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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

It is related of Southern Pacific en-
e ,neer who runs out of Los ANGELES to
tle eastward, that at the end of long
run recently he was ordered to i'm
mediately take his train back to Los
Angeles. Orders are orders, in rail
roading as in war. No other engineer
was to be had, and the train must go,
even though weary Nature were pro-
testing and demanding her tribute of
rest. The engineer fought drowisness
successfully for many miles, but on
coming into Pomona he was horified
to find that six miles of the road had
been a blank to him. He had been
asleep. The engineer refused TO go
any farther unless a man were placed
a his elbow to see that he was con-
stantly awake and vigilant This was
done and the train moved on.
The lesson of all this is that peace
has its dangers, it's opportunities its
responsibilities for high endeavor and
great daring and fidelity such as war
cannot furnish.
The engineer in his greasy clothes
is generally a real hero, and he gazes
death out of countenance far oftener
than any soldiers. F. ~tar.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
The wonderful Toad Bone.

AL early writers attribute wonderful
qualities to toads and frogs and the
various parts of their bodies. Pliny
believed. for Instance. that If a toad
was brought into the midst of a mob
or other large and unruly concourse OF
people ''silence would instantly pre-
vail" A small bone found in the
right side of toads "of the proper age"
was also believed to have powers over
the various elements. by throwing
this bone into vessel of boiling
water" says Pliny. "it will immediate
ly cool 1t, the water refusing to boil
again until the bone has been removed.
To find this bone. expose the dead toad
on an ant hill. When the facts have
eaten her all away except the bones.
take each bone separately and drop it
into boiling water. Thus may the
wondrous toad bone be discovered"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
Philosophy of Fatisua.

Some may be interested to know
that there is now almost new kind
of philosophy Of fatigue" says a writer
In Ainslee's. "Some spectators think
man became conscious because his In
tuitions were slowed up by exhaustion.
so that the mind has to pick its way
slowly and logically instead OF divining
instantly. as 1t used to do. 1t was the
fall OF man. Wilder dreamers have
even described the origin OF cosmic gas
and nebuls, from which all the worlds
come. as due to progressive fatigue of
the ether, which is far more subtle and
back OF it. 1t is little as If they were
attempting to rewrite the first phrases
Of the Old Testament so that it should
read In the beginning was fatigue"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
shakespeare,s BIunders.

The anachronisms and errors Of
Shakespeare are too well known to re-
quire repetition. He speaks of cannon
In the reign of King John century
and a half before their invention; he
refers to printing in the reign Of Henry
H.. of clocks In the time of Cesar;
makes Hector quote Aristotle and Cori-
olanus refer to Cato. He introduces
billiard table into the house to Cleo
patra. makes Delphos an island and
gives a seacoast to Bohemia.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

The greatest yearly record of the
Comstock Lode, tate of Nevada, is
stated in some official records to have
been S36, ,3Ol ,536.60 in the year 1877. OF
this amount SD, 500, ,6l4.23 was gold,
and S2l, 7S0, ,922.37 was silver. The total
yield to date of the Comstock is re-
ported at, in round figures, $4,000, 900
of which $500, 900, 00o was silver.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
Boys Wild Ride in the Sky.

That it pays to look out and to keep
cool has just been impressed on STAN
ley Hopkins, twelve-year-old boy of
Lynchburg, o. At the same time he
learned how it feels to hang on a rope
1000 feet up in the sky. There was
balloon ascension at the county fair at
Hillsboro, and as the big gas bag shot
up Stanley got tangled in the guy
ropes somehow and was jerked high
into the air. Women and children
tainted at the sight, but the boy kept
his wits, grabbed the ropes and hung
on tight while the balloon scared near
ly half mile, with the aeronaut try
ing in vain to get hold of him. Final
ly the man, after telling him to keep
holding tight, let some gas out of the
balloon, and they slowly came down.
Stanley had been gone only eight min
utes, but the crowd was SO glad to see
him that it almost smothered him.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
cutting the Counselor short.

do you give me credit for wis
domY" asked the judge.
Certainly" replied the lawyer who
had just started on a Iong winded and
wearying argument
We'll. just remember" said the
Judge, that a word to the wise is suf.
ficient."-Chicago Post.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

