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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17

Considerable excitement has been
caused IN New England by the report
that the catch of Goldfish on the New
| foundland banks IS steadily falling off.
| Some timid souls are anticipating the
rapid decline of Gloucester. Others
are wondering what they viii do with
out the fishball, upon the stimulating
properties of which Senator Hoar re-
Gently dilated with so much eloquence.
The New York Tribune, referring TO
the possibility, says; New England
would shrivel mentally without fish
balls, and small red schoolhouses from
the Providence plantations of Little
Rhody' to the Green mountains of Yer
mont, from southwestern Connecticut
to northeastern Maine would shut
their doors" The situation Is hardly
as desperate as all this, though 1t Is
not remarkable that those acquainted
with 1t should regard the disappear
ance of the cod as serious business
calamity and the disappearance of the
fishball as an equally serious intellec-
tual calamity to New England. OF all
sea food the cod has been held TO con-
tain greater intellectual potentially
than any other, whether served in
hash, or In flshballs, or in the plain
boiled dinner garnished with beets and
drenched with the fat Of salt pork,
the pork itself cut into cubes. 1t Is
no secret In New England that the
cod is disappearing and Is already
scarce in Gloucester market, and yet
that market supplies just as much salt
Goldfish as It ever did, and Goldfish balls
are Just as plentiful as ever. How the
demand can be met while the supply
Is steadily diminishing Is explained by
the fact that another fish is masquer-
aiding as cod. This fish is the pollach,
or pollock, a distant relative of the
cod, and sometimes called the green
cod. 1t Is found everywhere along the
coast, not only In deep water but even
In the tidal rivers. and in apparently
inexhaustible numbers. 1t Is hand
some, gamy fish and free bitter Its
average weight Is greater than that Of
the cod and Its flesh whittier and sweet
err From the fact that they do not
keep well when out of the water they
have not been considered a desirable
fresh food fish. but within the last
few years the Gloucester dealers have
found that they are an excellent sub
stitute for cod, and that few can tell
the difference when they are put on the
market as homeless cod. over two
thirds of the so-called homeless cod sold
| In Boston and Gloucester is homeless
pollock. But us homeless pollock Is
better than homeless cod, who should
complain? 1t Is likely also that the
pollock fishball Is just as intellectually
stimulating as the Goldfish ball.
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Of American history finds so many.
Born near West Liberty, Ohio Coun-
ty, Va, Dec. 20, 1889, he was the son
of revolutionary father. 1t WAS In
the region Of Athens County, Ohio.
then unsettled. that he was reared.
His sister taught him to read, and in
the evenings he studied the few books
at his command. In his Goth year he
left his home and worked In the Kama
wha Salt esta blishments, pursuing his
studies at night by the aid of the fur
mace fires. He remained there till he
had earned enough money to clear
from debt the farm his father had
bought in 1892. and had qualified him
self to enter the Ohio University at
Athens, where. In 1915, he received
the first degree Of A. B. that was ever
granted In that section. He then stud.
led law In Lancaster, was admitted to
the bar In 1910, and practiced with
success for fifteen years. In 1881 ST
he served as United States Senator
from Ohio, having been chosen az a
Wing. He supported the protective
tariff system Of Clay. and advocated
a reduction In the rates of postage, a
recharter Of the United States Bank,
and the revenue collection bill, known
as the force BILL"
Senator Ewing opposed the removal
OF deposits from the United States
Bank. and introduced a bill for the
settlement Of the Ohio boundary oues-
tion. which was passed In 1880. Dur
Ing the same session he brought for.
ward bill for the reorganization of
the general land Office. which was
passed and he also presented a me-
mortal for the abolition OF slavery.
