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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
"LARN UP" THE SPOTTED STEER.
What an Ambitious Young Man In
fended to Do Mt CnIIcpc

What an Ambitious Young Man In
tended to Do at College.
A young man entered a college cffiee,
and, touching the presidents arm, asked
In a peculiar mountain brogue: BE ye
the man who sells larnng?" Before
the president could answer, he asked
again: Look here, mister, do You uns
run this here thing?" "a
The president replied: Yes, my man,
when the thing Is not running pie.
What can l do for your =
Heaps was the only reply. Then,
after a pause, he said: Il has learn
that you uns edecate poor boys here,
and, being as | am poor, thought I'd
come and see II twas so. Do yen
The president replied that poor logs
attended the college. but that 1t took
money to provide for them, that they
were expected to pay something. He
was greatly troubled.
Have you anything to pay for your
food and lodging?"
His face frightened as he replied
Yes, sir; | have little spotted steer;
and, If you uns will let me, I'll stay
wild you I'LL l larn him VI" Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
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Short tories


In A recently published memoir OF
Lord Salisbury. there Is an amusing
story of his childhood. oh. Betty
he sighed one day to his nurse. Il wish
| was "A catm why" asked the as
tonlshed Betty. when | think, said
the child, "of the many times | must
dress and undress before | die, / wish
my clothes grew on my baek!'
A story is going the rounds of
youthful minister who, when he
preached his first funeral sermon over
"A woman In a small Maine town,
praised her so highly that the poor
bereaved husband sitting there listen
Ing. could not recognize her by the de-
scriptlon Finally, in "A glowing raror-
alton he pictured God aud the ..teA-
angels aud the angels and all the hosts
of the redeemed joyously forming
parade TO welcome to heaven this zone
of the very best of all women The
patient husband, who had never been
able to rule his own household, could
stand II no longer and. leaplng up.
interrupted the preacher with beck
uning hand. gasping out: No, no,
elder; not quite that! She was only
bout middlin'."
\ newly married couple recently
sauntered lesurcly around statunry
Hall in the Capitol At Washington,
ID. c.. trying hard to appear nneon-
sclous. Stopping on one of the echo
stones to gaze at a new statue, they
were spled by two youthful pages look
ing for a Joke. one of the pages hur-
ried TO another echo stone. and In II
whisper asked: when did you get
marriedYe The couple looked at each
other and then all around the hall,
but could discern no one. The bride
blushed. aud the young man looked
miserable. Preceuuy again came the
mysterious question: when did you
get married?7 Awe stricken and look
ing extremely foolish, they lied from
the hall. TO the intense amusement Of
the misehleYous pages.
Some fifteen years ago. Sir Thomas
iAHlbH Adb phSStuEtI On an i-hSl
Indian steamer. bound for Ceylon.
While In the Red Sea. the boat was
disabled. and Il became necessary 10
throw overheard part Of her cargo.
Upton was an interested spectator OF
the preparations for tightening the
ship. Suddenly he bolted the scene.
and by twenty-dollar decker with
the chief engineer, secured a stencil,
paint brush, and pot Of black paint.
Then TO the establishment of the cap
tain and passengers, he cheerfully la
beled each box and bale thrown over
board, Use Llpton's Teas" The car
go, of course iioated ashore. aud for
miles In Araby and other lands the
natives saw that legend. Subsequent
ly the passengers on the injured
steamer were compelled to abandon
It., and take to small boats. On reach
ing land, Sir Thomas was the first to
make a cable office, and wire the de
struction of the boat and safety of the
travellers 10 London. The message
was signed Upton" OF course. his
name WIS In every English newspaper
the next morning, signed TO that mes
sage, and he was the best-adyertised
man in the kingdom.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
lNsuRlNo BAsYs FUTURE.
Nurse Was Bound This Infant should
Rise in the World.

