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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-02-07

Senate Bill No. Is appropriates
$500 to I. l.. Oddie and w Brougher,
for moneys advanced to the state
board of health during the necessi-
tous times of last winter, The bill
should and doubtless will, pass unan-
imouslV
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-02-07
NOTICE TO TRANSFERS.

ALL TRANSFERS HAULING ORE FORM
the lohopah mines are requested to call at tn.
H 'ls ol Tue Tonopah Company for instructions
before loading any ore as the Company reserves
the right under the conditions of the leases ~
manage the shipping Of all ore.
Ihe Company refuses to guarantee payment
oi freight ON ore hauled by teamsters not com
plying with the above request
I. l.. ODDIE, Treasurer,
TOnnopah Company
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-02-07

Senator Brougher's bill creating
the Office of state mineralogist and
agriculturist will receive review in
next issue of the BONANZA. Chalk
up big credit for Brougher.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-02-07

The new but long drawn out boum-
dairy survey between Nevada and
California is to secure final ratifca,
ton through senate bill No. -, by
Greene.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

suggest to you a few experiments you may
not have thought of before. do not claim
them as original, but they will do to be-
gin with. and they will doubtless suggest
others to you.
!. Water pictures Stand on a pier about
water, and point your camera at your
friend swimming or floating below. II your
subject" can swim under water, and the
water Is clear. you will in this way obtain
pretty studies of reflection and refraction.
Then try to take persons diving and jump
ing into the water; but do not be disap-
pointed IL at the first few trials your films
show only part of the body or the tip OF
the feet. 1t Is not easy to catch quickly
falling object In the center Of your picture
lures Just before the sun sets the actinic
rays are weak. You may point your lens
directly at the sun, without fear of Jogging
your plate Water is an important factor
In a picture Of this sort, because 1t shows
reflected light. The effect is enhanced by
reflected path of light-either in the fore
ground or background
3. Lightning pictures. People have said
to me: How can you snap the shutter
just as the fash comes?" You don't. You
point your lens at the retreating thunder
and leave IL open until you have caught
one or more flashes on the film. AS II is
night, you may keep your lens open until
nearly dawn without Jogging your plate.
4. "A few hours with your friend the
camera can be made to teach you quite as
much about perspective and the laws of
light and shade as many text book.
Hundreds Of new ideas will suggest them
selves to you when once you have begun
TO put your mind upon what you are doing,
and your frivolous swapping may be
changed into a most interesting study. Try
IL and see
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

Maud Howe, in Lippincott's Magazin

Maud Howe, In Lippincott's Magazine.
II have adopted the Roman scheme Of
life, and divide every day into two / am
up at 3, have my coffee, and read my paper
on the terrace At s the rooms are hermet-
ically sealed; outside shutters, windows and
twilight pervades, except In my den, where
L keep one eye of the house open &c read,
write. cipher and catch fieas by. / go out
early, do my errands, make my visits, and
try to be at home by 10; sometimes / am
delayed till IL. Luncheon is at L: after
this the whole household, the whole city,
takes it's siesta From 2 to Rome sleeps!
full length on the pavement, their arms
under their heads. cabmen curl up inside
their cabs, horses sleep between the shafts
even small boys sleep! At first 1 would
none OF 1t. / only yielded when I found
that the soldiers in the barracks opposite
are obliged by the military regulations TO
take daily siesta.
=. And does 1t not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And should like so much to play
To have TO go TO bed by day.?
soon after o'clock the sea breeze comes
up, and life begins again. By / am ready
for tea on the terrace. Sometimes we 20
instead to Ronzi Singers for granite.
sort or sherbet made of snow from the
mountains favored with coffee or lemon,
very delicious and cooling to the blood BY
this time the streets are filled with people,
The Roman girls look charming in their
pretty light summer dresses; pink muslin
seems to be the fashion this season. DIM
ner gets pushed back later and later: we
sit down till quarter to 3. The nights are
divinely COOL We go to the torrance from
the dinner table and sit there till bedtime
under the friendly stars"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
PARROTS THAT TALK BACK.

. Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
In a little obscure shop on Fourth ave-
nue. there is dealer in parrots of every
known species He Is German, and he
speaks five other langua ges-namely, Eng
lish, French, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish.
His linguistic accomplishments are
turned to good account
ST teach my parrots TO talk at least one
of the languages L know myself" he ex-
planned, so that / can satisfy my cosmo-
politan trade If l knew but one tongue
would not be able to cater to half my Gus
toners and it would hardly pay me to hire
an pathological professor of languages.
1t Is the talking birds that sell best. Some
persons like to own parrot that can speak
more than one language, and l have al
ways a few birds on hand to satisfy such
customers.
by judicious education a parrot of al
most any kind, from the tiny Budgerigar to
the gigantic macaw. may be converted into
a taiker. The best linguist is the African
gray parrot, from the west coast of Africa
and Princes island
MY methods? Well, they are simple
enough. i allow my parrots some proper
ton of their native food-bananas, palm
nuts and the like. l begin by instructing
them TO pronounce one word. allowing them
two days to master it, and gradually in
creasing their vocabulary TO three or four
words. then make sentences of words that
are easily joined together. 1t takes a male
bird at most two weeks to master half a
dozen short sentences in one language. The
females are not so quick at grasping a
word or sentence the males are and SO
they require day or two more of tuition
I'm teaching parrot an important secret
is to demonstrate the meaning of the word
or sentence if possible, so that it will seem
to speak intelligently. For instance. pulling
What's the news?' or, taking out my
watch. What's the time? The parrot will
soon learn to suit the word to the action.
I'm teaching the bird to greet a visitor
on the proper occasions with How d'you
do? / repeat the words entering its
presence. To make him say Must you go?
'Good-by | rise from a chair. pick up my
hat. and while leaving the room repeat the
words All these things 1 teach my parrot
To sneak i'm German. French. Italian. Snan-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
II You Don't Read the Daily Journal

you miss the best paper in Indianapolis.
Not long ago the Elkhart Review said of
the Journal: '"Thc Indianapolis Journal is,
from all points of view. the best paper
published in the West. Ii is able, il is
conservative. it is clean. 1t is honest, il is
not given to sensation, IL is reasonable in
all matters and IL gives the news from
the world In such form that il is easily
grasped and yet IL Is comprehensive
From a literary standpoint il is the
peer of any, and IL spells less white paper
with senseless reports and unnecessary
departments than any paper in the West.
Indianapolis ought TO esteem the dstinc-
ton IL has of being the city that has the
ideal morning paper.
Many city readers of the Sunday issue do
not realize how little additional II would
cost them To get the daily issue The price
OF the Sunday alone Is &c a copy, which
averages &c a month As the daily and
Sunday combined costs only soc a month in
indianapolis and suburbs, II can be seen
that the additional price of the daily is
sue is about &c a day. Let your subscription
include the Daily and Sunday issues, Tele-
phones rs and s6-bothl companies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
Bispham Says He's a LondOner.
London Special.

London Special.
On the resumption of the hearing in the
divorce suit of David Bispham against his
wife to-day. the point at issue being the
question of the singers domicile, the plain
tiff took the stand and testified that he
took fourteen-year lease of a London
house. The first trouble that he had with
his wife was due TO her extravaganza. He
disapproved also of her joining the Roman
Catholic Church He was proud OF the
fact that he was an American, but he
never intended 10 live In the United
States because 1t was not a musical GEN.
ter, and IL would be professional suicide
for singer 10 make his home there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

ming guides befool the perpetual streams
of summers. The Summing guides make
clerks all over New York and cut the
proceeds of their convoyings with the chaps
with the headlights in return for the
trade" the clerks furnish. The Summing
guides are now formed into sort of close
corporation, and outsiders with an eye to
the profits OF the business ISLAM in" only
at the peril of broken heads or worse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
Harriman's Appendicitis.
New York Times.