Americans are plunging ahead in
business channels with amazing energy
and are restless unless engaged in
stupendous enterprises which monop-
olise oil their time, brains and money.
This extraordinary activity 10 rapidly
developing the resources of the coun-
try, but it certainly is not conducive to
long life among the people. Conscien-
tious physicians are becoming tired of
warning business men that they are
exhausting their vital energies too
early in life and are calmly pocketing
the fees which are given to keep
wrecked constitutions working little
longer.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

The electric plant that is running in
Tonopah uses a gasoline engine to
generate power. The plant furnishes
1000 16-candle power lights and will
be enlarged to meet the demands.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
Sure In F0lIow.

"Hello. centralr' called the man al
The phone. "Give ne the gas office
"Yes. SIR" replied the operator. but
] must warn you in advance that we
cannot tolerate any bad language oyes
the wire."-Spare Moments.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
She Hadn't Time.

Oiivia-Didn't you ever have a pro-
posai, violal
Viola (gioomily,-Y Yes: a man once
asked me to marry him. but ! forgot
myself and told him | hadn't time
Detroit Free Press.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

Show those who need help how to
help themselves is the highest
philanthropy.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

Diamond power drills are now used
in development work in the nickel
mines in Churchill county. a half
million has been expended on this
property.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09
proverbs

When the butter won't
come put a penny in the
,churn," is an old time dairy
proverb. 1t often seems to
work though no one has ever
told why.
When mothers are worried
because the children do not
gain strength and flesh we
say give them SCOTS Emul-
sion.
1t is like the penny in the
milk because it works and
because there is something
astonishing about it.
SCOTS Emulsion is simply
a milk of pure cod liver oil
with some hypophosphites
especially prepared for delicate
stomachs.
Children take to it naturally
because they like the taste
and the remedy takes just as
naturally to the children be-
cause it is SO perfectly adapted
to their wants.
For all weak and pale and
thin children SCOTS Emulsion
is the most satisfactory treat
ment.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

1t makes some men feel painfully
honest when their neighbors acquire
fortunes by dishonest methods.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

Bear in mind that brains are not
in schoolhouses. They
are only polished there.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

After blowing in his substance the
foolish youth visits the pawnshops for
the purpose of raising the wind.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

The President shook hands with ex
aotly 9,82l New Year callers.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-09

When you feel soured at the world,
read Longfellow's poems for an hour.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
GEN. NoRD ELECTED.
New President of Hayti Is SIS Years
of Age, BUT as Watchfal as a
Young Kid.

No Independent country in the world
has had more revolutions than the lit
tie negro republic of Hayti, which, in
this respect, eNcels even it's neighbor,
San Domingo, OF Venezuela, the polit-
ical rough horse of South America. A
presidential election was recently held
in Hayti. No one can tell with any de-
gree of accuracy which OF the candi-
dates was really elected, but Gen. Nord
is recognized as de facto president,
because he has just been allowed to
take the presidential oath of Office.
Gen. Nord has been a prominent figure
in the maelstrom of Haytian politics
for several years. He comes from the
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06

happened to be ''The Count Of Monte
Cristo."
"Have you ever read this story??"
said Mrs. Edison to her husband.
He stopped and looked at the title.
mo, l never have. Is it good"
Mrs. Edison assured him that it was.
Cali right. I guess I'll read it now"
and within two minutes the problem"
whatever it was, had been forgotten,
and he was absorbed in Dumas great
story. AS he finished the book he no.
ticed the light of day peeping in, and
on looking at, his watch found it was
five o'clock in the morning.
No sooner had he laid down the book
than the forgotten problem" jumped
into his mind, and, putting on his hat,
he went to his laboratory and worked
increasingly, without food or sleep, for
sc hours.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
Escaped jail.