Nurse Vas Bound This Infant should
Rise I'm the World. s
The womon who lives on the top floor
of one of the new apartment houses
was standing at the head of the tenth
flight of stairs, preparatory to descend
ing TO the street, when her attention
was arrested by n procession that
wound lis way slowly up the stairs and
effectually barred her way. .s.....
The procession consisted of n nurse,
whose proportions were more than am
pie, and yerged on the mountainous p
In her arms she carried an infant, the
length of whose days was In inverse
proportion to the length of his clothes
At the widest he was certainly not
more than two weeks old Behind her
came maid who carried extra wraps
AS they reached the top Of the stairs
the maid addressed the nurse. t-
Il guess we can't get up no higher"
she said. as she scanned the hall with
speculative eye. $50 we might rs well
go down again"
All she had ever heard as to the wis
dom of humoring lunatics rushed into
the mind of the apartment dweller-; 50 .
she spoke to the twain politely. -.
did You want to see some one on
this foorY she asked nervously.
The nurse gave a deprecatlng laugh.
"Why. no, ma'am," she answered, I'VE :
don't want to see no one. You see, this /,
baby is goin' TO be took out to be
chrlstened, an when you takes baby
out for the first time you must always
take him upstairs before you take him
downstairs, SOS when he grows up
he'll 90 up In the world an not down"
Dear met commented the dweller
In the upper air. according to the New
York Times, relieved when she learned
that 1t was superstition and not lnsan-
lty that was responsible for the caval-
cade. how much they do for children
nowadaysi'
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
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Khaki uniforms are now worn by
all the foreign troops in China ex-
cept the Russians.
Swiss cowbells have been introduced
into the Himalayas as a protection
for cattle against tigers. The tigers
are said to run as soon as they hear
the bells.
As a rule dwarfs live much longer
than giants. The latter usually have
weak constitutions, their blood circu-
lation is sluggish, and they have brit
tie bones.
Two monster Vegetables turnip
weighing twenty-three pounds and
cabbage weighing fifteen pounds
have been grown at Foulmere, Cam
bridgeshire, England.
Trained cats are the latest fad OF
French society women. Fashion de-
crees that the animal must be edu-
eral of the best-known women In Par
lsian society are giving an hour day
to training their pets.
1t is said that some of the Nene-
tians-those who have never been to
the mainland-have never seen horse
In all their lives. A Snowman once
brought one to fair and called 1t
monster. and the factory hands paid
Il quarter TO see the marvel
Berkeley, "a delightful fower-be-
decked town" in California of TWEEN
ty thousand inhabitants, does not pos
sess n solitary policeman, and has no
need of one No alcoholic drinks
whatever may be sold within a mile
of the outside limits of the town.
At discard, in Cheshire, England
is room that contains hundreds OF
picture frames made of every imag-
Unable substance, from leather to
tigers bones, one frame being placed
within another, according to size, so
that the whole surface is covered with
/ frames.
I The Philippines are beginning to use
very largely curious device to teach
their children to walk. 1t Is n rough
affair. OF course, ana IS composed OF
a piece of bamboo that revolyes
around the end of hard wood pole
A glove is fastened to the revolving
stick and the child thus attached has
to follow the lead of the machine.
S. o. McCurdy Of Sunbury, Pa, has
been in the railway mall service
twenty years, and in that time has
travelled 767,0S4 miles. something like
thirty-two journeys around the world
In the one wreck which the veteran
mail clerk has been through his life
was saved by a mail sack which he
had in his hand He was thrown
from his ear, and would have gone
under the wheels of the locomotive
If the sack had not blocked his way
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
SVEN HepeN IN CENTRAL ASIA
Distinguished Explorer Makes Valu-
able Discoveries.

