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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18


Mid the herd of human porkers crowded
on the trolley car
All is selhshness and jostle, making age
and sex no bar;
Men collapse in seats and stay there
letting shrinking ladies stand
With a look of ignation-and strap
in either hand.
Yet there's one thing that, you've motto
ed, never fails TO make stir
When woman with baby comes they
all make room for her.
have sat in stuffy coaches on a crowd
ed railway train,
List ming to case-ha rdened travellers who
declared with might and main
That they'd see the railroad company in
hades' hercest heat
Long before they'd even think of giving
anyone a seat
Then, ere they'd ceased their boasting,
they would rise without demur-
For a woman with a baby, they must
all make room for her.
There is something sweet Madonna-like
in pictures such as that,
And it makes the lowest ruffian feel like
taking off his hat
For it bears him back to babyhood, when
loving mother arms
Closely chung to him and kept off cen
the least of earth's alarms.
So, no matter what his station, he will
evermore defer
To woman with a baby-he has rever-
ence for her.
Once l dreamed l stood in heaven, just
inside the pearly gate,
While to every new arrival good st.
Peter said: You're late;
For the places all are taken and the
harps are all in use,
Golden streets are just so crowded that
| had to call a truce"
Then little, tired-out woman lugged
baby into view,
And st. Peter said: Were full up, but
we'll find place for you"
S. w. Gillian in Lesles Weekly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18
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OF the proper color, pass your needle
around the button. catching the new
cloth, and so cover the button as II
stands, wind the thread around the
cloth tightly three or four times and
fasten it. Repeat this process for each
button, and then tit your cover on as
before. This plan is much the neater
way of covering furniture where but
tons are used, but you must be sure 10
have the buttons firmly fastened in
place. A little practice will soon enable
you to do the work nicely. and you will
find it great pleasure to refurnish
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18


for the knowledge She laid the cloth
she disappeared into the kitchen,
where | fancied she was making deli
cious doughnuts and desserts, but
when l remembered that Bridget and
Mrs Tompkins were also engaged
therein | hesitated and doubted
Can you cook, Miss Tompkins?"
asked, as she came in with a plate of
pickles.
She burst out laughing. what u
question: Can | cook. What do you
think of that, papa?" she cried. turn
ing to the old man who sat rocking
himself backward and forward and
flaming himself with his hat. "Ain't
that queer question:" And the old
man evidently thought II was, for he
roared as IL | had thrown him down
and was tickling him into commissions,
now and then gasping: Can she cook
OH
l got as red as lobster, but held my
sides and pretended to be nearly dead
with laughing myself.
But one day there came an opportu-
nifty. Thomson and his wife were
called over to Bllnksvile by the dan
gerous illness Of their eldest son. They
had to take Bridget along for nurse
1t left nobody at home but Lucy and
her grandmother, who was confined to
an easy chair with rheumatism
1--WE got her now" | said to myself.
''I'll go over to supper and that'll settle
the question" | rode over about three
o'clock Lucy was wedding the flower
bed and helped her. kept limiting
round about supper, but she didn't
take.
she can't cook for shucks," men,
tally said, ''or she'd tell me to stay.
But I'll put her to the test" So pull
ed out my watch, and l said: well,
Lucy, l guess I'll have to be going
I'm afraid I'll miss my supper now
before can get home'
I'D ask you to stay here" she said.
''but really we haven't anything In the
house fit to eat"
"Oh, l don't mind" l exclaimed,
anything will debut stopped, for
she interrupted me by telling me to
come next evening and before could
say any more she had started me off,
telling me to be on hand at five O'Clock
sharp, so as not to let the supper get
cold
As | was going up the walk the fol-
lowing day. dressed in my best and
resolved TO propose that evening If the
cooking was even passable, l saw SUI
san Stafford come out the back door
and go scudding down the path. She
was a girl my mother had often rec
ommended-the best cook In the neigh
borhood, but homller than the Law
allows:
Hello, Susanr' exclaimed; where
are you going?"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18
Covering Furniture.