II don't understand how f. III. Hartman
got up about two weeks after his operation
for appendicitis" said one Of a group at
the club. when IL took me six weeks 10
get my feet
"Oh, WELL your time was not so valua-
Bile" etc. from the crowd Meanwhile the
doctor in the group had been silent
You heard, OF course. what they found?'
he ventured. General interest.
why, the appendix full OF undi-
gested securities, and all they had TO do
was TO cut the coupons of"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

A Few Instructions to the Boy with
New Camera.

Frederick w. Wendt, in June st. Nicholas.
Now my dear young photographer, who
ever you may be-possibly you are Just
like Robert in that you have never before
realized what a snapshot with brains
Is You have never discovered what your
little pocket camera may be made to do
when you think before you snap. II does
not depend SO much on what you take as
on how you take it. Summer Is here. and
on land and water your camera can be
made an interesting companion. Let me
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
The Hour and the Man.

No choose what coming hours may
bring
To him OF need. of joy. OF suffering;
But what his soul shall bring unto each hour
To meet It's challenge-this is In his power.
Priscilla Leonard, In the Outlook
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

ter class Of shops II Is done on request. but
woe betide II the glove does not fit or II the
purchaser thinks IL does not, for the sales
woman knows that every glove fits that is
put on, and Ii IL bursts in the process that
pair Is not discarded. That Is your pair or
gloves, for better. for worse. and although
they will go to the length of mendlng the
rip. that Is all the trial means.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
THE TYPHooN.
A Chinese Legend of the Origin of
This Fierce Storm.


A Chinese Legend of the Origin of
This Fierce Storm.
This very odd bit is by Chinaman:
: "a little schoolboy while on his way
to school one day picked up what
seemed to him small white pebble
He put it into his pocket. It proved to
be a snake egg, and in time through
the heat of his pocket it hatched out q
young reptile.
''The boy fell in love with 1t and car
ried it from day to day to school with
him and fed it with a part of his own
lunch until it became too big to be car
ried, when he made a nest for it at
home.
'But one day it suddenly grew to
enormous size, and upon the boys ar
rival home he was frightened to death.
when the monster saw what he had
done he was sorely afflicted and re-
fused to be fed, but Immediately put on
mourning by turning his color from
brown to pure black. He crawIed be-
side the grave of his departed friend
anu AoJ tnSAe LUZ SeNeA udyS anu
nights.
"At the completion of the seventh
night he came back to his late home,
but the boys old mother was so en-
ragged at him for killing her only son
that she picked up an ak and chopped
his tail off.
with fearful scream and a lash of
his bleeding tall he felled the house
and made his way to the Moo Soon San
mountains, where he never shows him.
self but once year, just about the
time when he lost his tail, to come out
and make trouble for the people by Gre
ating storms called the typhoon. This
he does to square himself for losing his
valuable tail.''
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
! IN THE PALM
! OF HIS HAND 5;
BY EUGENE UHLRICH
Copyright. 1909, by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate
n RIsS GERvAISE PLYMPToN
EN had one hobby-chiromancy.
AW4 She spent all her spare time
By EUGENE UHLRICH