AOiC
The Swedish riksdag will soon pass
upon the request made to King Oscar
last fall by the famous explorer Sven
Hedln for a grant of $4,000 TO pub
llsh the scientific results of his most
recent explorations In Central Asia.
DR.. Hedin is now making public from
time TO time some Of the more popular
features of his great work from 1879
to 1902 The scientific side consists of a
great amount of photographic material
no less than 113 astronomical determi-
nations, thousands Of meteorological OBJ
serYations, vast collections of geologl'
cal, archaeological, and fauna specl-
mems, and something like 5000 photo
graphs. says Harper's Weekly. DIR.
Hedin's work has been done chiefly in
Central Asia and in Tibet He has
made three visits to Central Asia. His
latest trip had two especial objects
first to map the Tarim River and TO
solve the mystery about the so-called
moving lake Lob Nor, and, second, to
penetrate TO Lhasa, the Sacred City
T Tibet. He succeeded In the first,
but failel in the second although he
got within four days o. short marches
TO the great city.
DIR. Hedln went from the source to
the mouth Of the Tarlm River, the
greatest stream In Central Asia. and
mapped It's course.
He found series Of chain lakes along
the lower end Of the river. short dis
lance from its banks, and then came TO
the old bed of Lob Nor. Baron Won
Rlchtofen first set forth the theory that
Lob Nor had moved itself many miles
across country to new bed. DIR. He
din found this to be true. II Is four
days journey around the new lake. The
new lake and the old are on the same
level with a slight rise of land be-
tween.
The explorer found remains of tenn
pies, several pieces of Chinese manu-
script, and other evidences that the
shores of the lake had once been inhab-
tied. Drawings of fishes which are pre-
cisely like the fish In Lob Nor to-day
were found. In his memorable trips
across the desert, characterized by great
hardships. DR.. Hedln found the ruins Of
old cities, and evidences that the region
had been watered once by streams and
a system Of canals.
The explorer went south through
large part Of Tibet three times on his
latest trip. He mapped mountain
passes and streams. collected spec-
mems, and when within fourteen days
march of Lhasa left his caravan and,
with two companions, came within four
days journey of the Sacred City. At
the City of Leh he dismissed his fol-
lowers and passed over into India.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

The case Of the man Knapp, recently
arrested for murder. is one for the
study of criminologists as well as o.
psychologists. He has confessed TO
having murdered five women and girls,
each crime having been accompanied
by shocking cruelty, and he may be
guilty of others not confessed. OF
course the man Is monster, degen-
crate of the worst type, but the ques-
ton Is, what made him so? Was Il
heredity or environment? Was be born
with an irresistible tendency to crime
or was it first implanted and then nur-
tured In him by environments? Is he
himself wholly responsible for his
shocking degeneracy or are his ances-
tors and society responsible for it in
any degree? Could he have become a
decent man under any circumstances
or was he predestlned TO life of horri-
BILE crimes? No amount of speculation
can solve the mystery. We know that
heredity and environment are the mas
ter influences of the organic and ami.
NAL world. They have made all of us
what we are and are still ceaselessly
playing upon all our lives, but which
one exerts the dominating influence
none can tell. The crimiuolOgist VIII
not find anything In this case to sup
port the theory that punishment pre-
vents crime or reforms criminals.
Knapp had served time In four peni-
tentiaries, terms of considerable length,
and yet in each instance he returned
to crime as soon as he was released
No doubt some criminals are improved
by punishment and few are reformed,
but the germ of reformation was In
them at the beginning Most confirm
ed criminals are beyond the power of
reformation This man never should
have been liberated after his first crime.
Releasing him from prison was simply
turning loose upon society monster
to commit the most horrible crimes. II
society could have known the true sit
uation 1t would have been justified in
imprisoning him for life. His punish
ment in every instance was a farce.
He was tried, convicted and sentenced
with all the solemn dignity Of the law,
but II was time and money thrown
away except that during the period Of
his Imprisonment he could not prey
upon society. The whole scheme Of
punishment in this mans case was a
dismal failure, and the question recurs,
may 1t not be so in many cases? So
clety does not seem to have got at the
root of the matter. =
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
French Colonies backward.