When you decide TO make your old
furniture look like new, better begin
With common chair and some chesn
material; then. If you fail, the result
will not be disastrous Proceed ms fol.
lows: Over the cushion of your chair
pin piece Of thin tough paper. and
cut out an exact pattern carefully
marking all the plaits and little hicks
required to make the cover lie smooth
and even. Lay this fiat on your ma
terlal. which must be cut out exactly
like it; then, carefully rip off the gimp
of the chair, brush the cushion, and
with benzlne, remove any stain there
may be. If you do not do this, You n a,
see 1t reappear through the new cover
Pin on the new cover, taking care TO
get it exactly In place; then nail It on
carefully with tiny furniture tacks. and
finish with gimp stitched firmly all
around to hide the rough edges. II tha
seat is buttoned down instead of being
quite plain, 1t Is more troublesome The
work must be done in one or the other
Of the following ways: Remove the
buttons aud fasten on the cover (Which
must be cut larger than If 1t were put
on plain, rather loosely. Cover the
buttons, then, with long, thin tack
Ing needle and some strong twlne sew
them in place. Or lay your material
over the seat of the chair, pin 1t loosely
into position, then, with strong thread
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18
Typography Notes.

The wood for typography must be
well seasoned, of an even grain, and
free from sap markings and knots.
Burnt wood is especially adapted for
the decoration of hall and dining
rooms, where dark wood furniture and
paneling is so acceptable.
\ good brown stain for wood is made
from three ounces of pearl-ash, two
drachms of dragons blood, one ounce
of Vandyke brown, and one quart of
boiling water.
In burning a fiat piece of wood, burn
both sides, as it will keep 1t from
warping. OF course you need not burn
a pattern on both sides, but scrub"
the back with the side of your burner.
Moss green velvet appliqued with
natural toned sunhowers marked with
brown standings with the pyrogra
piers needle makes a picturesque pill
low, while cushion of tan suede or
namented with poppy design in red
suede looks extremely well on dark
couch.
Beautiful effects in leather are pro-
duced by dyes and also by using pieces
of colored leather. Flowers and leaves
are cut from colored leather and fast
ened with glue to background o aat-
ural color leather After which the
burning is done around the applique
70 cover the edges. This gives rich
oriental effect and is much used for
table mats, pillows, opera and shop
ping bags portieres and hangings.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

Homer she said II Just dropped
In for a visit. but | find Lucy too busy
getting ready for company for me 10
stay"
THE dear girlr' | said to myself, re-
ferring to Lucy Shes in that kitchen
just wading into cookery, and | nat
tered myself that the thing was about
settled.
Well. the supper was ''out of sight
as the boys say. | will not attempt TO
describe that fried chicken, those bak-
ing powder biscuits. that golden but
ter, the marmalade. honey, etc, etc.
Susan Stafford herself could not have
beaten 1t. proposed to Lucy In thirty
minutes after, and was accepted.
Two months later we were on our
way home from the wedding journey.
Il want to get back, my dear" |
said, where | can get one more of
your suppers again. | have never had
meal that could hold candle to that
one you cooked for me the night |
proposed"
She laughed rather queerly
You liked 1t, did your" she asked.
Liked IT. l rejoined, Let me tell
you the truth. had not made up my
mind whether to propose or not up to
that evening. | was afraid you
couldn't cook, and mother was always
harpng on that. You know | never
could find out, for you always laughed
when | preached the subject but that
night | played a trick on you. Got my
slef invited when nobody was at home
TO help you. and, well-my darling
you were just simply immense.
never had such a supper in my life,
and you know the result: Here we are,
man and wife"
"And you wouldn't have asked me
If | had failed" she said.
81 couldn't have done so in the face
of my mothers injunction" | returned.
THANK heaven, you stood the test
But did |, thought
"Did you Why didn't you get up
that supper, the best that mortal man
ever tasted?'
mo" she said, II did not"
This assertion nearly knocked me
down.
No" she repeated, 81 did not. |
was afraid you were subjecting me to
the test, and so | got Susan Stafford to
come over and help me out and made
her promise, never never to tell. oh,
Jack! l suppose 1t was awful wicked
but | loved you so much, dear"
And you can't cook at all?" l ex-
claimed.
But just little" she answered, and
then she fell to sobbing.
Well, sir, | couldn't stand It, |
took her In my arms and was weak
enough and forgetful enough of my
mother to say: IN be hanged, Lucy,
If | wouldn't rather live on raw tur-
nips with you than have the dishes
of the gods with any other girl In
America. Cook or no cook, I'm glad
I've got you. Lucy Tompkins."
And l was.-"What to Feat"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18
The Wife.