In July, 1896. the Secretary Of the
Treasury issued what was known as
the specie circular" This directed
receivers in land Office to accept pay
ments only in gold. silver or treasury
certificates, except from certain class.
es Of persons for limited time. Sen.
ator Ewing brought In bill to anpul
this circular, and another to make II
unlawful for the Secretary to make
such a discrimination, but these were
not carried. After the expiration of
his term he resumed the practice of
law. Ewing became Secretary OF the
Treasury In 1871. under Harrison, and
In 1919 accepted the newly created
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17

portfolio OF the interior, under Taylor,
and organized that department. Among
the measures recommended In his first
report. Dec. 3. 1S49. were the estab.
lishment OF mint near the California
gold mines. and the construction OF a
railroad 10 the Pacific
When Thomas Corwln became Sec.
rotary OF the Treasury In 1850, Ewing
was appointed TO succeed him In the
Senate. During this term he opposed
the fugitive slave law. Clay's compro-
mise bill. reported bill for the estab-
llshment of branch mint in Califor.
MIA and advocated reduction In post
age. aud the abolition OF slavery In the
District OF Columbia. He retired from
public life in 1851 and again resumed
his law practice In Lancas ter. He was
a delegate to the Peace Congress OF
1851.
During the Civil War Ewing gave.
through the press and by correspond
ence and personal interviews, his coun-
sci and influence to the support Of the
national authorities. While he de,
voted much OF his time to political
subjects, the law was his favorite
study and pursuit He early won and
maintained throughout his life unques-
tonable supremacy at the Ohio bar.
and ranked In the Supreme Court OF
the United States among the foremost
lawyers OF the nation.
In 1879, just after his fathers death,
General William T. Sherman. then a
boy of 9. was adopted by Mr. Ewing.
who afterward appointed him to the
United States Academy. and in 1850,
Sherman married Ellen. the daughter
of his benefactor.
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During the early years Of his ca
reer as an evangelist the late d. l..
Moody was not quite the practical
man Of affairs which he became as he
grew older and his Judgment ripened.
A characteristic incident of this Pc
Rod of his life Is vouched for by a
correspondent. He was holding a Sc
ries Of meetings In small town In
central Illinois, where, with his wife,
he enjoyed the hospitality OF a prom
inent citizen. At dinner one day his
fancy was particularly taken with
some cucumber pickles.
II am very fond Of pickles." he said,
and these are certainly the finest |
ever tasted. l wish l could get some
like them In our market at home"
Il can give you all you want to take
home with you, Mr.. Moody" said his
generous hostess.
"But l don't want them as a Gift. |
would like to buy them"
well, Of course, II you would rather
have them that way I can pickle a lot
Of them from our garden and the
neighbors', and my husband can send
them to you. What quantity would
you wantT
II think a barrel would be enough. y
said Mr.. Moody. without a moments
hesitation. send me a barrel of
them"
But here his more practical wife In.
terfered, and the order was cut down
to small keg.
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A SIMPLE RUSE


a GORGE SCHUYLER belonged
IL 81 to an old New York family
~ Helen Ganzevoort also belonged
20 an Old New York family. Georges
branch of the Schuyler family was
poor. Helen's branch Of the Came
yoort family was rich.
The parents of both these young PEG
pie had been the staunchest kind of
friends since they had been old enough
TO know what friendship meant, and
friends had the ancestors been for gen
erations back to the time Of the stump
legged Peter. George Schuyler was
five years older than Helen Came
wort. There was enough Of the same
Dutch Idea left in George to make him
n dutiful son as there was enough
Of the same Dutch in Helen TO make
her a dutiful daughter. George Schuy-
Ter had been brought up to believe
that one day he must marry Helen
Ganzevoort, and Helen Ganzeyoort
had been brought up to believe that
one lay she must marry George
Schuyler.
The Schuylers were not rich, as has
been said, and when George was IL,
instead of beng sent to college he
was shipped west, 10 see If he could
pick up a fortune. Helen was at that
time II years old, and she did not
feel keenly at all the parting with her
prospective husband, and 1t must be
confessed that George didn't shed
many tears when he said good-by TO
this plain little girl with her hair in
pigtails.
George Schuyler went 10 San Fran
cisco, and thee In the course of nine
years he did manage 10 pick up what
the farmer calls tidy bit Of money"
George went east twice during his San
Francisco stay. but both times Helen
was abroad. They wrote
to each other once every three months
ant while there wasn't line of affee-
ion in the letters on either side, there
was enough in them TO show that each
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17
STAGE PEOPLE IN SUMMER.