France spends annually for her c To-
mics little more than $25,000,00o, while
the aggregate of Its business with them,
export and import. Is, but $62,000,00O,
and but 1000 year emigrate to French
colonies. But France has not been the
least successful country in building a
colonial empire, for Germany's geo
graphically large possessions cost mere
than the aggregate of the exports and
imports from them.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

"Some men are born great" said an
enyious son of the East, "others are
born in Ohio" At a recent reception
of the Ohio Society of New York to
the Secretary of State, Mr.. Hay, al
though he claimed residence In Ohio
declared that he had suffered all his
life under the handicap of not having
been born there. "When it comes to
pull and prestige" he is man without
a State. In his own words: Il was
born in Indiana. ! grew up in Illinois.
I was educated In Rhode Island.
learned my law In Springfield, my pol
itics In washington. my diplomacy In
Europe. Asia and Africa. l have
farm I'm New Hampshire, and desk
room in the District of Columbia. The
hrst ancestors of whom ever heard
were a scotchman who was half-Eng
Iish and a German woman VINO was
balf-French. My mother was from
New England, and my father from the
south. In this bewilderment OF origin
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Quintin Hogg. the founder of one
of the largest trade-schools for young
men and women In the world, who
died recently. said in discussing college
athletics when on a visit to Chiago
in 1901, "Pile up at my left hand all
the broken collar-bones, fractured
limbs and sprained wrists that have.
resulted from football scrimmages,
and at my right let me put all the
bodily wrecks and physical degener-
ates that owe their weakness to moth
ing else than lack of proper exercise.
and I'll tell you that your pile Of foot
ball injuries will look like n mole
hill and my group of weaklings will
be the mountain" He knew that the
men who have done the work of the
world have. with few exceptions. had
strong, vigorous bodies. made so or
kept so by exercise of the right kind.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Ii will be a dull world II The tine
ever comes when women are too busy
to be pleasant. rs your wife en.er,
tanning this winter said one man l.
another. Not very replied his witty
II disconsolate friend. Under the bril-
liant repartee lies melancholy comics
sion. Unhappy the busy man whose
wife is not entertaining this winter
and all the winters The empiy-htadz
ed woman is certainly trial Sic
grows less common every year. But
her place is too often tlken by the We
man with head and heart filled 10 oVeT
flowing with the problems of m de-
life and she may not be much mon
skillful than her SLY sister IN dealias
with the everyday needs Of huShanz
and children. A tired doctor, ~ M
home from fourteen hours Of tusSl
with a typhold.feyer epidemic cannot
be refreshed by conversation on eiFie
reform or ON the enrichment OF II
high-school course. or even on the lai=
est German theory Of the Homerie au-
thorship. If he Is net heartened wisely
for his next days work he is too likely
10 become himself a victim of the dis-
ease, and he may vel have as his ep..
taph at the hands of his inc0nsideraie
wife. AT rest-till we meet again!
Intellectual grasp and moral enthusi-
asm are glorious possessions for any
woman. But there are others not TO be
despised by her. and one of the chief
of them is the power of being anus
ing
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
PLAN MANY FESTIVITIES.

Countess cnssini to Give Some Notable
Entertainments in New Home.
Count Cassini. the Russian ambassa-
dor at Washington, has leased for
year and will AT once occupy the Levi
T. Morton house on Scott circle, which
for several seasons Representative
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28
Always the Mode.

"You don't care much for display?"
mot much" replied the very
wealthy man.
"Yet there is some satisfaction In
not being wholly out Of STYLE"
THAT is the point precisely. The
things that money buys go out of
fashion in very few months; but the
money itself becomes more stylish
every century. Washington Star.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

An Englishman gives his impress
sions of Boston in the New York indie
pendent, and suggests that Bostonians
need never hesitate to display Reyo-
lutionary relies to their English friends
from any fear lest those reminders
of national defeats may awaken pain
full feelings. He says his countrymen
are hardened TO that sort OF thing.
for they cannot even cross the Eng
fish Channel without remembering that
Calais was British possession for cen
turtles.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

A Texas man would place a tax
on the impecunlous mobiles who come
to this country looking for wives. But
just what punishment would that be
to the mobiles? The unfortunate girls
would have to pay the tax.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