With only an hours start of the Of
ficers, Jack Sulley, a notorious cattle
rustler, who broke Jail at Mitchell,
has so far eluded all efforts to locate
him. Not the faintest trace could be
secured of him after he left the Jail
about $3.50 in the evening. 1t is be-
lieved that three parties were con-
nected with the delivery, n of whom
sawed the bars to the outer door
while the other two watched and spir-
tied him away. To-day the deputy
sheriff made another discovery in the
condition of the Jail. Sully had taken
a bar from one of the cells and
broken the plaster southeast wall. He
then picked out the mortar and the
stones and had a passage way large
enough for himeato pass through.
Evidently he vas not aware of the
help he was getting from the outside.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
EDISON AS A READER.
Takes Up a Book u,,..u.
recommended by His Wife or
Some Friend,

The play of Thomas A. Edison.
mind is as wonderful as the cbaractar.
,stlc way in which he does his readizp.
outside OF his technical reading he Il
saio never to read a book unless it ia
spoken OF to him by his wife or some
TREND. Then he sits down and reads
untll he has fnishedit. One evening he
happened to be unusually engrossed
with some problem" and was nery.
ously pacing up and down his library
like a Gagged lion.
10 divert his thoughts, says the New
iork lines, his wife came in and
picked up the first book she saw. K
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
OF FOREST.
in the World Discov-
BY a Woman.
Vest Limb, which Itself
of a Mighty Oak, a
skyscrnper
ii Easily stand.

tree in the world has
nd by a woman.
ks been named Methusa-
It's age is probably much
was that of the oldest
bry. Its discoverer is
duncan, a modern Diana
|erful California forests.
b is a sequoia, or "big
|4sO feet high, 1913 feet 3
cumference a foot from
and 90 feet Z inches at
the ground. At one
so feet in diameter.
d tree known heretofore
circumference one foot
and % feet around
from the ground. The
, discovered last August
n. Grant national park,
by John Muir, the
alist. 1t was then con--
rid marvel, and even Cal
if it could be
.uncan's find, made 200
r south, far exceeds any
a beautiful tree, 24O fee.
limb, finely proportional,
| clean-barked from top
limb, which itself
the largest eastern oak,
'kyscraper might stand.
} the Great Pyramid, the
wave 80 feet above its
very of Methusalem was
e incident, especially as
by a pretty little wom-
courage and marksman-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
MILITARY MATTERS.

The cost. of firing a single shot
from a 16-inch gun would pay a pri-
vate soldier for five years.
French officers of every rank have
been forbidden TO accept invitations
to receptions given in their honor by
subordinates.
Gen. Osteyhaus, who q a major
general Of volunteers during the re-
bellion, now lives in, Bonn, Germany,
where he IL reportedSto be well and
happy = his eighty-trst year.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
Hoopoos OF NOTABLE MEN.
Belief In Tokens of III Omen In Not
Confined to the Loyvly md
ignorant.

Few people who have not a little
up and the average man will try to
get rid of any article. however valu-
able it may be, which he becomes
convinced is a hoodoo to him. Such
an article is the "violin of DEATH
which now lies buried on Diamond
hill, near Honolulu, says the New
York Press. This violin, which had
before, suddenly developed fatal at
tributes, and within a space of six
months two persons who owned it
successfully committed suicide and a
third person mysteriously disap-
peared and was never found. The
violin then came into the possession
Of George H. Scott, a sergeant in the
sixty-ninth battery coast artillery.
The violin had by this time become
we'll known as a hoodoo and Scott
after awhile became afraid Of the
malign influence and buried it at Dia-
mond hill. But the hoodoo still
worked, for not long after Scott
killed himself.
The story of the Indian idol with
a bad reputation for causing disaster
which vas presented to President
Carnot of France shortly before he
was assassinated is well known, but
the story of that idol is no more
wonderful than that of one owned
by a resident Of Hokiangi, New Zea-
land. 1t was presented to him by \
Maori chief and he has vainly tried
to get rid of it, believing that it
brings disaster upon him. Once he
threw it under the wheels of a rail-
road train and in running to get out
of the way fell and broke two fingers.
He was arrested for trying to wreck
the train, while the image came off
unframed: Once he threw it into the
sea and it was fshed out by a sailor,
who returned it to him, and in his
rage in not getting a reward beat
him until he was nearly dead. The
idol is about two feet high and is
composed of rosewood and ebony.
The owner proposes to burn it as the
only way of making an end. If all
that the New Zealander tells about
his hoodoo idol is true the image is
a near relative of the one written
about by Ansty in his "Fallen IDOL"
Napoleon the Great had two rings
which he believed brought him good
luck and which he constantly wore.
These rings were inherited by Ma.
poleon Ill. and were as constantly
worn by him. When Napoleon III.
died and was buried it was proposed
to take the rings from his fingers
and give them to the prince imperial.
But the prince would not have them,
although the old retainers Of the
family prophesied all sorts of dire
things from his refusal. When the
unfortunate young man was killed
in Zululand those who believed in
the prophecy of the rings said: 81
told you So"
The list of celebrated mascots is a
long one. Hoodoos of distinction
are, fortunately, less frequently
heard about, though nearly every
body has at some time in his life pos
sessed some article which he believed
brought him i'll luck.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
R.lloon for Consumptives.