What 1t means TO man to come
home at night TO cheerful wife no
one but he who has had to fight IN
the hard battle of life knows IL he IS
prosperous It is an added joy; but II
is in misfortune that II shines like
star In the darkness. A complaining
wife can kill the last bit of hope ana
courage in n sorely troubled heart
while a cheerful one gives new cour'
age to begin the fight over again.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

not the way to obtain the permit. She
submitted to an oral examina ton, but
failed because, she says, of the rapid
fire method of propounding wordy
questions. Later she took the written
examination and came off triumphant
with an average of 81. After she re-
ceiyed the license she was asked what
she proposed TO do with it. Nothing"
she said; Il only wanted it because
was told | couldn't get it,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

CINE, the only
woman so favored
in the city She
was refused a IL
cense ON her first
application. Then
she offered to give
the examiners ST.
900 each if she
could not take an
engine apart and
put it together in
their presence, but
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18
A suerestion.

Sunday School Teacher-Now, John
ny. why did the children of Israel sigh
for the fieshpots of Egypt?
Johnny-Maybe Moses gave them
breakfast food.-New York Tribune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

Don't make the mistake OF giving a
man advice which doesn't confirm his
own opion.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

There would be no objection to boys
being boys If they would only be men
when they get to be men
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

Miss Annie Ball, of Chicago, has
been licensed by the Board of Exam
lining Engineers TO run a stationary en-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-12-18

A girl may be a tribe frivolous, but
she II apt to be engaging.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
IN BANKRUPTCY COURTS.

A number of petitions i'm bankruptcy were scheduled to come before Referee Henry G. Newton yesterday afternoon. A final hearing will be held on the pe- tition of, the Douglas & Sons Go. About S5 per cent. has already been paid and the company expects to be able to pay 1 per cent. more this after non. .% x
 A. small dividend will be paid by the G. W. Ives & Son, the Hamden brick manufacturers. A final hearing will be held in the case of John Jacaruso, an Italian fruit dealer and banker. No dividend has been paid. The case of Charles Miller will come up for adju- dication.
 A hearing on discharge will be given Bartram G. Leeper and also Max Joseph.
 w. L. Baker will have a final hear ing.
 First hearings will be given Edward Leepy and Edward H. Hasson.
 A small dividend will be paid by George l.. Ellsbree.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
Poli'. Thsa,sr.

A medley of the popular songs of sew eral countries with the display of their colors by an automatic contxivance, as the feature act at Polls, makes a de- cidedly pretty picture. There are four artists in Klein, Ott brothers and Nick erson's musical act, and they are all talented musicians.
 John l.. Kearney and May Duryea please all with their refined comedy sketch, 'The Imposter.''
 Smirl and Kessner with their acro- batic number, which calls for the in- troduction of 'Pinkie," give a fine exhi- bition of the acrobatic belilboy and the waiting maid.
 Others are Shevlin's Creole Babes, Stanley and Wilson with their refined musical sketch Before the Ball" Dick and Alice McAvoy and their special scene of Hogan's Alley, and the burg lar chase in the electrograph completes the bill.
 Prices: Evenings, 10, 20 and 30 cents; afternoons, 10 and 20 cents; ladies at matinees. 10 cents; box seats, ,5O cents.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
rHE aFAsrING cuREs. ,