The Austrian archduke who gave up
his title and hereditary claims few
weeks ago In order TO elope with a
music hall singer has been deserted by
the latter. Without his title and for
tune he probably seemed like differ
ent man to her.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Is there to be no disconnection from
care on land or water? Ships 60 down
to the sea only to be called up inces-
sanity with kilograms. Now the rail-
road flyer is to be fitted with a wire
less apparatus and even flight is not
to be unbroken rest.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Instead of oats, they are feeding hay
sweetened with molasses to WORK
horses in New York because the
horses, when standing in harness Mt
noon. do not chew their oats prop
erly. A veterinary surgeon says there
Ia more nutriment in molasses than in
oats, and that 1t Is a better food for
horses. 1t is only In recent years that
the food value of sugar has been un-
derStood.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

why are you crying. little boyY"
asked the tourist in Texas.
"Boo-hoo" sobbed the youngster. de
cyclone blew down every house in
town but one"
What one was thatf"
THE sehoolhouse. - Philadelphia
Record.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Being in unusually good health the
pope intends closing his pontifclal
jubilee year with grand ceremonies at
st. Peters.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

The Duluth man who goes up and
down pulling peoples teeth against
their will should not be too harshly
condemned That Is not so bad as
pulling peoples legs.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Since great many society ladies find
that they cannot belong to the order
of Daughters of the Revolution, let
them get up a new organization Of
Mothers of the Next War"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Dr. George Sauerwein, German
philologist, writes poetry in thirty
eight different languages. DR.. Sauer-
vein may as well be given up. His is
evidently an incurable case.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Sprague has occupied. Should this
property eventually be purchased by
the Russian government spacious
ballroom VIII be built over a portion
OF It and many other important
changes will be made. Following tho
occupancy Of the new embassy Coun-
tess Cassln viii give some notable en-
tertainmeUts
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

1t is a modification after being away
from home for considerable time TO
be compelled TO introduce the subject
TO intimate friends
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Since Grover Cleveland has praised
him, Henry Ward Beecher must occu-
by pretty low place in the estimation
of Colonies Bryan and Watterson.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

An authority on words says that
"mauywhere" is correct. Just drop ii in
anywhere to show that your CONVEX
sation is up to date.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

France has freak Legislators, too.
One of them has Just evolved bill to
tax tom cats because they wantonly
destroy the song birds In the parks.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

From the investigations of the New
York department of taxes and assess
ments 1t appears that Gotham is not
city OF millionaires.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Some men are so suspicious that they
always feel for their poeketbook when-
ever their wives are kind to them.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Mr.. Marconi is beginning to insd-
tute suits for lnfringements on his
patents. There ought to be something
In that
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

and experience. can only put on
an aspect of humility IN any gath
ering of favorite sons and confess |
am nothing but an American"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Probably some men are unable TO
stand upon their dignity because their
feet are larger than their dignity.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Thirteen new men sit In the United
States Senate. Is the hoodoo upon the
Senate or upon the country?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

President Francis must have had an
unusually fine line of stories TO Keep
the kaiser listening for fifty minutes.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

The point in securing an evangelist
seems to be the same as In getting a
new dress; very important that he
should come from larger town
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

DR.. Parkhurst had better take a
tight grip on what religion he has II
he is going TO run a newspaper.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

If mans wife owns a pug dog he
always imagines It looks as If 1t were
sorry for him.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-28

Don't think man can't keep a secret:
just think Of the bad things he knows
on himself.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25

L .h,e- G Thomas a Surrogate OF the County Of
New York notice hereby given to all persons having
claims against Joseph Gels ate OF the County 81 New
70 the subscriber her place Of transactng business
Borough Of brooklyn the city OF Ne" York on or before
Il" Dated New York the 22d day Of October. 1902
Da'eo 4's" -N'' GELS
G. T PERRY Attorneys for Executrix. II Green Point
N y.