THAT there is benefit to be derived
from the rarefed all, as well as in
the climatic change, has prompted
DR.. Naugier, Of Paris, to suggest, in
3 recent paper before the Academic
de Medicine, the possibilities OF hos
n;taI balloons. He asserted that q
two hours trip in the air s an
increase of the red corpuscles, an
;mnrovement that continues for sew
eral DAYS after an ascent. Two such
ascar+s n the course of six or seven
.nsels he considers as more bene-
6c;a1 to an anaemic than a sojourn
"a three months in the mountains.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
u.re,. : wise Distinctios.

Chinese doctors are very partlc-
Mar about TIE distinction between
nl,vs;cians and surgeons. A Chinese
Gentleman was struck by an arrow,
,sh;cb remained fast in his body. A
was sent for and, it is said,
broke of the protruding bit Of the
arrow. leaving the point imbedgsd.
He refused to extract #, because .sne
~. ~ clearly one for g physician
sfhs arrow being inside the BODY.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06

made her one of the best
hntresses in California.
lncan, says the New York
hs chasing a cinnamon bear
hlr of Mount Moses, SO miles
the Sequoia national park.
alone, and the country was
dinghy rough one, but she,
ind that. 1t was a hard and
S climb to follow the bear,
stuck to it for miles, some
wiling on hands and knees,
IS letting herself down over
ecipices and again climbing
and over hand.
way the enthusiastic bear
nally found herself in wilds
pared never to have been en-
man. In a heavy fores.
many miles from any hui
citation she found Methusa-
the bear was forgotten.
days later Mrs. Duncan re-
70 her find accompanied by
pand and her brother, s. c.
an artist living at Fillmore,
erty of lumbermen. The bip
was christened, measured and
ephed. After a brief little
ing ceremony, a hymn was
a card giving the name and
|the discovery was tackled TO
Tx.
fgion is known as the TuIe
Psln, and is thickly timbered
same rare species as that
Escrlbed-sequoia gigantea.
r the sequoia sempervirens
only survivors of a genus
Enown to have fourished ages
Ele inferior of North America,
!slc circle and Asia and Eu-
Today all that remain are
L, to the central portion Of
den state.
I Iuie river country several
awmllls are converting the
~ logs into building material
industry is thriving. An ex-
$ figured from it's dimensions
. !. contains 100000
inch lumber.
"a Dillonwood, on the north
The Tule, are some7remark-
ses. One is the Wishbone, i
,ree' through whose trunk
wagon road. Another one il
.rcules," 80 feet in diameter,
= used as . residence and
= mas two large rooms ON the
!, light Sisters, ! handsome
= elght trees, stand il q per
y ana average l4 feet In di.
. ana $50 feet in height.
: :. me logs that litter the
burned ont ct 4 remote
r - = - feet long and the hol-
oaghout is 90 feet In diam
Is room for ) large camp.
y summer, and ia winter
- 'sred dozens AZ men and
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
Desperate Indian.

Appalled, at the prospect of confne-
ment, Peter Greenwood, a full-Dlood-
ed Indian from the Rosebud reserva-
ton, arrested on the charge of intro
ducing liquor into the Indian terri
tory, attempted to commit suicide in
the Lawrence county Jail at Dead
wood by jumping from the top of the
cage, striking on his head. The dis
lance was not great enough to ac-
complish his desire, being less than
ten-feet, and the only result was to
bruise him about the head and
shoulders.
He seemed frenzied, and not being
permitted to repeat the leap from the
cage, he e%ndeavored to gouge his eyes
out with a buttonhook, because, as he
said, he could not see well. Green
wood was brought to Deadwood from
Rosebud agency by John Bedding, de-
putty United States marshal, and was
bound over to appear before the
United States grand jury.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06

Etghty-ifth Birthday
northern part Of the country, near
Cape Haytien,a ndis about IS years old.
The dream of tkis old Negroes life has
been to be president of the black re-
public, and in this ambitionh he has been
relentlessly %spurredon by his wife, who
had declared that she would be the
mistress of the executive mansion, il
even for only a few months or days, be-
fore she died, a determination in Ws.ch
she has at last succeeded.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
House Fired by a Cat.