A man of Scranton. Pa, being un- fortunately a paralytie, recently con-. ceived the idea or was by some expon- ent of 'tfast curep imbued with 1t that abstinence from food for period of forty days going through the wilder ness" as faith-curist with some- what numerous following in this city a few years ago disignated itwould re- lieve his disability. Having accom- plished about half his stunts he died. This does not prove that fasting within proper limits Is not beneficial. It mere ly shows that this victim, bounded by fantacism, overdid the thing.
 It is generally conceded that the American people eat too much. Begin- ming with infants, 1t is the habit of very many mothers to feed them some of the more old fashioned still suckle them-every time they cry, and as con- stant distention of the stomach causes them to be uncomfortable, they cry most os the time, and hence are fed most of the time. Surving this surfeit for a few years. they go around con- stantly as children with piece in their hands, are troublesome at meal time because not hungry, and come to their school days with weakened diges- ton, headache, and a minor train of ills that make them intractable, and to the compassionate objects of pity. This stuffing process keeps on in many in- stances through life or until stomach troubles" render 1t impossible.
 Some explain this habit of overeating as the result of cheap and abundant food in this country, while others, hark- ing back few generations, declare that both overeating and fast eating, arl- other American sin, result from the pinched conditions of early colonial and Western pioneer times, wherein food was not plentiful, and in order to get one's share at the family board 1t was necessary to dispose of the food-rapid- ly. In other words, the fact that if one did not eat his allotted portion quickly, another whose appetite was unappeased would appropriate 1t.
 Whatever the cause, the effect is with us. Fasting Is the other extreme, but very few press the limit in this direc- tion. The Scranton man to whom refer ence is above made is by no means alone in the fanatical attempt to drive disease out of his body by severe fasting but relatively few persons have gone to their death from voluntary starvation while gIuttong has slain it's thousands. Intelligent people have little sympathy or the victin of self-imposed starvation whether, as in the case of Dr. Tanner some years ago, forty days fast is undertaken as medical experiment., or as in that of numerous religious fanat- ics in obedience to a supposed divine command. They are, however, com- pelled through humanity or courtesy to sympathize with a multitude of suffer- CTS, including themselves, whose ills are primarily at least due to overlooking. This being true. the fasting cure" :" moderately and prudently applied, could scarcely, fail to confer a benefit upon mankind. .-P Portlaad Oregonian. @ ,l,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
J. W. SCHROEDER INCORPORATED
New Corporation to Traffic in Mines.
 Timber Lands, Etc.

New Corporation to Traffic in Mines.
 Timber Lands, Etc.
 Articles of incorporation have re- gently been filed with the secretary of the state for the incorporation of the business of John w. Schroeder, mining expert of this city. The capital paid. in is $10000 and the incorporators are John W. Schroeder, Frank Campbell, M. L.. Hugo and c. E. Schroeder. The purpose of the corporation is to buy and sell mines, coal and timber lands, real estate, stocks and bonds.
 In speaking of the incorporation of his business Mr. Schroeder stated that it's large growth has been largely contributed to by the faithful services of his employees and that the time was right to recognize those services, and for that reason he had decided onSa corporation as the best means of giv- ing them an interest and at the same time enable him to devote more of his energies to the development of the mining and timber properties in the west which the company are interested In.
 7 MT. Schroeder has built up a large clientage in mining investments throughout Connecticut and has merit ed the confidence which the public have placed in his judgment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
WILL BEGIN NEXT WEEK.
THE UNION METHODIST AG-
 GRESSITE CAMPAIGN.
Rev. Dr. Theodore $. Henderson. of Brookiyp, General Conductor Of Im- Portunt Special servIces-NeIt Weeks Programme.