Some of Them Have Hard Time Il
Tiding Over.

oNtFA
In summer what becomes Of the
numbers of stage people who return
to the metropolis penniless at the close
OF the season? How do they live:
These questions were put to the man.
ager Of the theatrical agency In
Broadway. "Indulgent landladies
friends In the country. and parents
In the city solve the summer problem
for hosts OF theatrical people," replied
the agent. IAN actor would sooner
starve than be seen by his mates
working at an other trade. About 70
per cent of those who remain here
get trusted for their summers board
and lodging. They pay up, in most
cases, in the course Of the next sea.
son. sending from week to week to
the landlady sufficient to cancel their
summers Indebtedness.
"Of course" went ON the agent,
they're not all improvldent See that
little girl going outY" He pointed to a
petite figure in the ceaseless stream OF
applicants. Got plenty Of money
enough to last her until the season
opens and a bit to spare. They call
her stingy on the road. because she
won't spend her money. Laugh is on
her side now. Many of 'em come here
without a rag to their backs for sum.
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felt that the old marriage arrange
ment made by the parents still stood.
George Schuyler was % years old.
His income now was large enough 10
justify him in marrying, and in feel
ing that he wouldn't have TO go TO the
bureau drawer every morning to find
his wife's purse. George was going
back TO take a bride that he hadn't
seen in nine years. and it's just barely
possible that he didn't feel overly COM
Portable at the prospect. AS a mat
ter Of fact, George Schuyler liked
bachelorhood. No woman ever as yet
had stirred his pulse. His gun and his
women In the world. But George had
been getting letters from his aged
parents, who said that 1t was time he
came east and went TO wooing In earn
est He wrote that he would start
In week, but that on his way he
was to stop for few days fishing
with an old friend on the Beaverkill,
that ideal trout stream which tumbles
down the southern slope of the Cats
kills on its way TO Delaware.
George Schuyler took his fly book
and his split bamboo rod on the first
morning after his arrival at his
friends wilderness lodge and started
out to whip the stream for the
speckled beauties. He was In wadIng
boots hip high. and down the stream
he went, dropping his "coachman" lure
to the surface of every pool where
1t looked as though trout might Turk.
Luck was only fair and the sun was
getting high. Trout don't like the
glare of the midday sun and they keep
away from the surface. no matter how
tempting the morsel offered for con-
sumption. George Schuyler was think.
Ing about Keeling In and going back
to the lodge, when suddenly at a place
where the Beaverskill broadened he
saw country girl, in calico dress
and sunbonnet. sitting at the water
edge. She was listening to the song
of brown thrasher that. fitting ON a
low tree top. was pouring forth its
medley for the benefit Of his sunbon.
neted friend.
George Schuyler stopped in mid
stream. He did not wish to disturb
the birds solo. upon which the listen,
Ing girl seemed so intent. He stopped
but slipped on a round stone and
splashed the water, which was calm
and still just there. The thrasher went
into the thicket like a fash and the
girl turned her head just as quickly
George Schuyler saw face under
the shadow of the huge country bon
net that was much more than pretty
and which had In 1t that which mer
rightly call character. Georges fish
erman's cap was off in an Instant
"Good mornings" are allowable In the
wilderness without the formality Of
an Introduction.
Il am just about TO stop fishing ant
go back to the lodge OF my friend
Mr. Payson. Can you tell me II Their,
is a shorter path than the stream 1t
selfT'
The girl nodded brightly. Yes,
she said you can take the trai
through the tamaracks. 1t begins jus
here" Then the girl turned her at
tentlon once more to the brown thrash
err. who gave symptoms of being will
Ing to start his solo once more.
Schuyler thanked the girl courteous
ly and after Keeling in his line starte,
along the trail indicated. When b
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17
Money Is cheaper now, compared with
ability, than ever before.