n ~ ISIS GERVAISE PLYMPTON
HIVE had one hobby-chiromancy
AW4 She spent all her spare time
investigating its mysteries
1t was even said that her chief rea
son for entering the hospital training
school was the opportunity it offered
to feel the pulse and incidentally
| glance at palms of the hands of the
patients. Ont of it all she had drawn
confirmation for certain palmist the
cries and amended others by a few
rules of her own which she contem-
| plated publishing-by and by.
There is popular superstition that
| young house doctors and nurses always
fall in love with each other But Miss
Plympton was saved from this extrav-
agance of emotions by her discovery
that all her contemporary doctors had
forbidding lines. In the hand of one
she discovered unmistakable evidence
of mental alteration, in another signs
of violent temper, and still another
was hopelessly stingy. The owner of
the latter, however, persisted in lik.
ing her in spite of all her snubs. So
it came about that when he established
a successful practice in a little town
near the city it was she for whom he
sent when he had difficult case.
One sitting summer day she re-
ceived telegram from him:
Come at once. Only girl in family has
typhoid. Family lost their heads. Cook
gone.
1t was not clear from the telegram
which was worse, the typhoid or the
desertion of the cook. But Miss Plymp-
ton concluded that she would risk i'm.
preston in the latter's place and went
down on the next train.
The doctor met her and drove her to
the Macdonald house. There for two
days and nights she saw and heard
nothing but her patient. Then Mrs.
Macdonald recovered sufficiently from
her exhaustion to take her turn at the
nursing again. Miss Plympton slipped
out on the veranda for a breath of
fresh air to soothe her nerves before
going to bed.
A tall young man came up the path.
Seeing her, he stopped.
Miss Plympton, believe. am your
patients oldest brother. Mother tells
me that Mary is better, thanks to you.
Why, when she is well again we five
boys will be ready to canonize you"
He laughed and sat down beside her.
Miss Plympton tried to smile, but
the domination of sleep was upon her,
and she gazed at him with vague,
heavy eyes.
Pardon me, you are very tired" he
said hastily. AS she said "Good night"
and crept away to bed she still re-
membered the consideration in his
tone.
The next evening when she went out
on the veranda Robert Macdonald
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
PICKlNGs FROM FICTION.

A witty woman is treasure; wit
ty beauty is a power.-"Diana of the
Crossways" George Meredith).
Speaking to, or crying over, a hus
band never did any good yet.-"Plair
Tales From the Hills Rudyard Kip
ling.
Too many words be worse than moi
enough, for they'll often leave a mans
meaning foggy. - 'sThe River Eder
Philpotts).
There's saying that man who car
live quite happily alone must be one OF
two things an angel or a demon
t'Sons of the Morning" Eden Phil.
potts.
What can one say Of the highest mu-
Sic except that, like death, it is the
great leveler; it gathers us all to its
tender keeping and we rest :" IN
Varying Moods" Beatrice Harraden).
The genius of hospitality is not so
much in making people meet, but in
helping them to parton good terms.
Remember that! = 1.-THE Gods, Some
Mortals and Lord Wickenham" John
Oliver Hobbes).
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
A Modern Cannerx.

A modern cannery is marvel of me-
chanical ingenuity. After the fish is
cleaned automatic machines do nearly
all the remainder of the work, even in
some instances filling the cans with a
motion for all the world like that of
two human hands, one holding the can,
the other crowding it full of raw fish.
l shall not attempt to enter into a de-
scription of the machinery. The can Of
fish is started rolling on its way, and
one has the impression that it contin-
ues to roll through machine after ma
chine, hardly touched by human hands.
1t rolls into the cooker and out again,
even rolls itself into a bright colored
label, and finally somehow rolls into a
packing box, ready to be loaded in the
car waiting at the door-Ray Stannard
Baker in Century.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
BlfndfoId.


Nine persons out of ten would prob
ably give the derivation of blind as
coming directly from blind and fold
from the practice of folding a cloth
round the eyes, as in the game of
blind mans buff. The word has, how
ever. nothing to do with fold, but
means felled or struck blind and might
be writted blindfelled. In the same
way the word buttery is easily con-
fused with the common term butter,
with which, however, 1t has no con-
nection seve in the minds Of those who
do not know it to be contraction for
bottlery, place where bottles are kept
and over which the bother, or butler,
presides. Chambers Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18

MISTAKES OF BIRDS.
they Are the Result of Contact with
Civilization.