A great deal of interest is being man ifested in the various Methodist church. es in the special union meetings which are to begin next Wednesday. While these services are under the conduct of the Methodist churches, 1t is stated that they are not to be in any sense merely dencminational. Their purpose is the quickening of the life of the individual churches and the stimulating to aggres- sive Christian work. A general invita- tion is, therefore, extended to those of other communions to be present.
 The general conduct of the services will be in the hands of Rev, pr. Theo- dore $. Henderson, of Brooklyn. pr. Henderson is not a professional evan gelist, and has always been in pastoral work, though he has had large experi- ence in the conduct of such special meetings. He is at present pastor of Simpson church, one of the large Meth odist churches of Brooklyn More than any other man, he was responsible for the remarkable gathering of several hundred Methodist ministers which was held at New Rochelle this last week-a meeting remarkable for its deep inter est and power and for the thorough discussion, during the two days ses- sion, of the evangelistic work of the church. It is stated that Dr. Tender son is to conduct later on a series of ten days meetings at Middletown, which shall be for men only, and to which he has been invited by all the Protestant churches of the city, as well as by the college authorities.
 On Tuesday evening Dr. Henderson will speak at the prayer meeting at the First church, the Epworth church unit : ing. The union meetings proper will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day nights at Trinity church. The meeting on Wednesday evening will be a gathering of the official boards of all the Methodist churches of the city. On Thursday evening the meeting will be especially for Sunday school and Ep- worth league workers, though all Christian workers and all int crested are invited. On Friday evening the service will be general.
 The services will begin at 7:S0 each evening. Two special services will be held on Sunday, November l. One will be a mems mass meeting held at the Grace Methodist church on Howard avenue. The other will be a union gos- pei meeting in which all the Methodist churches will unites and which will be held on Sunday evening at Trinity church. The pastors of all the Metho- dist churches will be present and assist at all these services. On Friday eyen- ing the meeting will be addressed by Tp1. IT cf f,f St. Johns church in Brooklyn. Wil- Eliam Phillips Hall, of Greenwich, will speak at one of the services of the sec Eond week and will probably be assisted E in the service of song by B. F. Jacobs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
GLOBE HOTEL SOLD.

Becomes Property of the Consolidated Road .s& New Depot Rumor.
 : Tn the town clerks office yesterday was offered for record deed whereby the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad be- comes the possessor of the old City or Globe hotel property at the corner of Woes ter and Union streets. The property faces 39 feet on Wooster and 66 feet on Union street.
 This immediately tended to confirm the rumor that the road had purchased this land with the intention of erecting the pro posed new Union depot on the site of the hotel and the other property which it al- ready owns and which is adjacent to it. . Another feature of the entire matter, one which seems to strengthen the story is that the company has purchased the lease of the present occupant of the hotel. William e. Vaughn. This lease has about four years more to run.
 It is stated however, that Vice President Barnett, who has charge of the real estate department of the road. has firmly denied any truth in the current rumor relative to the building of an uptown depot. The deed was dated June 8, and it's offering for rec ord has been withheld since that time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
ANNUAL SESSION NEXT TUESDAY

Western Connecticut Association of the
 Woman's Foreign Missionary So-
 ciety.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of the Methodist Church for Western Connecticut holds it's annual session next Tuesday at the Trinity Methodist church. The sessions will be held forenoon and afternoon, at 10 and 2 o'clock.
 Among the interesting addresses will be one by Miss Elsie Wood, who has spent some years as missionary at Lima, Peru, in the interesting work carried on there by the Methodist church. She will speak at the after noon session. Mrs. c. D. Horton, of the Trinity church choir, will sing at the morning session.
 The delegates partake of a basket luncheon at noon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
WALL1NGF0RD.

Another case of scarlet fever was re- ported yesterday in the family of All bert Rice on the west side.
 Another opportunity will be given Go. Ks members to qualify as marksmen at fhe range to-day. Owing to the storm week ago several were absent.
 The assessors who are in session in town hall building upstairs report that the taxpayers to make out their lists come in rather slow this year. Up to last evening only about one-ninth of the property owners has showed up.
 The Brown school of Meriden and the Choate's school team will play football on the Choate's grounds on North Elm street this afternoon. 1.ss4.
 MT. and Mrs Fred Mottram of South Orchard street have new boy baby.
 The continued case of John Bruton, charged with burglary, is down for trial in the borough court for g o'clock this morning. S+ t&
 The electrical commission has organ ized with William Luby. chairman: John P. Stevenson secretary, l.. M. Phelps treasurer.
 Miss J. P. Clapp left yesterday for Paris, Me, having received notice of the death of her mother. EfG@- K The weather last evening was far from satisfactory to those who had to be out. and rain was the prevailing feature.
 Mrs. l.. A. Coomer has returned to Savannah. Ga. ars.s. "
 Miss Florence A. Wells will fill her position as organist at the Baptist church the next two Sundays
 The prospects, for anothe rainy Sat- urday was good last evening.