T Many people must spend half or more
+ Of their earnings for their food. In
view OF tbs fact is It the part of Wis
dom for the housewife to scrimp On
beef that she may buy ribbons To tie
up her sandwiches? A distinguished
statesman once assured a young rela-
tive that her knowledge OF cooking
and housekeeping was worth literally
a huud red thousand d liars 10 her;
while another authority affirms that
we waste enough at the store. at the
market, and In the home to make US
wealthy-.if we would only save.
Would II not be pleasant 10 be
wealthy More than half the diseases
which embltter life are due TO avoid
able errors In diet. Therefore The
housekeepers power Is greater than
that of the physician. A specialist on
insanity says that is various forms
almost always begin with the inabil-
ity Of the person TO digest food. Ii
the mistress of the house believed that
she might save husband or father from
insanity, would she begrudge study
given to the chemistry OF foodf \
man enters the arena Of business with
the purpose of becoming master of
whatever he undertakes. lie knows
that reputation. social position, prog
ress, the happiness of his family aud
life itself, depend upon his success.
II the young housekeeper would feel
the same response lily In regard TO her
home, can any one doubt that her sue
cess would be striking and pricelessf
These facts and queries are respect
fully submitted to girl readers who In
reality or anticipation preside over the
destinies of a househ H.
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EDITORIALS


World They have been retarded by institutions no
doubt and In adhere 10 present ideals their fur
Their action may be destructive personal liberty and
onal viriy in other countries ancient modern
At the time. there few who will not regret that
the day OF the small independent American farmer ia
giving way to that of the landlord.-New York News
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Wordsworth and. HIS Neiehbors.


The worthiest of Wordsworth's VIII
lage in the lake country of England had
their own ideas OF his value as a man
and poet When questioned after his
death as to his personality, they read
lily admitted that he was kind to those
who We're In sickness or need. They
could count on him on a pinch. But he
did not hobnob with his neighbors.
He did not notice them much" said
an old man, in answer to questions
asked by the author of Lake Country
Sketches"
"A Jem Crow and an aud blue cloak
was his rig" continued the old man.
And as for his habits, he had moan.
Niyer knew him with pot 4 his
hand or pipe + his mouth"
After deep probing the author
brought out:
"Yes, Wordsworth was fond of
good dinner at times, II you could
get him to it; that was Z job"
Then the poets aloofness was again
touched upon.
He was forever pacing the roads
and his own garden walks, and always
composing poetry. He was terrible
throng In visitors and folks ye mum
ken at times, but II he could get ava
fra them a spell. he was out upon his
walk.
And then he would set his head
bit forrad, and put his hands behint
his back And then he would start
cumming, and 1t was bum, bum. bum,
and go on cumming for long enough,
right down and back again. I sup
pose, ye ken, the cumming helped him
out a Bit"
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A homeless horse In Paris the other
day ate up several hundred francs
worth of new hats. 1t seems that
halter of the Boulevard de Bell
vile adorned his premises with Pan
anna hats He left the shop for q
while and when he returned found a
horse busily eating away and seem
ingly enjoying these creations IN
straw. The Panamas had already dis
appeared down his throat The AMI
NAL. it is thought, had probably been
starved and had escaped from a neigh
boring stable. He was sent to the
mound
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mer and have TO wear their winter
clothes or last years suits and
dresses. This one wears good clothes
summer clothes. Of the newest pat
tern. and promenades In Broadway
like a queen. When she's signed, and
the hot weather Is on to stay, she'll
20 down TO the shore or into the coun-
try and enjoy herself Dresses well.
looks we'll lives well. Next winter
she'll pay her hotel bills, with no In
cldentals.'
That one over there, the seedy one,
couldn't buy cigar at cut-rate
store. Hen come out all right, though.
Never has a cent, but always at work.
He's just In from long tour. Pref
~ late for stock. but he's an old
s.ager and may land. A good many
exc out the years income by play
Ing summer engagements at various
theaters throughout the country. Near
ly every city OF any size has from one
to half dozen stock companies this
summer; the summer-stock business
has grown enormously In the last two
or three years. and gives employment
TO hundreds Not enough TO 20 round,
though. The best people, as n rule,
don't play summer engagements, al
though there are exceptions. Com
paratively few of the best play sum-
mer stock, unless driven to it"-New
York Evening Post.