A living firebrand in the form of a
common house cat cAused considera-
BILE excitement at the Renhart ranch,
in Lake county. The cat jumped on
top of a table and tipped over a lamp.
The oil from the lamp was spilled
over the animal and it's fur vas set on
fire. Then a lively chase commenced.
The frightened cat made a swift cir
cult of every in the house, run
Ming under tables and beds and set
ting fire to everything along it's trail.
Had it not been for the assistance
of neighbors who CHANGED to be near
at hand the house and it's contents
would have been burned. AS it was,
considerable damage was done.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
WANT an Exhibit.

The South. Dakota legislature has
been asked by the Black Hills Mining
association to amend the house bill
nroyiding for a South Dakota exhibit
at the st. Louis exposition next year,
so as to carry with it an appropria-
tion of SOS, 900. 1t is asked that $500
Of this be set aside for a representa-
tive exhibit o. the mineral reyources
Of the state. 1t is contended that the
appropriation at present contem-
plated is inadequate.
Brief Notes.
Sioux Falls will organize q baseball
club for the coming season.
r. j. Wells, a local attorney, has Sc
cured an order restraining the city OF
Sioux Falls from selling bonds in the
SIM of $4,000 for the commencement
of work on a municipal waterworks
plant.
Adiutant General Conklin has co,a-
missianed H. j. McEashan OF Water
town as quartermaster and William
A. Hazel of Aberdeen as adjutant OF
the Second regiment, state guard.
.John Blair's elevators at Shetield
burned together with 1900 bushels
Of grain.
The Lake Preston creamery com
pany paid its patrons $1.16 a hundred
for 4 per cent test milk. or 80 cents
a pound for butter, net, during De
cember.
The Atlas elevator at De smet
burned. Twelve hundred bushels q
wheat and 600 Of barley : . total
loss.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
CapMoux.

.How's your r~heninatiz?' asked the
neighbor.
sRheumatizs isSdoin' fine IL "a answered
the village invalid. Sim the feller
that's gettin, the worst Of ..t.'-Wash.
ington Star
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-06
FINE CASCADES IN JAPAN.
some Of the Most Bewitching Wat +.
falls of the World Are Found
In That Country.

There is an almost countless num-
Der of waterfalls in the domain of the
mikado. Nature was lavish in bestow-
ing them on the country and wher-
ever there CHANGED to be a deficiency
the natives supplied it promptly by
artificial means. Indeed, no state,
large or small, is complete without its
waterfall. Every little garden has a
fall or two and it would not be con
sidered a garden at all without it.
There are many very beautiful ones
in various parts of the country and
they are all of them shrines visited
by thousands of pilgrims every year.
They do not pray to them as to a
statue of Buddha, but they first paste
up a little paper prayer on a conven-
lent rock and then sit down in rapt
attention and gaze at the falling wa
ter for hours, taking an occasional
cup of tea at a little tea house which
always stands close at hand. The Japs
are great at making pilgrimages any.
way, says the Chicago Chronicle.
When q man has reached the age of
IS he is supposed to have raised a fam
lily which will in the future take care
of him. About the first thing he does
on retiring is to start on a series Of
.pilgrimages. Sometimes he joins a
band of fellow pilgrims, or if COM
paratively wealthy he sometimes
takes his wife and a minor child and
makes the pilgrimages by himself.
These pilgrim bands a always be
seen moving about the country. They
carry little banners with the. name
of their city and district marked on
them, and when they have received
good entertainment at q tea house
or hotel they hang one Of their ban
ners up in 2 conspicuous place as a
testimonial. Often q band Of pilgrims
will travel from one end Of the coun.
try to the other, visiting every tenn
pie and waterfall in the land.