she swept with one pnw all along the
ledge where she had left II, but In
vain. Suddenly she ran to the baby,
and twisting his head 10 face herself.
put one hand on each Of his jaws,
pulled his mouth wide open. stuck her
head In. and gave big sniff. Then
she turned him over and spanked him
soundly.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-01-24

| found Ia undrinkable. and woe To the
prospector who finds himself In this
section with an empty canteen. A pc
culiar feature of the climate Is that
no matter how hot the day, the night
Ia invariably cool, even cold enough for
! forming Ice.
During the summer of 1900 Swede
named Johnson, who had been pros
pecting In the vicinity, started to cross
this dry lake Of salt to Old Womans
Springs. When nearly half way across
terrible sandstone blew up. he
trudged on until he came to the SAT-
house. where he and his burro sought
shelter. Under the caves of the house
he found number Of galvanized tanks
partly filed with rain water. He con-
sidered this lucky find, for his can
| teen was almost empty. He drank his
! fill of the water he found and per-
| mitted his burro to do the same. The
night was cold and the storm con-
tinued. He determined to camp In the
hut over night. The dead embers OF
the fire were still to be seen when we
visited the place, evidencing the I'M
usual severity of the weather.
"When we opened the door to this
desolate shack we were horritied at
seeing what seemed to be a marble
statue lying on the floor. Abe head
was of aiabaster wilderness, the hair
and whiskers having fallen away. The
body was outlined under a thin blan-
ket. The sight was so uncanny that
we hesitated to remove the blanket
but finally mustered enough courage
to do so. The body had undergone a
singular Transformation, being nothing
less than complete petriticatiOn. The
substance was of nature Of gypsum,
very friable and pure white In color.
The outline of the body was perfect
The darkness Of the interior at first
prevented us from seeing the burro,
which was standing In one corner. One
of our party advanced and laid his
hand on the animal, when it fell over
against him. The burro had under
gone the same transformation as its
master. The body of the man was
given a decent burial near the house,
and the burro will be sent to the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE explanation Of this strange phe-
nomepon Is to be found in the kind Of
water that was drunk by the man and
the burro and in the kind Of earth that
composed the roof and floor Of the salt
habitation. The water Is heavily
charged with chloride of sodium. The
earth that had been used for the roof
ing contained chemicals which were
taken in solution by the rain water as
it dripped through the galvanized
tanks.
after drinking freely Of this water
the man and his beast had evidently
frozen to death and were gradually
petrifed."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-01-24
a LITTLE THING TO DO.
But 1t Was the Kind that Tests a Mans
Breeding.

But 1t Was the Kind that Tests Mans
Breeding.
There are some lovely men in the
world, even if they are scarce"
1t was pretty girl who thus philo-
sophically mingled optimism and pes
simism in her view of the less assuring
half Of humanity. She proceeded to
illustrate her position as follows to the
New York Times:
1.-The other day l had to go down
town by myself. l am not so very used
to going down town, and there Is a
preponderance Of masculinity down
there that always scares me a little
This time l went on the elevated and
got off at Rector street. 1t was about
10 In the morning, and the train and
station were black with men.
There was not a woman, sister
woman, to be seen when the lace of my
skirt caught in something just as l
was leaving the car, and with a loud,
triumphant z-zip-p ripped off to the ex-
tent of about two yards. There was
all this white stuff hanging, and I had
to get rid Of 1t some way. stepped to
one side and began trying to tear the
lace across, but 1t was as strong as the
sewing proved weak: not thread Of 1t
would give. Every one Of the stream
Of men passing turned his head to look
at me struggle, and could feel my face
crimson with exertion and mortifica-
ton.
THAT kind Of a situation has hash
eesh effect, and, though 1t seemed like
hours, suppose 1t was only a minute,
till a gentleman, busily talking to a
companion, passed close to me, and,
hardly turning his eyes my way, held
out an opened pocket knife; then he
walked on very slowly and apparently
absorbed III conversation. 1t was the
work Of a second to sever the lace, roll
1t up in my bag, and return him his
knife.
MY gratitude was too deep to ex.
press itself In what the plays call the
smooth, hollow phases of society," |
am not sure that opened my lips, but
am sure that l looked things unutter,
able.
He took the knife with just the
slightest bow, and, touching his hat
returned to his muttons with his
| friend.
1T was little thing, you may say
but 1t was just the kind of little thing
that tests a mans breeding exquisite
w."