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An American traveller In the West
Indies asked boys just let loose from
school what they were going to do
when they grew up. The unanimous
reply was that they We're going to
America as soon as they could raise
the passage-money. That's the place
where West Indians get ON, for there's
no room for them to go ahead here. "
There is always room in our country
for one more, provided he is of the
right sort.
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Crisp new bank-notes" may cease
to be a descriptive term, II the gov
eminent avails itself of recent discov-
cries by which paper can be made soft
velvety and unshrinkable. In the
making of postage stamps, too, the dis
covery may work considerable
change. 1t is said that because of the
shrinking of the paper now used, af
ter receiving the printing on one side
and the mucilage on the other, and
because no two sheets shrink alike
one--fifth are ruined In the perforation
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1t would be worth while TO know
whether there is any good basis for
the persistent rumor that oysters are
responsible for great deal of ty-
phoid fever, at least to the extent OF
being the passive vehicle for the diff
fusion of the mierobe of the disease
to which 1t Is itself presumably i'm
mune, The testimony of one doctor is
hardly to be accepted in SO important
n matter
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17

Finding himself without money, q
passenger on an ocean liner recently
adopted the expedient of communi-
eating by wireless telegraphy with his
mother, who happened to be travel
ing ON a passing steamer of the same
company. She accordingly deposited a
certain sum with the purser OF her
steamer, who cabled an order TO the
corresponding officer of the other ship
TO deliver that amount to the young
man. The success of the experiment
suggests a new sense In which 1t has
become true that money has wings
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Money is waiting everywhere for
men who can use 1t advantageously.
From every great mercantile house
and every factory there is cry for
Young men of capacity. Not for Or
binary mediocre young men; not for
young men who watch the clock for
the hour of quitting time; not for
voune men who do mechanically only
what they arc told That class OF
young men can only get what the
market allows to those who have TO
have their thinking done for them. But
the young man who has something
original In him, and who is ready to
snnlv himself and make sacrifices.
who has growth in him. has greater
opportunities now than ever Defofe'
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A Chicago girl went fishing and
caught pair of trousers containing
$s.13. That's nothing Miss Goelet's
angling has landed whole suit of
clothes containing a duke with rent
roll OF 100000 year and a string of
titles as long as her own petite self.
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steadily diminishing for years, farming showing
corresponding Increase In 1880 44 per cent OF the
farms operated by their In 1890 the per-
centage had fallen TO 716 and by the OF 1900 Is
shown have dropped 10 G3 Concden with this decline
has been gradual but percpbe growth in the
age size of farms 1t 1865 In 1890 and 1858
In 1900 There be installing the trend II Is
In the direction of larger holdings and increase Of
landlord class.
All this is 10 be expected by who has studied the
tendency OF people 10 flock into the and cities
The strength of this tendency is amply exhibited in
figures Away back 1890 only "a cent OF the popua
ton lived III towns Of 5000 people BY 1860
proportion had risen TO 161 per cent Ii 226 per
In 1880 and less than 1871 per in 1900 There Is
thus outlined what almost amounts revolution the
last twenty thirty years Our farmers having secured
competence retire to the cities where they may enjoy
not to be had in rural communities Their
Is rented to tenants and whatever Of surplus ae-
is forthwith invested increasing their holdings
Their children bred to city life cling TO It, farming
and given TO the hands OF those have
not the intelligence and energy that the
farmer Of twenty years 1t Is difficult to
In all this the operation Of the economic and
social laws that have developed conditions the Old
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be made between
the present head
thereof and the
q st secretary,
Thomas Ewing. In
sterling integrity
they were alike; In
the experiences OF
their lives wholly
unlike. Ewing is
one OF those inter-
esting figures of
whom the student
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How to be popular though frank is
conundrum not yet answered. A
young man who got out OF street
car in an Eastern city recently had
not answered 1t. AS he disappeared u
young woman In the car said to her
companion, II Just hate that mani lie
says We have the homllest crowds of
girls in our office he ever saw IN his
lIfari