They Are the Result of Contact With
Civilization.
Probably In a state of wild nature
birds never make mistakes, but where
they come in contact with our civiliza-
ton and are confronted by new condi-
tons they very naturally make mis-
takes. For instance, their cunning in
nest building sometimes deserts them.
The art of the bird is to conceal its
nest both as to position and as to ma
terial, but now and then it is betrayed
into weaving into its structure snowy
and bizarre bits of this or that, which
give it's secret away and which seem
to violate all the traditions of its kind.
l have the picture of a robins nest be-
fore me upon the outside of which are
stuck a small muslin flower, a leaf
from small calendar and a photo
graph of a local celebrity. A more
incongruous use of material in bird
architecture it would be hard to find.
l have been told of another robins nest
upon the outside of which the bird had
fastened a wooden label from near
by flower bed marked wake Robin"
Still another nest I have seen built
upon a large snowy foundation Of the
paperlike flowers of antennaria, or ev-
erlasting. The wood thrush frequently
weaves fragment Of newspaper or
white rag into the foundation Of it's
nest. evil communications corrupt
good manners" The newspaper and
the rag bag unsettle the wits of the
birds.
The phoebe bird is capable of this
kind of mistake or indiscretion. All the
past generations of her tribe have built
upon natural and therefore neutral
sites, usually under shelving and over
hanging rocks, and the art of adapting
the nest to its surroundings, blending
it with them, has been highly devel-
oped. But phoebe now frequently
builds under our sheds and porches,
where, so far as concealment is con-
cerned, a change of material, say from
moss to dry grass or shreds of bark,
would be an advantage to her. But she
departs not mite from the family tra-
ditions; she uses the same woody
mosses which in some cases, especially
when the nest is placed upon unevenly
sawed timber, makes her secret an
open one to all eyes.-John Burroughs
in Century.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18

ton. Just see how my finger is swoll
en-. I cut it yesterday morning on the
edge of sheet of paper"
"You have infected it. 1t needs to
be laid open and drained" In mo-
ment she was busy getting together
gauze, water and scalpel. When she
was through and had put the last
touches on the neat bandage, he no
ticed that she was silent and pale He
thought it was because she minded the
bit of blood.
II ought to have gone down to DR..
Buckley" he said apologetically. ''aud
not asked you to bother over this whef
you were tired out"
She shook her head smilingly.
Just the same. when she reached
her own room she threw herself dowR
on the bed and cried and cried. She
was learning how much she cared fol
Robert, learning 1t when she must
never think Of him again. Was it not
all there in the lines of his well kept
hand-insanity and violent death? It
was kind of the gods to forewarn her,
but at first the kindness seemed hard
The next evening she did not go out
on the veranda, and so for many even
ings. When Robert urged her to come
for walk, she said she was too tired.
Instead she fell into the habit of TAX
ing lonely little walks in the morn
hig, just for exercise.
She went down to the drugstore one
day to fill prescription for Mary. In
a cage in one corner was a monkey
whose only diversion seemed to be the
teasing of frolicsome fox terrier.
The monkey would stretch out hand
and pull the terriers ear, then
scramble up and listen to the dogs
snappy bark with the caricature of a
laugh on his impish face.
From force of habit Miss Plympton
watched his little yellowish pink palm.
1t was perfect hand. The heart line,
the head line, the mounts, had the
stamp of an admirable hand. That
monkey, according to her science,
should live long, marry happily and
have all the catalogue of virtues.
Miss Plympton watched in fascinat-
ed horror. Then the light of a great
relief overspread her face. Finally
she laughed long and heartily, but the
druggist was surprised to detect a
touch of hysteria in her laugh. The
life of nurse is hard on the nerves,
he reflected.
That evening Miss Plympton came
down on the veranda, and Robert was
delighted to find that the hauteur of
the last days had melted as if by
magic. They talked long and late, and
the moonlight disclosed happiness in
two faces.
Robert Macdonald never understood
his wife's fancy for the drugstore
When it died shortly, the
druggist declared that she had killed
it with sweets, but Mrs. Macdonald
only saw in the beasts death the last
proyidential argument against her pal
mistic alterations.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
Sir Henry 1rving,s wit.

On one occasion Sir Henry Irving 8
company, having been called to the
theater for rehearsal, found upon their
arrival that they were considerably
ahead of time. As Sir Henry had not
yet arrived, one of the actors in the
company who was noted for his ac-
complishments as a mimic proceeded
to give a lively and elaborate imita-
ton of Sir Henry's highly character
istic acting. AS he finished his DEM
onstration well known voice came
from the depths of the darkened au-
ditorium:
"very good" it said; very good in
deed-so good, in fact, that there is nc
need for both of us in this company
Harper's.